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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 04/10/2026

Stables, Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland

Panoramic view inside an 18th century stable block

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 03/10/2026

My local paper, today: "I fart in your general direction"

Lancashire Telegraph front page, Reform councillor broke wind towards rival during meeting

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 19/09/2026

Last thing from me for Batrman day. The one true Batmobile.

Photooif the 1966 Batmobile with and signed by its designer George Barris

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 16/09/2026

The spam folder of the email account I keep for unverified contacts is currently flooded with desperate emails from the GOP like these, addressing me by name, two or three a day, 30 or 40 so far; why me, I have no idea

Screenshot of a mailout from J D Vance, pleading for engagement

Screenshot of an email purportedly from Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, pleading for engagement and contributions

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 05/09/2026

I only just spotted that the young Dr Dennis Whitaker in The Pitt is also DC Evans from the first season of Ludwig, and he’s Welsh

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 03/09/2026

Getting our front door painted. Looks like I live in a modern cartoon

Green door with panels roughly outlined in grey undercoat

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 03/09/2026

Actually cheaper to own it www.amazon.co.uk/Eleventh-Hou...

Amazon's DVD page for CBS TV show Eleventh hour, showing a price of thirty-six pounds

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 03/09/2026

Hey, Amazon. If you're charging 40 quid to stream the season, can you at least get the title right and fix the description? Cheers www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/det...

Screen shot of Amazon Prime's page for streaming US TV series Eleventh Hour, with incorrect title The Eleventh Hour and the desciption of the UK version that starred Patrick Stewart

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 01/09/2026

Photo placed online by Jessica Comfort. I believe in the US these were called Feejee Mermaids

A head-on photograph of a so-called Feejee Mermaid, a dessicated monkey skeleton married with the back end of a fish

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 31/08/2026

Time spent north of the border last week put me in mind to revisit this. Happy to say that it more than held up to the memory; old-school quality filmmaking with a finely-turned Alan Sharp screenplay and more than a hint of a John Ford vibe

Blu-ray sleeve for the feature film Rob Roy, artwork featuring Jessica Lange and Liam Neeson

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 30/08/2026

Was given this, and Mary Shelley‘s birthday seemed as good as time as any to be opening it…

A glass of red and a bottle of 19 Crimes generic wine, labelled with the face of Universal’s patented make up for Frankenstein‘s creature

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 18/08/2026

Meanwhile at The White House, Trump tells staffers "You've all done very well"

From TV sitcom Are You Being Served, the elderly Young Mister Grace and his glamorous nurse, always in attendance

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 12/08/2026

Made a last-minute thing for viewing the eclipse. Used the exposed tail of an old B&W negative roll

A small dark strip of 35 mm film taped over an aperture cut in a piece of Card

Sheet of card with a small dark rectangle at its centre, this being a dense dark filter for the viewing of an eclipse

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 12/08/2026

Checking my junk folder, and what do I find...

An invitation to join the RSVP list at Donald Trump's forthcoming Long Island rally

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 10/08/2026

Brief pause to take in the view on today’s walk

A view of Ullswater, with ferns in the foreground

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 07/08/2026

Variant cover for Nightmare, with Angel

Monochrome paperback cover for Nightmare, with Angel; gazing up at the sky at a dizzying angle, to where a distant figure is suspended - maybe falling, maybe flying - framed in the corner of an old building

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 07/08/2026

The backlist, minus the historicals, the short fiction collections, and the novellas

Paperback covers for Stephen Gallagher's backlist from The Brooligan Press, with eBook versions of all these titles available from Orion and Penguin

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 06/08/2026

...though I can hope someday to see them reunited and marketed together. In the meantime, KoB and TBD ebooks from Penguin/Random House, and William James from The Brooligan Press getbook.at/WilliamJamesE

Publishers Weekly starred review of The Authentic William James as first published in hardcover by Subterranean Press

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 06/08/2026

Also from the Brooligan Press, most of my backlist titles in paperback. While the ebooks are sold by Orion either from the Orion Publishing Group site or through the usual outlets www.orionbooks.co.uk/contributor/...

Cover and synopsis of The Spirit Box by Stephen Gallagher. Rachel's in trouble. She's a ticking bomb. A couple of co-workers bullied her into stealing a radical new drug from their employer, and now it's lodged inside her. They're watching her like hawks and her time's running out. John Bishop runs security for their employer. As a father who once lost a teenaged daughter to an accidental overdose, his drive to hunt down the thieves and rescue their victim grows more intense with every lost minute. He can never bring his own kid back. But he can save someone else's.Which is fine until the company realises that if the swallowed package bursts and Rachel dies, their secrets are kept safe and their problem goes away. Though Bishop's on the trail, he's an easy man to cut loose and discredit. But now he's Rachel's only hope.

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 05/08/2026

There's a limit to how long you can keep recycling leftovers until they achieve the condition of feces

Screencap of a social media post by: kavishj611

All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow AI progress, I have one question...

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 05/08/2026

No AI used at any stage of composition or design in this selection of covers from the Brooligan Press (brooligan.co.uk). All images licensed, and all revenues go direct to the authors

A selection of paperback cover designs from The Brooligan Press. Ferocity and Darkfall, both by Stephen Laws. Told at Dusk, Remembered at Dawn, and The Companion, both by Laurence Staig.The Ex, by Anne Billson. And Frankenstein's Prescription, by Tim Lees.

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 04/08/2026

In County Durham yesterday, I saw the most relaxed dog in the North East

A whippet-like dog with a greying muzzle, sprawled on the pavement beside its seated owner

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 31/07/2026

I remember that repurposing - not everything burned - Jonathan Lee's designs were part of the show's pitch long before I joined it

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 30/07/2026

Word came back that Sam liked the redemption dilemma I'd given him. It would be far from the pinnacle of his career but that two-parter is ranks with the work of which I'm most proud. Anyone who wrote for him would probably say the same. Raising a glass to his memory this weekend

A pine table on which stand two as-yet unopened bottles of New Zealand wine from the late Sam Neill's vineyards, a Two Paddocks Dry Reisling 2023 and a Two Paddocks Pinot Noir 2023

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 29/07/2026

Good thought. Tour guide told us that the theatre set on the Cinecitta backlot had been added for Domina

Cinecitta backlot, the Roman Theatre set

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 29/07/2026

Also used the Cinecitta lot, with a theatre set added for the show

The Roman Theatre set, Cinecitta backlot

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 29/07/2026

Had seen it not long before; tour included a theatre set added for the show, according to our guide

Roman theatre set recreated at Cinecitta Studios

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 29/07/2026

To be fair, Rome has a few other things worth a look if you're at a loose send

Panoramic view of the interior of the Colosseum, Rome

Bernini's marble sculpture Apollo and Daphne in the Villa Borghese, Rome

David with the Head of Goliath, painting by Caravaggio, in the Villa Borghese, Rome

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 29/07/2026

Was stirred to this after visiting the Rome sets at Cinecitta studios. Imagine that. I'm in Rome, and what am I most excited to see?

Cinecitta backlot sets for the HBO TV series Rome

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 17/07/2026

Greek chap goes to extreme lengths to acquire a sheepskin jacket

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 15/07/2026

My friend Sarita, aka Doctor Survival, went to Pompeii with Tom Hiddleston and the 3-part docuseries will be streaming on Disney+ from July 23rd.

Screen grab of the Instagram feed of National Geographic with Dr Sarita Robinson talking to camera about the three types of responses to sudden disasters

In a chamber in the Pompeii ruins, setting up for a two-camera conversation scene between Tom Hiddleston and Dr Sarita Robinson

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Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk · 15/07/2026

Did I have an idea to offer? Of course I did, and set it out in an 8,000 word pitch document for a show that would be a so-called 'four quadrant' entertainment. That was in 2011. Some time later I drew on the material, and this was the result stephengallagher.com/books/the-sh...

Front cover of the 59 page chapbook Blackwood: a fairy tale by Stephen Gallagher, in the broad style of a vintage penguin paperback

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