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Ewan M Hannah
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Survivor from another millennium. Scottish living in Manchester. I like: reading, writing, old Hollywood, Gothic fiction, vintage clothes, Scottish literature, film noir, avant-garde art and writing...lots of other things...
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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · Jun 21
The wee gallus bloke wi' his bunnet tae the side in my profile pic is my great-uncle Bill Docherty, circa 1938. A bit of a dandy, he was probably dressed for tattie howkin here.
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Exciting news! We're open to queries for novellas and works of collected short fiction, for our 2026-2027 publishing schedule. We want to receive strange and literary fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and weird fiction from writers living in the North of England.

Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
We're now open to publishing enquiries for novellas and short fiction collections, from writers living in the North of England. We're seeking works of strange and literary speculative fiction, of 15,000 to 40,000 words.
November 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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#NoirvemberChallenge day 10: favourite Gloria Grahame #FilmNoir - simple, it has to be In a Lonely Place.
Gloria Grahame, In a Lonely Place.
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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More cartophilia - The Scottish Historical Playing Cards. I found an original set of these online recently. Arrived yesterday. I don't collect playing cards, but I am fascinated by them and have a few nice decks. Designed by Scottish printmaker, Willie Rodger in 1975. They're really nice. 1/2
Double deck of Scottish Historical Playing cards by Willie Rodger and the Stirling Gallery, 1975. Historical notes for the court cards. King of Spades, Macbeth; King of Hearts, James VI; red Joker, Adam Smith; black Joker, John Knox; Queen of Clubs, Queen Margaret, the Maid of Norway.
November 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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I'm going to my first ever session of Hydrohex this morning. Sadly, nothing to do with curses - or is it? 🤔
a group of people are swimming in a pool with the olympic rings behind them
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November 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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#NoirvemberChallenge day 9 - favourite Dan Duryea #FilmNoir: Ministry of Fear, Fritz Lang, 1944. I confess, this is the only one of his noirs I've seen, so far. I know him more from his westerns and his neckwear.
Dan Duryea holding a pair of huge scissors in a menacing fashion in the film noir Ministry of Fear. Photo of Dan Duryea discussing the script while filming The Whip. He wears a wide bold look tie. From the book Fit to be Tied, Vintage Ties of the 40s and 50s. Front cover of Fit to be Tied.
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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#FilmSky 𝐅𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝
A picture showing the opening studio title card for RKO Radio Pictured.
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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#Noirvember Jukebox: Nat King Cole, I'd Rather Have the Blues, theme song for Kiss Me Deadly (1955). Featuring Ralph Meeker and the late, great Cloris Leachman. youtu.be/y_GCFTWdHSU?...
Nat King Cole - I'd Rather Have The Blues
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November 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Manchester - now.
A helter skelter, a big wheel, and Manchester Town Hall in the background.
November 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Manolo Prieto cover, “Los dioses de Marte” (The Gods Of Mars) by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Spanish Edition), 1947
giant tree like creatures attacking a person. the person is fighting back with a sword
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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#NoirvemberChallenge day 8. Favourite line from a #FilmNoir: "She was a charming middle aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud." The mask of chivalry slips as Marlowe (Dick Powell) introduces Jessie Florian (Esther Howard) in Murder, My Sweet (1944).
Jessie Florian rightly looking daggers at Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet.
November 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Day 8 #NoirvemberChallenge
Now you’re talking! Favorite line in #filmnoir? Submitted by @Wahrhaftig

“My first wife was the second cook at a third-rate joint on 4th Street.”
The Glass Key (’42) novel by Dashiell Hammett. Starring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake & William Bendix.
November 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Auld Reekie Scrievers, an Edinburgh group of short story writers, today launched our anthology "Pulling At Threads." Published by Dean Park Press, all profits to the homeless charity Streetwork for its library and creative writing group. Available from local bookshops and online.
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Are you in a #FilmNoir ?

#Noirvember
November 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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#Noirvember Jukebox: youtu.be/z11dA7srESo?...
Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep - And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine
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November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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It's the time of year for the stout of heart.
A sexy bottle of Younger's Sweetheart Stout looking sexy.
November 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Not all #FilmNoir is on the silver screen. #Noirvember.
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The Spirit from November 7, 1948. Art by Will Eisner, with letters by Abe Kanegson.
The first of five panels includes a wall lamp with “The Spirit by Will Eisner” written on it. Over the first four panels, a woman slowly walks out from behind blue drapes. She gradually pulls out a knife and introduces herself with “I am Plaster of Paris, the toast of Montmartre.. I’ll stick to my man until death do us part…” In the final panel, she is standing over a tied up Spirit as if she is about to stab him in the back.
November 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Loads of people out there boasting about how many books they read in a week/month/year. I am a "leisurely" reader but I usually have a dozen or more on the go at one time. My gift is that I can pick up a book after a break of a few years and still remember what's going on. I bloody love reading, me.
November 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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And another thing...
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NEW! Columbo Decorations! Celebrating perhaps the greatest tv detective. They can be sent as cards and hung as decorations, the versatility is astounding!
Just one more thing...head on over to heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com for these and LOADS of other quality merchandise.
You know, my wife - she's a big fan of gifting her friends and family pop-culture related items, especially at Christmas. Me? Not so much but oh you should see her. She loves this one shop, 'Hey There Rocking Kids' or something it's called...'Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll' that's it! That's the one. Oh yeah, she swears by it. Just one more thing...this Columbo Decoration can be sent as a greetings card and it comes with an envelope, real good quality stuff. You can send it to a friend and then they can hang it on a tree or whatever. Oh and, sir? There's just one thing I'm not sure of... It says here it measures about 14cm high. Now I don't know about centimetres but I'd guess that's about five and a half inches, wouldn't you say?
November 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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City of London lawyer Andrew Milne bought up hundreds of freeholds on homes across Sheffield before advising leaseholders that, if they didn’t pay him exorbitant sums (upwards of £25,000), he’d see them in court. Well done @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social @joshiherrmann.bsky.social for exposing this.
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
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November 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I may have had a couple of pints.
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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#FridayFeeling
Grand Guignol playwright, Andre de Lorde, looking frisky with a dagger between his teeth, a pistol in his hands and his eyes well bogged.
November 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Alasdair Gray’s “The Great Bear Cult” is a script for a (rejected) documentary on the movement which briefly swept Britain in the 1930s. Although mention of the Cult is still suppressed, @canongate.co.uk includes the script in UNLIKELY STORIES, MOSTLY
#HugABearDay🧸
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THE GREAT BEAR CULT In 1975 there came straight to Glasgow from a Berlin gig Pete Brown the poet, Pete Brown the friend of Horowitz, Pete Brown the songwriter and sometimes pop-song singer. And I dined with him at the home of Barbara and Lindley Nelson. As usual Pete was with a new girlfriend who received most of his conversation, but first he showed the Nelsons and myself a souvenir of Berlin, and that was what we discussed. It was a street photograph of Pete arm in arm with a bear. Berlin takes its name from a bear, so commercial cameramen prowl the streets with a suitably dressed partner. But though the bear in the picture was a disguised man he appeared so naturally calm, so benignly strong, that beside him Pete (who in isolation is as calm, benign and shaggy as a sapient man can be) looked comparatively shifty and agley. We were also intrigued to find the image in the photograph oddly familiar though Barbara, Lindley and myself had never seen another like it. Did it recall dim memories of our infancy in the thirties when the British bear cult was still a political force? As we discussed what we knew of the cult I realized that the time had come for a television programme on it, one which mingled public archive material (photographs, films and sound recordings) with dramatic re-enactments of what took place in private. In 1975 the British Broadcasting Corporation was celebrating the fiftieth year of its charter, archive material was being daily broadcast and displayed, surely the BBC would be interested? It was not. I discovered that although Lord Reith's restrictions upon clothing, drink and sexual conduct had for years been matter for jest in the corridors of Broadcasting House and the Television Centre, his tabu upon all reference to the cult after Ramsay McDonald's famous broadcast to the nation was still in force. The BBC rejected my documentary drama. I offer it here, hoping readers will not be afraid to view it upon the television screen of their minds. [ILLUSTRATION: In the centre is Rupert the Bear's smiling but slightly unsettling face, a tartan scar around his neck; on either side, between two tall bearskin hats as worn by British guardsmen on parade, stand two portly, Winnie-the-Pooh-like figures, facing inwards, heads tilted proudly skywards. Each has their right arm raised straight out and up in what Elon Musk would unconvincingly claim was a Roman salute.] 1 STUDIO INTRODUCTION To a recording of The Teddy Bears' Picnic the camera advances upon a commentator leaning casually against a table on which is displayed: a fancy-dress bear costume, a toy teddy bear, a Buckingham Palace sentry's bearskin helmet, a Daily Express Rupert Bear cartoon annual, and a copy of The House at Pooh Corner. RECORDING: If you go down to the woods today you're sure of a big surprise! If you go down to the woods today you'd better go in disguise! For every bear that ever there was Has gathered there for certain because Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic! COMMENTATOR: If you go down to the woods today, you'd better go in disguise. Yes. And if you were clearing out an old cupboard recently it's very likely that you found one of these at the back of it. (HE LIFTS THE BEAR COSTUME AND STANDS UP) Perhaps curiosity prompted you to try it on. You can slip into them quite easily . . . (HE PUTS IT ON) Once the zip is pulled up it's surprising how warm and comfortable you feel. And then, if you adjust the mask over your head, like this . . . (HOLLOWLY) you are not only completely weather-proof, your voice has acquired a hollow, resounding note. (HE REMOVES THE MASK) The costume you found was almost certainly a relic of the great bear cult which swept Britain in the early thirties. Nobody who remembers those years likes talking about them, but most of you watching tonight were born rather later, so perhaps the time has come to give the origins of the cult, its wildfire spread and wholly unexpected collapse, some sort of dispassionate examination. So let me take you back to 1931, a year of world-wide trade-depression and economic crisis. There are nearly three million unemployed in Britain alone. A former socialist is prime minister of a National Coalition government with the conservative leader as his deputy. In Trafalgar Square the photographic business is in a bad way. 2 TELECINE: TRAFALGAR SQUARE, STUDIO, STREETS, LAWCOURT Henry Busby, a licensed street photographer, squabbles with two others for the custom of a foreign visitor ("I saw him first!") who manages to escape all of them. Henry returns glumly to Book cover: UNLIKELY STORIES, MOSTLY Alasdair Gray After the author's name is a picture of a small wooden craft with a paddlewheel. An angry-looking duck's head pokes up out of the top. Surrounding the title are fourteen black and white squares, each containing a human skull. Within each skull, against a gold background, are curled-up human fetuses, about to be born. Each one has a small pair of wings sprouting from their shoulders. At the base of the cover is an oriental-looking view. Against a red background, a city is in flames. In the distance, a tiny man hauls on s string, which reaches up to a winged kite, to which is strapped a small child. The flying child fills most of the scene. At the bottom is the a capital C (standing for the publisher, Canongate), above the words THE CANONS
November 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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#NoirvemberChallenge day 7: favourite #FilmNoir dream sequence - of course it has to be Avida Dollars and Hitch, Spellbound (1945). I love this not only for the comic strip surrealism, but also Miklós Rósza's theremin soaked soundtrack. youtu.be/JyPe1Jahyfo?...
Salvador Dali Dream Sequence from Spellbound (1945)
YouTube video by Eric Randall
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November 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Watching Edge of Darkness for the first time, and I suddenly remembered Troy Kennedy Martin also wrote Kelly's Heroes. And The Italian Job. And Reilly: Ace of Spies. And he wiz born in Rothesay. And his brother Ian created The Sweeney.
a man with a beard wearing a helmet and the words woof woof .
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November 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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#ArchivesDay. This is fun. In 1934, a school in Newcastle was asking Nelson's for unbound books, for the boys' #bookbinding class. Nelsons seize the opportunity to supply the kind of books that the boys might actually read, once bound.
Strikes me as quite enlightened - both bookbinding & reading.
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM