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Johnny Mains
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The UK's foremost horror anthologist.
“Johnny Mains is the Herbert van Thal of our age” – The Independent
AuDHD.
Got the morbs.
Pinned
Dec 18th at 7pm I'll be reading from ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE, chatting about editing anthologies and ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS (within reason and taste 😉) - tickets are £8.83 (cushion admin and fees).

I'd love to see you there, please reskeet far and wide!

www.eventbrite.com/e/illusions-...
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"...unlike any other movie from this decade, and perhaps even this century." Ti West's (and Mia Goth's) PEARL gets the 4K whistles and bells @secondsightfilms.bsky.social treatment, out next Monday @aimpublicity.bsky.social : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/11/pear...
Pearl 4K UHD (2022)
''Ti West and Mia Goth's Best (So Far)?" Second Sight Films are releasing both standard and posh whistles and bells 4K UHD editions of P...
johnlprobert.blogspot.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
British Library Publishing have sent me a photo of POSSESSED - it EXISTS!!!

Am so proud to present this lost novel - nobody knew it existed until I came across it.

Includes an 8,000 word introduction with the first biographical essay on Rosalie and Edward.

An important work. Links to order below
November 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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STOCKPORT TONIGHT
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
My throat feels like I've been sucking off a sandpaper-covered jumbo hotdog. Oh joys.
a man is sitting on a couch talking to a woman and the words death is coming are written on his shirt .
ALT: a man is sitting on a couch talking to a woman and the words death is coming are written on his shirt .
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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All those monsters I drew and painted last month (and about 20 more) are in a little book now www.lulu.com/shop/happy-t...
Monster Month 2025
Monster Month 2025 - 50 Monsters drawn, painted and inked by HappyToast during October, with a fun bit of naming and describing.
www.lulu.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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I’m watching Frankenstein, and so far my prevailing thought is that the props master put their whole pussy into this project. I feel like I’m watching a walkthrough of Spectacular Bodies at the Hayward Gallery circa 2000
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I FUCKING HATE AI
November 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
#NowWatching THE LARGE ROPE
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Celebrate Christmas the way it was meant to be done - with something spook! Johnny Mains' latest collection of lost ghost stories launches online on the 18th December... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/illusions-... #ghoststory #ghoststories #anthology #collection #shortstories #xmas #christmas
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"And then I go and spoil it all by saying something spooky like I LOVE BOO"
Celebrate Christmas the way it was meant to be done - with something spook! Johnny Mains' latest collection of lost ghost stories launches online on the 18th December... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/illusions-... #ghoststory #ghoststories #anthology #collection #shortstories #xmas #christmas
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The first ever Pink Floyd cd - Matrix # 35DP-4-1 1E2. Japan 1st pressing, gold plated from 1982.
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Christmas is coming, and our books make perfect pressies! Get a huge 15% discount off our print books with the case-sensitive code CUSTOMBOOK15 until midnight on Friday November 14!

Also available as colour eBooks.

Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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A visual prompt to kick off your creative week: what worlds can you conjure from this image?

And if that whets your appetite, have we got the thing for you: Join us online for Writing the Occult: Creatures & Cryptids on 29 Nov when we’ll peer into the murky world of creatures and cryptids. 🧵⬇️
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
PLURIBUS

*I feel seen*
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
FRANKENSTEIN is devastatingly beautiful to look at and I'll probably never see a film that drips such honey, is it heresy to say I prefer Branaghs? I find the pacing of KB's much easier to deal with, there's a more fascinating approach to 19th century ethics and an overall better interpretation.
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Thinking about Bernard C. Blake who died during the Battle of the Lys on the 9th of April, 1918. I published his only work of speculative fiction, the lost AT THE CHANGE OF THE MOON, this year. #wewillrememberthem
November 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Charity shop purchases are getting rarer and rarer nowadays, but this was a nice score - a pound for them all.
November 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Dec 18th at 7pm I'll be reading from ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE, chatting about editing anthologies and ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS (within reason and taste 😉) - tickets are £8.83 (cushion admin and fees).

I'd love to see you there, please reskeet far and wide!

www.eventbrite.com/e/illusions-...
October 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Thinking about Bernard C. Blake who died during the Battle of the Lys on the 9th of April, 1918. I published his only work of speculative fiction, the lost AT THE CHANGE OF THE MOON, this year. #wewillrememberthem
November 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Sent all orders today!

There are still 3 October Booklets left!

It would be great if they found new homes!

skullsandsheets.etsy.com/listing/4392...
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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For Remembrance Sunday - remembering is one thing, learning and acting quite another #poetry #poem and l young
November 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Untitled
Acrylic, cold wax and ink on canvas
2025
18x24 inches
#art #abstractart
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The original Angie Watts (as played by Jean Fennell) was sacked after a week's filming because she was deemed 'too classy' by producers.
November 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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For the Sunday crowd, my latest Substack post is about the forgotten author Jane Gallion, her publisher Essex House, and the hard graft that was being one of America’s first female smut writers. Free to read at the link below (although paid subs are welcome.

andrewnette.substack.com/p/jane-galli...
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Ticketbooth
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November 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM