Johnny Mains
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The UK's foremost horror anthologist.
"An affable Scotsman" - The Observer.
AuDHD.
Got the morbs.
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"An affable Scotsman" - The Observer.
AuDHD.
Got the morbs.
Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/johnnymains
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Johnny Mains
@johnnymains.co.uk
· Jan 2
Films watched in 2026
#2
HIVE (ZGJOI)
Five word review: Beautiful, perfectly paced, crushingly sad
#2
HIVE (ZGJOI)
Five word review: Beautiful, perfectly paced, crushingly sad
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Discount time! Get 15% off our print books with the case-sensitive code NONFICTION15 until midnight on Friday February 13! They're a trilogy of enormous tomes about everything dark, scary and strange from the 1970s & 80s...
Also available as colour eBooks.
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
Also available as colour eBooks.
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
February 9, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Discount time! Get 15% off our print books with the case-sensitive code NONFICTION15 until midnight on Friday February 13! They're a trilogy of enormous tomes about everything dark, scary and strange from the 1970s & 80s...
Also available as colour eBooks.
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
Also available as colour eBooks.
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
'Daniel Lambert, weighing almost 40 Stone' - Unknown (c. 19c)
February 9, 2026 at 6:38 PM
'Daniel Lambert, weighing almost 40 Stone' - Unknown (c. 19c)
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94 years ago today FREAKS played for the first time to coin paying customers at the Ritz Theatre, Big Spring Texas, in 1932.
Cinema would never be the same again.
Cinema would never be the same again.
February 9, 2026 at 1:15 PM
94 years ago today FREAKS played for the first time to coin paying customers at the Ritz Theatre, Big Spring Texas, in 1932.
Cinema would never be the same again.
Cinema would never be the same again.
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Happy birthday to FREAKS (Not the 12th of February as wiki will tell you, I found an earlier screening). I'm still writing my FREAKS book, and will have it out on it's 100th birthday in 2032 (as long as I don't die by then - but plans are in place if that happens). Currently at 200,000 words or so.
February 9, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Happy birthday to FREAKS (Not the 12th of February as wiki will tell you, I found an earlier screening). I'm still writing my FREAKS book, and will have it out on it's 100th birthday in 2032 (as long as I don't die by then - but plans are in place if that happens). Currently at 200,000 words or so.
I was on A Good Read celebrating Lucie McKnight Hardy’s brilliant Water Shall Refuse Them and her next novel , Night Babies, will creep under your skin
February 9, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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I was on A Good Read celebrating Lucie McKnight Hardy’s brilliant Water Shall Refuse Them and her next novel , Night Babies, will creep under your skin
February 9, 2026 at 3:41 PM
I was on A Good Read celebrating Lucie McKnight Hardy’s brilliant Water Shall Refuse Them and her next novel , Night Babies, will creep under your skin
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BOSTON, MA friends:
I’ll be at Trident Booksellers on Tuesday, March 24 with Christopher Golden to celebrate the launch of my novel, WRETCH. I really hope to see you there!
Register here: eric-la-rocca-event-rpbu7.tripleseattickets.com/registration...
I’ll be at Trident Booksellers on Tuesday, March 24 with Christopher Golden to celebrate the launch of my novel, WRETCH. I really hope to see you there!
Register here: eric-la-rocca-event-rpbu7.tripleseattickets.com/registration...
February 9, 2026 at 1:50 PM
BOSTON, MA friends:
I’ll be at Trident Booksellers on Tuesday, March 24 with Christopher Golden to celebrate the launch of my novel, WRETCH. I really hope to see you there!
Register here: eric-la-rocca-event-rpbu7.tripleseattickets.com/registration...
I’ll be at Trident Booksellers on Tuesday, March 24 with Christopher Golden to celebrate the launch of my novel, WRETCH. I really hope to see you there!
Register here: eric-la-rocca-event-rpbu7.tripleseattickets.com/registration...
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Episode 187
WICKED STRANGE
Listen free at www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-187....
Watch the video interview at youtu.be/1x_15VFogvg
I chat with broadcaster Jeff Belanger, about some of the ghosts, folklore and other legends found in New England, in the NE corner of the United States.
WICKED STRANGE
Listen free at www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-187....
Watch the video interview at youtu.be/1x_15VFogvg
I chat with broadcaster Jeff Belanger, about some of the ghosts, folklore and other legends found in New England, in the NE corner of the United States.
February 9, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Episode 187
WICKED STRANGE
Listen free at www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-187....
Watch the video interview at youtu.be/1x_15VFogvg
I chat with broadcaster Jeff Belanger, about some of the ghosts, folklore and other legends found in New England, in the NE corner of the United States.
WICKED STRANGE
Listen free at www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-187....
Watch the video interview at youtu.be/1x_15VFogvg
I chat with broadcaster Jeff Belanger, about some of the ghosts, folklore and other legends found in New England, in the NE corner of the United States.
94 years ago today FREAKS played for the first time to coin paying customers at the Ritz Theatre, Big Spring Texas, in 1932.
Cinema would never be the same again.
Cinema would never be the same again.
February 9, 2026 at 1:15 PM
94 years ago today FREAKS played for the first time to coin paying customers at the Ritz Theatre, Big Spring Texas, in 1932.
Cinema would never be the same again.
Cinema would never be the same again.
Happy birthday to FREAKS (Not the 12th of February as wiki will tell you, I found an earlier screening). I'm still writing my FREAKS book, and will have it out on it's 100th birthday in 2032 (as long as I don't die by then - but plans are in place if that happens). Currently at 200,000 words or so.
February 9, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Happy birthday to FREAKS (Not the 12th of February as wiki will tell you, I found an earlier screening). I'm still writing my FREAKS book, and will have it out on it's 100th birthday in 2032 (as long as I don't die by then - but plans are in place if that happens). Currently at 200,000 words or so.
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Recorders, 800 year
Old tunes and lots of reverb. Cantigua 100
barnhoppit.bandcamp.com/track/cantig...
Old tunes and lots of reverb. Cantigua 100
barnhoppit.bandcamp.com/track/cantig...
Cantigua 100, by Barn Hoppit
track by Barn Hoppit
barnhoppit.bandcamp.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Recorders, 800 year
Old tunes and lots of reverb. Cantigua 100
barnhoppit.bandcamp.com/track/cantig...
Old tunes and lots of reverb. Cantigua 100
barnhoppit.bandcamp.com/track/cantig...
'Stone Bird' - Jenny Mellings (1989)
February 9, 2026 at 8:46 AM
'Stone Bird' - Jenny Mellings (1989)
Remembering the kind and quite brilliant Eric J. Lawrence on the third anniversary of his death. I miss you, friend.
February 8, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Remembering the kind and quite brilliant Eric J. Lawrence on the third anniversary of his death. I miss you, friend.
This new LORD OF THE FLIES is upsetting me - some of the actors are so tiny, just wee babies 😭
February 8, 2026 at 9:49 PM
This new LORD OF THE FLIES is upsetting me - some of the actors are so tiny, just wee babies 😭
'The Emigrant' - Kenny McKendry (2006)
February 8, 2026 at 7:07 PM
'The Emigrant' - Kenny McKendry (2006)
I am now the owner of this nightmare fuel. Cost £5.
February 8, 2026 at 12:22 PM
I am now the owner of this nightmare fuel. Cost £5.
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Three weeks from now we'll be entering the final day of the UK GHOST STORY FESTIVAL here in Derby - we have a stack of exciting events on 1st March to round off three lively days! www.derbyquad.co.uk/ukgsf/ #derby #derbyshire #ghost #ghosts #ghoststory #festival #festivals #
February 8, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Three weeks from now we'll be entering the final day of the UK GHOST STORY FESTIVAL here in Derby - we have a stack of exciting events on 1st March to round off three lively days! www.derbyquad.co.uk/ukgsf/ #derby #derbyshire #ghost #ghosts #ghoststory #festival #festivals #
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Thanks to those who tuned in to "The Outsider" by H P Lovecraft. You can catch up here youtube.com/live/X1mkYpO...
It's free-to-view, but if you'd like to support this kind of things, then you can become a Patron here
www.patreon.com/c/RobertLloy...
check it oote!
It's free-to-view, but if you'd like to support this kind of things, then you can become a Patron here
www.patreon.com/c/RobertLloy...
check it oote!
Get more from Robert Lloyd Parry on Patreon
livestreamed literary storytelling
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February 8, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Thanks to those who tuned in to "The Outsider" by H P Lovecraft. You can catch up here youtube.com/live/X1mkYpO...
It's free-to-view, but if you'd like to support this kind of things, then you can become a Patron here
www.patreon.com/c/RobertLloy...
check it oote!
It's free-to-view, but if you'd like to support this kind of things, then you can become a Patron here
www.patreon.com/c/RobertLloy...
check it oote!
'Dracula Gave Us A Bad Name' -Sadie Main (1987)
February 8, 2026 at 10:35 AM
'Dracula Gave Us A Bad Name' -Sadie Main (1987)
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Wolverhampton is sold out . one seat left for solo show in Norwich. A few more seats left for Leicester comedy on 17th February events.comedy-festival.co.uk/events/robin...
Robin Ince: Let the Quiet Ones Rise | Leicester Comedy Festival
events.comedy-festival.co.uk
February 8, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Wolverhampton is sold out . one seat left for solo show in Norwich. A few more seats left for Leicester comedy on 17th February events.comedy-festival.co.uk/events/robin...
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We’ve got a Friday the 13th followed by Valentine’s Day coming up? Well, I had to.
February 7, 2026 at 10:32 PM
We’ve got a Friday the 13th followed by Valentine’s Day coming up? Well, I had to.