Maria J Pérez Cuervo
@mjpcuervo.bsky.social
Writer, editor, comms manager • Founder/ editor @helleborezine.bsky.social (World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist) • History, art, myth, mystery.
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Come with us into the magical, mystical world of HELLEBORE. I’m beyond excited to share this book with you: nine new stories by some of my favourite writers of the supernatural and strange.
👉🏼Pre-orders for TALES OF OCCULT BRITAIN are open worldwide on helleborezine.com.
👉🏼Pre-orders for TALES OF OCCULT BRITAIN are open worldwide on helleborezine.com.
This episode of Scooby Doo: Mystery Inc starting Vincent Van Ghoul (Vincent Price’s alter ego) brings me so much joy
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This episode of Scooby Doo: Mystery Inc starting Vincent Van Ghoul (Vincent Price’s alter ego) brings me so much joy
Just got this text from my partner:
“This guy was setting up to play 𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘦 to the muddy Avon River, like he wanted to summon a beast from the depths or something”.
I love Bristol.
“This guy was setting up to play 𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘦 to the muddy Avon River, like he wanted to summon a beast from the depths or something”.
I love Bristol.
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Just got this text from my partner:
“This guy was setting up to play 𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘦 to the muddy Avon River, like he wanted to summon a beast from the depths or something”.
I love Bristol.
“This guy was setting up to play 𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘦 to the muddy Avon River, like he wanted to summon a beast from the depths or something”.
I love Bristol.
A reader told me she was asked to take off her Hellebore “Wind in the Willows” jumper before entering Westminster Abbey. The reason given was that it depicts the devil and might offend people. The reader explained it was the Greek god Pan, but the security guard didn’t backtrack. Satanic panic 2025.
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A reader told me she was asked to take off her Hellebore “Wind in the Willows” jumper before entering Westminster Abbey. The reason given was that it depicts the devil and might offend people. The reader explained it was the Greek god Pan, but the security guard didn’t backtrack. Satanic panic 2025.
I’m going to need some time to recover from The Spy in Black. My plan: more movies where Conrad Veidt falls for a spy! 👏🏼
November 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I’m going to need some time to recover from The Spy in Black. My plan: more movies where Conrad Veidt falls for a spy! 👏🏼
A few people have asked, so here’s a link to the playlist I created for Hellebore’s Cave of Mysteries at Tate Britain.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
A few people have asked, so here’s a link to the playlist I created for Hellebore’s Cave of Mysteries at Tate Britain.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Tag yourself, I’m Lady of the Gothic.
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Tag yourself, I’m Lady of the Gothic.
On that note,
November 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
On that note,
#NowWatching Powell and Pressburger’s The Spy in Black (1939). Conrad Veidt, Good Lord, I cannot handle the tension.
November 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
#NowWatching Powell and Pressburger’s The Spy in Black (1939). Conrad Veidt, Good Lord, I cannot handle the tension.
It’s in the trees! It’s coming!
November 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
It’s in the trees! It’s coming!
Tonight! Drop by Room 23 if you fancy listening to my favourite visionary music, from Popol Vuh to Eno, Lisa Gerrard and Klaus Schulze, and putting a blindfold on to produce your own archetypal art.
HELLEBORE x TATE BRITAIN
Save the date: 7.11.2025, 6-10pm
Founder @mjpcuervo.bsky.social will guide you into HELLEBORE’s Cave of Mysteries as part of the Hidden Folklore celebrations.
Save the date: 7.11.2025, 6-10pm
Founder @mjpcuervo.bsky.social will guide you into HELLEBORE’s Cave of Mysteries as part of the Hidden Folklore celebrations.
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Tonight! Drop by Room 23 if you fancy listening to my favourite visionary music, from Popol Vuh to Eno, Lisa Gerrard and Klaus Schulze, and putting a blindfold on to produce your own archetypal art.
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IT’S HERE! Our first volume of strange and supernatural stories for the darker half of the year. Nine new tales by masters of the genre: Ramsey Campbell, Helen Grant, Reggie Oliver, Ally Wilkes, Steve Toase, Verity Holloway and more.
👉🏼 Get your copy on www.helleborezine.com
👉🏼 Get your copy on www.helleborezine.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
IT’S HERE! Our first volume of strange and supernatural stories for the darker half of the year. Nine new tales by masters of the genre: Ramsey Campbell, Helen Grant, Reggie Oliver, Ally Wilkes, Steve Toase, Verity Holloway and more.
👉🏼 Get your copy on www.helleborezine.com
👉🏼 Get your copy on www.helleborezine.com
RIP Adrian Maben, who envisioned and directed Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, the best rock film ever made and one of my favourites works of art, one of the things that make life worth living.
November 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
RIP Adrian Maben, who envisioned and directed Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, the best rock film ever made and one of my favourites works of art, one of the things that make life worth living.
Reposted by Maria J Pérez Cuervo
November 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Reposted by Maria J Pérez Cuervo
New post: Wheatley and Hodgson, looking at the connections between William Hope Hodgson and novelist Dennis Wheatley, author of 'The Devil Rides Out'.
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#WilliamHopeHodgson #DennisWheatley #occult #horror #fantasy
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#WilliamHopeHodgson #DennisWheatley #occult #horror #fantasy
Wheatley and Hodgson
Dennis Wheatley (1897-1977) was a prolific English author, best remembered today for his occult and adventure novels of the 1930s-60s. Wheatley led a colourful and successful life, but of particula…
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November 5, 2025 at 8:17 AM
New post: Wheatley and Hodgson, looking at the connections between William Hope Hodgson and novelist Dennis Wheatley, author of 'The Devil Rides Out'.
hodgsoniana.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/w...
#WilliamHopeHodgson #DennisWheatley #occult #horror #fantasy
hodgsoniana.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/w...
#WilliamHopeHodgson #DennisWheatley #occult #horror #fantasy
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A 1963 interview with the woman dubbed the most famous witch in England: Sybil Leek, the Witch of Burley in the New Forest, “a forest that is absolutely steeped in witchcraft”.
youtu.be/E-74hcZYh3M
youtu.be/E-74hcZYh3M
Sybil Leek Halloween 1963
YouTube video by Jack Daw
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November 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
A 1963 interview with the woman dubbed the most famous witch in England: Sybil Leek, the Witch of Burley in the New Forest, “a forest that is absolutely steeped in witchcraft”.
youtu.be/E-74hcZYh3M
youtu.be/E-74hcZYh3M
Rewatching The Curse of the Cat People and Julia Dean (born 1878) is such a style icon in this film!
November 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Rewatching The Curse of the Cat People and Julia Dean (born 1878) is such a style icon in this film!
True love is when your partner prints out a map with detailed instructions for you so you don’t get horrendously lost in a strange environment without them there.
November 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
True love is when your partner prints out a map with detailed instructions for you so you don’t get horrendously lost in a strange environment without them there.
How are we doing, fellow SAD-sufferers? Because I feel like a phantom, forever trapped in the domain of shadows, with music as my only companion.
November 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
How are we doing, fellow SAD-sufferers? Because I feel like a phantom, forever trapped in the domain of shadows, with music as my only companion.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
Starting Val Lewton season (aka autumn) with a rewatch of the dreamlike and haunting I Walked With a Zombie. This always makes me swoon.
November 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Starting Val Lewton season (aka autumn) with a rewatch of the dreamlike and haunting I Walked With a Zombie. This always makes me swoon.
GdT’s Frankenstein is astonishingly beautiful. Its beating heart is Elordi’s intensely Romantic Creature. It recalls Milton’s Paradise Lost and the engravings of von Holst. So many art references, and a moving ending full of empathy and hope.
November 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
GdT’s Frankenstein is astonishingly beautiful. Its beating heart is Elordi’s intensely Romantic Creature. It recalls Milton’s Paradise Lost and the engravings of von Holst. So many art references, and a moving ending full of empathy and hope.
Nichols and Shannon doing (folk?) horror? Count me in! 🥰
Jeff Nichols and Michael Shannon are a great team, and Qualley has been great. Nichols ability to achieve nuance with darker material is something I appreciate.
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theplaylist.net/jeff-nichols...
Jeff Nichols’ Gothic Horror ‘King Snake’ To Star Margaret Qualley, Michael Shannon & Drew Starkey
Jeff Nichols returns with the southern gothic horror film ‘King Snake,’ starring Margaret Qualley, Drew Starkey, and Michael Shannon.
theplaylist.net
November 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Nichols and Shannon doing (folk?) horror? Count me in! 🥰
“True erotic horror collapses the boundary between the will to live and the compulsion to be undone.”
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10 great erotic horror films
Eros and Thanatos battle it out in these horny Halloween horrors, where monstrosity, repressed sexuality and devilish decadence feed into some truly transgressive movies.
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November 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“True erotic horror collapses the boundary between the will to live and the compulsion to be undone.”
www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...
www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...