Ray Newman
@raynewman.bsky.social
He/him. From Bridgwater, in Bristol. Writer, editor, content designer. Ghost stories, films. No alt text, no repost. Not here for politics. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/raynewman Header: my book Intervals of Darkness https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DDR8X9QY
Pinned
Ray Newman
@raynewman.bsky.social
· Mar 22
Between them ‘Municipal Gothic’ and ‘Intervals of Darkness’ have 27 stories full of haunted buildings, haunted people, and working class weirdness. Obviously *I* think they're great – but so do strangers who owe me nothing!
👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Municipal-Go...
👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Intervals-Da...
👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Municipal-Go...
👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Intervals-Da...
Nothing reveals the true value of writing like those "Pay to reject ads" interstitials. Totally fair, totally get it, but, no, that article does not look as if it's worth handing over my data to read. So goodbye, and good luck to you.
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Nothing reveals the true value of writing like those "Pay to reject ads" interstitials. Totally fair, totally get it, but, no, that article does not look as if it's worth handing over my data to read. So goodbye, and good luck to you.
Reposted by Ray Newman
Because I am an idiot I decided to photograph all the (visible from the street) Georgian doorways of Liverpool's Rodney Street with a 60 year-old Olympus FT camera. Turns out the half frame format of the camera goes well with the shape of the doors. #believeinfilm #shootfilmbenice
November 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Because I am an idiot I decided to photograph all the (visible from the street) Georgian doorways of Liverpool's Rodney Street with a 60 year-old Olympus FT camera. Turns out the half frame format of the camera goes well with the shape of the doors. #believeinfilm #shootfilmbenice
Reposted by Ray Newman
Just in time for Christmas ghost story readings, I've added a little risograph print of my Read More Ghost Stories design to my shop!
trevorhenderson.bigcartel.com/product/read...
trevorhenderson.bigcartel.com/product/read...
READ MORE GHOST STORIES - Mini-Print
We're entering the time of year when ghost stories are best, so here's a reminder to read more of them! M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood,...
trevorhenderson.bigcartel.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Just in time for Christmas ghost story readings, I've added a little risograph print of my Read More Ghost Stories design to my shop!
trevorhenderson.bigcartel.com/product/read...
trevorhenderson.bigcartel.com/product/read...
Reposted by Ray Newman
Good morning!
(art by Jose Maria Miralles)
(art by Jose Maria Miralles)
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Good morning!
(art by Jose Maria Miralles)
(art by Jose Maria Miralles)
A series of intense ‘filing dreams’, as my other half and I call them, with a cast of long dead relatives, friends’ parents, kids from school, Johnny Ball, my cousin Phil and, of course, my dad. At a suburban retail park, for some reason, all waiting to pick people up from ‘the cancer centre’.
November 11, 2025 at 6:54 AM
A series of intense ‘filing dreams’, as my other half and I call them, with a cast of long dead relatives, friends’ parents, kids from school, Johnny Ball, my cousin Phil and, of course, my dad. At a suburban retail park, for some reason, all waiting to pick people up from ‘the cancer centre’.
“...those hideous PowerPoint slides with multiple columns of 10pt bullet points... are like that because no one pays attention... so the decks need to stand up on their own when people skim them afterwards to pretend that they were listening.”
productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/this-meeti...
productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/this-meeti...
This meeting could have been a picnic
Well-designed meetings are just as important to our work as well-designed artifacts.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:48 AM
“...those hideous PowerPoint slides with multiple columns of 10pt bullet points... are like that because no one pays attention... so the decks need to stand up on their own when people skim them afterwards to pretend that they were listening.”
productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/this-meeti...
productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/this-meeti...
Reposted by Ray Newman
Our designer David has a game called fantasy classics, where he chooses books he thinks should be published as classics. With him all this way on this one.
Look out for an episode of our Working Class Library podcast about it, featuring the great novelist and Mole fan David Nicholls, coming soon.
Look out for an episode of our Working Class Library podcast about it, featuring the great novelist and Mole fan David Nicholls, coming soon.
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Our designer David has a game called fantasy classics, where he chooses books he thinks should be published as classics. With him all this way on this one.
Look out for an episode of our Working Class Library podcast about it, featuring the great novelist and Mole fan David Nicholls, coming soon.
Look out for an episode of our Working Class Library podcast about it, featuring the great novelist and Mole fan David Nicholls, coming soon.
“...sometimes, the only record of something... can be found in contemporary newspaper reports. Such as the following, published in the Daily Mirror on the 18th September 1972, under the headline ‘Golden Gatecrasher – Building worker takes over TV show for demo’...”
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/that...
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/that...
That Which Survives
If history is written by the winners, then television history is written by the survivors. Survivors of magnetic tape or celluloid, that is. And The Golden Shot, which originally ran on ITV between…
www.dirtyfeed.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:34 AM
“...sometimes, the only record of something... can be found in contemporary newspaper reports. Such as the following, published in the Daily Mirror on the 18th September 1972, under the headline ‘Golden Gatecrasher – Building worker takes over TV show for demo’...”
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/that...
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/that...
Now watching: ‘West Country Tales – The Poacher’, 1982. The narrator, Douglas Leech, cycles through a vague bumpkin accent, a Yorkshire one, and then whole sentences in what I'm guessing was his own Northern Irish accent. Distracting.
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Now watching: ‘West Country Tales – The Poacher’, 1982. The narrator, Douglas Leech, cycles through a vague bumpkin accent, a Yorkshire one, and then whole sentences in what I'm guessing was his own Northern Irish accent. Distracting.
Promising: I found a little energy to sit at my desk and be *creative* after work. This has been a struggle for the past few weeks.
November 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Promising: I found a little energy to sit at my desk and be *creative* after work. This has been a struggle for the past few weeks.
Reposted by Ray Newman
On a short fiction jag and doing the “What the fuck did I just read?” thing over this weird story about a middle-aged lady having a normal one with a bunch of raccoons. 🦝
www.feignlit.com/featured/the...
www.feignlit.com/featured/the...
♡The Green Settee♡ — Feign
www.feignlit.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
On a short fiction jag and doing the “What the fuck did I just read?” thing over this weird story about a middle-aged lady having a normal one with a bunch of raccoons. 🦝
www.feignlit.com/featured/the...
www.feignlit.com/featured/the...
Reposted by Ray Newman
Highly recommended. These are both excellent books. I’m struggling to think of a collection of stories that so consistently unnerved me.
I've got a fresh batch of paperbacks in if anyone wants to buy directly from me for Christmas. Same deal as back in July: £13 each, or both for £25, including UK postage.
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/07/25/a...
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/07/25/a...
A rare chance to buy books direct from me
I’ve got a limited supply of paperback copies of both Municipal Gothic and Intervals of Darkness ready to ship to anyone in the UK who wants to buy one. They’re £13 each including delivery in the U…
precastreinforced.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Highly recommended. These are both excellent books. I’m struggling to think of a collection of stories that so consistently unnerved me.
Doodled a scarecrow.
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Doodled a scarecrow.
Reposted by Ray Newman
When I was on @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social I chose this sequence from a 1979 Sesame Street episode - probably the first time I ever heard Philip Glass was this exclusive piece he wrote for this animated sequence, Geometry of Circles. It's never appeared anywhere else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...
Philip Glass - Sesame Street - Geometry of Circles.mp4
YouTube video by SamCam2011
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
When I was on @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social I chose this sequence from a 1979 Sesame Street episode - probably the first time I ever heard Philip Glass was this exclusive piece he wrote for this animated sequence, Geometry of Circles. It's never appeared anywhere else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...
Reposted by Ray Newman
Banishing the blues on the allotment this morning. Taps are off and everything looks a bit worn out. I know how it feels. Finding colour and joy wherever I can🌞
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Banishing the blues on the allotment this morning. Taps are off and everything looks a bit worn out. I know how it feels. Finding colour and joy wherever I can🌞
Reposted by Ray Newman
This is an excellent read, the story of Tony Cornell and the SPR. Gutted that not crossing the picket line meant we didn’t get to do our British Library event with Ben. But this is a terrific book for anyone interested in how intelligent people might engage with the paranormal.
November 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This is an excellent read, the story of Tony Cornell and the SPR. Gutted that not crossing the picket line meant we didn’t get to do our British Library event with Ben. But this is a terrific book for anyone interested in how intelligent people might engage with the paranormal.
I've got a fresh batch of paperbacks in if anyone wants to buy directly from me for Christmas. Same deal as back in July: £13 each, or both for £25, including UK postage.
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/07/25/a...
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/07/25/a...
A rare chance to buy books direct from me
I’ve got a limited supply of paperback copies of both Municipal Gothic and Intervals of Darkness ready to ship to anyone in the UK who wants to buy one. They’re £13 each including delivery in the U…
precastreinforced.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I've got a fresh batch of paperbacks in if anyone wants to buy directly from me for Christmas. Same deal as back in July: £13 each, or both for £25, including UK postage.
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/07/25/a...
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/07/25/a...
I'm still finding Fremlin's stories hit and miss. Too many of them feel like gags with undercutting ‘it was all a misunderstanding’ punchlines. When they hit, though, they're excellent, and ‘Place in the Sun’ gave me a real shiver – “It’s so cold where you've been lying. Why is it so cold?”
I'm a bit lukewarm on Fremlin based on the stories in the previous collection I read but ‘Tuesday's Child’ in this... Crikey. A man whose wife is slowly dying meets his girlfriend every week at the disco where they turn themselves on by discussing her condition, revelling in their own good health.
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I'm still finding Fremlin's stories hit and miss. Too many of them feel like gags with undercutting ‘it was all a misunderstanding’ punchlines. When they hit, though, they're excellent, and ‘Place in the Sun’ gave me a real shiver – “It’s so cold where you've been lying. Why is it so cold?”
Only idiot demons show their faces so obviously, with growling, puking and levitation, and so bring the exorcists down upon themselves. The sly ones take possession early, lie low, and ruin lives in a thousand ways, behind closed doors, over the course of decades.
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Only idiot demons show their faces so obviously, with growling, puking and levitation, and so bring the exorcists down upon themselves. The sly ones take possession early, lie low, and ruin lives in a thousand ways, behind closed doors, over the course of decades.
I endorse this record.
PRICES SLASHED IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS! SURPRISE YOUR LOVED ONES ON CHRISTMAS MORNING WITH A BLAST OF THE SWEENEY!
fasttunes.bandcamp.com/album/the-ne...
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40582709...
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40634188...
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40528402...
fasttunes.bandcamp.com/album/the-ne...
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40582709...
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40634188...
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40528402...
The Next Programme Follows Shortly, by The Fast Tunes Orchestra arranged and conducted by Gavin Sutherland
50 track album
fasttunes.bandcamp.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I endorse this record.
Reposted by Ray Newman
Drew this today
November 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Drew this today
“The screenwriter, playwright and director David Rudkin has explored ecological themes a number of times... He much more overtly and specifically focuses on ecological issues in White Lady... ‘A parable on the agro-chemical destruction of nature’.”
ayearinthecountry.co.uk/david-rudkin...
ayearinthecountry.co.uk/david-rudkin...
David Rudkin’s White Lady – Darker Hued Mainstream Transmissions from a Far Away World: Wyrd Explorations 46 – A Year In The Country
The screenwriter, playwright and director David Rudkin has explored ecological themes a number of times in his work for television, including fairly obliquely in The Living Grave (1980)* and more dire...
ayearinthecountry.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 AM
“The screenwriter, playwright and director David Rudkin has explored ecological themes a number of times... He much more overtly and specifically focuses on ecological issues in White Lady... ‘A parable on the agro-chemical destruction of nature’.”
ayearinthecountry.co.uk/david-rudkin...
ayearinthecountry.co.uk/david-rudkin...
Reposted by Ray Newman
I am the only person staying in a closed-for-the-winter field centre, next to a graveyard, in the darkest village in Britain. And this is the book I have chosen for my evening entertainment. How delightfully gothic.
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I am the only person staying in a closed-for-the-winter field centre, next to a graveyard, in the darkest village in Britain. And this is the book I have chosen for my evening entertainment. How delightfully gothic.
Now watching: ‘The Mark of the Whistler’, dir. William Castle, 1944. Based on a story by Cornell Woolrich. 🎬🎥
November 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Now watching: ‘The Mark of the Whistler’, dir. William Castle, 1944. Based on a story by Cornell Woolrich. 🎬🎥
Reposted by Ray Newman
For @shinydan.bsky.social: The Open University
November 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
For @shinydan.bsky.social: The Open University