Rebekah King
@rebekahking.bsky.social
Writer/researcher https://www.rebekahkingwriter.com/
Articles on magic, theatre, horror etc here https://rebekahkingwriter.substack.com
Articles on magic, theatre, horror etc here https://rebekahkingwriter.substack.com
Last night I had a dream where I’d submitted a story about ‘space worms’ (?!) to a workshop being run by Kate Bush, and I thought damn, I shouldn’t have sent the one about the space worms, it’s not my best and then Kate Bush came up to me and said (1/2)
November 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Last night I had a dream where I’d submitted a story about ‘space worms’ (?!) to a workshop being run by Kate Bush, and I thought damn, I shouldn’t have sent the one about the space worms, it’s not my best and then Kate Bush came up to me and said (1/2)
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And the award for the most beautiful venue of the “Uncle Vincent” tour has to go to Dunbar’s Harbour Chapel!
One more performance of this beautiful play by @rebekahking.bsky.social tonight in Smailholm Village Hall.
Hopefully we’ll be taking Vincent on the road again next year though 🌻
One more performance of this beautiful play by @rebekahking.bsky.social tonight in Smailholm Village Hall.
Hopefully we’ll be taking Vincent on the road again next year though 🌻
November 14, 2025 at 2:30 AM
And the award for the most beautiful venue of the “Uncle Vincent” tour has to go to Dunbar’s Harbour Chapel!
One more performance of this beautiful play by @rebekahking.bsky.social tonight in Smailholm Village Hall.
Hopefully we’ll be taking Vincent on the road again next year though 🌻
One more performance of this beautiful play by @rebekahking.bsky.social tonight in Smailholm Village Hall.
Hopefully we’ll be taking Vincent on the road again next year though 🌻
Hearing @johnnymains.co.uk talk about this at the recent Tales of the Weird event has sent this straight to the top of my ‘to buy’ list.
November 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Hearing @johnnymains.co.uk talk about this at the recent Tales of the Weird event has sent this straight to the top of my ‘to buy’ list.
As a one-time librarian I can’t wait for this one!!
Cursed shelves and ghoulish libraries... 👻
Dive into fourteen tales featuring bewitched books in The Haunted Library, for lovers of the weird and the written word.
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/the-haunted-library-tales-of-cursed-books-and-forbidden-shelves
Dive into fourteen tales featuring bewitched books in The Haunted Library, for lovers of the weird and the written word.
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/the-haunted-library-tales-of-cursed-books-and-forbidden-shelves
November 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
As a one-time librarian I can’t wait for this one!!
SHOCKING photos show before and after the feminisation of academia
November 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
SHOCKING photos show before and after the feminisation of academia
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Publishing December 4th! 🖤
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
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 3:08 PM
Publishing December 4th! 🖤
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Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
My new business cards have turned out great
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
My new business cards have turned out great
What most you fear is coming near open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...
Reading Your Future with Edward Gorey and 'The Fantod Pack'
Horror Moments, Edward Gorey Edition
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November 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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I met friend for life @rebekahking.bsky.social yesterday! She is awesome, been helping me out behind the scenes with BL book scanning. A true angel!
November 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I met friend for life @rebekahking.bsky.social yesterday! She is awesome, been helping me out behind the scenes with BL book scanning. A true angel!
Unseen Sex and Violence in The Curious Sofa
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Unseen Sex and Violence in The Curious Sofa
Horror Moments, Edward Gorey Edition
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October 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unseen Sex and Violence in The Curious Sofa
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Quiz! Horror Movie Taglines
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Quiz! Horror Movie Taglines
Curious Quiz, October 2025
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October 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Quiz! Horror Movie Taglines
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It was such an honour to be asked to be a part of this! Well done to everyone involved.
😈The Wyrd Revels have finished. Devils have crawled back into their firey pits, witches have put a brew on and put their feet up, and the house of Pelops are regretting that restaurant they went to the other night. Many thanks to all the audience, participants, and attendant spirits.
Till next time!
Till next time!
October 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
It was such an honour to be asked to be a part of this! Well done to everyone involved.
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This was an EXCELLENT telling of Faustus, and I had a great time discussing this and all other things wyrd with @rebekahking.bsky.social . Thank you @beyondshakes.bsky.social for inviting me!
🚨Last day of the Revels!
😈It's Doctor Faustus 1616 at 3pm (yes, it's a matinee) followed by our post season panel asking What Makes a Revel Wyrd?
With @magicnotwitches.bsky.social, author of Cunning Folk & @rebekahking.bsky.social #horror #drama #halloween
www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
😈It's Doctor Faustus 1616 at 3pm (yes, it's a matinee) followed by our post season panel asking What Makes a Revel Wyrd?
With @magicnotwitches.bsky.social, author of Cunning Folk & @rebekahking.bsky.social #horror #drama #halloween
www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
October 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This was an EXCELLENT telling of Faustus, and I had a great time discussing this and all other things wyrd with @rebekahking.bsky.social . Thank you @beyondshakes.bsky.social for inviting me!
Looking forward to speaking on the panel this afternoon!
🚨Last day of the Revels!
😈It's Doctor Faustus 1616 at 3pm (yes, it's a matinee) followed by our post season panel asking What Makes a Revel Wyrd?
With @magicnotwitches.bsky.social, author of Cunning Folk & @rebekahking.bsky.social #horror #drama #halloween
www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
😈It's Doctor Faustus 1616 at 3pm (yes, it's a matinee) followed by our post season panel asking What Makes a Revel Wyrd?
With @magicnotwitches.bsky.social, author of Cunning Folk & @rebekahking.bsky.social #horror #drama #halloween
www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
October 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Looking forward to speaking on the panel this afternoon!
The Hapless Child, a Melodrama
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The Hapless Child, a Melodrama
Horror Moments, Edward Gorey Edition
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October 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The Hapless Child, a Melodrama
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It’s good to know that, no matter how bad my drawings are, if I write something important enough beside them they might be on the cover of a book one day.
October 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It’s good to know that, no matter how bad my drawings are, if I write something important enough beside them they might be on the cover of a book one day.
Anyone in the London area want to do the greatest group Halloween costume with me?
October 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Anyone in the London area want to do the greatest group Halloween costume with me?
The Temptation of St Anthony by Athanasius
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The Temptation of St Anthony by Athanasius
Tea and a Tale, The Penguin Book of Exorcisms
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October 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The Temptation of St Anthony by Athanasius
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Someone pointed out to me recently that the song of the mice in Bagpuss is sung to the tune of ‘summer is icumen in’ which I think means Bagpuss is a folk horror... www.readingmuseum.org.uk/blog/bagpuss...
Bagpuss and...medieval Reading?
Summer is Icumen In. It’s bigger than Reading Festival. It’s been around longer than the Purple Turtle.
www.readingmuseum.org.uk
October 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Someone pointed out to me recently that the song of the mice in Bagpuss is sung to the tune of ‘summer is icumen in’ which I think means Bagpuss is a folk horror... www.readingmuseum.org.uk/blog/bagpuss...
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I don't like linking to wretched Am*z*n but a sample of my book has just appeared (most of the introduction, it looks like, and the plates!) and, well, I hope you like it. Proper publication next month. EEEEEK.
www.amazon.co.uk/Textile-Shak...
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Textile Shakespeare
Buy Textile Shakespeare by Lees-Jeffries, Hester (ISBN: 9780198861133) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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October 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I don't like linking to wretched Am*z*n but a sample of my book has just appeared (most of the introduction, it looks like, and the plates!) and, well, I hope you like it. Proper publication next month. EEEEEK.
www.amazon.co.uk/Textile-Shak...
www.amazon.co.uk/Textile-Shak...
I am still traumatized by ‘Swords’
This will be great. Edited by the author of Ghostland. I’m guessing the Aickman story is Swords which is a once read never forgotten story.
🎪 Roll up, roll up! The circus of horrors has arrived... From Aickman to Bradbury, explore sinister sideshows & dark fairgrounds in All the Fear of the Fair, the latest Tale of the Weird.
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/all-the-fear-of-the-fair-uncanny-tales-of-circus-and-sideshow
Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/all-the-fear-of-the-fair-uncanny-tales-of-circus-and-sideshow
October 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I am still traumatized by ‘Swords’
The Scariest TV Intros of all Time
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The Scariest TV Intros of all Time
Horror Moments, Edward Gorey Edition
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October 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The Scariest TV Intros of all Time
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Wonderful to meet up online with @rebekahking.bsky.social @magicnotwitches.bsky.social and @beyondshakes.bsky.social Master of the Wyrd Revels Robert Crighton this evening in advance of our post-show discussion 👇
Also featuring post show discussions for Thyestes, as well as an End of Season Panel Discussion on the Saturday (after Doctor Faustus) with Professor Liz-Oakley-Brown, Dr Rebekah King & Dr Tabitha Stanmore.
Discounts apply for multiple show bookings!
#History
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Discounts apply for multiple show bookings!
#History
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October 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Wonderful to meet up online with @rebekahking.bsky.social @magicnotwitches.bsky.social and @beyondshakes.bsky.social Master of the Wyrd Revels Robert Crighton this evening in advance of our post-show discussion 👇