Richard Wells
@slipperyjack.bsky.social
👁️ Occasional Graphic Designer for telly & film
🔥 I also make Spooky Lino Prints that you can buy if you want
📍Black Country (middle of the UK)
https://linktr.ee/SlipperyJack
🔥 I also make Spooky Lino Prints that you can buy if you want
📍Black Country (middle of the UK)
https://linktr.ee/SlipperyJack
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Richard Wells
@slipperyjack.bsky.social
· Jan 14
Oh hi there, #portfolioday
I'm a guy who does
👁️Spooky Blu ray covers for Arrow Video
👁️Spooky props for spooky movies
👁️Spooky album covers
👁️Spooky lino prints
👉 slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
I'm a guy who does
👁️Spooky Blu ray covers for Arrow Video
👁️Spooky props for spooky movies
👁️Spooky album covers
👁️Spooky lino prints
👉 slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
I'm hoping to have one more batch of Professionally Defaced copies available on the shop before Christmas, watch this space 👁️...
@slipperyjack.bsky.social's TALES ACCURSED: A FOLK HORROR ANTHOLOGY is a resplendent tome of weird & horror tales by the old masters. His woodcut-style lino art evokes a simpler, scarier time. Best of all, this edition is "professionally defaced" with a gorgeous remarque of the Mari Lwyd!
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I'm hoping to have one more batch of Professionally Defaced copies available on the shop before Christmas, watch this space 👁️...
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One of my all time favourites. Impressive 🧵
Film nerd tourism ahoy! Apologies, here’s a brief thread of filming locations that I visited the other week from Juraj Herz’s beautifully surreal and macabre and harrowing (and funny!) masterpiece The Cremator (1969)…
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
One of my all time favourites. Impressive 🧵
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Film nerd tourism ahoy! Apologies, here’s a brief thread of filming locations that I visited the other week from Juraj Herz’s beautifully surreal and macabre and harrowing (and funny!) masterpiece The Cremator (1969)…
November 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Film nerd tourism ahoy! Apologies, here’s a brief thread of filming locations that I visited the other week from Juraj Herz’s beautifully surreal and macabre and harrowing (and funny!) masterpiece The Cremator (1969)…
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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.
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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…
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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...
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A great film. Highly recommended.
Film nerd tourism ahoy! Apologies, here’s a brief thread of filming locations that I visited the other week from Juraj Herz’s beautifully surreal and macabre and harrowing (and funny!) masterpiece The Cremator (1969)…
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
A great film. Highly recommended.
Film nerd tourism ahoy! Apologies, here’s a brief thread of filming locations that I visited the other week from Juraj Herz’s beautifully surreal and macabre and harrowing (and funny!) masterpiece The Cremator (1969)…
November 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Film nerd tourism ahoy! Apologies, here’s a brief thread of filming locations that I visited the other week from Juraj Herz’s beautifully surreal and macabre and harrowing (and funny!) masterpiece The Cremator (1969)…
Going live in three minutes..!
My dad's back in the game, another batch of his wood carvings available in his shop tomorrow. Includes a driftwood phantom, I'm always drawn to the particularly cursed look of those...
👁️ wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com
👁️ wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Going live in three minutes..!
Am going! 👻 Probably remains my favourite of the post-revival James adaptations...
Next Sunday. Screening an ultra rare BBC Christmas ghost story and celebrating the 20th anniversary of the superb A View from a Hill, plus a chat with its writer, Peter Harness.
Details and tickets:
Details and tickets:
A Birmingham Ghost Story + Peter Harness Q&A | Midlands Arts Centre
The BBC became well known in the 70s for producing popular anthology series Ghost Stories For Christmas, but Birmingham’s Pebble Mill had its own anthology
macbirmingham.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Am going! 👻 Probably remains my favourite of the post-revival James adaptations...
Michael Hordern over here...
I heard a rustle in the hedge line, glanced behind me, and there the figure stood. Watching…
(watching the sunset, and then - like all ghosts - heading towards town. Possibly to the chippie)
(watching the sunset, and then - like all ghosts - heading towards town. Possibly to the chippie)
November 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Michael Hordern over here...
See also Dan Curtis' 1974 Dracula TV movie with Jack Palance as the Count. I *think* the first Stoker adaptation to do the reincarnated bride thing...
I haven’t seen Besson’s DRACULA, but it’s so wild how “Mina is the reincarnation of Dracula’s bride” has become part of the accepted lore. None of this is from the book; he’s directly pulling from Coppola’s 1992 film, which was cribbing from DARK SHADOWS (and maybe THE MUMMY), as was FRIGHT NIGHT 🤣
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
See also Dan Curtis' 1974 Dracula TV movie with Jack Palance as the Count. I *think* the first Stoker adaptation to do the reincarnated bride thing...
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✨🪞HAUNTED MIRRORS 🪞✨
A man acquires an antique mirror with a bloodthirsty ghoul trapped in the glass. This is the premise of From Beyond the Grave’s “The Gatecrasher” (1974), based on a short story by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes.
A man acquires an antique mirror with a bloodthirsty ghoul trapped in the glass. This is the premise of From Beyond the Grave’s “The Gatecrasher” (1974), based on a short story by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes.
November 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
✨🪞HAUNTED MIRRORS 🪞✨
A man acquires an antique mirror with a bloodthirsty ghoul trapped in the glass. This is the premise of From Beyond the Grave’s “The Gatecrasher” (1974), based on a short story by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes.
A man acquires an antique mirror with a bloodthirsty ghoul trapped in the glass. This is the premise of From Beyond the Grave’s “The Gatecrasher” (1974), based on a short story by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes.
My dad's back in the game, another batch of his wood carvings available in his shop tomorrow. Includes a driftwood phantom, I'm always drawn to the particularly cursed look of those...
👁️ wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com
👁️ wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
My dad's back in the game, another batch of his wood carvings available in his shop tomorrow. Includes a driftwood phantom, I'm always drawn to the particularly cursed look of those...
👁️ wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com
👁️ wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com
Witness my joy at finding a Prague phantom willing to be in a selfie...
November 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Witness my joy at finding a Prague phantom willing to be in a selfie...
My telephone helpfully reminding me it's five years to the day I photographed myself wrapped in a bedsheet for my Damnable Tales 'author' photograph. Heady times...
November 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
My telephone helpfully reminding me it's five years to the day I photographed myself wrapped in a bedsheet for my Damnable Tales 'author' photograph. Heady times...
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Will be at The Horse Hospital for this. Can't wait!
+ HIDDEN BRITAIN // LIVE DATES +
As well as my three shows with 'The Balloonist', I'll also be bringing my AV ghost story project 'Wren's Nest' to Whitby in a few weeks as part of the 'Switched On Festival'. Hope to see some of you at these forthcoming dates.
+ More TBA & ticket links in the bio +
As well as my three shows with 'The Balloonist', I'll also be bringing my AV ghost story project 'Wren's Nest' to Whitby in a few weeks as part of the 'Switched On Festival'. Hope to see some of you at these forthcoming dates.
+ More TBA & ticket links in the bio +
November 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Will be at The Horse Hospital for this. Can't wait!
I had a miscalculation of stock from last week's drop of Professionally Defaced copies of Tales Accursed, I've actually got this one straw bear copy left if anyone wants it...
👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I had a miscalculation of stock from last week's drop of Professionally Defaced copies of Tales Accursed, I've actually got this one straw bear copy left if anyone wants it...
👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com
Had a great time last night at the debut performance of @hiddenbritain.bsky.social's experimental AV Black Country ghost story Wren's Nest. A big sonic blast of hauntological goodness along with a beautifully rendered patchwork of eerie visuals - check out those upcoming dates..!
November 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Had a great time last night at the debut performance of @hiddenbritain.bsky.social's experimental AV Black Country ghost story Wren's Nest. A big sonic blast of hauntological goodness along with a beautifully rendered patchwork of eerie visuals - check out those upcoming dates..!
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November 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Hanging out with the kitten my mom's currently looking after. Trying to spot the ghost he's fixated on...
November 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Hanging out with the kitten my mom's currently looking after. Trying to spot the ghost he's fixated on...
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On the 16th I’ll hosting a Q&A with writer Peter Harness alongside a screening of his 2005 adaptation of A View from A Hill.
Before that I’ll be introducing an ultra rare screening of Andrew Davies’ adaptation of Poe’s Imp of the Perverse starring Michael Kitchen & Lalla Ward.
Details:
Before that I’ll be introducing an ultra rare screening of Andrew Davies’ adaptation of Poe’s Imp of the Perverse starring Michael Kitchen & Lalla Ward.
Details:
A Birmingham Ghost Story + Peter Harness Q&A | Midlands Arts Centre
The BBC became well known in the 70s for producing popular anthology series Ghost Stories For Christmas, but Birmingham’s Pebble Mill had its own anthology
macbirmingham.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
On the 16th I’ll hosting a Q&A with writer Peter Harness alongside a screening of his 2005 adaptation of A View from A Hill.
Before that I’ll be introducing an ultra rare screening of Andrew Davies’ adaptation of Poe’s Imp of the Perverse starring Michael Kitchen & Lalla Ward.
Details:
Before that I’ll be introducing an ultra rare screening of Andrew Davies’ adaptation of Poe’s Imp of the Perverse starring Michael Kitchen & Lalla Ward.
Details:
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A vaguely vampiric mari tonight (inspired by the visual fest of coppolas dracula)
I’m not sure its blood, most likely wine given maris perchant for booze
I’m not sure its blood, most likely wine given maris perchant for booze
November 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
A vaguely vampiric mari tonight (inspired by the visual fest of coppolas dracula)
I’m not sure its blood, most likely wine given maris perchant for booze
I’m not sure its blood, most likely wine given maris perchant for booze
Confirmed sighting at the Coppola winery...
November 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Confirmed sighting at the Coppola winery...
Carry On Scrying...
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This was excellent, btw. I think Dee's life would make for a great sitcom - you find him living at his mum's place in Mortlake with his exasperated wife Jane, Queen Elizabeth I occasionally popping over for clandestine occult meetings, her suspicions spymaster Walsingham living a few doors down...
New hot summer reading just dropped 🔥...
November 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Carry On Scrying...
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Very cool to hear the track Drink Deep on the new Florence & the Machine album was inspired by Sheridan Le Fanu's 'Laura Silver Bell', which Florence Welch encountered after being gifted Damnable Tales by @sineadgleeson.bsky.social! More gutted than ever that the book has vanished into the ether...
November 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Very cool to hear the track Drink Deep on the new Florence & the Machine album was inspired by Sheridan Le Fanu's 'Laura Silver Bell', which Florence Welch encountered after being gifted Damnable Tales by @sineadgleeson.bsky.social! More gutted than ever that the book has vanished into the ether...
This was excellent, btw. I think Dee's life would make for a great sitcom - you find him living at his mum's place in Mortlake with his exasperated wife Jane, Queen Elizabeth I occasionally popping over for clandestine occult meetings, her suspicions spymaster Walsingham living a few doors down...
November 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This was excellent, btw. I think Dee's life would make for a great sitcom - you find him living at his mum's place in Mortlake with his exasperated wife Jane, Queen Elizabeth I occasionally popping over for clandestine occult meetings, her suspicions spymaster Walsingham living a few doors down...