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Jack Barrow
@jackbarrowuk.bsky.social
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Absurd, British, Magick, Fic & Non Fic.
The #HiddenMastersSeries -very silly &
#InSatNavWeTrust -travelogue
Typos my own
Visit https://jack-barrow.com/lp-gen/ for my free novella Sundae Driver+The Completely Incomplete Guide to British Heritage and Humour
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Brilliant.

...and tenement halls.

From a different platform. Credit to the account holder.
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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And it was fabulous. Perhaps my best ever spuds.
November 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Today I polished my hematite collection.
October 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Unfortunately we discovered we had no mint sauce and no eggs so no Yorkshire either.
October 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Today's foxy visit.
October 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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🙂
July 24, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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We have several foxes. Unfortunately our camera isn't up to much.
June 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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I try to keep our herbs and spices in alphabetical order. It's slightly infuriating that there are so many Cs.
May 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Bluesky esoteric book challenge. A book a day (it's okay to skip days if you're busy), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best occult books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#Books #Esoteric #Occult #esotericbookchallenge
Image shows three books, all S.S.O.T.B.M.E. and essay on magic, by Ramsey Dukes. Two of the book covers show an illustration by Austin Spare titled The Blasé Bacchante, a naked female figure lays on the ground surrounded by mushrooms and other fungi, wooden stumps and other plants. A lizard and a hedgehog can be seen at the bottom of the picture. The central book cover, a first edition, has no illustration but instead bears the text, an essay on magic, its foundations, development and place in modern life. Below that is the publisher's monogram T.M.T.S.
April 1, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Signs of spring
Spring buds on a garden pear tree
March 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Bluesky esoteric book challenge. A book a day (it's okay to skip days if you're busy), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best occult books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#Books #Esoteric #Occult #esotericbookchallenge
Book cover in landscape format, black background. Across the top reads the title Images and Oracles of Austin Osman Spare (in red text). Below to the left the author Kenneth Grant (in white text). On the right hand side the image of Austin Spare's pen and ink drawing, The Senseless Seven (1911), a self-portrait showing Spare surrounded by various animals including a goat, antelope, boar and bull, all horned creatures. To the left of Spare is a satyr.
March 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Would you sell your soul to save your ice cream van? Absurd British contemporary fantasy, occult sorcery in Blackpool, northern England. - Download the free novella on the link:
dl.bookfunnel.com/h1839aqoxv

#HiddenMastersSeries
#book #ebook #esoteric #occult #pagan #comedy #comicfiction #freebook
Book cover shows the title Sundae Driver - a story of Dan and Stan with Zelda and the Welder by Jack Barrow. The strap line reads A story in the Hidden Masters Universe. The book has a red background with an inverted purple pentagram in the centre, and a yellow sunburst behind the pentagram. In the centre of the pentagram are two cartoon figures, a blond haired main in the uniform of an ice cream vendor and a shorter, balding man with a waistcoat. On his watch chain is a pentagram, almost imperceptible. The ice cream vendor is turning away from the shorter man and looking over his shoulder. Below the pentagram a cartoon image of an old fashioned taxi chases an ice cream van.
March 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Bluesky esoteric book challenge. A book a day (it's okay to skip days if you're busy), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best occult books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#Books #Esoteric #Occult #esotericbookchallenge
Image shows a purple book cover titled The History of British Magick After Crowl by Dave Evans. Subtle Kenneth Grant, Amado Crowley, Chaos Magic, Satanism, Lovecraft, The Left Hand Path, Blasphemy and Magical Morality. The centre of the cover shows an image combining the radial arms of chaos, the Caduceus, the Wings of Isis, a chalice and at the centre an inverted pentacle.
March 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Bluesky esoteric book challenge. A book a day (it's okay to skip days if you're busy), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best occult books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#Books #Esoteric #Occult #esotericbookchallenge
Imagine shows hardback book titled, The Hellgate Chronicles (main text in sickly puce against a black background). The subtle reads, "The complete, unexpurgated diaries of The Hon. Hugo C Stj L'Estrange" behind the text in one corner of the cover shows a painting of the head and shoulders of a bloated elderly man painted with plaid yellow skin, rich pink lips and piercing blue eyes. The appearance of the painting is sketchy and almost daubed rather than painted carefully. The expression of the face is frowning and distainful.
March 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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I see your ducks and raise you chickens.
Some chickens
March 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Bluesky esoteric book challenge. A book a day (it's okay to skip days if you're busy), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best occult books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#Books #Esoteric #Occult #esotericbookchallenge
Photo shows cover of Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses Devils and Demons by Manfred Lurker. White dust jacket with a blue wyvern drawn in a medieval style
March 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Bluesky esoteric book challenge. A book a day (it's okay to skip days if you're busy), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best occult books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#Books #Esoteric #Occult #esotericbookchallenge

2 copies, same book
Magick by Aleister Crowley. (1986 edition) A pink cover with Crowley's illustration of the magical circle. Below the symbol reads Edited, annotated and introduced by John Simmonds and Kenneth Grant. A second volume of the same book, adjacent, has a hand made paper jacket bearing a hand drawn sigil including a hexagram overlayed with the Lamen of the OTO and other magickal symbols.
March 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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I've met a lot of authors here on #Bookthreads so I thought I'd post details of my #HiddenMastersSeries Here's the main novel. Absurd occult sorcery in a north England holiday resort. (I've posted the other books but they are now out of sequence as I accidentally deleted this so had to repost it.)
The image shows a book cover with a purple background. Text in white says The Hidden Masters and the Unspeakable Evil, A hard drinking occult adventure with gambling and frivolous trousers. Jack Barrow. A quote reads "It's all riotously funny, improbably probable - Pentacle Magazine" In the centre of the cover is an upright yellow pentagram with three faceless male figures emerging from the centre of the pentagram. Arranged around the pentagram are a startled looking cat, a 1940s English taxi and a sword, disk, wand and chalice, as used in ceremonial magick.
March 15, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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To follow up on my promise to post on #Bookthreads my books so far in the #HiddenMastersSeries (Only allowed one hashtag?) here's the novella available as a free download at the back of my Unspeakable Evil novel. Wayne's letters as he writes home of his adventures on the 1970 hippie trail to India.
The image shows a book cover, blue with red text that reads Letters From India Overland, A backpack, a bag of weed and a pair of stout shoes. The centre of the cover bears a circle of red with a collection of air mail letters of various designs and sizes.
March 15, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen to the timeline
March 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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It does what it says on the tin.
February 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Would you sell your soul to save your ice cream van? Absurd British contemporary fantasy, occult sorcery in Blackpool, England.
January 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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I remember following you a while ago. I knew I recognised the name but I couldn't place it. I confused it with Good Opens. The penny just dropped. It's been a while since I read any #RobertRankin
January 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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They have been very popular with the starlings as described in my next newsletter The Completely Incomplete Guide to British Heritage and Humour due for publication on Monday. Sign up this weekend via my website.
January 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Just about to serve the Christmas lunch here in Colchester. Happy Yule to one and all.
December 25, 2024 at 2:54 PM