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John Coulthart
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Artist, designer, occasional writer.
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Rita Hayworth in space, courtesy of Virgil Finlay and Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1951. Illustration is for The Wanderer's Return by Fletcher Pratt.
An ink drawing showing in the foreground a seated woman in a gown looking skyward with stars in her hair. In the background the arrival (?) of elongated spacecraft is being observed by human onlookers which include a group of veiled people standing on cuboid structures. Spiky vegetation fills the rest of the background.
November 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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In other news, I've just finished another page for my updated/overhauled Lovecraft book. More about that later. Also rearranged some of the typesetting which means I now need to fill the resulting space with more illos. I'm good at creating additional work for myself...
November 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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A moment of alarm when I thought that Google had finally killed the SmartTube app for Android TV. (SmartTube = ad-free YT viewing, etc.) Turns out the developer had disabled it due to a compromised digital signature. I've just deleted the old one and installed the update.

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November 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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New blog post: Weekend links 806
Weekend links 806
Cover art by George Wilson for The Twilight Zone #45, September 1972. Via. • At Public Domain Review: Thea Applebaum Licht on the history of art within art, or cabinets of curiosity and paintings within paintings. • The final 2025 catalogue of lots for the After Dark: Gay Art and Culture online auction. Homoerotic art, photos, historic porn. etc.
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November 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Alan Moore, la légende du comic book s’associe à son ami Steve Moore pour créer La Lune et le Serpent : Le Grand Livre de la Magie, une plongée unique dans l’art de l’occultisme.

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Alan Moore, la légende du comic book s’associe à son ami Steve Moore pour créer La Lune et le Serpent : Le Grand Livre de la Magie.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Every time I see a picture of Cloudbase I remember the Attack on Cloudbase episode in which the Mysterons attack in a squadron of flying saucers, destroying the place and everyone in it. Everyone! Traumatic stuff for a six-year-old.
November 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967-1968): Cloudbase, the Command Headquarters of the Spectrum Organisation
A screen capture of a classic-style science fiction flying aircraft carrier. The massive grey vessel is flying above the clouds and features a flat flight deck carrying several small white delta-wing aircraft. A distinctive elevated command tower, marked with the text 'SPECTRUM,' sits above the main hull, supported by thin struts. Large engine pods with orange detailing are mounted underneath the main body.
November 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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MORGIANA (Juraj Herz, 1972). Loved this vivid Czech Gothic drama - a tale of two sisters involving jealousy, greed, poisoning, lavish costumes and a striking Siamese cat. The hair and make-up are gloriously over the top, especially for Viktoria, the evil one in this twisted scenario. #FilmSky
Iva Janzurova as Victoria. She is wearing a black gown and silver-coloured necklaces while raising a china cup to her lips. Her black hair, black eye-make-up and red lipstick are very dramatic. The same actress also plays Victoria’s good sister, Klara, seen here propped up in bed while wearing a low-cut black-and-while gown. Her curly red hair and dark eye make-up are rather dramatic. Morgiana, the Siamese cat with her bright blue eyes. (Three fingers are visible on her shoulder as she is being held by a woman.) A DVD of MORGIANA, a film by Juraj Herz, showing an illustration of the two sisters positioned as in a ying-and-yang symbol.
November 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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⚔️ Thanks so much to @neilsnowdon.bsky.social and @arrowvideo.bsky.social for asking me to contribute to this incredible looking package.
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Behold, the Sword of Power! Excalibur! For anyone waiting for things from me, this is why: my brain has been consumed by John Boorman and Excalibur, both of them dear to my heart. The restoration is stunning, and finally presents the film in the right aspect ratio on home video... 🧵1/8
New 4K UHD edition of Excalibur from Arrow Video. The pic shows the contents and packaging: Rigid slipcase, amaray and sleeve, double-sided poster, six art cards, 120page book and three discs. all artwork is by Bob Peak from the original release poster options. vibrant, and filled with reflections and refractions like the light that glints and glows in the film.
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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PREORDER: 'Cosmic Music: The Life, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane' by Andy Beta

First full-length biography on the spiritual jazz icon.

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November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Nobody advertises a calendar the way Moon Wiring Club does.

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A screen-grab from a web page which reads: "PROCURE YESELF 12 self-perpetuating partially-rendered phantom promotional peculiarity portals into a scenic perma-mutating quarantined shadow realm of sun-baked two-faced future-vintage cut-up or shut-up glamorous monstrosity advertorial collage artwork creature aberrations! REPLICATE the exact vibe of a Clinkskell tourist authority agent operating from within a fluctuating quagmire dimension c1983 with YE A3 2026 MWC GRUESOME SHREWD calendar! Professionally manufactured with durable spiral binding, this full-colour profusely illustrated 13 sided (including cover) A3 (29.7cm x 42cm) 250gsm fancy silk calendar will reactivate your decommissioned + corroded temporal areas during ALL 12 chronological months of the c2026 year GUARANTEED The 2026 MWC GRUESOME SHRWED calendar is indisputably almost certainly 'here'!"
November 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Christmas present idea for the ghost story lover in your life? There's this gorgeous hardback, from @swanriverpress.bsky.social!
Book cover, Atmospheric Disturbances by Helen Grant
November 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Twin Peaks: The Early Years.
A still from an episode of The Addams Family: Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor (1965). Lurch is standing outside Cousin Itt's very small bedroom door. A still from an episode of The Addams Family: Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor (1965). Lurch is looking at a sleeping Cousin Itt inside the very small bedroom. A still from an episode of The Addams Family: Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor (1965). Cousin Itt (now awake and wearing his bowler hat) is making an "OK" sign with his gloved hand. A still from an episode of The Addams Family: Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor (1965). A crouching Lurch and Cousin Itt are talking together inside the very small bedroom.
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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ShoreZone is the first and only collection of supernatural fiction by David Rudkin, legendary playwright and author of Penda's Fen.

Published in a limited edition of 500 hardbacks, inc a signed illustrated bookplate.

Order now in time for Christmas! strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/shorezone/
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Sad to hear that Andrew Lauder has died. Such an important figure in the British music industry. He signed/released many fantastic bands: Hawkwind, High Tide, Can, Amon Duul II, Dr Feelgood, Buzzcocks, Stranglers etc. And he gave me a great interview for Days Of The Underground.
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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New blog post: Carnacki's first manifestation
Carnacki’s first manifestation
Visual manifestation, that is. The first Carnacki story to see print was The Thing Invisible, published in 1909 as a part of The Ghost Pirates, A Chaunty, and Another Story. The book wasn't illustrated, nor was the Carnacki collection published by Eveleigh Nash in 1913. The five stories that ran in The Idler, however, were all decorated with sketchy illustrations by Florence Briscoe, all of which may be seen in…
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November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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William Hope Hodgson, if he did but know it, confirming once more the intersection between cosmic sounds and cosmic horror. (From "The Hog", Weird Tales, January 1947. Story would have been written some time between 1910 and 1914.)

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A screen shot of an extract from The Hog by William Hope Hodgson, as printed in Weird Tales, January 1947: "I get dumb with the failure of my command over speech to tell you what that grunting, howling, roaring melody conveyed to me. It had in it something so inexplicably *below* the horizons of the soul in its monstrousness and fearfulness that the ordinary simple fear of death itself, with all its attendant agonies and terrors and sorrows, seemed like a thought of something peaceful and infinitely holy compared with the fear of those unknown elements in that dreadful roaring melody. And the sound was with me *inside* the room—*there right in the room with me*. Yet I seemed not to be aware of confining walls, but of echoing spaces of gargantuan corridors. Curious! I had in my mind those two words—gargantuan corridors."
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Sounds Front Cover 26th, November 1977 featuring Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk in the New Musick feature.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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OTD 48 years ago Jane Suck and I wrote the post punk electronica manifesto New Musick in Sounds. I’m still very proud of this: we caught something in our fevered queer brains. Note the very early (the first?) use of the term post punk. Articles included Kraftwerk, Eno, Devo, TG, the Residents, Ubu
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Tom (mid-1970s) photograph by Anne Billson. From the days when I absolutely HAD to cram every available surface with clutter.
Black and white photograph of a man in an old-fashioned suit and white waistcoat, bow-tie, monocle and curly moustache. In one hand he holds an open fan, in the other a cigarette in a holder, though you can barely see the latter against the cluttered backdrop of books, pictures, paper skeletons, plastic fruit and flowers, dried grasses and a sporran.
November 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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A page from underground comix artist Nicole Claveloux’s 'The Green Hand,' published in Heavy Metal magazine in 1978
A comic page depicting a woman taking a cryptic phone call in a hallway and then going for a walk, illustrating in searingly bright yellows, blues, and reds.
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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DJ Food's latest auction dive has turned up a Futurama 1979 poster and badge among the usual psychedelia. I don't have many missed-gig regrets but I've always regretted not making the effort to get to this event. Look at the line-up!
A black-and-white poster for Futurama 1979 ("The world's first Science Fiction Music Festival 1979") at Queens Hall, Leeds. Photocopied/hand-drawn fanzine-style graphics with occasional use of Letraset lettering, advertising the following: Saturday, September 8, 1979: A Certain Ratio, Cabaret Voltaire, Expelaires, Inner City Unit, Invaders, Joy Division Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, pragVec, Public Image Ltd, Punishment of Luxury, Spizz Energi, Stranger Than Fiction, The Chapter, The Edge, The Vincent Units, Tymon Dogg. Sunday, September 9, 1979: Agony Column, Dead or Alive, Echo & the Bunnymen, Fischer‐Z, Hawkwind, Inner City Unit, Manicured Noise, Nightmares in Wax, Revelation ("reggae"), Roger Ruskin Spear and His Kinetic Wardrobe, Scritti Politti, The Fall, The Monochrome Set, The Only Ones, The Teardrop Explodes, Teenage Werewolves. Tickets £5 per day.
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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This was brilliant and made my head spin in the best way.

Why not follow it up by immersing yourself in the film and soundtrack by Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman?

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wrote the liner notes which contain one of JJ’s last ever interviews. #RIP
LAST AND FIRST MEN JÓHANN JOHANNSSON & YAIR ELAZAR GLOTMAN Deutsche Grammophon, 2020. LAST AND FIRST MEN JOHANN JÓHANNSSON & YAIR ELAZAR GLOTMAN LINER NOTES BY ANDREW MALE
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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New blog post: The Whistling Room, 1952
The Whistling Room, 1952
Coincidence time again: this ancient TV drama was posted to YouTube a few days ago just as I was finishing Timothy S. Murphy's very commendable study of William Hope Hodgson's fiction, William Hope Hodgson and the Rise of the Weird: Possibilities of the Dark. As drama or even basic entertainment, The Whistling Room is the opposite of commendable but it is notable for being the first screen adaptation of a Hodgson story.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM