John Coulthart
@johncoulthart.com
Artist, designer, occasional writer.
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I'll have more to say about this on the blog tomorrow but the reason I was looking for hieroglyphics that spelled the name Nyarlathotep was so I could finish this piece for the Haunter of the Dark book.
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I'll have more to say about this on the blog tomorrow but the reason I was looking for hieroglyphics that spelled the name Nyarlathotep was so I could finish this piece for the Haunter of the Dark book.
Today's work being soundtracked by industrial quantities of King Crimson, 1973–74. #nowplaying
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Today's work being soundtracked by industrial quantities of King Crimson, 1973–74. #nowplaying
An episode I'm overly familiar with having designed and illustrated PIRATE UTOPIA, the short novel by @bruces.bsky.social which makes everything even more bizarre by dragging in Harry Houdini, HP Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, assorted Futurists and many others.
www.johncoulthart.com/bibliopoesy/...
www.johncoulthart.com/bibliopoesy/...
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
An episode I'm overly familiar with having designed and illustrated PIRATE UTOPIA, the short novel by @bruces.bsky.social which makes everything even more bizarre by dragging in Harry Houdini, HP Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, assorted Futurists and many others.
www.johncoulthart.com/bibliopoesy/...
www.johncoulthart.com/bibliopoesy/...
Today's granary loaf which didn't burn on the top this time. I'm improving.
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Today's granary loaf which didn't burn on the top this time. I'm improving.
We do, however, get to see Michele Dotrice sitting inside Carnacki's "Electric Pentacle" prior to Carnacki realising the mystery has a more mundane explanation. Same year that Michele could be seen summoning Behemoth in Blood on Satan's Claw.
November 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM
We do, however, get to see Michele Dotrice sitting inside Carnacki's "Electric Pentacle" prior to Carnacki realising the mystery has a more mundane explanation. Same year that Michele could be seen summoning Behemoth in Blood on Satan's Claw.
Donald Pleasence as Carnacki in The Horse of the Invisible. (The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Thames TV, 1971).
A shame they didn't choose a better story but The Hog or The Gateway of the Monster would have required serious special effects.
A shame they didn't choose a better story but The Hog or The Gateway of the Monster would have required serious special effects.
November 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Donald Pleasence as Carnacki in The Horse of the Invisible. (The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Thames TV, 1971).
A shame they didn't choose a better story but The Hog or The Gateway of the Monster would have required serious special effects.
A shame they didn't choose a better story but The Hog or The Gateway of the Monster would have required serious special effects.
Great photo: Judith Merril, chez Moorcock, London, 1966. Left to right: Kate M, Mike M, Pip the Dog, Sophie M, Judith M, Hilary Bailey.
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Great photo: Judith Merril, chez Moorcock, London, 1966. Left to right: Kate M, Mike M, Pip the Dog, Sophie M, Judith M, Hilary Bailey.
I've been rewatching my Addams Family DVDs. The Beatles are a rare pop-culture reference in the episode that introduces Cousin Itt.
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I've been rewatching my Addams Family DVDs. The Beatles are a rare pop-culture reference in the episode that introduces Cousin Itt.
Quite popular, apparently. #nowplaying
November 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Quite popular, apparently. #nowplaying
Interesting quote from China Miéville regarding tentacles and the Weird. Quote is from one of Miéville's academic essays, "MR James and the Quantum Vampire", in Collapse IV (2008).
November 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Interesting quote from China Miéville regarding tentacles and the Weird. Quote is from one of Miéville's academic essays, "MR James and the Quantum Vampire", in Collapse IV (2008).
I imagine scholars may quibble with the spelling but I tried checking it in this book and it seems pretty accurate as far as I can tell.
November 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I imagine scholars may quibble with the spelling but I tried checking it in this book and it seems pretty accurate as far as I can tell.
Favourite Robert Louis Stevenson charity-shop purchase, no. 2: Another leather-bound pocket-sized volume, More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1914, co-written with Fanny van de Grift Stevenson) with very attractive Art Nouveau gilt decoration.
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Favourite Robert Louis Stevenson charity-shop purchase, no. 2: Another leather-bound pocket-sized volume, More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1914, co-written with Fanny van de Grift Stevenson) with very attractive Art Nouveau gilt decoration.
Favourite Robert Louis Stevenson charity-shop purchase, no. 1: A leather-bound first of The New Arabian Nights in the pocket-sized Tusitala series of complete works (35 vols, 1924). I have many other Tusitala volumes but this is the only one with leather binding.
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Favourite Robert Louis Stevenson charity-shop purchase, no. 1: A leather-bound first of The New Arabian Nights in the pocket-sized Tusitala series of complete works (35 vols, 1924). I have many other Tusitala volumes but this is the only one with leather binding.
"What's new in Firefox 145"...
November 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"What's new in Firefox 145"...
I've had this for the last 18 months as a Clip Sport replacement for train travel and the like. Unbranded Chinese item from eBay which cost about £25. Touch interface, plays songs in order so long as the mps are correctly tagged. No internal storage included so you need a micro SD as well.
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I've had this for the last 18 months as a Clip Sport replacement for train travel and the like. Unbranded Chinese item from eBay which cost about £25. Touch interface, plays songs in order so long as the mps are correctly tagged. No internal storage included so you need a micro SD as well.
Yes, indeed. Signed by the artist!
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Yes, indeed. Signed by the artist!
Only just noticed this search option when DuckDuckGo is selected as the browser search engine.
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Only just noticed this search option when DuckDuckGo is selected as the browser search engine.
RIP Tatsuya Nakadai. These films, I recommend them.
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
RIP Tatsuya Nakadai. These films, I recommend them.
