Ha, I didn't know that was Sladek! Makes sense after he'd written The New Apocrypha: "A Guide to Strange Sciences and Occult Beliefs".

Congratulations!

Indeed. There is an electronic outfit using the name but it's more suitable for a psych band IMO.

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.

Thanks :) I enjoy Japanese art, as you can see.

There was an edition (hardback, probably) published in 1947:

search.worldcat.org/title/561506...

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.

I can accept that. I'm fascinated by the origins of cultural developments, especially when they arrive from unexpected directions.

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'm tempted to start using them as a graffiti tag.

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.