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David Haraldson
@lostdiarist.bsky.social
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Professional Alter Ego. Manc. Psychogeography, deep maps, hauntology, zines, games, music, art, photography, sci-fi, & horror—& any gubbins that sheds new light on old places. (He/him) Was LostDiarist & MrBlipvert on the Bird Site.

GPA, NJ, & VT
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Nostalgically recollecting all those 1990s TV shows that British listings mags tried to convince is were the next Twin Peaks …
Poster for Oliver Stone’s & Bruce Wagner’s Wild Palms … Poster for Northern Exposure, showing a moose crossing a snowy street—the show’s two leading stars’s smiling faces loom overhead.
October 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Have you found the Riddley Walker annotations site? errorbar.net/rw/
Russell Hoban’s original map of “Inland”—a published map the southeast of England overwritten with Hoban’s addition of new place names & coastlines.
July 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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I love this picture I found on a table top games publisher's website (BTRC) of two geodesic domes next to a folly in the shape of round tower with a pointed conical roof.

www.btrc.net
From left to right: small mouldering white geodesic dome; larger very mouldering geodesic dome (taking on a greenish hue!), and rising above both, a stone round tower with a pointed conical roof! In the background are leafless woods and, further back still, a body of water.
June 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Halp! @talkingsilents.bsky.social, @moviessilently.bsky.social, & @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social : Can any of you come to my rescue & identify these stills? They're being hawked on various stock image licensing sites but I assume they're yoinked from a movie!
Black and white photograph of a courtroom. All the people there are white. We see a woman dressed in 1920s clothes (and hat), in the witness stand, raising her to be sworn in. The judge, court clerk, and attorney are also there. Later in the same same. The woman is looking to her right, perhaps at the clerk or someone out of shot.
May 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Grist for the domestic horror mill, via @horrormakesushappy.bsky.social :
Tweet from Mx Leah Velleman ( @ LeahVelleman ) with 12/6/20 date stamp: ‘There’s a theory that early Europeans started saying “brown one” or “honey-eater” instead of “bear” to avoid summoning them, and similarly my friend has started calling Alexa “the faceless woman” because saying her name awakens her from her slumber.’
April 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Also check out Clarence Redd’s weird 1920s SF Mythras-based TTRPG, Odd Soot. There are some excellent maps of 1920s Doggerland & biology text book style drawings of strange aliens. www.frostbytebooks.com/odd-soot
Picture of an mollusc-like alien. Text reads: “Odd Soot. Science fiction mystery in the 1929s. Humanity has reached the stars. An alien plague without a cure threatens civilization. Only a few tragic heroes can save mankind.”
March 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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I don’t know why the BBC would put a horror serial on in the middle of an evening family comedy sketch show. But they did and I still carry the psychological trauma of The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town to this day.
The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town, wearing Victorian evening clothes and cloak, raiding his arms, his face in a hideous grimace. “Comedy” courtesy of the Two Ronnies. (😉)
February 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Just finished reading Susan Cooper’s “Over Sea, Under Stone.” Fortunately, my copy is the lovely 1982 Puffin edition & not one of the more recent ones.
1965 book cover. Photo collage of a medieval cup and older white man in dark clothes (centre), flying owl (in the lower left), & a bird of prey’s head (top, looming menacingly) — all superimposed over Cornish cliffs. The image is made of of reds, greys, and white.
February 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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NecroNeil's etsy shop -- where one could purchase issues of the brilliant cut & paste #horror movie review #fanzine, #Necronomicon -- has gone dark (rather than just being on a break).

Does anyone out there know Neil's status & if he plans to return to #zines?
White man with shaved head moustache and goatee, wearing a black tee-shirt, and holding up a copy of Necronomicon Issue 38, July 2020. I think that this is NecroNeil.
January 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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If you see this post something orange.
The Curious Orange from "This Morning with Richard Not Judy." A giant orange with a man's face and a "Produce of South Africa" sticker, on a counter, next to a variety of other fruit. (IRL: an actor wearing an orange headpiece/ mask, with his body under the counter. Obviously.)
January 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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NecroNeil/ Necro Neil, author & editor of the cut and paste horror film review zine, Necronomicon seems to have closed his Etsy store. Anyone have links to an announcement? Is he okay?

zinewiki.com/wiki/Necrono...
Cover of Necronomicon, issue one. Bryce Campbell is being throttled by a disembodied / severed hand.
December 28, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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Fewer of you may be aware of Clarence Redd's Mythras-based "Odd Soot," set in a weird 1920s in which #Doggerland never sank: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/2...
Cover of Odd Soot: Science Fiction Myster in the 1920s. Shows a page from a scientific book with an anatomical illustration of an alien with tentacular appendages, an octopus like head, but a distinct trunk-like torso/ thoracic area and two stumpy feet. There are swing annotations, the artist’s signature (Clarence Redd), and a plate number (pl. 64). There are several other leaves of paper behind this, making a small stack.
December 27, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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If you’re cold, they’re cold—let them in.
Painting of Mari Lwyd with the caption “If you are cold they are cold. Let the Mari Lwyd in.”
December 14, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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#ChristmasEerie. The Dark Is Rising. Box of Delights. The BBC’s Ghost Stories for Christmas. Any other recs? (A question for #FolkHorror, #Horror, #Fantasy fans.)
Cover of 1980s edition of Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising. Uncanny illustration of a horned horseback rider against a winter scene. Radio Times cover. 1930s-era schoolboy opens a small finely crafted box. His face is illuminated by a light from within the box. Cover of the BFI’s Ghost Stories for Christmas Definitive Collection DVD set. A hooded skull looks at the viewer. BFI’s expanded six-disc collection of Ghost Stories for Christmas. An older man with a ghostly pale complexion and whose eyelids appear to be fused closed faces the viewer with his mouth open in horror.
December 14, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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Gearing up for my annual re-read of one of my favourite novels, Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker. I hope to make a psychogeographic pilgrimage of my own in the not-too-distant future: #ScienceFiction #NowReading #psychogeography #PostApocalypse errorbar.net/rw/
A multi-layered map of the southeast of England. There is an original published, modern map, much of which has been shaded blue to represent rising sea levels. On top is a seemingly crudely drawn new coastline and a number of annotations: corrupted place names such as "Do It Over" for "Dover."
December 8, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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Shout out for Chas's biography by Carolyn Dillian & Charles Bello! www.penn.museum/research/pub... ( #Archaeology, #natureWriting, also file under #DifficultMen )
Cover of Dillian & Bello's Misadventures in Archaeology: the Life and Career of Charles Conrad Abbott. Picture shows Abbott in a 19th century museum setting, surrounded by glass cases that are full of artefacts.
November 27, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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I’ve been fascinated by those odd closed, hidden, & half forgotten underground railway/ subway stations since my first viewing of Neverwhere on the Beeb. I’m glad that Franklin Square is reopening. But a selfish part of me will miss the thrill of seeing it on PATCO on the way into Philly. 🔔
Dimly lit subway tunnel, Franklin Square in Philadelphia.
November 25, 2024 at 12:16 PM
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A spectral woman in a black Victorian dress stands among the reeds in an artificial lake, looking out of the image seemingly at the viewer. Rain lashes against the surface of the water. From the black & white film, The Innocents (1963).
November 22, 2024 at 2:35 AM
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Someone has to have written about #hauntology & Simon Stalenhag’s Tales from the Loop art, surely? Unrealized futures, right?
A rusting robotic platform surrounded by tall grasses and trees. An old futuristic structure, partially buried by a dune. Three giant towers loom over simple single-story dwellings in a snowy landscape. Two children are playing in the snow.
November 22, 2024 at 2:25 AM
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One of my earliest memories of haunted media is The Clifton House Mystery (1978): old houses, hidden rooms, militaria, & a skeleton—& all rooted in Britain’s historical trauma. Yes, I am of the #HauntedGeneration. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cli...
A mother & her young daughter (with braids and holding a small, open, music box in her hands). Mother looks at the daughter, concerned. The daughter is looking away, seemingly enchanted by something in the room. On the side of a large piece of wooden furniture, we see the ghostly image of an old woman in 19th century clothes.
November 20, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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Hey, folks! If you like modern #UrbEx & #ruins photography (abandoned sites of various kinds), do check out @cindyvasko.bsky.social ’s work. She has written several books & appeared on the Sense of Place podcast. cindyvasko.com
Overgrown, rusting ferris wheel.
November 16, 2024 at 11:11 AM
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#NowReading Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. And posting about it in Blue Sky. Yes, I appreciate the irony. Putting my smartphone down now …
Cover of Odell’s book. Title and subtitle are in white text against a colourful background of pink and white flowers and green leaves.
October 15, 2024 at 10:46 AM
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A little late with this but, back in the 1970s, we actually went on a school trip to a canal that had orange water from local mine-workings. I suspect it was the Bridgewater Canal: www.est1761.org/heritage-sto...
Narrow canal with colourful narrow boats/ barges & bright orange water.
October 14, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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By "neutch___", over on Reddit:
www.reddit.com/r/blender/co...
Mocked up image of electron microscope image of microscopic violin.
October 14, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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I am on a trains & model railways/ railroads kick. So, yesterday, I watched an episode of God’s Wonderful Railway: www.svrwiki.com/God's_Wonder...
Title card for God’s Winderful Railway. Detail of the side of a green steam locomotive. The show’s name is on an oval builder’s plate near the top of the picture & “by Avril Rowlands” is on another arched plate over a wheel.
September 16, 2024 at 12:09 PM