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Rebekah King
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Writer/researcher https://www.rebekahkingwriter.com/
Articles on magic, theatre, horror etc here https://rebekahkingwriter.substack.com
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I impulse-bought one of those overnight face masks and it’s all gone a bit Georges Franju

Eyes Without a Face (1960)
Close up shot of the young female protagonist of wearing her white face mask. The film poster where the staring eyes stand out alarmingly from the white blankness where a face should be.
December 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Had an unexpected friend on our garden shed this morning in central London. What a lovely last glimpse of autumn!
An urban fox sits curled up on the roof of a garden shed in amongst a last scattering of fallen autumn leaves.
November 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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In our version, the pig wins the day and traps the wicked owner in the oven, Hansel and Gretel style. Enjoy my mad scribbled lyrics and the sight of an extremely talented singer called Jasmine pretending to be a pig… (2/2)
A notebook covered with notes under the title 'Pig opera' they sketch out a story 'buying the pig' 'preparing the dinner' and 'pig triumphs' and there are snatches of lyrics 'you are tender, you are sweet, you are plump and good to...cuddle.' And so on.
November 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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This week, I’ve been working as a librettist on some intense but incredible Opera Lab workshops at the Royal Academy of Music. On our final day we had 24 hours to write a mini opera based on a news headline. Our group was given ‘Couple Adopts Pig from a Sanctuary only to Cook and Eat Her.’ (1/2)
Brightly lit photo of the Royal Academy of Music seen from the street over the decorative iron railings. The building is red brick and grand. A small concert room where two singers are performing in front of a cellist, a flautist and a pianist. One of the singers is pretending to be a pig eating out of a bowl, the other is patting her ominously on the head. No one is in costume, this is a plain clothes performance.
November 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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SHOCKING photos show before and after the feminisation of academia
Senate house, Cambridge Senate house, Cambridge but with a big cartoon bow, eyelashes and lips
November 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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My new business cards have turned out great
Sixteenth century woodcut of a monster which looks a bit like a demon sheep. It just says 'A strange and terrible wonder'
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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It’s good to know that, no matter how bad my drawings are, if I write something important enough beside them they might be on the cover of a book one day.
Cover of the Penguin Classics 'The Apocryphal Gospels' with a photo of a manuscript on he cover. The text of the manuscript is decorated with a very poorly drawn Jesus and two criminals being executed. Apart from anything else, the legs of Jesus have been accidentally attached to the cross itself instead of his body.
October 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Anyone in the London area want to do the greatest group Halloween costume with me?
Screenshot from The Village of the Damned (1960), four golden haired children with glowing eyes.
October 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Tour dates here:
October 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Nice little interview about my Van Gogh play in the Linlithgow Gazette and another here (falkirkherald.co.uk/art…) from the Falkirk Herald.
Headline: One-man show Uncle Vincent.
October 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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So pleased to have received my gorgeous copy of 'At the Change of the Moon' by Bernard C Blake, newly edited and published by @johnnymains.co.uk for Mislaid Books. An underappreciated gem! Hardback available here: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FKH9GMF8
Cover of the novel with a bat flying past a full moon. Acknowledgements including one to Rebekah for scanning the book for Johnny.
August 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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When you wake up from a nap to hear that your neighbour’s child has started learning the recorder.
Early cinema depiction of a man waking from a hypnotised slumber, opening his eyes slowly and staring directly at the camera with a haunted look. When you wake up from a nap to hear that your neighbour’s child has taken up the recorder (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920)
August 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Today I learned that Herman Melville is responsible for the world’s meanest description of penguins.
August 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Ooh this looks great! That chapter on bowls is responsible for one of my all time favourite sassy footnotes
July 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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If anyone is in London this October, I’ll be speaking about horror on the early modern stage as part of Beyond Shakespeare’s ‘Wyrd Revels’ season. What better way to celebrate the spookiest (i.e. the best) month?

Early bird tickets here, my panel is on 25th:

www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
July 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Every time I hear someone say that AI takes the misery out of writing
Mrs Doyle from Father Ted saying 'Maybe I like the Misery.'
July 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Happy International Women's Day to all who celibate
The nuns from Sound of Music stand together, hands clasped in prayer
March 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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One of the many difficulties faced by medieval women was having to leave bad dates via castle windows.
A medieval illustration of a woman falling from a window in a tower. In the other window, a man is leaning as if mid-conversation.
February 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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The real mystery about vampires is how they managed to do their make up so well without mirrors.
A vampire woman with black hair, pale skin, and fangs, snarls between mounted candles in a castle setting. Her eyes are perfectly made up with dusky eye shadow and a feline flick to her eyeliner. The photo is of Pia Degermark in The Vampire Happening (1971).
February 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Just finished recording my second ever horror commentary for an upcoming release of ‘Lisa and the Devil', or ‘the film Mario Bava made when he was given carte blanche.’ Absolutely bonkers and lots of fun.
A colourful poster for Lisa and the Devil. Lisa, a beautiful young woman with blonde hair, is wearing a short blue skirt and open-buttoned green blouse. She is screaming as the face of a man looms larger than life from the red and purple at her back. The head and shoulders of the devil, played by Telly Savalas, is shown encircled with filigree. He is bald and dressed like a butler. His eyes have been painted over so that they blaze bright red and yellow. At a dinner table in a mansion, five corpse turn their heads and stare down the camera. One is a skeleton shrouded in a black veil. They have been positioned on one side of the table to resemble the Last Supper. Lisa, in green and blue, looks nervously at a set of man-sized mannequins with painted faces and unfinished clothes.
February 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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It's six more weeks of winter, everyone! #groundhogday
A groundhog on a red cushion is consulted by a circle of men wearing top hats and black suits. One of the men holds a cane which allows him to speak in groundhogese.
February 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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There has just been a special groundhog day shoutout to the military. I feel like I'm learning so much about American from watching this livestream... #groundhogday
February 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Now four men are singing Twist and Shout into the still-pitch black Pennsylvania morning. No groundhog-themed lyrics this time. #groundhogday
February 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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I desperately want to watch a vampire film where it turns into a Honduran white bat and just chills out with its mates under a big leaf.
A group of Honduran white bats cuddle up together under a large tropical leaf. Their bodies are white and fluffy like cotton wool and their noses, ears and legs are bright yellow. A single Honduran white bat is held gently between human fingers. We can better see its pointy yellow nose and ears.
January 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Not sure which I'm more excited for. Incidentally, two great uses of shadow...
Poster for the upcoming Wallace & Gromit film 'Vengeance most Fowl' The shadow of penguin-villain Feathers McGraw looms behind the main characters. Poster for the upcoming film 'Nosferatu.' The vampire's shadow is seen on a billowing white curtain opposite a young woman in her nightgown who is slightly levitating from the floor.
December 18, 2024 at 10:07 AM