Scarred For Life
@scarredforlife.bsky.social
A trilogy of books and a podcast about the dark pop culture of the 1970s and 1980s, from public information films to nuclear war!
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Listen to the podcast: pod.link/1706291698
Contact: ste1bro@hotmail.co.uk
Buy our books: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
Listen to the podcast: pod.link/1706291698
Contact: ste1bro@hotmail.co.uk
Gronda! Gronda! THE ADVENTURE GAME (1980) saw celebs try to escape from the planet Arg. Each episode culminated with the Vortex, a pulsating column of light which 'evaporated' the likes of Bonnie Langford and Richard Stilgoe. Don't worry, kids, they're not dead. Doogy Rev!
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Gronda! Gronda! THE ADVENTURE GAME (1980) saw celebs try to escape from the planet Arg. Each episode culminated with the Vortex, a pulsating column of light which 'evaporated' the likes of Bonnie Langford and Richard Stilgoe. Don't worry, kids, they're not dead. Doogy Rev!
HORROR TOP TRUMPS (1978): Colossally gruesome sets, featuring blood, gore, and dismemberment. A playground classic. And it's like two games in one: can you name all the film and TV images homaged by the cards?
November 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
HORROR TOP TRUMPS (1978): Colossally gruesome sets, featuring blood, gore, and dismemberment. A playground classic. And it's like two games in one: can you name all the film and TV images homaged by the cards?
NOBODY'S HOUSE (1976): Children's comedy drama from ITV about a family who moves into a haunted antiques shop. The ghost in question is 'Nobody', a 14-year-old Victorian orphan who died of the plague in the building's basement, back when it was a workhouse. It's a comedy, honest!
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
NOBODY'S HOUSE (1976): Children's comedy drama from ITV about a family who moves into a haunted antiques shop. The ghost in question is 'Nobody', a 14-year-old Victorian orphan who died of the plague in the building's basement, back when it was a workhouse. It's a comedy, honest!
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Leeds and West Yorkshire weirdies! We are bringing the @scarredforlife.bsky.social Folk Horror show to @oldwoollen.bsky.social in Farsley on Thu 12th Feb - one of our favourite venues, we had an absolute blast last time around. Join ussss.... oldwoollen.seetickets.com/event/scarre...
November 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Leeds and West Yorkshire weirdies! We are bringing the @scarredforlife.bsky.social Folk Horror show to @oldwoollen.bsky.social in Farsley on Thu 12th Feb - one of our favourite venues, we had an absolute blast last time around. Join ussss.... oldwoollen.seetickets.com/event/scarre...
RAVEN (1977): HTV's brilliant Arthurian Folk Horror eco-drama for kids starring Phil (Quadrophenia) Daniels as a troubled borstal boy who may be the reincarnation of King Arthur. Nuclear anxiety, stone circles, and New Age mysticism abound!
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
RAVEN (1977): HTV's brilliant Arthurian Folk Horror eco-drama for kids starring Phil (Quadrophenia) Daniels as a troubled borstal boy who may be the reincarnation of King Arthur. Nuclear anxiety, stone circles, and New Age mysticism abound!
The bloody opening scenes from SCARF JACK (1981), a brilliant but obscure ITV drama about the Irish Rebellion of 1798, with the Brits as the villains, and airing slap bang in the middle of the Troubles. Dead kids strewn everywhere at 4.45 in the afternoon - it was a kid's show!
November 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The bloody opening scenes from SCARF JACK (1981), a brilliant but obscure ITV drama about the Irish Rebellion of 1798, with the Brits as the villains, and airing slap bang in the middle of the Troubles. Dead kids strewn everywhere at 4.45 in the afternoon - it was a kid's show!
Thanks to countless scenes of peril in films, TV shows, books and comics, I thought quicksand would feature in my life a lot more than it did. Parker Bros. even released QUICKSAND the board game in 1989! The playing pieces cleverly came apart to replicate sinking into oblivion...
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Thanks to countless scenes of peril in films, TV shows, books and comics, I thought quicksand would feature in my life a lot more than it did. Parker Bros. even released QUICKSAND the board game in 1989! The playing pieces cleverly came apart to replicate sinking into oblivion...
This early 70s Sesame Street animation is my very first childhood scar! Aged 3 (I think - it's also one of my earliest memories), I *really* didn't like the numbers rushing towards me, or the sounds they made. I think I thought they'd smash through the TV screen! What was your earliest telly scar?
November 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This early 70s Sesame Street animation is my very first childhood scar! Aged 3 (I think - it's also one of my earliest memories), I *really* didn't like the numbers rushing towards me, or the sounds they made. I think I thought they'd smash through the TV screen! What was your earliest telly scar?
Raise a glass of blood to the televisual horror of the Scarred For Life era...
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Raise a glass of blood to the televisual horror of the Scarred For Life era...
A quick reminder that this 15% discount ends at midnight tomorrow!
Christmas is coming, and our books make perfect pressies! Get a huge 15% discount off our print books with the case-sensitive code CUSTOMBOOK15 until midnight on Friday November 14!
Also available as colour eBooks.
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
Also available as colour eBooks.
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
November 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A quick reminder that this 15% discount ends at midnight tomorrow!
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DARKADE IS OVER 70% FUNDED!
Big thanks to all who've backed so far, Darkade is officially over 70% funded. Hoping me and @christiandibari.bsky.social get to share our nasty story. We've also a host of exciting additional extras such as artwork from @thisisfunart and @scarredforlife.bsky.social
Big thanks to all who've backed so far, Darkade is officially over 70% funded. Hoping me and @christiandibari.bsky.social get to share our nasty story. We've also a host of exciting additional extras such as artwork from @thisisfunart and @scarredforlife.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
DARKADE IS OVER 70% FUNDED!
Big thanks to all who've backed so far, Darkade is officially over 70% funded. Hoping me and @christiandibari.bsky.social get to share our nasty story. We've also a host of exciting additional extras such as artwork from @thisisfunart and @scarredforlife.bsky.social
Big thanks to all who've backed so far, Darkade is officially over 70% funded. Hoping me and @christiandibari.bsky.social get to share our nasty story. We've also a host of exciting additional extras such as artwork from @thisisfunart and @scarredforlife.bsky.social
A rich vein of Folk Horror ran all the way through WORZEL GUMMIDGE (1979). And one of its most horrific characters was Worzel's own creation: Dafthead!
November 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A rich vein of Folk Horror ran all the way through WORZEL GUMMIDGE (1979). And one of its most horrific characters was Worzel's own creation: Dafthead!
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Christmas is coming, and our books make perfect pressies! Get a huge 15% discount off our print books with the case-sensitive code CUSTOMBOOK15 until midnight on Friday November 14!
Also available as colour eBooks.
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
Also available as colour eBooks.
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Christmas is coming, and our books make perfect pressies! Get a huge 15% discount off our print books with the case-sensitive code CUSTOMBOOK15 until midnight on Friday November 14!
Also available as colour eBooks.
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
Also available as colour eBooks.
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
Fresh meat was as precious as gold bullion back in the 70s. According, that is, to Letraset's dizzyingly exciting THE SWEENEY Super Action Transfers, which allowed kids to create violent scenes based on the classic post-watershed cop show. This meat blag is *carnage*, guv!
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Fresh meat was as precious as gold bullion back in the 70s. According, that is, to Letraset's dizzyingly exciting THE SWEENEY Super Action Transfers, which allowed kids to create violent scenes based on the classic post-watershed cop show. This meat blag is *carnage*, guv!
GRIM TALES (1989): Rik Mayall is magnificenly unhinged (of course!) as the storyteller in this glorious children's show, performing the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales like a live action Looney Tune. Written by Anne Caulfield and Anthony (Dramarama, Robin of Sherwood, Crime Traveller) Horowitz.
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
GRIM TALES (1989): Rik Mayall is magnificenly unhinged (of course!) as the storyteller in this glorious children's show, performing the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales like a live action Looney Tune. Written by Anne Caulfield and Anthony (Dramarama, Robin of Sherwood, Crime Traveller) Horowitz.
Check out the brilliant teaser for PLAY TO DEATH, @manoghosts.bsky.social new podcast about the dark side of videogaming. The first guest is... me!
youtu.be/QCYP3ioRYFU?si=KuAImj9oSYzMmCN0
youtu.be/QCYP3ioRYFU?si=KuAImj9oSYzMmCN0
Play To Death - with Stephen Brotherstone (Scarred for Life) Podcast Teaser
YouTube video by Manoghosts
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November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Check out the brilliant teaser for PLAY TO DEATH, @manoghosts.bsky.social new podcast about the dark side of videogaming. The first guest is... me!
youtu.be/QCYP3ioRYFU?si=KuAImj9oSYzMmCN0
youtu.be/QCYP3ioRYFU?si=KuAImj9oSYzMmCN0
Christmas is coming, and our books make perfect pressies! Get a huge 15% discount off our print books with the case-sensitive code CUSTOMBOOK15 until midnight on Friday November 14!
Also available as colour eBooks.
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
Also available as colour eBooks.
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Christmas is coming, and our books make perfect pressies! Get a huge 15% discount off our print books with the case-sensitive code CUSTOMBOOK15 until midnight on Friday November 14!
Also available as colour eBooks.
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
Also available as colour eBooks.
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
LEVI'S - THE STRANGER (1971): This psychedelic Levi jeans advert is a beautifully animated work of art (rotoscoping in action!). Spoken word jazz legend Ken Nordine provides the cool voiceover.
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
LEVI'S - THE STRANGER (1971): This psychedelic Levi jeans advert is a beautifully animated work of art (rotoscoping in action!). Spoken word jazz legend Ken Nordine provides the cool voiceover.
The Scarred For Life Folk Horror show is coming to Leeds @oldwoollen.bsky.social on Thursday 12 February 2026! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social will don our goat masks to talk about witchcraft, stone circles, and suburban sex orgies (calm down at the back)!
Tickets: bit.ly/483H8JA
Tickets: bit.ly/483H8JA
November 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The Scarred For Life Folk Horror show is coming to Leeds @oldwoollen.bsky.social on Thursday 12 February 2026! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social will don our goat masks to talk about witchcraft, stone circles, and suburban sex orgies (calm down at the back)!
Tickets: bit.ly/483H8JA
Tickets: bit.ly/483H8JA
THE NIGHTMARE MAN (BBC, 1981): Dr Who legend Robert Holmes adapted David Wiltshire's novel Child of Vodyanoi, in which a Scottish island is plagued by murders after a strange craft is found on the beach. Are they dealing with an alien predator or something far more tragic...?
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 AM
THE NIGHTMARE MAN (BBC, 1981): Dr Who legend Robert Holmes adapted David Wiltshire's novel Child of Vodyanoi, in which a Scottish island is plagued by murders after a strange craft is found on the beach. Are they dealing with an alien predator or something far more tragic...?
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Fans of @scarredforlife.bsky.social will find plenty of 70s/80s childhood neuroses in my upcoming book Capture Spiral. Preorder your copy now! temporalboundary.bigcartel.com/product/capt...
Capture Spiral by Jez Conolly PREORDER
In Capture Spiral: An Escape from Memory, Jez Conolly revisits the haunted textures of a 1970s childhood on the Lincolnshire coast, where faded...
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November 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Fans of @scarredforlife.bsky.social will find plenty of 70s/80s childhood neuroses in my upcoming book Capture Spiral. Preorder your copy now! temporalboundary.bigcartel.com/product/capt...
Cyber Baroque chamber orchestra RONDO VENIZIANO's incredible animated video, 'La Serenissima', would often pop up unannounced on afternoon telly in the early 80s. Here they are performing live on Kafka-esque gameshow 3-2-1, and it's an amazing sight to see (and hear)!
November 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Cyber Baroque chamber orchestra RONDO VENIZIANO's incredible animated video, 'La Serenissima', would often pop up unannounced on afternoon telly in the early 80s. Here they are performing live on Kafka-esque gameshow 3-2-1, and it's an amazing sight to see (and hear)!
This image from the 1986 'V' annual has so much to unpack
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This image from the 1986 'V' annual has so much to unpack
This 15% discount ends at midnight on Friday!
Get a huge 15% discount off our books with the case-sensitive code 15WRITER till Friday November 7! You *must* sign in as a guest during checkout to activate this code and grab our trilogy of enormous tomes!
Store: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
Store: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
November 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This 15% discount ends at midnight on Friday!
ULYSSES 31 - THE KINGDOM OF HADES (1981): CBBC Broom Cupboard-era favourite, famous for its sing-a-long theme tune, had more than its share of dark moments. Here, the dead of Hades literally turn their back on the living, their touch decaying everything in their path...
November 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
ULYSSES 31 - THE KINGDOM OF HADES (1981): CBBC Broom Cupboard-era favourite, famous for its sing-a-long theme tune, had more than its share of dark moments. Here, the dead of Hades literally turn their back on the living, their touch decaying everything in their path...