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Andrew Screen

@andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social

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Author of The Book of Beasts: Folklore, Popular Culture & Nigel Kneale's ATV Horror Series (Headpress 2023). SEN work by day. Words for Fortean Times, We Are Cult among others.

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · Nov 25

With Xmas fast approaching you might be thinking of what to buy the Nigel Kneale/folk horror/archive TV fan in your life. How about The Book of Beasts? Available from all good bookshops, but if you buy it from headpress.com/product/the-... you can also get the Beastabix stand up figures.

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Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 3d

Fairly sure that’s Tom Baker.

Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 3d

A stunning head of Medusa, the mythical creature whose sight turns everyone to stone. Medusa’s head was a popular motif used to ward off any evil.
The #Roman bronze fitting was found in Xanten, dating 1st century AD

On display at Römermuseum Xanten.

📷 me

🏺#archaeology

A detailed bronze sculpture of a face with wide eyes and flowing, wavy hair radiating outward resembling snakes, displayed in a glass case under museum lighting.

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HALLOWEIRD @johnnymains.co.uk · 12h

FOR SALE:

THE SORCERERS UK Quad signed by Ian Ogilvy and screenwriter Tom Baker (not the Doctor Who one). Will also throw in a signed copy of THE SORCERERS: THE ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY edited by me and THE SORCERERS bluray with liner notes by me.

£500 - DM if interested.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 18h

A thoroughly fantastical movie poster for the release of 1968’s “Planet Of The Apes” in The Socialist Republic of Romania.

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 17h

Eight years ago today I went to Southwell Minster to interview a bookshop owner and took this pic in the graveyard. Stuck it on Twitter, and it went viral for years in various forms. I still see it, shorn of connection to me, doing its stuff, living its best life out in Internetland.

Tombstone in Southwell Minster graveyard with the bas relief 'WTF 1620'

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 2d

The Apple! Yes!

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Smersh Pod @smershpod.com · 5d

QUATERMASS 2
with @tobyhadoke.bsky.social
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QUATERMASS 2 with Toby Hadoke | Smersh Pod

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 4d

Do they still make Woodbines? Very much out of the brands of fags loop these days.

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 4d

Yes! Same here.

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 4d

Greatly saddened by this. Here is a glimpse of John Woodbine, excellent as always, as the sinister leader of the Knights of God.

youtu.be/7lMkNsIiCsI

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 4d

He was a Gateshead lad wasn't he? 96 is a grand age to get to as well.

Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 4d

I know... Bloody spell check!

Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 4d

Woodvine! Woodvine! Not Woodbine. Sodding spell check strikes again!

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 4d

Farewell to the actor John Woodbine who died today. He was ubiquitous in the film and TV of my childhood appearing in everything from Z Cars, Dr Who and the films The Devils and An American Werewolf in London.

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 5d

A lovely and heart warming thread for Sunday evening...

Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 5d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 5d

Here's a double exposure Polaroid I captured last year at Castlerigg stone circle. The looming spirit of the stone..!
#StandingStoneSunday

Double exposure Polaroid. In the lower half sits Castlerigg stone circle with the lake district fells behind. Overlaying the sky is an upside down close up shot of the tip of one of the stones.

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 5d

Ah bugger! Back to the drawing board then...

Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 5d

Richard Rankin... It could be?

Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 5d

Rebus?

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Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · 6d

WIN a set of postcards of TV crime series as Penguin book covers. Simply guess which series is depicted on each cover. The earliest was broadcast in 1969. All originated on TV (so no Morse, Marple etc). Email [email protected] & I'll pick three from a digital deerstalker. Deadline: 10 Oct.

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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 7d

Tonight's film is Hannibal Brooks (1969) directed by Michael Winner and starring Oliver Reed and Michael J Pollard. A childhood favourite I've not seen for decades...

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TVARK @tvark.bsky.social · 8d

2 October 1925

John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first television receiver in London, using greyscale technology.

First, a ventriloquist dummy head, Stooky Bill, then a human being, William Edward Taynton, the first person to be televised in a full tonal range.