General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast (and Zine)
@generalwitch.bsky.social
The British Horror Podcast
Britain… an ancient kingdom with cruelty and torment in its blood
Join Ross Jon and James as they tread where few dare
From Dracula to Damien Herbert to Hellraiser
The General Witchfinders podcast and zine
generalwitchfinders.com
Britain… an ancient kingdom with cruelty and torment in its blood
Join Ross Jon and James as they tread where few dare
From Dracula to Damien Herbert to Hellraiser
The General Witchfinders podcast and zine
generalwitchfinders.com
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1️⃣We've had a few new followers lately, so here’s a quick intro. We’re three friends who run General Witchfinders, a podcast about classic British horror—films, TV, books, and radio—plus plenty of tangents along the way. 🧵
Two-thirds of the General Witchfinders caught the latest Rage Saga movie at the cinema last night! We will drop a discussion for our Patreons soon.
Listen to our previous reviews here:
🧬 28 Days Later: tinyurl.com/RageSaidFred
🧬 28 Weeks Later: tinyurl.com/28W33ksltr
#28YearsLater #TheBoneTemple
Listen to our previous reviews here:
🧬 28 Days Later: tinyurl.com/RageSaidFred
🧬 28 Weeks Later: tinyurl.com/28W33ksltr
#28YearsLater #TheBoneTemple
January 15, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Two-thirds of the General Witchfinders caught the latest Rage Saga movie at the cinema last night! We will drop a discussion for our Patreons soon.
Listen to our previous reviews here:
🧬 28 Days Later: tinyurl.com/RageSaidFred
🧬 28 Weeks Later: tinyurl.com/28W33ksltr
#28YearsLater #TheBoneTemple
Listen to our previous reviews here:
🧬 28 Days Later: tinyurl.com/RageSaidFred
🧬 28 Weeks Later: tinyurl.com/28W33ksltr
#28YearsLater #TheBoneTemple
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Here’s another video blast from the (Twitter) past! Just a heads-up: all of these videos need the sound on. This one is for Warning to the Curious, which we reviewed back in Episode 21 pod.link/1547179456/e...
December 2, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Here’s another video blast from the (Twitter) past! Just a heads-up: all of these videos need the sound on. This one is for Warning to the Curious, which we reviewed back in Episode 21 pod.link/1547179456/e...
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NO DIGGIN’ FOR BRITAIN ‘ERE
January 14, 2026 at 10:08 PM
NO DIGGIN’ FOR BRITAIN ‘ERE
Awesome! We need to do a Mummy film soon
Something I didn’t expect to find in @perthmuseum.bsky.social today: Christopher Lee’s prop sarcophagus from the 1959 Hammer film The Mummy @hookland.bsky.social @generalwitch.bsky.social @museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk
January 15, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Awesome! We need to do a Mummy film soon
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Day one of the install today!
OPENING EVENT FRIDAY NIGHT! 6-8PM
TURNER HOUSE PENARTH
OPENING EVENT FRIDAY NIGHT! 6-8PM
TURNER HOUSE PENARTH
January 12, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Day one of the install today!
OPENING EVENT FRIDAY NIGHT! 6-8PM
TURNER HOUSE PENARTH
OPENING EVENT FRIDAY NIGHT! 6-8PM
TURNER HOUSE PENARTH
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness #BigChrisLee
January 14, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness #BigChrisLee
Fun to hear that our question to Radio Free Skaro spun off a longer discussion about further Cushing Doctor Who films! I’m glad #BigChrisLee got his trilogy with Peter before Dr. Who was recast in this alt-universe.
Have you ever wondered which stories they might have made into films had the Cushing Doctor Who carried on regardless, throughout the 1960s and beyond? We did!
jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/blue-box-2...
Meanwhile on our sister feed, Star Wars! Morse! Jodie Whittaker!
open.spotify.com/show/3ooouE7...
jrsouthall.podbean.com/e/blue-box-2...
Meanwhile on our sister feed, Star Wars! Morse! Jodie Whittaker!
open.spotify.com/show/3ooouE7...
January 14, 2026 at 8:35 AM
Fun to hear that our question to Radio Free Skaro spun off a longer discussion about further Cushing Doctor Who films! I’m glad #BigChrisLee got his trilogy with Peter before Dr. Who was recast in this alt-universe.
And don’t forget our ‘Rage Said Fred’ T-shirts general-witchfinders.teemill.com/collection/2...
January 14, 2026 at 6:46 AM
And don’t forget our ‘Rage Said Fred’ T-shirts general-witchfinders.teemill.com/collection/2...
The Rage saga continues! 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is in cinemas tonight. 🩸
Catch up with General Witchfinders reviews:
🧬 28 Days Later (Ep 43): tinyurl.com/RageSaidFred
🧬 28 Weeks Later (Ep 58): tinyurl.com/28W33ksltr
#28YearsLater #TheBoneTemple #GeneralWitchfinders #RageVirus
Catch up with General Witchfinders reviews:
🧬 28 Days Later (Ep 43): tinyurl.com/RageSaidFred
🧬 28 Weeks Later (Ep 58): tinyurl.com/28W33ksltr
#28YearsLater #TheBoneTemple #GeneralWitchfinders #RageVirus
January 14, 2026 at 6:42 AM
The Rage saga continues! 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is in cinemas tonight. 🩸
Catch up with General Witchfinders reviews:
🧬 28 Days Later (Ep 43): tinyurl.com/RageSaidFred
🧬 28 Weeks Later (Ep 58): tinyurl.com/28W33ksltr
#28YearsLater #TheBoneTemple #GeneralWitchfinders #RageVirus
Catch up with General Witchfinders reviews:
🧬 28 Days Later (Ep 43): tinyurl.com/RageSaidFred
🧬 28 Weeks Later (Ep 58): tinyurl.com/28W33ksltr
#28YearsLater #TheBoneTemple #GeneralWitchfinders #RageVirus
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An Uncanny Hour is coming to @kingsplacelondon.bsky.social on Jan 31st. Come join @robinince.bsky.social, Mark Gatiss, Alice Lowe and David McAlmont for an evening of delightfully frightful monsters. Tickets - www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/com...
January 12, 2026 at 5:54 PM
An Uncanny Hour is coming to @kingsplacelondon.bsky.social on Jan 31st. Come join @robinince.bsky.social, Mark Gatiss, Alice Lowe and David McAlmont for an evening of delightfully frightful monsters. Tickets - www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/com...
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Now reading - Unquiet Guests (2025), a collection of haunted house short stories edited by @dancoxon.bsky.social and published by @deadinkbooks.bsky.social
Really enjoyable so far, with a good level of modest experimentation with form and genre. Was surprised to see Palahniuk going Weird! #booksky
Really enjoyable so far, with a good level of modest experimentation with form and genre. Was surprised to see Palahniuk going Weird! #booksky
January 12, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Now reading - Unquiet Guests (2025), a collection of haunted house short stories edited by @dancoxon.bsky.social and published by @deadinkbooks.bsky.social
Really enjoyable so far, with a good level of modest experimentation with form and genre. Was surprised to see Palahniuk going Weird! #booksky
Really enjoyable so far, with a good level of modest experimentation with form and genre. Was surprised to see Palahniuk going Weird! #booksky
We are looking for #SummerSpooky short stories, illustrations, artists/makers for our next zine! This thread and link give all the details. Pls share this on all your socials (including the ones we aren't on!) and even tell your friends face-to-face: general-witchfinders.teemill.com/blog/call-fo...
January 11, 2026 at 8:43 AM
We are looking for #SummerSpooky short stories, illustrations, artists/makers for our next zine! This thread and link give all the details. Pls share this on all your socials (including the ones we aren't on!) and even tell your friends face-to-face: general-witchfinders.teemill.com/blog/call-fo...
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I thought it might be nice to give away my last 2 signed hardbacks of my novel 1983, with two lovely linocut hares by my mum.
All you have to do to enter is repost this (& leave a reply).
The book's been called "Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut and Sue Townsend”.
Extract in the replies.
All you have to do to enter is repost this (& leave a reply).
The book's been called "Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut and Sue Townsend”.
Extract in the replies.
January 9, 2026 at 12:57 PM
I thought it might be nice to give away my last 2 signed hardbacks of my novel 1983, with two lovely linocut hares by my mum.
All you have to do to enter is repost this (& leave a reply).
The book's been called "Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut and Sue Townsend”.
Extract in the replies.
All you have to do to enter is repost this (& leave a reply).
The book's been called "Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut and Sue Townsend”.
Extract in the replies.
Here is our final podcast episode of 2025. Join us for some teatime, child friendly satanic human sacrifice in K9 and Company.
tinyurl.com/K9vsSatan
tinyurl.com/K9vsSatan
January 9, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Here is our final podcast episode of 2025. Join us for some teatime, child friendly satanic human sacrifice in K9 and Company.
tinyurl.com/K9vsSatan
tinyurl.com/K9vsSatan
Agree with all of these ! Bring on the @hammerfilms.bsky.social extended universe - or at least the Big Finish spinoffs - we’d write them for you
A very short watchlist of films that probably should have had a sequel or five. Suggestions welcome – but make the case.
boxd.it/RyGma
boxd.it/RyGma
This should have led to a long running series
Films that I've noticed people saying ought to have triggered a run of sequels, or about which I think that myself. At least a TV spinoff. Come on. If you want to make suggestions, don't just say the ...
boxd.it
January 9, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Agree with all of these ! Bring on the @hammerfilms.bsky.social extended universe - or at least the Big Finish spinoffs - we’d write them for you
January 8, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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FOLKS! Throw off your post-XMAS/NY slump and get back to life! Two weeks tonight (16th of Jan) is the opening event for "Shed ands Objects of Equal Importance" in Turner House, Penarth
A heroic breakdown of everything sheds, by me and Lee John Phillips
A heroic breakdown of everything sheds, by me and Lee John Phillips
January 2, 2026 at 7:43 PM
FOLKS! Throw off your post-XMAS/NY slump and get back to life! Two weeks tonight (16th of Jan) is the opening event for "Shed ands Objects of Equal Importance" in Turner House, Penarth
A heroic breakdown of everything sheds, by me and Lee John Phillips
A heroic breakdown of everything sheds, by me and Lee John Phillips
Not sure if people are still on holiday and saving this for their commutes next week, but poor old K9 isn’t getting the love our other 2025 episodes did. Please give it a listen and share it with your Whocurious friends! tinyurl.com/K9vsSatan
January 4, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Not sure if people are still on holiday and saving this for their commutes next week, but poor old K9 isn’t getting the love our other 2025 episodes did. Please give it a listen and share it with your Whocurious friends! tinyurl.com/K9vsSatan
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Rentaghost on BBC Four at 7.15pm tonight. Yippee!
January 3, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Rentaghost on BBC Four at 7.15pm tonight. Yippee!
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I’m very excited to teach a free online class on Robert Aickman and the art of the artifice ghost story as part of @romgothsam.bsky.social’s brilliant Romancing the Gothic series on 21 February!
Join me: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-aic...
Join me: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-aic...
January 2, 2026 at 3:38 PM
I’m very excited to teach a free online class on Robert Aickman and the art of the artifice ghost story as part of @romgothsam.bsky.social’s brilliant Romancing the Gothic series on 21 February!
Join me: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-aic...
Join me: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-aic...
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A festive freebie for anyone up and about and already a bit bored. It’s issue 1 of Stramash’63 as a PDF. Link should be good for a month
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dnuza...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dnuza...
December 25, 2025 at 7:41 AM
A festive freebie for anyone up and about and already a bit bored. It’s issue 1 of Stramash’63 as a PDF. Link should be good for a month
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dnuza...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dnuza...
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January 2, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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January 2, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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