John Coulthart
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Artist, designer, occasional writer.
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ShoreZone is the first and only collection of supernatural fiction by David Rudkin, legendary playwright and author of Penda's Fen.
Published in a limited edition of 500 hardbacks, inc a signed illustrated bookplate.
Order now in time for Christmas! strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/shorezone/
Published in a limited edition of 500 hardbacks, inc a signed illustrated bookplate.
Order now in time for Christmas! strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/shorezone/
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
ShoreZone is the first and only collection of supernatural fiction by David Rudkin, legendary playwright and author of Penda's Fen.
Published in a limited edition of 500 hardbacks, inc a signed illustrated bookplate.
Order now in time for Christmas! strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/shorezone/
Published in a limited edition of 500 hardbacks, inc a signed illustrated bookplate.
Order now in time for Christmas! strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/shorezone/
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Sad to hear that Andrew Lauder has died. Such an important figure in the British music industry. He signed/released many fantastic bands: Hawkwind, High Tide, Can, Amon Duul II, Dr Feelgood, Buzzcocks, Stranglers etc. And he gave me a great interview for Days Of The Underground.
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Sad to hear that Andrew Lauder has died. Such an important figure in the British music industry. He signed/released many fantastic bands: Hawkwind, High Tide, Can, Amon Duul II, Dr Feelgood, Buzzcocks, Stranglers etc. And he gave me a great interview for Days Of The Underground.
New blog post: Carnacki's first manifestation
Carnacki’s first manifestation
Visual manifestation, that is. The first Carnacki story to see print was The Thing Invisible, published in 1909 as a part of The Ghost Pirates, A Chaunty, and Another Story. The book wasn't illustrated, nor was the Carnacki collection published by Eveleigh Nash in 1913. The five stories that ran in The Idler, however, were all decorated with sketchy illustrations by Florence Briscoe, all of which may be seen in…
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November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
New blog post: Carnacki's first manifestation
William Hope Hodgson, if he did but know it, confirming once more the intersection between cosmic sounds and cosmic horror. (From "The Hog", Weird Tales, January 1947. Story would have been written some time between 1910 and 1914.)
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November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
William Hope Hodgson, if he did but know it, confirming once more the intersection between cosmic sounds and cosmic horror. (From "The Hog", Weird Tales, January 1947. Story would have been written some time between 1910 and 1914.)
archive.org/details/weir...
archive.org/details/weir...
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Sounds Front Cover 26th, November 1977 featuring Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk in the New Musick feature.
@jonsavage.bsky.social
@jonsavage.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Sounds Front Cover 26th, November 1977 featuring Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk in the New Musick feature.
@jonsavage.bsky.social
@jonsavage.bsky.social
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OTD 48 years ago Jane Suck and I wrote the post punk electronica manifesto New Musick in Sounds. I’m still very proud of this: we caught something in our fevered queer brains. Note the very early (the first?) use of the term post punk. Articles included Kraftwerk, Eno, Devo, TG, the Residents, Ubu
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
OTD 48 years ago Jane Suck and I wrote the post punk electronica manifesto New Musick in Sounds. I’m still very proud of this: we caught something in our fevered queer brains. Note the very early (the first?) use of the term post punk. Articles included Kraftwerk, Eno, Devo, TG, the Residents, Ubu
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Tom (mid-1970s) photograph by Anne Billson. From the days when I absolutely HAD to cram every available surface with clutter.
November 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Tom (mid-1970s) photograph by Anne Billson. From the days when I absolutely HAD to cram every available surface with clutter.
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A page from underground comix artist Nicole Claveloux’s 'The Green Hand,' published in Heavy Metal magazine in 1978
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
A page from underground comix artist Nicole Claveloux’s 'The Green Hand,' published in Heavy Metal magazine in 1978
DJ Food's latest auction dive has turned up a Futurama 1979 poster and badge among the usual psychedelia. I don't have many missed-gig regrets but I've always regretted not making the effort to get to this event. Look at the line-up!
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
DJ Food's latest auction dive has turned up a Futurama 1979 poster and badge among the usual psychedelia. I don't have many missed-gig regrets but I've always regretted not making the effort to get to this event. Look at the line-up!
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This was brilliant and made my head spin in the best way.
Why not follow it up by immersing yourself in the film and soundtrack by Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman?
Backlisted favourite @andrewmale.bsky.social
wrote the liner notes which contain one of JJ’s last ever interviews. #RIP
Why not follow it up by immersing yourself in the film and soundtrack by Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman?
Backlisted favourite @andrewmale.bsky.social
wrote the liner notes which contain one of JJ’s last ever interviews. #RIP
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This was brilliant and made my head spin in the best way.
Why not follow it up by immersing yourself in the film and soundtrack by Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman?
Backlisted favourite @andrewmale.bsky.social
wrote the liner notes which contain one of JJ’s last ever interviews. #RIP
Why not follow it up by immersing yourself in the film and soundtrack by Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman?
Backlisted favourite @andrewmale.bsky.social
wrote the liner notes which contain one of JJ’s last ever interviews. #RIP
New blog post: The Whistling Room, 1952
The Whistling Room, 1952
Coincidence time again: this ancient TV drama was posted to YouTube a few days ago just as I was finishing Timothy S. Murphy's very commendable study of William Hope Hodgson's fiction, William Hope Hodgson and the Rise of the Weird: Possibilities of the Dark. As drama or even basic entertainment, The Whistling Room is the opposite of commendable but it is notable for being the first screen adaptation of a Hodgson story.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
New blog post: The Whistling Room, 1952
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It's foggy out there
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
It's foggy out there
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On The Turntable Now
Discipline by King Crimson (1981)
The band at that time had the following lineup:
Robert Fripp - guitar and frippertronics
Adrian Belew - guitar and lead vocals
Tony Levin - bass and vocals
Bill Bruford - drums
1/
Discipline by King Crimson (1981)
The band at that time had the following lineup:
Robert Fripp - guitar and frippertronics
Adrian Belew - guitar and lead vocals
Tony Levin - bass and vocals
Bill Bruford - drums
1/
November 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
On The Turntable Now
Discipline by King Crimson (1981)
The band at that time had the following lineup:
Robert Fripp - guitar and frippertronics
Adrian Belew - guitar and lead vocals
Tony Levin - bass and vocals
Bill Bruford - drums
1/
Discipline by King Crimson (1981)
The band at that time had the following lineup:
Robert Fripp - guitar and frippertronics
Adrian Belew - guitar and lead vocals
Tony Levin - bass and vocals
Bill Bruford - drums
1/
New blog post: Weekend links 805
Weekend links 805
A poster by Peter Strausfeld for a 1966 screening of Alphaville and La Jetée. • At Bandcamp Daily: "Caroline True obsesses over compilations so you don’t have to," says Erick Bradshaw. I recommend CTR's compilations. • At The Wire: Read an extract from Music Stones: The Rediscovery Of Ringing Rock by Mike Adcock. • At Colossal: Pastoral landscapes brim with patterns in luminous paintings by…
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November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
New blog post: Weekend links 805
In which John Balance reads the poem that opens William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland. Coil's dedication to the weird was one of many things in their favour. #nowplaying
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In which John Balance reads the poem that opens William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland. Coil's dedication to the weird was one of many things in their favour. #nowplaying
Only a single entry for "Titles marked with tag psychic pigs" at ISFDB. You authors of weird fiction are slacking.
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Titles marked with tag psychic pigs
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November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Only a single entry for "Titles marked with tag psychic pigs" at ISFDB. You authors of weird fiction are slacking.
www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag....
www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag....
In today's post from @strangeattractor.bsky.social. There's a distinctly Joycean tone to the authorial descriptions and instructions in Rudkin's playscripts. I've been wondering if the same will apply to his prose in this volume. Cover art by Zoe Taylor.
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strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/shore...
November 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In today's post from @strangeattractor.bsky.social. There's a distinctly Joycean tone to the authorial descriptions and instructions in Rudkin's playscripts. I've been wondering if the same will apply to his prose in this volume. Cover art by Zoe Taylor.
strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/shore...
strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/shore...
This is the poster for the 1966 screening of Alphaville and La Jetée at which JG Ballard first saw two films he would often mention as SF favourites. He reviewed La Jetée in New Worlds shortly after. John Brunner (at the same screening) reviewed Alphaville in the following issue. He hated it.
November 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This is the poster for the 1966 screening of Alphaville and La Jetée at which JG Ballard first saw two films he would often mention as SF favourites. He reviewed La Jetée in New Worlds shortly after. John Brunner (at the same screening) reviewed Alphaville in the following issue. He hated it.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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THIS! ⬇️
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Are you a small business? Reply with your link. Let's support each other this Christmas.
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
THIS! ⬇️
Is this Deutsche Grammophon's most gimmicky release? It's The Blue Notebooks so look...here's a small blue notebook of your own!
They've done coloured vinyl recently but I've not seen anything else that goes this far. #nowplaying
They've done coloured vinyl recently but I've not seen anything else that goes this far. #nowplaying
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Is this Deutsche Grammophon's most gimmicky release? It's The Blue Notebooks so look...here's a small blue notebook of your own!
They've done coloured vinyl recently but I've not seen anything else that goes this far. #nowplaying
They've done coloured vinyl recently but I've not seen anything else that goes this far. #nowplaying
Today in academic neologisms, I give you "Necromodernism". He includes Alan Moore's Jerusalem among the catalogue of "tomes" but doesn't say anything specific about it.
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Necromodernist Architectures in Contemporary Writing – 3:AM Magazine
These books are, in a sense, anti-cultural products: they demand time, patience, and acceptance of incompletion. In doing so, they enact a politics — not of slogans or themes, but of form itself. In p...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Today in academic neologisms, I give you "Necromodernism". He includes Alan Moore's Jerusalem among the catalogue of "tomes" but doesn't say anything specific about it.
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/necromod...
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/necromod...