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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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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 20h
The Apple! Yes!
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Smersh Pod @smershpod.com · 3d
QUATERMASS 2
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QUATERMASS 2 with Toby Hadoke | Smersh Pod
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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 2d
Yes! Same here.
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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 2d
He was a Gateshead lad wasn't he? 96 is a grand age to get to as well.
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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 2d
I know... Bloody spell check!
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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 2d
Woodvine! Woodvine! Not Woodbine. Sodding spell check strikes again!
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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 3d
A lovely and heart warming thread for Sunday evening...
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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 4d
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?” 🧵
Tawny owl
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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 3d
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 · 3d
Ah bugger! Back to the drawing board then...
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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 3d
Richard Rankin... It could be?
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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 3d
Rebus?
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Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · 4d
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 · 5d
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 · 6d
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.
On 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. On 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.
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Yorkshire Tea @yorkshiretea.bsky.social · 8d
It's International Coffee Day. A moment to put our caffeine-based differences aside and unite against our common enemy: soup.
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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 8d
Some fab behind the scenes shots and production documents in this article.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d
Shocking red: behind the scenes on classic horror Don’t Look Now – in pictures
Shocking red: behind the scenes on classic horror Don’t Look Now – in pictures
Released in 1973, Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now is regularly acclaimed as a high point of British cinema, and a new book collects hundreds of images from the film’s production, many of them previously unseen
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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 8d
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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 8d
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Chris Orton @chriso1.bsky.social · 8d
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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 10d
The folkloric belief that reflections, portraits and shadows contain part of a person’s soul influenced two of the greatest Gothic novels of the 19th century.

Read more in @coffinboffin.bsky.social ‘s piece for The Mirror Issue. Pre-order on helleborezine.com
Hellebore - cover of The Mirror Issue Sam George THE VAMPIRE'S LOST REFLECTION In 1890, Sir James Frazer recorded in The Golden Bough the belief across many cultures that reflections, portraits and shadows were thought to contain part of a person's soul. These folkloric notions influenced two of the greatest Gothic novels of the 19th century: Dracula and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Bram Stoker's Dracula, the most enduring of all fictional vampires, is a creature with virtually no representation: he doesn't have a reflection, his likeness cannot be painted, and he cannot be photographed. Some modern vampires do have a reflection, but Dracula's lack of representation makes him a profoundly unsettling figure. Linked with the realm of shadows, he remains the embodiment of an ancient evil who cannot be comprehended nor captured
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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 8d
The new episode of this brilliant hauntological sketch comedy podcast features Keith (Stig of the Dump, Murphy's Mob) Jayne as 'Stuart of the Chalk Recycling Centre'!
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Listen Through the Brown Window @soullessparty.bsky.social · 8d
Brand new episode of ‘Listen Through the Brown Window’ is OUT NOW!

STIG!!

HALIBUT!!

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Listen Through the Brown Window S02E08
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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · 8d
Great! We must catch up!
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