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Tommy Atkinson @atters1000.bsky.social · 19h

Happy World Octopus Day!

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Tommy Atkinson @atters1000.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, it’s a lovely book!

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Tommy Atkinson @atters1000.bsky.social · 3d

Currently reading and thoroughly enjoying this beautiful new selection of Daphne du Maurier’s macabre short stories from Virago, with a new introduction by Stephen King!

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Tommy Atkinson @atters1000.bsky.social · 4d

Some snaps from a wander around Bloomsbury today with some pals from the Sherlock Holmes Society of London

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 7d

Exciting news! HELLEBORE’s first short story anthology is here! 9 new tales of the supernatural and the strange by Ramsey Campbell, Ally Wilkes, Reggie Oliver, Helen Grant and more, set in some of the most beguiling locations of Occult Britain.

👉🏼 Pre-order now to secure your copy: helleborezine.com

Tales of Occult Britain - edited by Maria J Pérez Cuervo- cover art by Isabella Mazzanti, design by Sam Freeman. Cover shows a skull with a crown, a witch, a faerie, a toad and the moon.

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Tommy Atkinson @atters1000.bsky.social · 9d

Great fun yesterday hunting down some film locations from the 1970 film The Railway Children, thanks to a day rover ticket on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway!

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Tommy Atkinson @atters1000.bsky.social · 9d

Hammer sign news
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Calls to preserve historic Soho production company sign

The Soho Society wants Hammer House to retain its links to the area's filmmaking history.

www.bbc.com

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Tommy Atkinson @atters1000.bsky.social · 11d

On the Brontë trail in Haworth!

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Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social · 17d

We have a cover!

‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ will be published by Oxford University Press on 10 September 2026. Set your watches, mark your calendars, and spread the word!

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Tommy Atkinson @atters1000.bsky.social · 17d

The Portsmouth Shantymen did a fantastic performance of The Old Gray Fox as part of their after-dinner set for the Sherlock Holmes Society of London’s visit to Pompey last weekend! The jokes in the song went down very well with the crowd after a few tots of rum!

Doings of Doyle @doingsofdoyle.com · 23d

September 1898 saw the first US appearance of #ACD's 'Songs of Action.' It contains the poem 'The Old Gray Fox' which was later put to music. www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...

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Daily Tokusatsu @dailytokusatsu.bsky.social · 18d

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Tommy Atkinson @atters1000.bsky.social · 18d

Ooh yes! I’d that the one set on the abandoned pier? I must re-read that!

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Tommy Atkinson @atters1000.bsky.social · 18d

It really is a belter! We were visiting the area and chanced upon it. The downstairs is a mock up of a Victorian street (the moth-swan was hanging on the pub wall). The upstairs is a penny arcade / toy museum.

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Sonnenbarke @novembergrau.bsky.social · 18d

This is astounding. I wonder if somewhere, in some vast and rotting warehouse down by the docks, there's a colossal picture of a moth, fashioned from dead -

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Tommy Atkinson @atters1000.bsky.social · 18d

A Victorian picture of a swan, fashioned from dead moths. On display at the excellent Abbey House Museum in Leeds.

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Tommy Atkinson @atters1000.bsky.social · 18d

A Victorian picture of a swan, fashioned from dead moths. On display at the excellent Abbey House Museum in Leeds.

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Tommy Atkinson @atters1000.bsky.social · 18d

The Abbot’s Treasure, a 1930s penny machine (by Dennison Sisters) on display at the Abbey House Museum in Leeds. I can only assume that the Abbot in question is Abbot Thomas!

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 21d

Ready for a new issue? Pre-orders for The Mirror Issue are now open worldwide! ✨🪞✨

Mirror magic, ritual masks, films that cast a spell, doppelgängers and fetches, changelings, evil portraits, spirit traps and much more.

👉🏼 helleborezine.com

Cover of Hellebore: The Mirror Issue, showing a woman with eyes closed and her reflections in two mirrors, both with open eyes

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Tommy Atkinson @atters1000.bsky.social · 24d

Just back from the Sherlock Holmes Society of London’s autumn excursion to Portsmouth! I was responsible for organising this year’s trip and I’m pleased to say that it seemed to go swimmingly! Cambridge next year!

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Tommy Atkinson @atters1000.bsky.social · 27d

Great to see Andrew Lycett talking about the origins of Sherlock Holmes at The Sohemian Society last night, and he was kind enough to sign my copy of his excellent Conan Doyle biography (highly recommended)!

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Tommy Atkinson @atters1000.bsky.social · 27d

The Hammer House of Horror! These offices in Wardour Street were used by Hammer Films from the 1940s onwards!

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Tommy Atkinson @atters1000.bsky.social · 27d

Blue plaque for Sir Mansfield Cumming, first chief of the Secret Service - spotted in Whitehall Court

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Mark Jones @drmjones.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thanks again to @bbcworldbookclub.bsky.social for inviting me to join Harriet and Denise to ramble on about The Hound of the Baskervilles. And thanks to all the Sherlockian societies and listeners who submitted questions. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

World Book Club - Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles - BBC Sounds

Join Harriett for a special episode exploring the legacy of Sherlock Holmes.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tommy Atkinson @atters1000.bsky.social · Sep 7

Now watching Hammer’s 1950 suspense movie The Man in Black, based on the radio series introduced by Valentine Dyall. Starring Sid James (!)

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Tommy Atkinson @atters1000.bsky.social · Aug 31

Enjoying another true crime story of old New York, Edgar Allan Poe and the Murder of Mary Rogers by the brilliant Daniel Stashower

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Tommy Atkinson @atters1000.bsky.social · Aug 30

Yes, saw it when it came out out and the audience was split between quivering wrecks and people who were fuming that the movie didn’t live up to the ‘scariest film ever’ hype! I loved it and enjoy it more every time I see it!

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