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Creator of horror drama podcast The Rue Papers, & author Michelle Birkby https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-rue-papers/id1749765774 https://linktr.ee/EmmaButlerPodcasts

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Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 5d

The next Rue Papers is out.

There’s a monster in the basement…

#audiodrama #horrorpodcasts

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S2 Ep 10 Monsters in the Basement

Podcast Episode · The Rue Papers · 04/10/2025 · 18m

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Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 20h

Goddammit, my workplace are doing the ‘over 50s don’t know how to use technology’ crap again. I’m just sitting here playing with my phone waiting to go home to my Alexa and three iPads so I can play on my switch listening to them tell me I’m too old to learn tech…

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Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 1d

Check it out: One of our finest horror podcasts, @thewrongstation.bsky.social is publishing a new short story every day of October. If you love horror or even October, I encourage you to check it out.

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Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 1d

There’s always someone in the office who’s voice, while not necessarily loud, is some how penetrating enough to pierce even noise-cancelling headphones.

Those people should be put into a sound proofed room in an empty building to work by themselves.

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Pro Bollard Account @piegoblin.bsky.social · 1d

I found a piece of my 9yos homework where she says she plans to "lavish herself with knowledge"

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Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, that moment when you finally crack how a story should be told - bliss…(why does it always happen just at a moment when I can’t actually get a chance to sit down and write?)

Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 1d

and now - and now I've reached The Holiest Love in catching up on re Dracula. A very long and a very packed episode - so much happens, so much trauma and pain and so much story

Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 1d

Podcast catch up! Ooh, i am loving Sherlock & Co. Hound of Baskervilles is one of my favourites anyway, and this is a good adaptation.

Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a lovely little mouse pad. I didn’t want something plain or just some thing with flowers on

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 4d

h/t jonathan zasloff

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Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 3d

And just realised I bought a black mousepad to put my black mouse on which may have been a mistake (it’s not all black, it’s has a spaceman holding a jellyfish on it)

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Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 3d

I know I ought to be writing but my ADHD brain just won’t do it right now. So have developed a system of every hour writing two lines, in the hope I accidentally trigger a writing surge or if not, hey at least I have another two lines.

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Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 3d

A few Bachman (as in actually Stephen King) books being made into movies lately. So many of them about fighting back against an authoritarian regime, which could mean nothing

Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 3d

The Long Walk is amazing - devastating - compelling and bloody hell, one hell of a simple story but completely gripping

Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 3d

I’m at the cinema (to see The Long Walk) and the ‘be a teacher’ ad just came on and I think they heard my ‘oh fuck off!’ two screens over. (Nothing against teachers. Against it being pushed as a career without been paid or funded properly, where the job itself is seen as reward enough)

Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 3d

Catching up on Re Dracula. That bit where Jonathan says ‘mina’s done all the work and now she can leave it up to the men’ - then they immediately fuck it up and from then on it’s ’yeah, we include Mina in everything now’. I love that bit. You need Mina…

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 4d

This week's theme was Food & Drink 🫒🍷

Hope you enjoyed it!

Take a look at the timeline over the last week for full details of these and the rest of the featured pieces.

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The Audio Drama Directory @audiodrama.bsky.social · 4d

Into The Fog
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The Audio Drama Directory presents 31 Days of Horror with daily doses of terror all through October!
#audiodrama #horror #halloween

Into The Fog

Narrated Nonfiction Horror Anthology From hauntings, ghosts, aliens, possessions, cryptids and other scary mysteries, Into The Fog is about stepping together, into the unknown. Join Peter Laws for …

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Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 4d

In ascension by Martin Macinnes. It’s sci-fi in the same way The Martian is I think - but also like Absolution it’s about biology and botany - but also very very much about people. Very enjoyable

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Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 4d

And an Edward Burra exhibition, also an artist between and during the war. Fascinated by how his art developed, completed captivated by it

Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 4d

There was also an exhibition of Jacob Epstein sculptures in the main area - he made faces (well, the men anyway) so richly textured.

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Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 4d

the same things I like to photograph. They put her war pictures - the camps and liberation ones - in a separate and they are devastating, unafraid, demanding attention, nothing hidden.

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Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 4d

So the Lee Miller exhibition was fantastic (at Tate Britain, not modern and I wasn’t the only one to make that mistake). Really interesting to see how her work as a model led to being a photographer. And I love how the same things she liked to photograph - odd shapes and shadows in city are ..

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Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 4d

There’s a bunch of boys - around 11 or 12 on this train and one of them just started singing the money song from Cabaret. None of the others surprised. Is this - is this something the kids do now? Randomly break into songs from musicals filmed before they were born?

Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 5d

And also out is the Patreon - there’s a new star in the heavens…

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S2 Ep10.1 | The RUE Papers

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Emma Butler @emmabutler.bsky.social · 5d

The next Rue Papers is out.

There’s a monster in the basement…

#audiodrama #horrorpodcasts

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

S2 Ep 10 Monsters in the Basement

Podcast Episode · The Rue Papers · 04/10/2025 · 18m

podcasts.apple.com

1 1 2