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Tom Pullin

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Never forget to fear the kraken. BBC EPG scheduler and spelling making righter-er. Doctor Who, Nigel Kneale, M.R. James etc. He/Him

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 13h

Screenshot of TV coverage of the raising of the Mary Rose, where the words BABCOCK POWER, written on the side of the rigging contraption raising the wreck, are slightly obscured to read COCK POWER

Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 13h

Get on it Big Finish!

Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 15h

Wonderful!

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Trish @trishj.bsky.social · 15h

My contribution to the genre 🪦

Squirrel with a nut in its mouth, on a headstone at Highgate Cemetery

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 15h

There's some quality Tom Baker Rasputin action on BBC2 today at 12.30

Tom Baker as Rasputin from Nicholas and Alexandra (1971). He's pulling a wide-eyed, wide-toothed face in classic Tom Baker fashion.

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 16h

People posting politics at half 8 on a Saturday morning. Have a squirrel on a headstone instead

A grey squirrel sits atop a headstone, green with age (the headstone, not the squirrel), in a grassy graveyard with more headstones to the left and right and in the distance. The squirrel looks on.

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 1d

Obligatory INo.9 pic

Photo of a sign on the side of a theatre displaying the Inside No.9 stage show Stage|Fright

Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 1d

I can certainly tell you what things *not* to show kids at a young age, based on my own trauma

Screenshot from Signs (2002). A found-footage style shot of an alien walking out from behind a bush as people fearfully watch from indoors.

The Nazi face-melting scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark

Screenshot from the CBBC programme Monster TV, in which the villainous Vera Venom (who lives in a cellar below the cellar of a family's home) holds her ventriloquist dummy sidekick (a version of her own head on a stick, with a terrifying mouth that snaps open and closed)

Screenshot from CBBC programme Jeopardy, in which a group of Scottish kids get lost in the Australian bush while searching for aliens. In this screenshot, one of the characters has a glowing red eye

Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 2d

@ceechampion.bsky.social possibly of interest?

Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 2d

"An alphabetical, county-by-county guide to hauntings in Great Britain, with the accent on those cases which have involved women."

Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 2d

Someone on Vinted is selling a copy of Phantom Ladies by Andrew Green, with relevant newspaper cuttings carefully inserted by the seller's father. £38.

www.vinted.co.uk/items/727483...

Front cover of a vintage hardback edition of ghost book Phantom Ladies by Andrew Green. It is a black and white image depicting a car going along a spooky woodland road at night

Photo of the interior of the book, where a hand holds open a newspaper cutting that's been placed between one of the pages, pertaining to the story told therein

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 3d

Once again managed to book in a clean & polish the day before a dental check-up

Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 3d

Or perhaps it's excitement at finally being able to rent somewhere with both a downstairs AND an upstairs

Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 3d

Three weeks to moving day and already waking up at five in the morning with The Stress

Screenshot from Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968), an extreme close-up of Michael Hordern's face as he lies in bed, disturbed by nightmares, his eye open next to his furrowed brow.

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That JRT fella @biggytee.bsky.social · 4d

2005 Byker Grove, Terry Molloy as a TV director - check out his character name on the clapperboard.

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 4d

We no longer have to pay extra to get the mattress we ordered 🥳

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Caroline Champion @ceechampion.bsky.social · 5d

@tom-pullin.bsky.social it's arrived! Arrived! 👻

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 5d

Yesss! Hope you enjoy it

Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 5d

Vague memory of raising a toast to Patricia Routledge while out in Bournemouth, possibly while Chelsea Dagger blared in the background

Four hands hold four glasses filled with assorted alcoholic liquids on the dancefloor of a club. Purple, nightclubby lighting illuminates the scene

Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 6d

And introducing me as The Doctor (the TARDIS is on a raised platform, I'm not actually 2 foot tall)

Small polaroid of me in front of the TARDIS, with high-up Daleks poking out. I look extremely cool in some shades and a denim jacket, doing that bloody Doctor pose

Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 6d

Doctor Who shit outside some flats in Bournemouth

Photo of a somewhat battered TARDIS outside the front of a Victorian type large house/former hotel in Bournemouth, now flats. On a ledge above the porch are two gunmetal grey Daleks (with guns and plungers on the wrong sides). The dome of a red Dalek sits on the ledge, just poking out.

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 8d

Good call from Amazon, you wouldn't want to give the impression the James Bond franchise involves guns

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 9d

No way haha! Hope you enjoy it! Made a big ghostly impression on my impressionable childhood mind

Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 9d

As we're posting favourite ghost books 👻

"Then the sound changed from scratching and snuffling to something quite different. Imagine one of those hard-wearing coconut hair doormats. Imagine the sound of such an item being squeezed under the half-inch gap at the bottom of a door."

Supernatural England, edited by Betty Puttick. Under the title it reads POLTERGEISTS - GHOSTS - HAUNTINGS. The cover depicts the ghostly figure of a very tall man in a top hat walking along a road through some woods.

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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 9d

Some Old English poetry for #NationalPoetryDay

Soð bið switolost, sinc byð deorost,
gold gumena gehwam, and gomol snoterost,
fyrngearum frod, se þe ær feala gebideð.
Weax bið wundrum clibbor. Wolcnu scriðað.

Truth is most elusive, treasure is dearest,
gold to every man, and an old one is sagest,
wise with bygone years, he who has experienced much.
Sorrow is wondrously clinging. Clouds glide on.