Babe are you ok? You’ve barely touched your RIP Queen Elizabeth II Carved Mourn Melon #mournmelon

📢 New from today! 📢 New display 'Tutankhamun the Boy' explores Tutankhamun's childhood, in response to questions from children GeorgeMitchellSchool and modern-day Amarna, near Deir Mawas. #TuttheBoy Generously funded by Esmée Fairbairn & Friends of the Petrie Museum. More: bit.ly/3fkKqzh

IMMORTAL have completed work on our upcoming new studio album! Our new record, War Against All, will be released via Nuclear Blast Records. This is the band’s 10th studio album, and it will feature 8 new songs in classic IMMORTAL style.

So I have a new phone now which means I’ll be trying to use Twitter a bit more. I’m so very sorry about that. Here is a frog. What is their name?

Meet Dana, my very own refurbished Adana letterpress. Just waiting on some new rollers and ink…❤️

Say it louder for those at the back!!📢📢

Review | Esben and the Witch - Hold Sacred by Zachary Nathanson. "They have proven themselves to bring their stories to life in unbelievable results that’ll keep you replaying this album, more and more to see what you’re missing." echoesanddust.com/2023/05/esben-… Nostromo Records

“The modern world drops away in a single leap - silently. You step back, not a few centuries, but into some half-imagined childhood world where anything and everything becomes possible of belief.” - #algernonblackwood. Research becomes done, cake becomes consumed British Museum

U.S. Is Giving Away #Lighthouses for Free to Preserve Them As Historic Landmarks #goodnews

Yesterday I visited The Old Printing Shop of London at the Apple Market in Covent Garden to buy some metal type. It was a bit like pick n mix. Thanks to KnowTheJorm for suggesting the question mark 🖤

Looking forward to joining this particular Wizardcult tonight

Roll up, roll up! A special course on THE BRONTËS AND THE GOTHIC with yours truly and the amazing Brontë Parsonage Museum bronte.org.uk/whats-on/1321/…

Review | Fen – Monuments To Absence by Dominic Hemy. "Monuments To Absence is a testament to the harsh beauty Fen brings to the black metal scene." echoesanddust.com/2023/07/fen-mo… Prophecy Productions

THE BLACK VAMPYRE 1819. The first black #vampire, the first vampire story by an American writer & the first vampire anti-slavery narrative. This remarkable text is discussed in Open Graves & Minds forthcoming book on 'Polidori: the Romantic Vampire and its Progeny'

‘Future Folk Horror’ is a really engaging and ambitious volume, congrats to everyone involved! Simon Bacon Dawn Keetley rowman.com/ISBN/978166692…

The first issue of Shirley Jackson Studies is now LIVE! "The Jackson Legacy" features an introduction from Ruth Franklin 🍵 and brilliant articles by Anna Bartnicka, Ashley Lawson, Meg Toth, and Robert Zipser. We're so excited for you to read it. shirleyjacksonstudies.org/?page_id=99

On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Our senior editor Alan Taylor found these pre- and postwar images of the city on his visit to the U.S. National Archives in 2016: theatlantic.com/photo/2016/05/…

I had an excellent time last night talking all things weird at BritishLibraryEvents with Tanya Kirk Julia Armfield Matthew Holness, Matthew Sweet & ToTW series mastermind Jonny Davidson. A lot of fun, and a lot of food for thought…

Live Review | ÅRABROT at Downstairs at @DomeTufnellPark '"We are Årabrot! We live in a church, this is a cross, and we play dirty rock ‘n’ roll!” . . . Now is a very good time indeed to go and see this band.' By KnowTheJorm. bit.ly/3MNNCkX Jaye Jayle