One of Britain’s rarest – and strangest – birds is back at Stonehenge again. The Great Bustard was affectionately christened by Stonehenge staff as “Gertrude” 🦤🥚

This was such a wonderful book. Fascinating, tender, thoughtful. Highly recommended. Read my 5-star review of Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country by Edward Parnell goodreads.com/review/show/70…

And here is the actual recent piece in the TLS about two pillars of Jamesiana and East Anglian ghost lore, Edward Parnell (“Ghostland”) and Robert Lloyd Perry aka Nunkie Theatre whose performance I was lucky to see a day ago. the-tls.co.uk/literature-by-…

Great to receive my copy of Antony Clayton’s gloriously detailed delve into all things House of Usher today - ‘Mansion of Gloom’ from Accumulator Press: accumulatorpress.bigcartel.com/product/mansio… #EdgarAllanPoe

A nice charity shop find - a 1963 1st edition I’ve not come across before.

Learn about the Decadent Count Stenbock – 'scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men' – in an online lecture by James Machin for The Last Tuesday Society & Viktor Wynd Museum this Weds 22 Jan at 8PM UK time. It'll be recorded for ticket holders - details here: thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/count-st…

👻 Dare to enter the UK Ghost Story Festival in Derby! @museumofmaking 📅 21-23 Feb Join top horror and ghost story writers, including Rosie Andrews, Evelyn Hollow, Edward Parnell, Susan Stokes-Chapman & more for a spine-chilling weekend of eerie tales⬇ ticketsource.co.uk/ukghoststoryfe…

I'm looking forward to hosting Sarah Peverley 's online lecture on the Feejee Mermaid for The Last Tuesday Society & Viktor Wynd Museum this Thurs 13 Feb at 7.30pm (UK time). If you can't make it on the night it's recorded for ticket holders. #mermaids Tickets & further details at: thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/feejee-m…

Looking forward to hosting Prof Richard Hand's Zoom lecture for The Last Tuesday Society & Viktor Wynd Museum on the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol – the Parisian 'Theatre of Horror'. Weds 19 March at 19.30 UK time. It'll be recorded for ticket-holders if you can't make live on the night. thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/grand-gu…

Delighted to have a piece about 'Werewolf of London' and other old werewolf movies in this issue.

Tonight at Foyles Bookshop!

Looking forward to hosting Antony Clayton's Zoom lecture for The Last Tuesday Society & Viktor Wynd Museum on Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher'. Thurs 10 April at 20.00 UK time. It'll be recorded for ticket-holders if you can't it make live on the night. Tickets here: thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/poe-fall…

I feel the journalists missed a real (albeit very niche) trick here by not headlining this story as: 'Whatever Happened to Barbara Santini?' theguardian.com/media/2025/apr…

Didn’t expect to see a Basking Shark with the Forth Bridges as a backdrop when I got up today! #gonnaneedabiggerboat

Strange things happen when you read 'Ghostland' in a Whitby hotel room... Thanks to Kieran Wyatt for sharing this wonderful story with me. kieranstorieswriter.wordpress.com/2025/04/23/on-…

An entertaining review here of 'Eerie East Anglia'! British Library Publishing Wot Eye Juste Dun Red | Eerie East Anglia | Honest Book Review: youtu.be/u4nWe7lGEIo?si…

Labour are backtracking on a plan to help save birds: by blocking a new rule that would make developers put a £35 nest brick in every new home. They think it'll help win them votes - we need to show it would do the opposite. Sign the petition 38d.gs/zcpv

This will be a good one! Join Icy Sedgwick and me as Icy gives a Zoom talk on Seances and Female Mediums in British Cinema. Weds 28 May at 8pm . Tickets and info: thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/seances-… It'll be recorded for ticket holders who can't make tomorrow.

Looking forward to hosting this online talk next Weds (10 Sep, 8pm) by Sarah Peverley on the Mermaids of Staithes, an intriguing Yorkshire legend. Tickets & details: thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/mermaids… It'll be recorded for ticket-holders if you can't make it on the night. #mermaids

Really enjoyed Lizzie Hopley on the most-recent Scarred for Life podcast. If you want to find out more about Jenny Greenteeth then I'm hosting an online lecture with folklorist John Clark about Jenny & other spirits of dark and lonely water on 5 Feb 2026: thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/spirits-…