Your first look at Season 2. If I showed you any more, your eyes would bleed. And I'm not that generous. #GeekedWeek

DRACULA COOKBOOK 1978 This gothic delight imagines what #Dracula served his guests; he does not eat (or drink wine) himself of course! You can still find used copies of this and have some fun serving up the recipes for #31DaysOfHalloween

What a charming evening, speaking with Alan Moore and John Coulthart about magic, dreams, the unconscious, the imagination and the surprising capabilities of glove puppets.

Reader stumbles on Dracula’s ancestors in a Dublin library The unknown Bram Stoker story Gibbet Hill, published soon before the author began working on Dracula, has eerie echoes of his vampire classic theguardian.com/books/2024/oct…

‘Staggering array’ of witches’ marks discovered at English Heritage site Marks found at Gainsborough Old Hall in Lincolnshire are among most identified at any of the charity’s 400 sites theguardian.com/culture/2024/o…

From Joker to Terrifier to It: why killer clown characters are on the rise theguardian.com/culture/2024/n…

We think that all memory is stored in the brain. But our study published today in Nature Communications shows that all cells—even kidney cells—can count, detect patterns, store memories, and do so similarly to brain cells. My first (co)corresponding author paper!🧵nature.com/articles/s4146…

‘The first thing I did was poke it’: Canada beach blobs mystery solved by chemists theguardian.com/environment/20…

"Evil mummies, evil cities, evil scrolls … this programme has got them all. Just don’t expect much actual history." Cursed Histories review – so bonkers you’ll struggle not to laugh theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/a…

UFO at Wick or just a giant flying hat? Not going to kid you but check that interesting cloud I saw over Tesco at Wick in the Highlands. #ufotwitter #UFOSightings #UFOロボグレンダイザー Fortean UK Fortean Times LondonForteanSociety @forteanlondon.bsky.social Edinburgh Fortean Society UFO Network: News & Education

Latest Pentagon report reveals hundreds of new UFO sightings theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

Nessie hunter Adrian Shine has a new book out on sea serpents. Published locally so I'll do a review soon. Fortean Times LondonForteanSociety @forteanlondon.bsky.social Fortean UK Lochness-Monster

Humbug: vandal smashes gravestone of Ebenezer Scrooge theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

‘Phantom gnome snatcher’ of Formby admits prank almost 50 years on theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/n…

Shoppers can be made to feel sorry for single bananas, study finds Researchers say supermarket customers are more likely to buy a piece of fruit labelled as a ‘sad single’ theguardian.com/environment/20…

JULEBUKK During Yuletide in Norway a Julebukk, or tricksy goat figure, goes door to door, indulging in carolling & trick or treating. These wonderful figures draw on fairy tale human to animal transformation as well as animal mumming Image: Charles Fréger #GothicYuletide

Beware the Yule Cat, Iceland’s Child-Eating Christmas Monster atlasobscura.com/articles/yule-…

Thousands of children in England accused of witchcraft in past decade Figures emerge as Kindoki Witch Boy film tells true story of Mardoche Yembi who underwent an exorcism as a child theguardian.com/society/2025/f…