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Michael Walters

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Literary genre fiction. Based in North Yorkshire, UK. Website: https://www.michaelwalters.uk Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/michaelwaltersauthor The Complex: https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/the-complex-9781784631628

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La Femme Merveilleuse Invisible @larwoolf.bsky.social · 1d

Bob Dylan wanted his manager’s wife, Sally Grossman, to appear on the cover of his 1965 album. The photo was taken at her home in Woodstock, N.Y.

“Bringing It All Back Home,”

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Michael Walters @michaelwalters.uk · 5h

Last night it was Them! (1954).Tonight Psycho (1960), in the cinema no less. The old is new again. The theme repeats. (Ha!)

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 11h

Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.

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Hardback, even!!! 📚

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Hard back!!!

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Michael Walters @michaelwalters.uk · 12h

Patience with resistance.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 23h

Babe, come over, we’re wrestling the greasy pigs of our own unreason

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La Femme Merveilleuse Invisible @larwoolf.bsky.social · 18h

Gilda & Gene with friend, 1986

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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 25d

“The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects … is to succumb to violence.” ~ Thomas Merton

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FIX @twopeace007.bsky.social · 5d

Unpublished for nearly forty years, photographs by Francesca Woodman taken by George Lange were first exhibited at the Denver Art Museum in 2018, in an exhibition entitled "Portrait of a Reputation". But that's not all: photographs are the portrait of a friendship.

📷George Lange, 1975

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Michael Walters @michaelwalters.uk · 1d

Have I gone off piste?

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I just made custard. Now I need some boys in the yard.

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Channelling my inner Pinocchio.

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Abertoir Horror Festival @abertoirfest.bsky.social · 1d

We’re excited to join festivals all over the world screening Mag Mag, the debut film from iconic Japanese comedian Yuriyan Retriever!

Retriever’s absurdist comedy makes for an entirely unpredictable and satirical take on J-horror tropes.

Keep your eyes peeled for more announcements this week...

A man and a woman look up at the walls of a dark room - dark black letters have been scrawled over the white walls.

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Abertoir Horror Festival @abertoirfest.bsky.social · 1d

The 20th Abertoir Horror Festival takes place 12-16 November at Aberystwyth Arts Centre - and passes on sale now!

abertoir.co.uk/tickets/

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 2d

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro
(Interview)

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Michael Walters @michaelwalters.uk · 2d

I’ve found the path in the fog that leads to Halloween.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Photo of a vertical driftwood sculpture inlaid with rainbow coloured stained glass, the sculpture is sited on a wet looking shoreline by the sea under a sky with silver clouds and pale blue light

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Michael Walters @michaelwalters.uk · 2d

Can’t. The vibes are too immaculate.

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Starts strong. Like me. Moderation. Elaine Castillo.

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Hip machine.

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 2d

could we skip to the part where my book has been published and you loved it

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ÄNGSTE ZUR KUNST @mkollmer.bsky.social · 2d

i want to see more hollywood movies that depict european cities as creepy and haunted

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Abertoir Horror Festival @abertoirfest.bsky.social · 2d

One month to go 😱 Keep those eyes peeled: we’ll be announcing more films throughout the week before unveiling the full festival line-up very soon…!

For now, why not remind yourself of what we've already got in store...

abertoir.co.uk/news/boswell...

Boswell, Lowry, The Keep + more at abertoir 2025! - Abertoir

With passes for the 20th edition of the festival going on sale today, we’re unveiling a mammoth slate of programme announcements.

abertoir.co.uk

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