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Maria J Pérez Cuervo

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Writer, editor, comms manager • Founder/ editor @helleborezine.bsky.social (World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist) • History, art, myth, mystery. 👩🏻 mjpcuervo.com/portfolio-page 📖 helleborezine.com

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 14d

Come with us into the magical, mystical world of HELLEBORE. I’m beyond excited to share this book with you: nine new stories by some of my favourite writers of the supernatural and strange.

👉🏼Pre-orders for TALES OF OCCULT BRITAIN are open worldwide on helleborezine.com.

Delve into a world of old gods, strange rituals, sinister faeries, hill figures, shadowy churches, vast forests and rugged coastlines. Set in some of the most beguiling locations in The Hellebore Guide to Occult Britain and Northern Ireland, this collection features nine new stories of the supernatural and the strange by contemporary masters of the genre.
Nina Antonia • Ramsey Campbell • Steve Duffy Helen Grant • Verity Holloway • Eóin Murphy • Reggie Oliver • Steve Toase • Ally Wilkes
Edited by Maria J Pérez Cuervo
Design by Sam Freeman
Cover art by Isabella Mazzanti

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 5h

I have to rewatch that one! Most of them are excellent, but often I find myself rewatching the same ones.

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 5h

It has Robin Ellis and a very young Jude Law as guest stars. Another one set in the countryside!

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 5h

I think both. Shoscombe Old Place is another fabulous one. That scene at the crypt is so splendidly gothic.

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 6h

The Devil’s Foot is another favourite of mine that falls into this category.

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 6h

I love this one too!

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 6h

I’ve finished this and I don’t know what I’m going to do with my life 😭

Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 8d

Perfect television, 10/10, no notes.

The Newsreader - Aussie TV series about TV journalists in the 80s

Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 6h

1980s power dressing was a reinterpretation of 1940s silhouettes; 80s goths looked at silent film stars like Theda Bara or Weimar Republic fashion.

Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 6h

The 90s borrowed from the 70s; the 80s from the 20s, the 40s and the Victorians; the 60s from the Edwardians and the Middle Ages, and so on. Kids these days are borrowing from the 00s, which borrowed from the 80s and the 40s and so on.

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 6h

Next time someone talks about “stuck
culture” and how everything nowadays is a mash-up of previous decades, show them this video:

www.instagram.com/reel/DP0DQyP...

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 11h

Both great actors, but I hope it’s someone else.

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 11h

Love The Awakening!

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 15h

Look, @elizadearnley.bsky.social

an octopus is swimming in the ocean with the words `` nope nope nope nope '' .

ALT: an octopus is swimming in the ocean with the words `` nope nope nope nope '' .

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 17h

So comforting.

Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 17h

For a moment I thought they had cast DiCaprio as Bela, but no need to be angry just yet.

deadline.com/2025/10/bela...

Appian Way Developing Biopic Of Young Bela Lugosi For Universal; ‘Ed Wood’s Scott Alexander And Larry Karaszewski Scripting

A new Bela Lugosi biopic from Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way is in development at Universal, from the writers of 'Ed Wood, we can report exclusively.

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! At the churchyard I had a vision of the whole congregation shaken by a violent death. Then I went in and saw a sign telling the whole story.

In 1742 the churchyard was the site of a crime.
The butcher John Breeds accidentally murdered Allen Grebell instead of the mayor he really intended to kill. John Breeds was hanged and gibbeted. His skull, which is the only remains of him, was brought to the town hall and remains there. 31 Both are still said to haunt the churchyard.

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 1d

For Halloween season, nothing like hearing Christopher Lee talk about “witchcraft, magic, sorcery… ancient supernatural ways to explain the unknown we now call the occult…”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGy5...

Christopher Lee's The Occult - Mysteries of the Supernatural (1977)

YouTube video by Lance

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · Feb 1

Every so often I remember we have original footage of Algernon Blackwood. We can actually hear his voice. Thank you, Old Gods.

youtu.be/mCdX_hLo4kc

Old man Blackwood about to scare you out of your wits while he smokes his pipe by the fireplace

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 4d

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 3d

Coming very soon! 🙌🏻

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 3d

Gorgeous edition, has a couple of new stories too.

Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a fine evening for #CrushingOnCushing

Peter Cushing in a smoking jacket with pince-nez

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 3d

For Crowley’s 150th, a documentary first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1986 is now available on BBC sounds.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 4d

Bedtime reading: Misty serial “The Sentinels”. Part doppelgänger story, part Man in the High Castle, plenty of social commentary with its homeless female protagonist.

DWARFING THE RUN-DOWN AREA OF BIRDWOOD WERE TWO MASSIVE BLOCKS OF HIGH-RISE FLATS.
BUILT AT THE SAME TIME THEY WERE IDENTICAL IN EVERY WAY, EXCEPT...
... IN ONE, FAMILIES LIVED HAPPILY EVEN ON THE 26th FLOOR.
BUT IN THE OTHER NO ONE WOULD LIVE-NOT EUEN RENT-FREE.
THE LOCAL PEOPLE CALLED THESE TWO BLOCKS...
The sentinels

First page of the comic

P-PLEASE, NO-NOI
IDIOTSI DON'T YOU KNOW JULIE'S BEST FRIEND AND HER FAMILY DISAP.
PEARED IN THERE.
WHA WHAT OH, NO..N
HEY, WHAT ARE YOU LOT UP TO?
IT'S JULIE'S BIRTHDAY,JAN.
WE THOUGHT WE'D GIVE HER A TREAT... A GUIDED TOUR OF THE SENTINELS!
SORRY, JULIE, WE DIDN'T KNOW..
AND ANYWAY
WE'D NEVER ACTUALLY HAVE GONE IN THERE.
NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD.
SEE YOU LOT
TOMORROW...COME
ON, JULIE
DO YOU BELIEVE THE STORIES ABOUT THAT PLACE, JAN?...
ABOUT GHOSTS, ABOUT EOPLE DISAPPEARING?
ABOUT THE PLACE
BEING EVIL?
RIGHT NOW WE'VE GOT OUR OWN PROBLEMS ABOUT WHERE TO LIVE. MY AUNT AND UNCLE ARE PUTTING US UP, BUT THEY CAN'T DO THAT FOR EVER.
I-I HOPE YOU ALL FIND A PLACE TO LIVE SOON. SEE YOU, LAN AND THANKS FOR EVERYTHI
SUDDENLY..
لسعه
٨ ١٨٨٩٧
WE'RE
THE PEOPLE WHO USED TO LIVE THERE BELIEVED IT. THAT'S ENOUGH FOR ME.
AND THEY NEVER DID
FIND ANY TRACE OF YOUR FRIEND'S FAMILY, DID THEY?
ISJUST SUPERSTITIOUS NONSENSE, ALL THAT TALK ABOUT THE SENTINELS.
NO WHAT A MELODRAMATIC
NAME TOO.
BUT PEOPLE HAVE DISAPPEARED IN THERE - VANISHE
DAVE
BES

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely not. Someone gifted me a second-hand crystal ball once and I kept it covered with a black cloth until I finally donated it.

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 4d

British folk horror and occult characters to be on Halloween, a thread.

1. Mr Fisher from Robin Redbreast (1970).
Catchphrase: “The study of religions is one of my many interests.”
You’ll need:
- Tweed trilby
- Mutton chops
- Cracked spectacles
- A copy of The Golden Bough

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