Haunting The Atom
@hauntingtheatom.bsky.social
The dark stuff: words, pictures, moving images and electronic sound + maker of music videos with '80s-style goth duo Deadlight Dance.
I post about horror/sci-fi, real-life weirdness, synth music and film scores.
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I post about horror/sci-fi, real-life weirdness, synth music and film scores.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/hauntingtheatom
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Transmission 280356: A short synth homage to the Crystal Palace transmitter by Haunting The Atom
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I've posted a couple of times on social media about my love for the Crystal Palace transmitting station, and I'd been thinking for a while that I'd like to do a little... thing.
So I did and here it is – all 78 seconds of it. If there's demand I'll consider extending it to 90 seconds for a 12-inch.
So I did and here it is – all 78 seconds of it. If there's demand I'll consider extending it to 90 seconds for a 12-inch.
Had a dream in which someone showed me their VHS of Day Of The Dead, and the rush of nostalgia quickly gave way to me fretting about the aspect ratio.
November 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Had a dream in which someone showed me their VHS of Day Of The Dead, and the rush of nostalgia quickly gave way to me fretting about the aspect ratio.
These landed yesterday: the expanded Carpenter/Carpenter/Davies scores for Halloween Kills/Ends - not films I love but I dig the music, and there are 35 previously unreleased cues here.
A reflection in this pic makes it look like I've got my hand around Mr Myers' neck. Was gonna retake but... nah.
A reflection in this pic makes it look like I've got my hand around Mr Myers' neck. Was gonna retake but... nah.
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
These landed yesterday: the expanded Carpenter/Carpenter/Davies scores for Halloween Kills/Ends - not films I love but I dig the music, and there are 35 previously unreleased cues here.
A reflection in this pic makes it look like I've got my hand around Mr Myers' neck. Was gonna retake but... nah.
A reflection in this pic makes it look like I've got my hand around Mr Myers' neck. Was gonna retake but... nah.
Last night I watched Antrum (2018), which purports to be a cursed '70s film that could kill viewers. The prologue set up the conceit well enough to make me a tad nervous, and I found the film pleasingly off-kilter. Cracking music too, by Alicia Fricker. The main theme, especially, is <chef's kiss>.
November 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Last night I watched Antrum (2018), which purports to be a cursed '70s film that could kill viewers. The prologue set up the conceit well enough to make me a tad nervous, and I found the film pleasingly off-kilter. Cracking music too, by Alicia Fricker. The main theme, especially, is <chef's kiss>.
Remembering the days when choosing a font meant browsing the racks of Letraset* in WHSmith. #Fanzines
* Other brands of dry-transfer lettering were available.
* Other brands of dry-transfer lettering were available.
November 16, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Remembering the days when choosing a font meant browsing the racks of Letraset* in WHSmith. #Fanzines
* Other brands of dry-transfer lettering were available.
* Other brands of dry-transfer lettering were available.
Ooh, an Escape From New York doc is on Sky Arts next Thursday (20 Nov) at 8pm. Also, I've just spotted that it's streaming on Now TV right now (fittingly enough). Lovely stuff.
Classic Movies: The Story of Escape from New York
Escape From New York (Season 4 Episode 6 of 6): A look at John Carpenter's 1981 sci-fi action film. Classic Movies: The Story of Escape from New York airs on Sky Arts at 8:00 PM, Thursday 20 November...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Ooh, an Escape From New York doc is on Sky Arts next Thursday (20 Nov) at 8pm. Also, I've just spotted that it's streaming on Now TV right now (fittingly enough). Lovely stuff.
Every week on here I see the #TOTP hashtag and think: 'I ought to dig out the pics I took last year of those neon signs in God's Own Junkyard, in Walthamstow.' And this week I've got my bum in gear and done it. I'm pretty sure these are originals.
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Every week on here I see the #TOTP hashtag and think: 'I ought to dig out the pics I took last year of those neon signs in God's Own Junkyard, in Walthamstow.' And this week I've got my bum in gear and done it. I'm pretty sure these are originals.
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Looking through some old snaps recently, I found this curio from the late '80s, taken by my friend Jason. I asked him what the object is, and... well, mystery solved (answer in the alt-text). But I still think it's a cracking pic. I love the reflection and the way everything blurs *just enough*.
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Looking through some old snaps recently, I found this curio from the late '80s, taken by my friend Jason. I asked him what the object is, and... well, mystery solved (answer in the alt-text). But I still think it's a cracking pic. I love the reflection and the way everything blurs *just enough*.
Looking through some old snaps recently, I found this curio from the late '80s, taken by my friend Jason. I asked him what the object is, and... well, mystery solved (answer in the alt-text). But I still think it's a cracking pic. I love the reflection and the way everything blurs *just enough*.
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Looking through some old snaps recently, I found this curio from the late '80s, taken by my friend Jason. I asked him what the object is, and... well, mystery solved (answer in the alt-text). But I still think it's a cracking pic. I love the reflection and the way everything blurs *just enough*.
Now playing is an album that always hits the spot: Repeated Viewing & Timothy Fife Explore Paranormal Sounds Of The Synthesizer, a split LP from 2019 that pays homage to library records, and channels the other side* in a pleasingly retro-electronic manner.
* Meaning both 'beyond the veil' and BBC2.
* Meaning both 'beyond the veil' and BBC2.
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Now playing is an album that always hits the spot: Repeated Viewing & Timothy Fife Explore Paranormal Sounds Of The Synthesizer, a split LP from 2019 that pays homage to library records, and channels the other side* in a pleasingly retro-electronic manner.
* Meaning both 'beyond the veil' and BBC2.
* Meaning both 'beyond the veil' and BBC2.
Remembering that time during the Covid lockdown when I showed up at East Croydon station at 8am to find it deserted and the announcer issuing virus warnings. In my earphones was the title track from Tangerine Dream's Phaedra, and it soundtracked the haunting, sci-fi surreality of it all so well.
November 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Remembering that time during the Covid lockdown when I showed up at East Croydon station at 8am to find it deserted and the announcer issuing virus warnings. In my earphones was the title track from Tangerine Dream's Phaedra, and it soundtracked the haunting, sci-fi surreality of it all so well.
Finally saw Late Night With The Devil (it's currently streaming on C4). My verdict? It cheats with its styling - eg, multicam backstage conversations, and modern editing when the drama ramps up. But when the '70s US talk-show aesthetic is on point it's impressive, and despite niggles I enjoyed it.
November 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Finally saw Late Night With The Devil (it's currently streaming on C4). My verdict? It cheats with its styling - eg, multicam backstage conversations, and modern editing when the drama ramps up. But when the '70s US talk-show aesthetic is on point it's impressive, and despite niggles I enjoyed it.
I enjoyed this new Guardian piece. I adored Poltergeist as a kid. It was one of my family's earliest VHS rentals, and a copy somehow found its way on to a blank tape (must have been a ghost), so I grew very familiar with it. For many years the US National Anthem was 'that music from Poltergeist'.
‘If I’d known the skeletons were real I’d have been even more disgusted’: how we made Poltergeist
‘Steven Spielberg lit up when I told him I couldn’t do the face-tearing scene. Those are his hands you see in the film. I could never have ripped my face off with the same joie de vivre’
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November 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I enjoyed this new Guardian piece. I adored Poltergeist as a kid. It was one of my family's earliest VHS rentals, and a copy somehow found its way on to a blank tape (must have been a ghost), so I grew very familiar with it. For many years the US National Anthem was 'that music from Poltergeist'.
Erm, actually, I think you'll find...
Probably a Mail reader.
Probably a Mail reader.
November 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Erm, actually, I think you'll find...
Probably a Mail reader.
Probably a Mail reader.
Last night I rewatched Whistle And I'll Come To You. I've long been impressed by the way it captures the terror of seeing something darkly inexplicable. I'm still not sure what I'm looking at in *those* scenes, even in terms of how the effects were done, so they tickle my lizard brain beautifully.
November 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Last night I rewatched Whistle And I'll Come To You. I've long been impressed by the way it captures the terror of seeing something darkly inexplicable. I'm still not sure what I'm looking at in *those* scenes, even in terms of how the effects were done, so they tickle my lizard brain beautifully.
Here's me carving a pumpkin tonight: 26 minutes compressed into 1m 18s. Warning: contains blasphemy, gloop and middle-aged sounds.
Happy Halloween to all my followers, including the man with the horns who's staring at me right now through my living-room window (my living room is two floors up).
Happy Halloween to all my followers, including the man with the horns who's staring at me right now through my living-room window (my living room is two floors up).
October 31, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Here's me carving a pumpkin tonight: 26 minutes compressed into 1m 18s. Warning: contains blasphemy, gloop and middle-aged sounds.
Happy Halloween to all my followers, including the man with the horns who's staring at me right now through my living-room window (my living room is two floors up).
Happy Halloween to all my followers, including the man with the horns who's staring at me right now through my living-room window (my living room is two floors up).
Danny Robins leads a séance - well, a theatrical one - last night at the Royal Albert Hall. Fright Night was an entertaining mix of ghostly RAH-centric anecdotes, tongue-in-cheek supernatural fun, and orchestral music: film themes, original pieces and even some Black Sabbath. A spirited evening.
October 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Danny Robins leads a séance - well, a theatrical one - last night at the Royal Albert Hall. Fright Night was an entertaining mix of ghostly RAH-centric anecdotes, tongue-in-cheek supernatural fun, and orchestral music: film themes, original pieces and even some Black Sabbath. A spirited evening.
Here's me in 2009: a zombie extra in a report by Myleene Klass about London's FrightFest.
Two years before, I'd taken part in a zombie gathering: a FrightFest world-record attempt, for which 700 people showed up. This time there was about 20 of us, but it was fun. I still have the 'bloodied' shirt.
Two years before, I'd taken part in a zombie gathering: a FrightFest world-record attempt, for which 700 people showed up. This time there was about 20 of us, but it was fun. I still have the 'bloodied' shirt.
October 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Here's me in 2009: a zombie extra in a report by Myleene Klass about London's FrightFest.
Two years before, I'd taken part in a zombie gathering: a FrightFest world-record attempt, for which 700 people showed up. This time there was about 20 of us, but it was fun. I still have the 'bloodied' shirt.
Two years before, I'd taken part in a zombie gathering: a FrightFest world-record attempt, for which 700 people showed up. This time there was about 20 of us, but it was fun. I still have the 'bloodied' shirt.
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A fine night at EartH in Hackney with Fabio Frizzi and his band playing his composer's cut of The Beyond, plus 20 minutes of other goodies.
'Twas the fifth time I'd seen Mr Frizzi since 2013 - each time around the end of October, and twice on Halloween itself. It's always a pleasure. #OldTraditions
'Twas the fifth time I'd seen Mr Frizzi since 2013 - each time around the end of October, and twice on Halloween itself. It's always a pleasure. #OldTraditions
October 30, 2025 at 10:44 AM
A fine night at EartH in Hackney with Fabio Frizzi and his band playing his composer's cut of The Beyond, plus 20 minutes of other goodies.
'Twas the fifth time I'd seen Mr Frizzi since 2013 - each time around the end of October, and twice on Halloween itself. It's always a pleasure. #OldTraditions
'Twas the fifth time I'd seen Mr Frizzi since 2013 - each time around the end of October, and twice on Halloween itself. It's always a pleasure. #OldTraditions
I like my Halloween viewing to be supernatural themed - phantoms and folklore rather than Texan chainsaws - though I have a 'pumpkin inclusion clause', meaning that non-supernatural films or TV shows set at Halloween get a pass. "Got any jack-o’-lanterns there, mate? Fine, in you go."
October 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I like my Halloween viewing to be supernatural themed - phantoms and folklore rather than Texan chainsaws - though I have a 'pumpkin inclusion clause', meaning that non-supernatural films or TV shows set at Halloween get a pass. "Got any jack-o’-lanterns there, mate? Fine, in you go."
A fine night at EartH in Hackney with Fabio Frizzi and his band playing his composer's cut of The Beyond, plus 20 minutes of other goodies.
'Twas the fifth time I'd seen Mr Frizzi since 2013 - each time around the end of October, and twice on Halloween itself. It's always a pleasure. #OldTraditions
'Twas the fifth time I'd seen Mr Frizzi since 2013 - each time around the end of October, and twice on Halloween itself. It's always a pleasure. #OldTraditions
October 30, 2025 at 10:44 AM
A fine night at EartH in Hackney with Fabio Frizzi and his band playing his composer's cut of The Beyond, plus 20 minutes of other goodies.
'Twas the fifth time I'd seen Mr Frizzi since 2013 - each time around the end of October, and twice on Halloween itself. It's always a pleasure. #OldTraditions
'Twas the fifth time I'd seen Mr Frizzi since 2013 - each time around the end of October, and twice on Halloween itself. It's always a pleasure. #OldTraditions
This landed today: the new 4K release of In The Mouth Of Madness, from Arrow Video. I don't believe that this splendid #JohnCarpenter film has had a physical release in the UK since the VHS days - till now I've made do with the US DVD from 2000 - so this is long overdue.
October 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This landed today: the new 4K release of In The Mouth Of Madness, from Arrow Video. I don't believe that this splendid #JohnCarpenter film has had a physical release in the UK since the VHS days - till now I've made do with the US DVD from 2000 - so this is long overdue.
I finally bought my would-be jack-o'-lantern but, man, it was carnage in Tesco's pumpkin bins at 5pm. Pulp and seeds everywhere: an absolute juicebath. After a lengthy and horribly wet search I came across a lone survivor, which I escorted to safety in my basket.
October 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I finally bought my would-be jack-o'-lantern but, man, it was carnage in Tesco's pumpkin bins at 5pm. Pulp and seeds everywhere: an absolute juicebath. After a lengthy and horribly wet search I came across a lone survivor, which I escorted to safety in my basket.
Walking home from a gig last night I was stopped in my tracks by this object of beauty, in the window of a shop called Quirky Bits ("quality furniture bought and sold"). To get some scale look at the chair next to it - it's a big 'un! It's also the episode of Bagpuss I didn't know I needed till now.
October 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Walking home from a gig last night I was stopped in my tracks by this object of beauty, in the window of a shop called Quirky Bits ("quality furniture bought and sold"). To get some scale look at the chair next to it - it's a big 'un! It's also the episode of Bagpuss I didn't know I needed till now.
Some lovely Friday night electronica at the Rich Mix in Shoreditch (I love a venue that rhymes). Intense hypnotic soundscapes from opener @jo-johnson.bsky.social, and the soundtrack to our urban '80s future, from @warringtonruncorn.com. Plus a bonus dog, 'cos I know that social-media loves a dog.
October 25, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Some lovely Friday night electronica at the Rich Mix in Shoreditch (I love a venue that rhymes). Intense hypnotic soundscapes from opener @jo-johnson.bsky.social, and the soundtrack to our urban '80s future, from @warringtonruncorn.com. Plus a bonus dog, 'cos I know that social-media loves a dog.
A pic from the late '80s of me and a friend in The Pit: a mini canyon in the woods where my friends and I would hang out, sometimes late at night. I still don't know what The Pit's purpose was. It was human-made but there were no machines around; it wasn't a work in progress. It was just... The Pit.
October 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
A pic from the late '80s of me and a friend in The Pit: a mini canyon in the woods where my friends and I would hang out, sometimes late at night. I still don't know what The Pit's purpose was. It was human-made but there were no machines around; it wasn't a work in progress. It was just... The Pit.