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John Coulthart
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Artist, designer, occasional writer.
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From the latest Midian Books mailer: The Avalon Hill Witchcraft Ritual Kit (1974). "A boxed set of materials and guide books for performing witchcraft rituals....seems to be a hybrid of role-play and 'genuine' Wicca. Needless to say extremely scarce."

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December 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Just realised, it's 40 years since Hawkwind released The Chronicle of the Black Sword with my final (cursed) cover design for the group. I thought it was released in December 85 but Wikipedia says November.
December 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Suspected this was coming 🙂. SWT mixes and some interesting looking live recordings - from the BBC? Have they found new sources for these? #hawkwind www.cherryred.co.uk/hawkwind-haw...
Hawkwind: Hawkwind, 3CD/Blu-ray Edition Box Set
• DELUXE FOUR DISC LIMITED-EDITION BOX SET OF THE CLASSIC 1970 DEBUT ALBUM BY HAWKWIND. • WITH 3 CDs & A REGION-FREE BLU-RAY DISC. • THE ORIGINAL ALBUM MIX NEWLY REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINA...
www.cherryred.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This week I've mostly been watching Tom Stoppard BBC things on YouTube:

THREE MEN IN A BOAT (1975): adapted by Stoppard from the Jerome K. Jerome novel. Tim Curry, Michael Palin and Stephen Moore, directed by Stephen Frears.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMIc...
Three Men in a Boat (1975)
YouTube video by Flickering Celluloid
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Brownlow is a hero of cinema. The Parade's Gone By is my desert island book.
‘My God, what a story it would make’: film-maker Kevin Brownlow on It Happened Here and Winstanley
Brownlow is best known for restoring silent movies, but in conjunction with Andrew Mollo, he made two features, in 1964 and 1975, that look astonishingly prescient today
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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The Endless Bookshelf affirms this principle
(see nos. 1 & 5 in the Short Course)

endlessbookshelf.net/micropublish...
December 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Pondering a creative problem last night while making a pot of tea I believed I'd arrived at a viable solution. This was confirmed today by a little practical experimentation. We artists refer to the process as "The Earl Grey Method".
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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And coming in January, a remastered 50th anniversary edition of the original Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix album, The New Worlds Fair! Includes a 2,000 word essay by me 😉 Details and pre-order it here: www.thinklikeakey.com/release/5596...
December 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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OUR HAUNTED YEAR 2025

Our annual blog post looking back at what we did at Swan River Press this year.

swanriverpress.ie/2025/12/our-...
Our Haunted Year 2025 | Swan River Press
After another cycle around the sun, and as the darker days of winter approach, it’s time to look back at what we managed to accomplish this year here at Swan River Press. Along the housing front, the ...
swanriverpress.ie
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
All you need is Red. #nowplaying
December 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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'Silent rooms, where one's footsteps are absorbed by carpets so thick, so heavy, that no sound reaches one's ear...'
Couldn't leave Munich without visiting Schloss Schleissheim, primary filming location for Last Year at Marienbad. I'll do proper shot matches when I'm home, you know what I'm like...
December 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Spiral slipmats are back in stock.
Be quick though. I can’t keep up with demand!
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/product-page...
December 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Fund the arts
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
In today's post at long last, having apparently been conveyed here by a caravan of sloths.
December 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Rita Hayworth in space, courtesy of Virgil Finlay and Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1951. Illustration is for The Wanderer's Return by Fletcher Pratt.
November 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
In other news, I've just finished another page for my updated/overhauled Lovecraft book. More about that later. Also rearranged some of the typesetting which means I now need to fill the resulting space with more illos. I'm good at creating additional work for myself...
November 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
A moment of alarm when I thought that Google had finally killed the SmartTube app for Android TV. (SmartTube = ad-free YT viewing, etc.) Turns out the developer had disabled it due to a compromised digital signature. I've just deleted the old one and installed the update.

smarttubeapp.github.io
Home
Free premium app for Android boxes and tvs
smarttubeapp.github.io
November 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Alan Moore, la légende du comic book s’associe à son ami Steve Moore pour créer La Lune et le Serpent : Le Grand Livre de la Magie, une plongée unique dans l’art de l’occultisme.

#comics @delcourt-bd.bsky.social #moore
La Lune et le Serpent - Le Grand Livre de la Magie - Comixtrip
Alan Moore, la légende du comic book s’associe à son ami Steve Moore pour créer La Lune et le Serpent : Le Grand Livre de la Magie.
www.comixtrip.fr
November 27, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Every time I see a picture of Cloudbase I remember the Attack on Cloudbase episode in which the Mysterons attack in a squadron of flying saucers, destroying the place and everyone in it. Everyone! Traumatic stuff for a six-year-old.
November 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967-1968): Cloudbase, the Command Headquarters of the Spectrum Organisation
November 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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MORGIANA (Juraj Herz, 1972). Loved this vivid Czech Gothic drama - a tale of two sisters involving jealousy, greed, poisoning, lavish costumes and a striking Siamese cat. The hair and make-up are gloriously over the top, especially for Viktoria, the evil one in this twisted scenario. #FilmSky
November 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM