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Wm. Schumacher

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Gothic/Horror Film & Fiction Pedant (ghost stories, esp. M. R. James); Amateur Theatricals; Wastrel and Ne'er-Do-Well. Former Teacher. U of I ‘91, WPGU.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 5h

Just a reminder that I'm currently recruiting for Romancing the Gothic talks for next year!

Here is an updated cfp which shows which months are already completely full.

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Romancing the Gothic 2026 Talk Series – Call for Papers

In 2026, our annual conference will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of Ann Radcliffe’s final, posthumous, publications. An early Gothic writer, Radcliffe was known to some as the ‘…

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Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies @miskatonicihs.bsky.social · 5h

TOMORROW we reach into the depths and explore hypnosis in horror cinema - ONLINE!
Tickets here: billetto.co.uk/e/sunken-pla...

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Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social · 13h

I wish I could send you another skein…

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Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social · 1d

But - the white tricorn ensemble is perfection itself!

Amanda Donohoe, in a scene from “Lair of the White Worm,” wearing an ivory and grey ensemble topped with a white tricorn hat.

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Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social · 2d

Perfect thread in the run-up to Halloween!

Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 2d

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

Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social · 2d

[GIF of figure crumbling to dust]

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social · 2d

Kneale!

Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social · 3d

Aimee Mann? Randy Newman?

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

Thís is Eglantine Price
Eglantine learned Witchcraft to figbt
tbe Nazis
Be Líke Eglantine.
Hex the Fascists.

Image from Bedknobs and broomsticks

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Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social · 4d

Currently watching the 1958 BBC production of “Quatermass and The Pit.” For Americans with Roku, it’s streaming on the “Horror Classics Channel,” an off-brand App in the Roku streaming store. Free with ads.

Title that reads “The Pit.” Over it is the scrolling title “A serial in six parts by Nigel Kneale.”

Closing credit card which reads “QUATERMASS AND THE PIT Episode 3 ‘Imps and Demons’ will be televised next Monday, 5th January at 8 p.m.”

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Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social · 4d

Ugh. It’s been a day. A day in a week in a year. Goodnight!

Anthropomorphic box in a bin (looking surprised).

Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social · 4d

No, they’d end up lopsided.

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Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, you’re re-consigning the Doves Typeface to the Thames again?

Doves Type, recreated from printed examples and from over 100 pieces of original type mudlarked from the Thames.

Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social · 4d

That’s a beefy stitch there.

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Becky @beckygracelea.bsky.social · 8d

She hath risen.

“Mary Shelley has released a new title!”

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Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social · 7d

Pictures, obvs.

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Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social · 7d

a man in a suit and bow tie is standing in front of a group of men sitting around a table .

Alt: a man in a suit and bow tie is standing in front of a group of men sitting around a table .

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Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social · 7d

For me, it’s the trademark lean. Here (from 1910) through his cameo in “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.”

Young Buster Keaton in 1910, showing his trademark lean to one side.

Buster Keaton, in “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” once again leaning to one side.

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Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social · 7d

Book cover reading “Soylent Oceanographic Survey Report 2015 to 2019 Volume 1”

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Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social · 7d

In prehistoric times, there were cave paintings of pre-teens with bad haircuts. Parents hold on to such embarrassing photos of their children and pull them out at appropriate times because, well…it’s our duty; it’s part of the job and the brief, passed down from time immemorial.

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Ghostly Tales @ghostlytales.bsky.social · 8d

Now hosed in the collection of the Victorian and Albert museum in London, a skeleton-decorated kimono c.1840-1860.
#kimono #Japanesefashion #Japaneseclothes #Jhorror #Japanesesupernatural

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Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social · 7d

Fabulous!

Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social · 7d

I get you, smart guy. I know what you are. Straight as a corkscrew.

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 8d

Ferlinghetti: “Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves”

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