Andrew Screen
@andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social
Author of The Book of Beasts: Folklore, Popular Culture & Nigel Kneale's ATV Horror Series (Headpress 2023). SEN work by day. Words for Fortean Times, We Are Cult among others.
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With Xmas fast approaching you might be thinking of what to buy the Nigel Kneale/folk horror/archive TV fan in your life. How about The Book of Beasts? Available from all good bookshops, but if you buy it from headpress.com/product/the-... you can also get the Beastabix stand up figures.
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NEW COMMA BLOG ✍️
Nigel Kneale & the Halloween that Never Was
By @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social 🎃
Andy Murray explores the Manx folklore that fuelled Kneale's stories from Quatermass to Tomato Cain, & the Halloween III script that never saw the light of day.
📜 commapress.co.uk/blog/nigel-k...
Nigel Kneale & the Halloween that Never Was
By @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social 🎃
Andy Murray explores the Manx folklore that fuelled Kneale's stories from Quatermass to Tomato Cain, & the Halloween III script that never saw the light of day.
📜 commapress.co.uk/blog/nigel-k...
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
NEW COMMA BLOG ✍️
Nigel Kneale & the Halloween that Never Was
By @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social 🎃
Andy Murray explores the Manx folklore that fuelled Kneale's stories from Quatermass to Tomato Cain, & the Halloween III script that never saw the light of day.
📜 commapress.co.uk/blog/nigel-k...
Nigel Kneale & the Halloween that Never Was
By @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social 🎃
Andy Murray explores the Manx folklore that fuelled Kneale's stories from Quatermass to Tomato Cain, & the Halloween III script that never saw the light of day.
📜 commapress.co.uk/blog/nigel-k...
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Spooky advent calendars still very much for sale... featuring many faves of TV, film and literature. Free Christmas at Borley card with every calendar. Lots of prints and cards also available. Reposts much appreciated. Thanks folks. sarahcoomershop.etsy.com/listing/1801...
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Spooky advent calendars still very much for sale... featuring many faves of TV, film and literature. Free Christmas at Borley card with every calendar. Lots of prints and cards also available. Reposts much appreciated. Thanks folks. sarahcoomershop.etsy.com/listing/1801...
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A few people have asked, so here’s a link to the playlist I created for Hellebore’s Cave of Mysteries at Tate Britain.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
A few people have asked, so here’s a link to the playlist I created for Hellebore’s Cave of Mysteries at Tate Britain.
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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We talk a lot about the Horniman walrus but Charles Waterton's attempt at stuffing the head of a bottom howler monkey deserves some attention/nightmares too
November 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
We talk a lot about the Horniman walrus but Charles Waterton's attempt at stuffing the head of a bottom howler monkey deserves some attention/nightmares too
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John Cale has made a record with someone who wasn't even born when he made Songs For Drella, which for most artists would count as a late-career recording, but for him... long may he roll, is what I'm saying.
youtu.be/Xgp7wlBfASA?...
youtu.be/Xgp7wlBfASA?...
Charli xcx - House featuring John Cale (Official Video)
YouTube video by Charli xcx
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
John Cale has made a record with someone who wasn't even born when he made Songs For Drella, which for most artists would count as a late-career recording, but for him... long may he roll, is what I'm saying.
youtu.be/Xgp7wlBfASA?...
youtu.be/Xgp7wlBfASA?...
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Husker Du, live in 1985, 43 songs to blast the Sunday cobwebs away
huskerdu.bandcamp.com/album/1985-t...
huskerdu.bandcamp.com/album/1985-t...
1985: The Miracle Year, by Hüsker Dü
43 track album
huskerdu.bandcamp.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Husker Du, live in 1985, 43 songs to blast the Sunday cobwebs away
huskerdu.bandcamp.com/album/1985-t...
huskerdu.bandcamp.com/album/1985-t...
At least not all the news is doom and gloom today...
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
At least not all the news is doom and gloom today...
Sad to hear that Lindsey Vickers, director of the now rediscovered Brit horror classic The Appointment (1981), has gone at the age of 85.
Obituary by Vic Pratt here: www.bfi.org.uk/features/lin...
Obituary by Vic Pratt here: www.bfi.org.uk/features/lin...
November 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Sad to hear that Lindsey Vickers, director of the now rediscovered Brit horror classic The Appointment (1981), has gone at the age of 85.
Obituary by Vic Pratt here: www.bfi.org.uk/features/lin...
Obituary by Vic Pratt here: www.bfi.org.uk/features/lin...
Tonight's film stars Russell Crown who is Unhinged (2020). First time watching...
November 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Tonight's film stars Russell Crown who is Unhinged (2020). First time watching...
Tonight's washing up music (helping to drown out the sound of fireworks). This is a banger!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Xw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Xw...
Confidence Man - First Class Bitch - Raf Rundell's Party Nails Remix
YouTube video by Confidence Man
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Tonight's washing up music (helping to drown out the sound of fireworks). This is a banger!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Xw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Xw...
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✨🪞HAUNTED MIRRORS 🪞✨
A man acquires an antique mirror with a bloodthirsty ghoul trapped in the glass. This is the premise of From Beyond the Grave’s “The Gatecrasher” (1974), based on a short story by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes.
A man acquires an antique mirror with a bloodthirsty ghoul trapped in the glass. This is the premise of From Beyond the Grave’s “The Gatecrasher” (1974), based on a short story by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes.
November 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
✨🪞HAUNTED MIRRORS 🪞✨
A man acquires an antique mirror with a bloodthirsty ghoul trapped in the glass. This is the premise of From Beyond the Grave’s “The Gatecrasher” (1974), based on a short story by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes.
A man acquires an antique mirror with a bloodthirsty ghoul trapped in the glass. This is the premise of From Beyond the Grave’s “The Gatecrasher” (1974), based on a short story by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes.
Tonight's film is the obscure French horror The Demon is on the Island (1983) which has a fantastic sounding Garth Marenghi plot. Domestic appliances bought from the same shop turn murderous! First (and probably last) time watch.
November 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Tonight's film is the obscure French horror The Demon is on the Island (1983) which has a fantastic sounding Garth Marenghi plot. Domestic appliances bought from the same shop turn murderous! First (and probably last) time watch.
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I’m staying at my mum’s house. Opened a cupboard to get a spare pillow and WTF
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I’m staying at my mum’s house. Opened a cupboard to get a spare pillow and WTF
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One of the things I appreciate most about living in Norfolk is the fact that it induces a near-constant state of bewilderment. 1/3
November 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
One of the things I appreciate most about living in Norfolk is the fact that it induces a near-constant state of bewilderment. 1/3
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Now available in paperback, just in time for Christmas.
November 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Now available in paperback, just in time for Christmas.
Tonight's film is Blazing Magnum (1976) an Italian cop thriller starring Stuart Whitman (and his amazing eyebrows) as a Dirty Harry clone. Has an amazing extended car chase. The film is also known as the more poetic Strange Shadows in an Empty Room. First time watching.
November 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Tonight's film is Blazing Magnum (1976) an Italian cop thriller starring Stuart Whitman (and his amazing eyebrows) as a Dirty Harry clone. Has an amazing extended car chase. The film is also known as the more poetic Strange Shadows in an Empty Room. First time watching.
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Appearing just in time for Halloween is my new blog looking at the 1980s weekly magazine The Unexplained issue by issue.
Find out what links the magazine with the band The Smiths. What made the magazine playground contraband? Dare you listen to Breakthrough?
theunexplainedmagazine.blogspot.com
Find out what links the magazine with the band The Smiths. What made the magazine playground contraband? Dare you listen to Breakthrough?
theunexplainedmagazine.blogspot.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Appearing just in time for Halloween is my new blog looking at the 1980s weekly magazine The Unexplained issue by issue.
Find out what links the magazine with the band The Smiths. What made the magazine playground contraband? Dare you listen to Breakthrough?
theunexplainedmagazine.blogspot.com
Find out what links the magazine with the band The Smiths. What made the magazine playground contraband? Dare you listen to Breakthrough?
theunexplainedmagazine.blogspot.com
Appearing just in time for Halloween is my new blog looking at the 1980s weekly magazine The Unexplained issue by issue.
Find out what links the magazine with the band The Smiths. What made the magazine playground contraband? Dare you listen to Breakthrough?
theunexplainedmagazine.blogspot.com
Find out what links the magazine with the band The Smiths. What made the magazine playground contraband? Dare you listen to Breakthrough?
theunexplainedmagazine.blogspot.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Appearing just in time for Halloween is my new blog looking at the 1980s weekly magazine The Unexplained issue by issue.
Find out what links the magazine with the band The Smiths. What made the magazine playground contraband? Dare you listen to Breakthrough?
theunexplainedmagazine.blogspot.com
Find out what links the magazine with the band The Smiths. What made the magazine playground contraband? Dare you listen to Breakthrough?
theunexplainedmagazine.blogspot.com
Damn Peter Watkins has gone. A pioneer of docudrama with Culloden and The War Game also the sublime Privilege, Punishment Park and biopic Edvard Munch. Vale!
October 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Damn Peter Watkins has gone. A pioneer of docudrama with Culloden and The War Game also the sublime Privilege, Punishment Park and biopic Edvard Munch. Vale!
Halloween. A good time to launch my new blog...
Coming later today, just in time for the spooky season.
Coming later today, just in time for the spooky season.
October 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Halloween. A good time to launch my new blog...
Coming later today, just in time for the spooky season.
Coming later today, just in time for the spooky season.
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Why the BBC WAC should remain bigger on the inside. An absolutely boffo column from Doctor Who mensch @tobyhadoke.bsky.social about the very silly decision by the BBC to cut off independent and exploratory research at its Written Archives Centre. cstonline.net/defending-th...
Defending the WAC: ‘Bigger on the Inside’ Doctor Who Archives by Toby Hadoke
It’s always bloody Doctor Who isn’t it? The show about the police box that’s bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. There is so much in the rich history of BBC drama that requires scrutiny…
cstonline.net
October 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Why the BBC WAC should remain bigger on the inside. An absolutely boffo column from Doctor Who mensch @tobyhadoke.bsky.social about the very silly decision by the BBC to cut off independent and exploratory research at its Written Archives Centre. cstonline.net/defending-th...
Work in progress... Cat pumpkin.
October 31, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Work in progress... Cat pumpkin.
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Things I Made Ages Ago That I Just Found Again: 1. Yorkshire TV's foray into making movies.
October 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Things I Made Ages Ago That I Just Found Again: 1. Yorkshire TV's foray into making movies.
Tonight's film is The Long Walk (2025)...
October 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Tonight's film is The Long Walk (2025)...