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
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."
www.midianbooks.com/product-page...
www.midianbooks.com/product-page...
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
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.
Badges and pins. Mostly late 70s/early 80s with some earlier ones and a few more recent things.
December 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Badges and pins. Mostly late 70s/early 80s with some earlier ones and a few more recent things.
I didn't really mind the delay. Since revisiting the Starless box a few days ago I decided to listen to everything in the King Crimson 72-74 boxes in order, something I haven't done before. About 60 discs in all. I'm still only two thirds of the way through The Road To Red.
December 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I didn't really mind the delay. Since revisiting the Starless box a few days ago I decided to listen to everything in the King Crimson 72-74 boxes in order, something I haven't done before. About 60 discs in all. I'm still only two thirds of the way through The Road To Red.
In today's post at long last, having apparently been conveyed here by a caravan of sloths.
December 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
In today's post at long last, having apparently been conveyed here by a caravan of sloths.
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
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 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Giger's version of the chest-bursting Alien was rejected for being too turkey-like.
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Giger's version of the chest-bursting Alien was rejected for being too turkey-like.
Twin Peaks: The Early Years.
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Twin Peaks: The Early Years.
Fairly sure this is the Hog reference I found, from the intro to Nightshade's Collected Fiction of WHH. As to the Derleth invention theory, Darrell Schweitzer claimed to have begun that one himself as a deliberate frivolous literary confection.
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Fairly sure this is the Hog reference I found, from the intro to Nightshade's Collected Fiction of WHH. As to the Derleth invention theory, Darrell Schweitzer claimed to have begun that one himself as a deliberate frivolous literary confection.
William Hope Hodgson, if he did but know it, confirming once more the intersection between cosmic sounds and cosmic horror. (From "The Hog", Weird Tales, January 1947. Story would have been written some time between 1910 and 1914.)
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November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
William Hope Hodgson, if he did but know it, confirming once more the intersection between cosmic sounds and cosmic horror. (From "The Hog", Weird Tales, January 1947. Story would have been written some time between 1910 and 1914.)
archive.org/details/weir...
archive.org/details/weir...
Ha. Science fiction!
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Ha. Science fiction!
DJ Food's latest auction dive has turned up a Futurama 1979 poster and badge among the usual psychedelia. I don't have many missed-gig regrets but I've always regretted not making the effort to get to this event. Look at the line-up!
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
DJ Food's latest auction dive has turned up a Futurama 1979 poster and badge among the usual psychedelia. I don't have many missed-gig regrets but I've always regretted not making the effort to get to this event. Look at the line-up!
I was watching Teshigahara's The Face of Another last night. A strange, fascinating film with many inexplicable moments. I imagine David Cronenberg would like the clinic where Tatsuya Nakadai has his ruined face restored: an abstract space of diagram-covered glass walls and body parts in cabinets.
November 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I was watching Teshigahara's The Face of Another last night. A strange, fascinating film with many inexplicable moments. I imagine David Cronenberg would like the clinic where Tatsuya Nakadai has his ruined face restored: an abstract space of diagram-covered glass walls and body parts in cabinets.
I've got this one.
November 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I've got this one.
In which John Balance reads the poem that opens William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland. Coil's dedication to the weird was one of many things in their favour. #nowplaying
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In which John Balance reads the poem that opens William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland. Coil's dedication to the weird was one of many things in their favour. #nowplaying
In today's post from @strangeattractor.bsky.social. There's a distinctly Joycean tone to the authorial descriptions and instructions in Rudkin's playscripts. I've been wondering if the same will apply to his prose in this volume. Cover art by Zoe Taylor.
strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/shore...
strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/shore...
November 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In today's post from @strangeattractor.bsky.social. There's a distinctly Joycean tone to the authorial descriptions and instructions in Rudkin's playscripts. I've been wondering if the same will apply to his prose in this volume. Cover art by Zoe Taylor.
strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/shore...
strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/shore...
This is the poster for the 1966 screening of Alphaville and La Jetée at which JG Ballard first saw two films he would often mention as SF favourites. He reviewed La Jetée in New Worlds shortly after. John Brunner (at the same screening) reviewed Alphaville in the following issue. He hated it.
November 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This is the poster for the 1966 screening of Alphaville and La Jetée at which JG Ballard first saw two films he would often mention as SF favourites. He reviewed La Jetée in New Worlds shortly after. John Brunner (at the same screening) reviewed Alphaville in the following issue. He hated it.
Is this Deutsche Grammophon's most gimmicky release? It's The Blue Notebooks so look...here's a small blue notebook of your own!
They've done coloured vinyl recently but I've not seen anything else that goes this far. #nowplaying
They've done coloured vinyl recently but I've not seen anything else that goes this far. #nowplaying
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Is this Deutsche Grammophon's most gimmicky release? It's The Blue Notebooks so look...here's a small blue notebook of your own!
They've done coloured vinyl recently but I've not seen anything else that goes this far. #nowplaying
They've done coloured vinyl recently but I've not seen anything else that goes this far. #nowplaying
#nowextendedplaying "Heart Addicts In Make Up."
November 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
#nowextendedplaying "Heart Addicts In Make Up."