Lucy Brooke
@luciferb.bsky.social
Gardener, factotum, historian, writer, hermit. Gatekeeper at Fort Paull (when I’m not hermitting).
I now declare this autumn… OPEN 🍾
September 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I now declare this autumn… OPEN 🍾
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Inspired by @roryisconfused.bsky.social, I can't help thinking of this headline as the premise for an MR James story: "The Professor lighted the candles, poured a measure of sherry and told Dr Standish about the day the bang bus came to Oxford. A most remarkable tale that haunts me to this day."
September 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Inspired by @roryisconfused.bsky.social, I can't help thinking of this headline as the premise for an MR James story: "The Professor lighted the candles, poured a measure of sherry and told Dr Standish about the day the bang bus came to Oxford. A most remarkable tale that haunts me to this day."
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Our Patreons just got a new podcast episode in their inbox this morning (smug lot).
If you’re not on board yet, grab yourself early, ad-free access to us chatting, arguing and laughing over #HammerHorror 's...
Plague of the Zombies 🧟♀️🧟♂️
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If you’re not on board yet, grab yourself early, ad-free access to us chatting, arguing and laughing over #HammerHorror 's...
Plague of the Zombies 🧟♀️🧟♂️
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September 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Our Patreons just got a new podcast episode in their inbox this morning (smug lot).
If you’re not on board yet, grab yourself early, ad-free access to us chatting, arguing and laughing over #HammerHorror 's...
Plague of the Zombies 🧟♀️🧟♂️
Hop on here: www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
If you’re not on board yet, grab yourself early, ad-free access to us chatting, arguing and laughing over #HammerHorror 's...
Plague of the Zombies 🧟♀️🧟♂️
Hop on here: www.patreon.com/posts/episod...
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The Evolution of Horror presents... JAWS at 50 🦈
Join me and @mikemuncer.bsky.social at the beautiful HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE in Leeds on SAT 13 SEPT for this special screening of the greatest film ever made!
🎟️ hpph.co.uk/films/jaws?f...
Join me and @mikemuncer.bsky.social at the beautiful HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE in Leeds on SAT 13 SEPT for this special screening of the greatest film ever made!
🎟️ hpph.co.uk/films/jaws?f...
September 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The Evolution of Horror presents... JAWS at 50 🦈
Join me and @mikemuncer.bsky.social at the beautiful HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE in Leeds on SAT 13 SEPT for this special screening of the greatest film ever made!
🎟️ hpph.co.uk/films/jaws?f...
Join me and @mikemuncer.bsky.social at the beautiful HYDE PARK PICTURE HOUSE in Leeds on SAT 13 SEPT for this special screening of the greatest film ever made!
🎟️ hpph.co.uk/films/jaws?f...
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Posterngate after the rain.
#hull #yorkshire #travel #architecture #photography #eastcoastkin #photographersunited #photographersofbluesky #summer #rain
#hull #yorkshire #travel #architecture #photography #eastcoastkin #photographersunited #photographersofbluesky #summer #rain
September 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Posterngate after the rain.
#hull #yorkshire #travel #architecture #photography #eastcoastkin #photographersunited #photographersofbluesky #summer #rain
#hull #yorkshire #travel #architecture #photography #eastcoastkin #photographersunited #photographersofbluesky #summer #rain
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And yes: We WILL be back! One more Writing the Occult for 2025, and this time we're hunting for cryptids. Join us?
Tickets already on sale; speaker announcements imminent: www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-th...
Tickets already on sale; speaker announcements imminent: www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-th...
September 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
And yes: We WILL be back! One more Writing the Occult for 2025, and this time we're hunting for cryptids. Join us?
Tickets already on sale; speaker announcements imminent: www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-th...
Tickets already on sale; speaker announcements imminent: www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-th...
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Just finished @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social book Twilight of the Godlings, a canny look at the British uncanny that makes a very good case that the various fairies, elves and pucks of folklore *probably* aren't vestiges of a pre-Roman tradition.
September 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Just finished @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social book Twilight of the Godlings, a canny look at the British uncanny that makes a very good case that the various fairies, elves and pucks of folklore *probably* aren't vestiges of a pre-Roman tradition.
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next month a pay-what-you-can livestream of "The Uncommon Prayer Book" by M R James. Register here:
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The Uncommon Prayer-Book by M R James
a ghost story
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August 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
next month a pay-what-you-can livestream of "The Uncommon Prayer Book" by M R James. Register here:
uncommonprayer.eventbrite.co.uk
uncommonprayer.eventbrite.co.uk
I’m in a Badedas bath with codeine, wine and Ben Machell. Friday night starts (and likely ends) here, lads.
August 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I’m in a Badedas bath with codeine, wine and Ben Machell. Friday night starts (and likely ends) here, lads.
A year ago this week, the church’s night watch guarded the graveyard on my bedtime walk. It flew up from behind a headstone, nearly gave me a heart attack, then stared at me from this gargoyle while I stared back. Unforgettable.
August 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A year ago this week, the church’s night watch guarded the graveyard on my bedtime walk. It flew up from behind a headstone, nearly gave me a heart attack, then stared at me from this gargoyle while I stared back. Unforgettable.
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ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE has a cover!!
Really happy with how this one has turned out, it's going to be *THE* book to get this Christmas!!
Links to order below! Please share this one far and wide!
#christmasghoststories #santasshinyshiny
Really happy with how this one has turned out, it's going to be *THE* book to get this Christmas!!
Links to order below! Please share this one far and wide!
#christmasghoststories #santasshinyshiny
August 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE has a cover!!
Really happy with how this one has turned out, it's going to be *THE* book to get this Christmas!!
Links to order below! Please share this one far and wide!
#christmasghoststories #santasshinyshiny
Really happy with how this one has turned out, it's going to be *THE* book to get this Christmas!!
Links to order below! Please share this one far and wide!
#christmasghoststories #santasshinyshiny
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‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ will be published by Oxford University Press on 10 September 2026. Set your watches, mark your calendars, and spread the word!
July 29, 2025 at 6:25 AM
‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ will be published by Oxford University Press on 10 September 2026. Set your watches, mark your calendars, and spread the word!
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I once gave a conference paper in which I gave a long reading of M. R. James’s ‘Mr Humphries and his Inheritance’ with this image behind me on PowerPoint. Nobody said anything.
August 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I once gave a conference paper in which I gave a long reading of M. R. James’s ‘Mr Humphries and his Inheritance’ with this image behind me on PowerPoint. Nobody said anything.
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Fucking awesome. With a few blasts of red spray paint you can turn the English flag into the Dead Kennedys logo
As the band said: Nazi punks, fuck off!
As the band said: Nazi punks, fuck off!
August 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Fucking awesome. With a few blasts of red spray paint you can turn the English flag into the Dead Kennedys logo
As the band said: Nazi punks, fuck off!
As the band said: Nazi punks, fuck off!
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Thanks to @meanlouise.bsky.social from @excavatinghorror.com for the shout out for Dirt Upon My Skin in this great article on archaeological horror at @nightmare-magazine.com www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/p...
Plumbing the Depths: Archaeology in Horror Fiction - Nightmare Magazine
Archaeology is a method and practice which resurfaces the past. It can help us reconstruct the history and culture of ancient (or not so ancient) people, and give us insight into what it means to be h...
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August 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Thanks to @meanlouise.bsky.social from @excavatinghorror.com for the shout out for Dirt Upon My Skin in this great article on archaeological horror at @nightmare-magazine.com www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/p...
unthinkablefilmfestival.com/event/hari-e...
Excited for this, October 1st at Hull Artists Research Institute. Looks like an eclectic mix of art, film and sound to kick off a week of cool stuff.
Excited for this, October 1st at Hull Artists Research Institute. Looks like an eclectic mix of art, film and sound to kick off a week of cool stuff.
WARM THE OUTSIDE POOL UP: HARI Exhibition Opening Night - UNTHINKABLE
unthinkablefilmfestival.com
August 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
unthinkablefilmfestival.com/event/hari-e...
Excited for this, October 1st at Hull Artists Research Institute. Looks like an eclectic mix of art, film and sound to kick off a week of cool stuff.
Excited for this, October 1st at Hull Artists Research Institute. Looks like an eclectic mix of art, film and sound to kick off a week of cool stuff.
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Get a big 15% off our books with the case-sensitive code BOOKLAUNCH15 until midnight on Friday August 29! A combined 2,000 pages about the dark, weird pop culture of the 70s and 80s...
Also available as colour eBooks!
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
Also available as colour eBooks!
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
August 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Get a big 15% off our books with the case-sensitive code BOOKLAUNCH15 until midnight on Friday August 29! A combined 2,000 pages about the dark, weird pop culture of the 70s and 80s...
Also available as colour eBooks!
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
Also available as colour eBooks!
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
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It would have been Martin Amis’s 76th birthday yesterday. Here’s the piece I wrote on his death in 2023:
Just realised it's more than a year since Martin Amis died. Here's the tribute I wrote for The Guardian about the heft and twang of his prose and the liveliness of his long obsession with death:
Martin Amis: he stamped his style over a generation of writers and readers
Starting with 1984’s Money, the novelist’s run of exceptional 80s and 90s novels had an unforgettable swagger and clout
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
It would have been Martin Amis’s 76th birthday yesterday. Here’s the piece I wrote on his death in 2023:
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Oh wow, this looks terrific! I think I hit the order button so hard I broke my phone
My lovely friend is just about to have his latest book published. This one's on Roman Magic and looks like a great read. www.amberley-books.com/current-mont...
Magic in Roman Britain
Lavishly illustrated throughout, this fascinating book reveals the true story of magic in Roman Britain.
www.amberley-books.com
August 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Oh wow, this looks terrific! I think I hit the order button so hard I broke my phone
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Episode 43: He's Just Not That Into You
Ladies, are you hung up on a man? Consider asking a different, worse man about how to proceed.
Ladies, are you hung up on a man? Consider asking a different, worse man about how to proceed.
He's Just Not That Into You
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 07/31/2025 · 1h
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July 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Episode 43: He's Just Not That Into You
Ladies, are you hung up on a man? Consider asking a different, worse man about how to proceed.
Ladies, are you hung up on a man? Consider asking a different, worse man about how to proceed.
I’ve knackered my wrist so no work today… instead, I am sunbathing, reading and writing (the latter is even more illegible than usual). “Relaxation aids” may have been ingested, including some wild painkillers. Get in.
August 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I’ve knackered my wrist so no work today… instead, I am sunbathing, reading and writing (the latter is even more illegible than usual). “Relaxation aids” may have been ingested, including some wild painkillers. Get in.
I do like (this) Monday.
August 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I do like (this) Monday.
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Never been to Goole before, but I'm putting that right on Wed 1st Oct with an evening of Haunted Generation readings at the East Riding Festival of Words! A gentle look at the weirder side of the 1970s and 80s childhood. Come and join me, it's only £7.
www.eastridinglibraries.co.uk/whats-on/eve...
www.eastridinglibraries.co.uk/whats-on/eve...
The Haunted Generation | Goole Library | 01 Oct 2025, 7pm
www.eastridinglibraries.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Never been to Goole before, but I'm putting that right on Wed 1st Oct with an evening of Haunted Generation readings at the East Riding Festival of Words! A gentle look at the weirder side of the 1970s and 80s childhood. Come and join me, it's only £7.
www.eastridinglibraries.co.uk/whats-on/eve...
www.eastridinglibraries.co.uk/whats-on/eve...
Great turnout for East Yorkshire Thoroughbreds car show today at Fort Paull. All the owners and visitors were a pleasure to host. And it didn't rain!
August 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Great turnout for East Yorkshire Thoroughbreds car show today at Fort Paull. All the owners and visitors were a pleasure to host. And it didn't rain!
In the unlikely event that you’re in Holderness, my article on Hedon’s Magdalen Fair is in the Gazette this week. Giants! Badger-baiting! Glammed-up pugs dancing with bears! Pickpockets! You don’t get that at Hull Fair (apart from the pickpockets).
August 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
In the unlikely event that you’re in Holderness, my article on Hedon’s Magdalen Fair is in the Gazette this week. Giants! Badger-baiting! Glammed-up pugs dancing with bears! Pickpockets! You don’t get that at Hull Fair (apart from the pickpockets).