Jason D. Brawn
A published horror author, collector, horror fan with an MA Gothic: Culture, Subculture and Counterculture, and a BA Film and Media. Vegetarian with AuDHD, who has completed three marathons. Halloween 🎃👻 is my favourite season.
- Great talk by folklorist John Clark about how 19th Century parents kept their children away from water with nursery bogies (Jenny Greenteeth and Grindylow), while in 1973, a hooded grim reaper-like figure terrified children on screen. #grindylow #pifs #darkandlonelywater #jennygreenteeth #faries
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- Throwback Thursday: John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let The Right One In) Taken: 25 August 2008 #lettherightonein #lettherightoneinmovie #johnajvidelindqvist #horrorauthor #vampire
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- Loved the comical horror take on The Highgate Vampire. The final performance is at 19:30 tonight. A creepy and funny play that entertained the audience. @bagofbeardtheatre.bsky.social #thehighgatevampire #hammervampires #vampires #horrorplay #seventieshorror
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- On my way to see The Highgate Vampire the play, before seeing this.... #draculasociety #draculatheplay #dracula #gothictheatre #horrorplay
- Many thanks to @subexotic.bsky.social for this brilliant hauntological album by Foster Neville. This release also echoes M.R. James. A treat for the haunted generation. #hauntologymusic #hauntology #mrjames #hauntedgeneration #electronicmusic
- A great talk by Dr Lauren Stephenson called 'Revolting Women's The Final Girl as Anti-Capitalist Symbol, hosted by @romgothsam.bsky.social #thefinalgirl #horrorcinema #eattherich #classandhorror
- Cannot stop buying books from @treadwells-books.bsky.social #books
- New ouija boards for my collection. #talkingboardhistoricalsociety #talkingboard #spiritboard #ouijaboard #ouijaplanchette .
- My first @treadwells-books.bsky.social talk of the year was insightful and brilliant. Learned a lot about Jinnology, which is underrepresented, from followed by complementary drinks with the fellow attendees and main speaker. #occultism #islamicoccultism #jinn #jinnology #magic
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- Window shopping...
- Absolutely loved this brilliantly clever musical parody of @stephenking.bsky.social body of work that I want to see again. A must see for constant readers (King fans like myself).... #stephenking #horrorlegend #horrorwriter #musical #theshining
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- Congratulations to @drjaysullivan.bsky.social for this excellent talk called Victorian Mummymania by @forteanlondon.bsky.social #ancientmummies #egyotology #victorianmummy #victoriangothic #gothichorror
- More reference books for the forthcoming MA Victorian Gothic (Distance Learning) @uophistory.bsky.social #gothicstudies #dracula #victorianstudies #victoriangothic
- Special thanks to Morbid Anatomy for inviting @mjdorian.bsky.social to talk about the life of Hilma af Klint. A Swedish artist and mystic, which many of her paintings represented spiritism. #hilmaafklint #spiritart #spiritartist
- Acquisitions from yesterday's London Film Fair from Roger and Jason Pyke's stall. #draculasociety #dracula #sherlockhomes #denniswheatley
- Latest magazines from @electronicsound.bsky.social @forteantimes.bsky.social
- This year's first purchases from @treadwells-books.bsky.social @cunningfolkmag.bsky.social #arthurmachen #hgwells
- Loved the Winter Darkness Creative Writing Working with the brilliant writing teacher and folklorist Bernadette Russell at @treadwells-books.bsky.social #creativewritingworkshop #folklore #folkhorror #folkhorrorwriting #horrorwriting
- It was a pleasure to meet both the stars of the classic ghost story series Moondial Siri Neal and Tony Sands who were pleasant... #moondial #ghoststory #bbctvseries #culttv #gothictv
- Former house of Britain's first prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole, and his son Horace Walpole, the author of The Castle of Otranto. The address is 5 Arlington Street, London, SW1A 1RA #gothicliterature #gothicauthor #horacewalpole #castleofotranto
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- Another book to read this weekend. @jaylikesthings.bsky.social #ghosts #ghoststories #folkloreofthebritishisles #folkhorror
- A brilliant morning talk with Marine Galine organised by @romgothsam.bsky.social about the Irish bog from an Ecogothic perspective, followed by abject feminity and the role of motherhood in Irish folk horror cinema. This free talk will be repeated at 7pm (Eventbrite). #folkhorror
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- An excellent talk by @accordingtojond.bsky.social about Highgate Cemetery as a location for many films and television shows like From Beyond the Grave, Tales from the Crypt and The Abomination Dr Phibes. #highgatecemetery #amicushorror #britishhorrorfilms #gothiccinema #gothictv
- Random Gothic shots of Highgate. #gothicbuildings
- Close to my workplace. This road sign always makes me think of the Victorian performer (Richard Mansfield), whose performance of the play Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde made him one of the many suspects of the dreadful Whitechapel Murders. #richardmansfield #jacktheripper #drjekillandmrhyde
- My future residence. #lawsofattraction #hollyvillage #gothichouse #gothichouses #gothicvictorianhouse
- Looking forward.... #wutheringheights #gothiccinema
- The Fitzpatrick family mausoleum in Paddington Street Gardens. #grave #mausoleum
- The Fitzpatrick family mausoleum in Paddington Street Gardens. #grave #mausoleum
- Another awesome talk by Seed Talks. A History of Ghost Hunting and Why We Keep Looking by an expert and bestselling author @alicevernon10.bsky.social that covered a historical look of ghost hunting and why it is still popular. #ghosts #ghosthunting #spirtualism #ghoststories
- As a @boardsofcanada.bsky.social fan I had to purchase this album that featured three tracks produced by them. Track 10 feels strongly like a BOC release. Or is it? #boardsofcanada #electronica #electronicmusic #ambientmusic #darkambientmusic
- Haunting images of people sleeping.... #GothicArt #MacabreArt
- Happy birthday to Edgar Allan Poe. #edgarallanpoe
- A creepy and uncanny Sunday night witnessing the reading of two Gothic tales. The first tale is a ghost story, in the vein of Edith Nesbit and M.R. James. The second segment is about witchcraft that fits well in the folk horror category. #ghoststories #folkhorror #folkhorrorrevival
