Huzzah! My copy of A Gothic Cookbook has finally arrived, after Evri decided not to deliver it, then claiming they had delivered it 3 times, but to the wrong address and then just sending back to the supplier and starting again. A quality choice for tea tonight (with chips)! #gothic#Booksky

"Take me with you, friend John," said the Professor. "His case in your diary interest me much, and it had bearing, too, now and again on _our_ case. I should much like to see him, and especial when his mind is disturbed." 19th-century Asylums were very much prone to voyeurism. #Gothic#Horror

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Occult? Try upstairs! Inside the world’s weirdest library, now open to the public

It has folders marked ‘Grasping the victim’s head’ and now – after a £15m revamp and some help from Albert Einstein and the patron saint of the internet – the extraordinary Warburg Institute is lettin...

RIP Maggie Smith, thank you for making the screen an absolute pleasure to watch www.theguardian.com/film/2024/se...

Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89

In a career that began in the 1950s, her roles ranged from Desdemona to Miss Jean Brodie, Virginia Woolf and Minerva McGonagall

It wasn’t busy this weekend, but imagine the rain put a lot of people off, but it’s well known

It really was, and just off a small road so easy to find. Bathing in the waters apparently cures ‘the itch’, or scabies, but may not want to drink it after someone’s had a dip! It’s abundantly freshly flowing and feels very cleansing when I had a wash yesterday whilst there.

St Anthony’s Well? I didn’t know he was ill! A lovely little spot and sacred well in the Forest of Dean.

It certainly was a dark and stormy night (last night), seeing what’s happening on the other side at the Forest of Dean Yes, the fire is lovely and warm!

I've never felt so proud to be #611,262!

Betty Boop Meets Dracula (1933) A wonderful short, starring Mae Questel, who voiced Betty Boop in a live-action version, singing to wax figures, while the Dracula figure, portrayed by Bela Lugosi, comes to life to stalk our Miss Boop! "You've Booped your last Boop!!" youtu.be/GZnH5DcXAOE?...

Betty Boop meets Dracula (1933) [ www.peepingtom.it ]

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