David Allkins

Former political correspondent and consultant for United Response. Interested in books, films, politics, media discussion and writing. Header art by Deven Rue

[David Allkins @AllkinsDavid]

The anthology 'Cornwall Secret and Hidden' containing 28 short stories (including one of mine 'The Plastic Fairies') is now available for order in paperback and eBook 1) https://t.co/H0bXXhbiCo

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[Killer Cosmonaut @kitschkong]

Remembering English actor Basil Rathbone on his birthday (June 13, 1892 – July 21, 1967), a Shakespearean stage actor who went on to appear in more than 70 films, including dramas, swashbucklers, horror, and a string of Sherlock Holmes movies.

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[Utkarsh Sharma @techxutkarsh]

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.

Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.

Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

[Mary-Ann Thorson𐃆 @NoctrnlValkyrie]

“A crow can recall every route it has ever taken. Crows are messengers, spies, guides, companions, harbingers of luck, deliverers of trinkets and treasures, tireless in all ways, more loyal than any other man or beast.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

[Coffin Boffin @DrSamGeorge1]

GOBLIN & GOBLIN CAT #Caturday
Milton's Comus illustrated by Arthur Rackham was published in 1921. Rackham brings alive this dark narrative gloriously as shown here in the wonderfully dark faces of the Goblin and his look-a-like cat.

[Wolf Entertainment @WolfEntertainm2]

Really?
She Hulk is considered 1 of the sexiest icons of comics. Gamma radiation is a girl's best friend.

[WikiVictorian @wikivictorian]

The Scholars, by German painter Gabriel von Max (19th century). In private collection.

[Coffin Boffin @DrSamGeorge1]

📢I am excited to reveal that I have been invited to give the keynote at this Dark Enchantments conference. Do sign up to take part and come along to my presentation on 'Gothicising the Fairy: Enchantment, Hybridity, Transformation, and Immortality.' Ooh!🦇

[Coffin Boffin @DrSamGeorge1]

TONTLAWALD This dark moorland is inhabited by a very old dwarf who poisons your food, a cat as big as a foal, a girl with a snake for a tongue & a doll with a needle in her heart. Estonian folktale retold in Lang, Violet Fairy Book, 1901, ills H.J. Ford #FolkloreSunday

[Tatiana Fajardo @Tatiana19796]

#ShakespeareSunday 'The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty.' Lady Macbeth in Act 1, Scene 5

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John Collier, 'The Witch,' 1893 #CaturdayEve

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[Lunchbox🐔🗣️ @fishin4l0ve]

Ive talked about how gothic horror is a fear of the remains of a now dead decadence of the past, ie haunted castles or old haunted mansions. Our modern version of this is evidently empty shopping malls and anamatronic pizzaria arcades

[Classic Movie Hub @ClassicMovieHub]

Birthday Boys Christopher Lee and Vincent Price play some chess :)

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The Book of Demons | Call for Submissions - We are very excited to announce a new call for submissions, which is now open! This is the newest edition to our Beyond & Within series, to be edited by V. Castro!

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[Foreign Horror Movies 🌍🔪 @foreignhorrorhq]

@FolknHell @ramseycampbell1 Night of the Demon is one of the most underrated British horror films ever made, and having Ramsey Campbell discuss it specifically is a genuine treat. His writing on folk horror and cosmic dread shares a lot of DNA with Jacques Tourneur's approach to suggestion over spectacle

[Titania @TitaniasRealm]

"Sorry I can't, I have plans"

The plans:

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Look, it's perfectly simple. I wasn't going to become an MP, then I was given £5 million and I coincidentally decided to run for Parliament. I then bought a house for £1.4m cash after saying I was "skint" and my girlfriend bought a house for £885,000 with money she didn't have and which I originally said I had bought. The gift was totally unconditional, as well as being for security and then it was a reward for Brexit. Nobody should have known about it, but the Russians hacked my phone, according to 'counter-espionage experts' who don't exist. See?