Co-Director of The Old Woollen, Leeds.
Partner in Cargo Wines.
Co-Chair of Red Ladder Theatre Co. & Fidget Theatre.
Director, producer and writer.
Movies, horror, books, theatre, wine, neurodivergence, Paganism etc.
He/him.
Dicky Bonham
Couldn’t resist an order of this…
Anthony Head was an Ambassador for Battersea Dogs and Cats home for more than two decades. Thanks for everything Tony x
Having heard them speak at the Dalek’s Master Plan showing in Manchester yesterday, Film Is Fabulous are doing some amazing work. Here’s a great discovery!
It’s incredibly hot and sunny, so obviously have been in my natural environment, watching Doctor Who in a dark room at HOME in Manchester. Lovely to hear the amazing Peter Purves in person!
Quatermass and The Pitt
This will be an unmissable day! Includes the launch of our next Tales of the Weird ‘Haunted Yorkshire’! More info below:
🌞Cannot WAIT for Midsummer Weird!🌞
It’s a day of strange fiction, folklore and the uncanny I’m putting together with @oldwoollen.bsky.social and @trumanbooks.bsky.social. Incredible authors & performers, plus the launch of the British Library’s Haunted Yorkshire anthology.
The summer is icumen in!
I’m very much looking forward to talking about Nigel Kneale and writing weird fiction at @trumanbooks.bsky.social’s Midsummer Weird event at @oldwoollen.bsky.social next month!
🎟️: trumanbooks.co.uk/event/midsum...
I'll be interviewing @tobyhadoke.bsky.social and @bronteschiltz.bsky.social on QUATERMASS AND THE TELEVISUAL GOTHIC...
Nope on those "Autism is overdiagnosed!!!" headlines. Autism is UNDERdiagnosed, and undiagnosed autistic people's autistic traits and associated health and care needs are denied, leading to avoidable suffering and unfairly reduced quality of life.
pressreleases.responsesource.com/news/104052/...
A new commentary on research explores the strong link between neurodivergent (here identified as Autistic, ADHD, Dyspraxic/DCD and Tourette’s syndromes) children and young people (CYP) with joint hy.....
Jamie McKelvie
Dicky Bonham
BLPublishing
Brontë Schiltz
🌞Cannot WAIT for Midsummer Weird!🌞
It’s a day of strange fiction, folklore and the uncanny I’m putting together with @oldwoollen.bsky.social and @trumanbooks.bsky.social. Incredible authors & performers, plus the launch of the British Library’s Haunted Yorkshire anthology.
The summer is icumen in!
*New Magazine Alert*
A WEIRD OCCASIONAL is "an occasional publication devoted to the weird, particularly the older and unknown stuff" - I have contributed a 14 page lead essay on the many crimes of M.P. Dare, cover art and a lost vampire story.
Link: tinyurl.com/7c28rmdd
Johnny Mains
Thinking Person's Guide to Autism
I don't know *exactly* what I'll be doing yet, but I'll be appearing at MIDSUMMER WEIRD at the end of June in Leeds - at the very least I'll be signing copies of THE DEAD OF SUMMER.
Lost Late Night Horror Found
Film is Fabulous! has collaborated with Darren Payne of ‘Dirt in the Gate Movies’ to preserve a missing episode of BBC television:
Late Night Horror: No Such Thing As A Vampire (Broadcast: 19th April 1968)