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Excellent 1-day history festival with #2WW gang @jamesholland.com #SaulDavid #RogerMoorhouse & #StephenPrince organised by #JoanneOoi at the #JockeyClubRooms #Newmarket.
(Yep, that’s a horse statue. There were many.)
November 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Excellent 1-day history festival with #2WW gang @jamesholland.com #SaulDavid #RogerMoorhouse & #StephenPrince at the #JockeyClubRooms.
(Yep, that’s a horse statue. There were many.)
November 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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By: stephenprince on Saturday, November 29, 2025
A Year In The Country book sale
All the A Year In The Country non-fiction paperbacks and ebooks are currently available at reduced prices at Amazon and Lulu and have between 30-60% off their normal prices. View them at Amazon UK via...
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November 30, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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By: stephenprince on Saturday, November 29, 2025
The Curse of the Crimson Altar / La Messe Noir: Film and TV Tie-In Books Collector’s Series No. 13
While new novelisations of films and TV series have become pretty rare, photonovel adaptations seem to have become pretty much extinct... these are some pages from a French "photo roman" adaptation of...
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November 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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By: stephenprince on Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Leap in the Dark – Jack Be Nimble: Pathways Through Paranormal Powers and Between the Roots of Magic and Glamour
Leap in the Dark, as I wrote in A Year In The Country: Lost Transmissions (2023), is a paranormal-orientated British television anthology series broadcast on the BBC for four series in 1973, 1975, 197...
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July 3, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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By: stephenprince on Monday, June 1, 2026
Tales of Unease – The Old Banger: Conjuring Half-Hour Worlds of Unsettling Tension and Intrigue / A Warning to Take Care
Tales of Unease (1970) is an anthology drama series that was broadcast by ITV for just one series of seven episodes, each of which was directed and written by a different writer. It was based on and adapted some of the stories from the first two in a trilogy of anthology horror books that were […]
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June 3, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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By: stephenprince on Friday, May 1, 2026
Scorpion Tales – The Great Albert: Occult Summonings and Ambiguity in Suburbia
The Great Albert is an episode of the British anthology drama series Scorpion Tales (1978), which was broadcast by ITV for just one series of six episodes that had the loosely interconnected premise o...
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May 1, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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By: stephenprince on Friday, May 1, 2026
Ghost Signals Extract in Shindig!
Thanks to Andy Morten and Jon ‘Mojo’ Mills of Shindig! for including an extract from the Ghost Signals book in issue 175 of the magazine… much appreciated indeed! "For 12 years, A Year In The Country ...
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May 1, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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By: stephenprince on Saturday, April 4, 2026
Ghost Signals – Moonbuilding’s Book of the Week
The A Year In The Country book Ghost Signals is Book of the Week at independent and DIY electronic music zine Moonbuilding's Weekly Substack roundup:https://moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-102-3-apr...
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April 4, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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By: stephenprince on Wednesday, April 1, 2026
A Pattern of Roses: Timeslip Echoes and Cold War Controversies
A Pattern of Roses (1983) is set in the early 1980s and centres around a 17-year-old called Tim, played by Stuart MacKenzie, whose family is affluent due to his father being the owner of a successful ...
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April 2, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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By: stephenprince on Monday, March 23, 2026
Ghost Signals – Book of the Week at The Idler
Ghost Signals is the Book of the Week at The Idler's website this week (starting 23rd March 2026 to be precise)... It's in some fine'n'fascinating former "Book of the Week" company there, including to...
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March 24, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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By: stephenprince on Monday, March 16, 2026
Ghost Signals: The Shadowlands Of British Analogue Television 1968-1995 – paperback and ebook released
Paperback and ebook released. Paperback and ebook available at Lulu, Amazon UK, Amazon US, Amazon Germany and Amazon's other worldwide sites. Ebook also available at Kobo, Apple Books etc. The paperba...
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March 17, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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By: stephenprince on Thursday, February 26, 2026
Whistle and I’ll Come to You – Unanswered Questions From a Stark and Eerie Monochrome Beach
The supernatural short drama Whistle and I’ll Come to You (1968), which was written and directed by Jonathan Miller and aired as an episode of the BBC documentary series Omnibus (1967-2003), inspired ...
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February 26, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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By: stephenprince on Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Ghost Signals: The Shadowlands Of British Analogue Television 1968-1995
Ebook released today 18th February 2026. Available at Amazon UK, Amazon US, Amazon Germany and Amazon's other worldwide sites, Lulu, Kobo, Apple Books and other ebook stores. Exploring the Haunted Air...
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February 18, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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By: stephenprince on Saturday, February 14, 2026
From a Regal Folk Art 1970s Doctor Who monster via Ghost Box’s Popular Witchcraft and Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)’s Flowering of Folk Horror Clairvoyance to the Spectres and Afterlife of a Kate Bush Pop Video Curio: Spectral Saturday 6
A somewhat regal folk art-esque straw sculpture... or is it another 1970s Doctor Who monster that's escaped into the real world? "This is a straw ‘sculpture’ of the Anglo-Saxon King Alfred. Originally...
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February 15, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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By: stephenprince on Thursday, February 12, 2026
The Wall / Die Wand – Flashback Film 1
The Wall / Die Wand premiered today 12th February back in 2012... It's an intriguing slice of magic realist-esque and gently post apocalyptic pastoral science fiction and was one of the first things I...
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February 13, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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By: stephenprince on Saturday, February 7, 2026
From Folk Art Findings via Playful Echoes of the Past to a Folk Ritual Alien on a Suburban Street: Spectral Saturday 5
A fine slice of folk art from Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane's Folk Archive book which collects together examples of creative work from every day life in the UK, often things which may not be considered ...
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February 7, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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By: stephenprince on Saturday, January 31, 2026
From the Lost Ghosts of Folk Horror to Attire for Wandering Towards a Meeting with the Wicker Man: Spectral Saturday 4
Does anybody remember the Folk Horror Review blog which, as its name suggest, included writing about folk horror related culture and that was online in the early 2010s, back when all things folk horro...
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January 31, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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By: stephenprince on Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Sapphire & Steel Assignment 4: Episode 1 – Time Warp TV 7
Sapphire & Steel Assignment Four Part 1... first broadcast today 27th January back in 1981... The "faceless man"... emerging from a photograph near you soon?* Brrr (!) Actually as the episode aired in...
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January 28, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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By: stephenprince on Saturday, January 24, 2026
From Urbex Photography Meets Hansel and Gretel to a Phantasmagoric Film Within a Film: Spectral Saturday 3
If you're going to be an abandoned house that's been reclaimed by nature and is featured in a book of urbex photography then don't mess about but go the whole "Hansel and Gretel stumbled on the witch'...
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January 24, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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By: stephenprince on Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Unfair Exchanges – Time Warp TV 6
Unfair Exchanges... first broadcast today 20th January back in 1984... In Unfair Exchanges, Julie Walters plays the central character Mavis, a single mum who begins to get odd and possibly threatening...
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January 20, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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By: stephenprince on Saturday, January 17, 2026
Red Shift – Time Warp TV 4
Red Shift... first broadcast today 17th January back in 1978... Stepping back amongst the layering of time and place: "In Red Shift, three stories set in different time periods but with similar locale...
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January 17, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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By: stephenprince on Saturday, January 17, 2026
Gentle Spook to Parallel World Folk Rituals: Spectral Saturday 2
I've had a longstanding softspot for these corn husk dollies from Margaret Facklam and Patricia Phibbs' 1974 book Corn-Husk Crafts, which have an intriguing sort of gently spooky and unsettling "wyrd"...
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January 17, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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By: stephenprince on Saturday, January 17, 2026
The Lonely Man’s Lover – Time Warp TV 5
The Lonely Man's Lover... first broadcast today 17th January back in 1974... This is an odd drama in some ways, as although it's in large part fairly realist, it has an air of being folk horror withou...
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January 17, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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By: stephenprince on Saturday, January 10, 2026
Leap in the Dark – Time Warp TV 2
Leap in the the Dark... first broadcast today 9th January back in 1973... The 1970s occult revival via mainstream TV, or as the opening episode's listing in the Radio Times said: “Telepathy - precogni...
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January 11, 2026 at 5:16 PM