Funcanny
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Bibliothèque Gay
- Cathode Ray Tube
- Darryl Cunningham Investigates
- Felt Mistress
- Homodesiribus
- I Heart Pencils
- images volées des temps enfuis
- MITCH BLUNT
- MONSTER BRAINS
- Pastel Artist JF Le Saint
- Robin Bell : Writer
- Spaceships Over Deeside
- The Annotated Weekender
- THE BEARD COLLECTOR
- The Fear Of Living
- Today's Inspiration
- Watching Hammer: The Hammer Films Review
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Editor |
| Location | Mold, Flintshire, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I am the editor of a website devoted to ghosts and folklore in Britain, Uncanny UK. I am the former editor of 'Paranormal Magazine' and I have written five books, including 'Haunted Wales', which is to be republished by the History Press in 2011. |
| Interests | Folklore, the supernatural, The Strand Magazine, Pearson's Magazine, Wide World Magazine, Pall Mall Magazine, Victorian magazines, Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Who, Hammer Horror, Golden Age science fiction, Golden Age detective fiction, horror fiction, ghost stories, book illustration, gay history |
| Favorite Movies | The Haunting, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Plague of the Zombies, Horror Express, Night of the Demon, Them!, Thing From Another World, Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, Village of the Damned, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Belles of St Trinians, Murder She Said, Yellowbeard, Withnail and I, Pasolini's Arabian Nights, Carrington, Maurice, Hairspray, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Almost Famous, Superbad, Krampack, L.I.E., Stand By Me |
| Favorite Music | Julian Cope, Jethro Tull, The Stranglers, XTC, Super Furry Animals, Supergrass, Spiritualized, Black Sabbath, Hawkwind, Rush, The Clash, Undertones, Buzzcocks, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Wedding Present, Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets, Charlatans, The Doors, The Cure, Focus, Camel, Monochrome Set, Beethoven, Dvorak, Vivaldi, medieval |
| Favorite Books | Kenneth Grahame, A A Milne, J R R Tolkien, C S Lewis, Leon Garfield, Robert Nye, Flashman, George MacDonald Fraser, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, War of the Worlds, H G Wells, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, M R James, E F Benson, H P Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, A M Burrage, H R Wakefield, Arthur Machen, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Theodore Sturgeon, Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Sidney Sime, Virgil Finlay, Aubrey Beardsley, Joe Orton, John Lehmann, Michael Davidson, Strato |
Radio wire is often used to make bird nests. What station do they listen to?
They don't have time to listen to the radio. They're too busy tweeting.