Wednesday 25th November 2009, I found myself back in my home town of Morley, trudging o’er hill and dale (alright, some muddy fields at the back of the housing estate) towards the woods that held within their shadows a heavy secret. It was a place I’d stumbled across earlier in the year, one that I’d [...]
Helter Skelter
Who would have thought that The ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’ Beatles could have ever rocked out like this? But look at what happened as a result, eh? Whilst no-one could’ve predicted the Manson Family, with the benefit of hindsight there was a certain dread inevitability to it all. Surely a warning to all contemporary [...]
Happy Halloween
Dead Kennedys – Halloween
Who Put Bella In The Wych Elm?
Some trees obviously – it’s very strange and marked – seem to prefer the human.”
Algernon Blackwood, The Man Whom The Trees Loved
April 18th 1943. Four teenage boys from the village of Lye, near Stourbridge are out on a bright and sunny day with their lurchers, poaching for rabbits and bird-nesting in nearby Hagley Wood. With [...]
Don’t Fear The Reaper
There is no heaven, there is no hell, except here on Earth.
Ah yes, the enigma that was Anton LaVey, allegedly a former roustabout, strip club musician, police photographer, and boyfriend of Marilyn Monroe, but undoubtedly the founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan, a key figure in the late 1960’s counter-occulture and all-round student of [...]
The Warlock
The night of All Hallow’s Eve draws closer, and at PsychSkull HQ, my own preparations are being made…
Probot – The Warlock
Moonchild
In 1917 Aleister Crowley wrote the novel Moonchild, which wasn’t published for another 12 years. It’s never been rated as a great contribution to the cannon of fantastique literature, but the ideas contained therein have been influential down the years. Lest we forget that rocket scientist and occultist Jack Parsons was once engaged with then-cohort L. Ron [...]
Graveyard Girl
As stated last week, True Blood is my favourite TV show of the moment, and one that I make the effort to tune in for every week, which is remarkable in itself as I usually despise most of what gets squeezed down the Glass Teat. I’ve also long-harboured a dislike for much of what constitutes [...]
Highway To Hell
AC/DC – Highway To Hell
The Ghost Has No Home
Harold Budd & The Cocteau Twins – The Ghost Has No Home
