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Hey! That's my book they're talking about.

25/3/2021

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Just stumbled upon this video of Dr Samantha George of the University of Hertfordshire talking about werewolves, folk horror and my book on the Wold Newton Triangle at a conference* in 2019. (*Conferences – come on, you remember what they were.) 
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Politics Today: you can see where Boris got the 3 word Covid warning idea

24/3/2021

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Slide into the weekend with a new Weird Tales Radio Show

19/3/2021

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Weird Tales Radio Show we have the concluding part of our interview with historian Richard B. Spence on the life, times and mysterious disappearance of Sidney Reilly, the Ace of Spies – and Ace of Double Crossers. We've also a tale of ghostly Roundheads & Cavaliers who walk at this time of the year and we learn about the Candle in the Wind spell – yes there is an Elton John connection.

​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spence
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They are making Captcha really difficult

19/3/2021

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My latest Fabulous Creatures feature for Ancient Origins looks at the Golem (not Gollum)

18/3/2021

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Boot on the Other Foot - here's Charles Christian being interviewed

16/3/2021

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And now for something different, instead of me interviewing other people, here's me (complete with mad lockdown hair) being interviewed late one night recently by Tony Sweet of Truth Be Told Radio about werewolves, dragons, leylines and folklore – the usual in fact.
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Trust No One: the Secret World of Sidney Reilly, Ace of Spies

13/3/2021

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In this week's Weird Tales Radio Show we are joined again by American historian Richard B. Spence to talk about the incredible career of Sidney Reilly, an international master spy from the first quarter of the 20th century. Was he working for the Japanese, the Russians or the British? Or was he working for all three and double-crossing all of them? Did he nearly end the Russian revolution before it began? And how on earth did he get involved with the Voynich Manuscript? 

Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spence
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Follow me for more handy Covid guidance

10/3/2021

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Lockdown Life

7/3/2021

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It's Official!

6/3/2021

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So it's official – I'm a classic author of haunting, heart rending*, richly detailed non-fiction. (*Everyone dies, either at the hands of the Vikings or from the plague.)
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    Curated by Reuters correspondent and barrister turned writer, podcaster, editor, award-winning tech journalist and sometime werewolf hunter Charles Christian. The site also has links to Charles Christian's books and latest reviews plus his Weird Tales Radio Show.

    Charles was born a 'chime child' with a caul – according to legend a caul-shrouded chime-child can't drown at sea but can see and talk to ghosts and fairy folk without fear of coming to harm – superpowers he's so far never needed to employ.

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