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General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· 1d

General Witchfinders Live in London Join us at ActOne Cinema, Acton on Friday 30th October for Hammer’s Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde followed by a live stage recording of the General Witchfinders Podcast A night of film history, behind-the-scenes trivia, and obscure pop culture tinyurl.com/DRJeky11

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· 3d

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General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· 8d

Reading our Book Club picks from afar? Order via these links – indie bookshops receive a commission, making it an alternative to Amazon. Starve Acre tinyurl.com/GW-BC-001 Benighted tinyurl.com/GW-BC-002 The Apparition Phase tinyurl.com/GW-BC-003 The House on the Strand tinyurl.com/GW-BC-0004

Book Club of weird & unsetting british fiction

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· 10d

Can we get to 2,000 followers on instagram? With your help we can! www.instagram.com/generalwitch1/

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· 11d

From now until midnight Sunday (BST), all T-shirts purchased from our online shop gets free UK shipping automatically applied at checkout, with no code required. Please support the show: four T-shirts sold a month pays for our website. generalwitchfinders.com/collection/a...

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· 17d

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General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· 22d

Penda’s Fen T-shirts: generalwitchfinders.com/collection/p... These go with our recent podcast discussion on the film: tinyurl.com/PendasFen Please support us if you can – selling four shirts a month pays for our website. #indieproducers

A plain white crewneck T-shirt printed with the Greek word "ΣΩΦΡΟΣΥΝΗ" across the chest in a black, serif typeface.

A red crewneck T-shirt featuring bold white text in a road sign style that reads "NO ROAD TO PINVIN GO VIA" above a left-pointing arrow.

Film still from Penda’s Fen showing an elderly headmaster in a dark gown and tie, standing behind a wooden pulpit holding an open red book. Organ pipes are visible in the background, and the Greek word "ΣΩΦΡΟΣΥΝΗ" is carved into the front of the lectern.

Film still from Penda’s Fen featuring a close-up of an unsettling, grey gargoyle mask with horns, sharp facial contours, and wide staring eyes, bathed in dim, cool light.

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· 23d

Our second Book Club pick is J.B. Priestley’s 1927 classic Benighted ⛈️ Join Ross in person at the King’s Arms in Dorchester on 9 Sept, or listen from home via our bi-monthly podcast feed. Get reading ahead of the autumn meetup! Link below for details: tinyurl.com/WeirdUnsettl...

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· 24d

Just spotted these in HMV. You could WIN both – PLUS two other region-free Blu-rays from Hammer Films. We are giving away a bundle of four restored British horror classics: The Snake Woman, Dr. Blood’s Coffin, Cry of the Banshee, and Crucible of Horror. Enter here: tinyurl.com/HamPrize Pls share

A close-up photo of a hand holding The Snake Woman Blu-ray in front of shelves stocked with movies inside an HMV store. The green cover artwork shows a close-up of a woman's eyes with a pale snake winding down the centre.

A close-up photo of a hand holding the Cry of the Banshee Blu-ray against a backdrop of film shelves at HMV. The illustrated cover art features a vivid, painted portrait of Vincent Price looking terrified, surrounded by atmospheric folk horror characters.

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· 27d

Have you missed today’s email newsletter? Read it here: mailchi.mp/6978dce36725... If you sign up for it on this link, you will be entered into a draw to win 4 Hammer Presents Blu-rays: mailchi.mp/61dcaef82a2c...

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· 27d

NEW EPISODE 🔔 ⛪️🤴 David Rudkin’s 1974 masterpiece Penda’s Fen, dir by Alan Clarke, is one of the most brilliant, infamous, and unsettling pieces of British TV. We loved dissecting it for our new podcast episode Listen here: tinyurl.com/PendasFen Please share & review! #SummerOfStrange

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· 29d

Win a ‘Hammer Presents’ British horror bundle from @hammerfilms.bsky.social One winner gets 4 Blu-rays sets The Snake Woman Dr. Blood’s Coffin Cry of the Banshee Crucible of Horror. To enter, fill in the form and join our newsletter via the link. Closes Friday 31 July. tinyurl.com/HamPrize

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· Jul 10

We’ve got flyers for our screening and live podcast of Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde at ActOne Cinema, Acton on 30 October. Do you live nearby and could put some where horror fans hang out? I can post them out to you with free stickers and badges. Tickets here: tinyurl.com/DRJeky11

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· Jul 10

Coming soon as part of #SummerOfStrange ... Follow or subscribe to our feed so you don’t miss it. Search for General Witchfinder on your podcast app or on YouTube (It's just our voices, for your sake), or go here: tinyurl.com/GWcast

A square screenshot of the opening title card from the film Penda's Fen. The words "PENDA'S FEN" are written in a bold, white, sans-serif font across the centre. The background shows a grainy, overcast view of the British countryside, with fields, distant houses, and rolling hills under a grey sky, seen through a wire fence in the foreground.

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· Jul 8

#SummerOfSpinOffs Out now The first episode of the General Witchfinders Book Club podcast! Host @revoltingross.bsky.social and author @raynewman.bsky.social discuss Andrew Michael Hurley’s folk horror novel, Starve Acre Run in partnership with Dorchester’s Teasel & Skylark tinyurl.com/GW-BC-01

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· Jul 8

Check out the latest issue of @forteantimes.bsky.social

The front cover of Fortean Times magazine, issue 473, August 2026, laid on a wooden floor. The main headline reads "The Tatzelwurm Identity: In search of the shape-shifting cryptid of the Alps." The central illustration depicts a large, mythical, dragon-like creature with a cat's head attacking a pig, alongside other strange, historic-style illustrations of serpents and a startled man. Smaller headlines include "Popes vs Pikachu", "That Old Black Magic", and "How to Get Rich Quick!".

An open magazine lying flat on a wooden surface, showing a full-page advertisement for the General Witchfinders podcast and folk horror zine on the right page. The ad features a large podcast review quote, an image of a smartphone displaying the podcast artwork, and a smaller cover image of the zine featuring an illustrated horned creature amidst pink flora. Prominent red and black text reads "GET OUR FOLK HORROR 'ZINE!" and details an upcoming cinema screening of Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde at ActOne Cinema. The left page shows editorial text from Fortean Times.

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· Jul 4

Help me feel less of wally for ordering so many

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· Jul 4

Don’t forget our badges ko-fi.com/s/584b364ced

Product photo showing the reverse side of the badge packaging with text descriptions for each design. Text overlays read ‘NEW BADGES’ and ‘ON SALE NOW’. The purple backing card links the designs to classic horror films – including Psychomania, Frankenstein Created Woman, and Taste the Blood of Dracula – and lists corresponding podcast episode numbers.

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· Jul 4

Free UK shipping on our T-shirts this weekend generalwitchfinders.com/collection/a...

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· Jul 2

Happy #WorldUFOday. Which close encounter are you celebrating with? Choose your side: the Martian terrors of Quatermass and the Pit or the low-budget alien weirdness of Xtro. Xtrol: tinyurl.com/JonVsXtro Quatermass: tinyurl.com/Qmasspit There is a right answer. Let us know yours in the replies.

A promotional graphic with a lavender background titled "HAPPY WORLD UFO DAY" in large, bold white capital letters. The center features two side-by-side black and white film stills. On the left, two men look down intently at a large, horned Martian skull prop from Quatermass and the Pit, with the film's title overlayed in stylized white and green text. On the right, a grotesque, scaly alien creature emerges from the woods in a still from Xtro, with the film's title overlayed in bold red text. Below the images, white capital letters read: "WHICH GENERAL WITCHFINDER CLOSE ENCOUNTER WILL YOU CELEBRATE WITH".

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· Jul 2

Summer is the season of the spin-off at General Witchfinders. We have a few eps beyond our usual format, starting with James’s look at 70s parapsychology Why did the 70s see a rise in ESP and telekinesis? Find out in ‘Department X; Mysterious Powers & Strange Forces’ tinyurl.com/MYSpower Pls share

A collage of pages from the 1970s book 'Usborne Pocketbooks: Mysterious Powers & Strange Forces', showing the retro illustrated cover with a crystal ball predicting a plane crash, surrounded by inner pages about tarot, auras, and parapsychology.

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· Jun 29

A post from one of our podcast hosts, @jonpountney1.bsky.social Our very recent holiday in Suffolk served for me to take part in a pilgrimage to Aldeburgh, which many spook fans will know of as the setting for M.R James’s classic ‘A Warning to the Curious’ (albeit renamed as Seaburgh). 🧵1/5

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· Jun 28

We are bringing General Witchfinders to London on Halloween-eve – Fri 30th Oct Join us at ActOne Cinema for a big-screen outing of Hammer’s Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde, followed by a live podcast recording Tickets are £14 and going fast – grab your seat to avoid disappointment tinyurl.com/DRJeky11

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· Jun 28

...Earn extra entries: 2nd entry – Follow us on Instagram and add your handle to the form: www.instagram.com/generalwitch1/ 3rd entry – Tag a friend in the comments on this Instagram post: www.instagram.com/p/DaGgYuEoxrn/ The draw takes place on Friday 31 July. Good luck! 🧵2/2

A colour promotional still from a vintage film. On the left, a startled woman in a light-coloured, short-sleeved dress stands pressed against a dark, rocky wall, looking up in fear. To her right, a decaying zombie figure with green, mossy skin and a tattered suit reaches its hands toward the wall. A 3D product shot of the "Doctor Blood’s Coffin" Blu-ray case sits on the right side of the image. The cover art features a green-faced zombie with raised hands above an illustration of a man and a terrified woman near a stone building.

A close-up film still of an older man with sharp features and grey-streaked hair, dressed in a black suit, white shirt, and patterned tie. He has a stern, intensely focused expression and looks slightly downward. The background is a deep red patterned wallpaper. On the right, a 3D product shot of the "Crucible of Horror" Blu-ray case is displayed. The cover art features an illustration of the same man's face with blanked-out white eyes, set within the silhouette of a coffin lid behind metal bars, flanked by two women's profiles.

A film still set inside a dark cave or stone chamber with strong blue lighting. A woman with wild, voluminous hair wearing a long, flowing white gown stands with her arms raised high. In the foreground, bright orange flames rise up, partially obscuring a figure at the bottom left. On the left side, a 3D product shot of the "Cry of the Banshee" Blu-ray case is visible. The cover art features a colorful, illustrated collage of characters, dominated by a large portrait of Vincent Price with an intense expression.

A black-and-white promotional image featuring a close-up of a woman's face, partially obscured by dark, leafy foliage in the foreground. She has a serious expression and classic winged eyeliner. In the upper left corner, a 3D product shot of "The Snake Woman" Blu-ray case is overlaid. The case art is a vivid green with stylized illustrations of a woman’s eyes and a white, ghostly snake shape rising between them.

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· Jun 28

We have teamed up with Hammer Films to give away a bundle of Hammer Presents British horror classics on region-free Blu-ray Win all 4 restored films: The Snake Woman, Dr. Blood’s Coffin, Cry of the Banshee, and Crucible of Horror Enter here tinyurl.com/HamPrize and sign up to our newsletter 🧵1/2

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· Jun 26

WE LOVE HAMMER and have covered a lot of their films on the podcast How many of these can you name? How many have you seen? Listen to our Hammer episodes here: tinyurl.com/GWHammer Come see Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde at the cinema, plus a live podcast London 30 Oct Tickets: tinyurl.com/DRJeky11

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· Jun 24

Whilst you are in a Shout kind of mindset, check out our podcast on this film: bit.ly/Shoutgw. We also have an interview in the current ’zine with @btlabel.bsky.social about their recent release of the soundtrack – get the ‘zine here: tinyurl.com/GWZineShop.

Spread of our article about the shout soundtrack

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· Jun 19

Here is a quick preview of our new Book Club podcast jingle SOUND ON Our first book is Andrew Michael Hurley’s Starve Acre. Buy it from your local indie bookshop, read along, and email your thoughts to generalwitchfinders@gmail.com First episode drops in July tinyurl.com/WeirdUnsettl...

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· Jun 19

Thinking of taking our zines on the road. Looking for event recommendations within an hour or so of Dorchester – ideally low table fees, decent footfall, and a crowd that’ll like our stuff. Where should we head? Don’t forget we’re open for submissions for issue 5: tinyurl.com/zine5ub

General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine@generalwitch· Jun 18

Let’s appreciate how great Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb looks. Credit to cinematographer Arthur Grant, who shot Taste the Blood of Dracula and Quatermass and the Pit Hammer's Blu-ray is fantastic – highly recommended Search for General Witchfinders in your podcast app www.generalwitchfinders.com