David Haraldson

@lostdiarist

Professional Alter Ego. Manc. Psychogeography, deep maps, hauntology, zines, games, music, art, photography, sci-fi, & horror—& any gubbins that sheds new light on old places. (He/him) Was LostDiarist & MrBlipvert on the Bird Site. GPA, NJ, & VT

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David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Jun 16

I finally managed to get a complete boxed set of John Christopher’s “Prince in Waiting” trilogy: post-apocalyptic neo-Athuriana. I love the covers that Niel Bushnell shares here: nielbushnell.com/2012/04/22/s...

Young white man with padded armour and a submachine gun. Behind him are a young blonde woman and Stonehenge (through which we can see the rising or setting sun).

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Jun 13

Actual footage of me, this moment:

James Dean, in Rebel Without a Cause, with his head in his hands, shouting, “You’re tearing me apart!”

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Jun 5

Hello! MrBlipvert’s more horror-friendly alt, here. Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature is more antediluvian conspiracy oriented than horror, I think, but I have enjoyed it tremendously! www.modesofthoughtpodcast.com

A classical statue of a woman’s head with RED EYES. Words: “Harbridge University Classics Department. Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature. Tribeca Festival 2022, Official Selection.”

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· May 25

Remembering Christopher Fowler & how much I miss his blogging: www.christopherfowler.co.uk/blog

“Christopher Fowler” on two rows in white all caps against a wine-coloured background. In the bottlm of the word Fowler, London’s skyline is rendered as a silhouette.

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Feb 14

Who wore it best? #VtM, #Vampire, #Surrealism, #SheilaLegge, #Dali

Cover of Vampire the Masquerade supplement, Camarilla, in which a woman wears a hat/ mask red roses that covers the upper half of her face entirely.

1930s Surrealist artist, Sheila Legge, standing in Trafalgar Square, wearing a hat / mask of flowers that covers her head entirely. Pigeons stand on her outstretched arms.

Salvador Dali’s painting of A Female Figure with a Head of Flowers.

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Feb 12

What movie moment made you exclaim … “THIS IS CINEMA”? 📽️

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Feb 9

One more pic of Joan Crawford as Hamlet by Ruth Harriet Louise.

Joan Crawford as Hamlet the Dane, staring intently at the dagger she’s holding in her right hand—her left hand clasps her right hand.

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Feb 9

Every picture I could find of Joan Crawford as Hamlet, “The Dane.” From a 1929/ 1930 photoshoot by Ruth Harriet Louise …

Crawford as Hamlet in black with a white frilly blouse and short hair. Seated, in her chin in her right hand, left hand in hip, staring moodily at the viewer.

Crawford as Hamlet (same costume), standing with feet apart, arms spread pointing to floor, looking up.

Crawford as Hamlet, standing as if discovered in subterfuge—back braced by the wall, right hand against the same wall, left arm raised to cover lower half of face. Looking at viewer.

Crawford as Hamlet sitting in an X-chair (scissors chair, Dante chair or Savonarola chair) (I think), right arm on rest, left hand on hip. Staring moodily to her forward right.

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Jan 2

Any folks recognise this artist?

Alt text originally by Rachel Deering: Book illustration, don’t know who the artist is. Three hares in snowy landscape with trees in background and crescent moon.

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Dec 23

After reading Ice, I’m wondering which work by Anna Kavan to read next. This summary by @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social looks useful … but do any Kavan fans have recs for someone who grooves on SF, horror, psychogeography? sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kavan_... ( @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social ?)

1950s black & white photo portrait of Anna Kavan. A young white woman with short-ish / bobbed, possibly blonde (?) hair, wearing a jumper and necklace. Shoulders slumped but she’s leaning forward and smiling broadly. The panels of a wooden door are visible behind her.

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Dec 11

Was expecting the Beiderbecke Affair. 😉

Jill (Barbara Flynn) and Trevor (James Bolam) from the Beiderbecke Affair, in the front of Trevor’s tiny, tiny van. Trevor looks ahead; Jill looks at Trevor.

Jill (Barbara Flynn) and Trevor (James Bolam) from the Beiderbecke Affair, in the front of Trevor’s tiny, tiny van. Both are looking ahead

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Dec 9

I dunno if they do commissions but this cat’s Hounds of Love gothic romance homage caught my eye. Close enough in style? www.etsy.com/listing/9032...

Todd Alcott Graphics homage to Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love, done in the style of a large print gothic romance pulp book cover. KB in a flowing white dress stands in front of a bare tree with two large dogs on a misty moor. In the background, there’s a spooky castle and a full moon.

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Dec 8

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars or Trek), LOTR or Marvel.

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Oct 3

Nostalgically recollecting all those 1990s TV shows that British listings mags tried to convince is were the next Twin Peaks …

Poster for Oliver Stone’s & Bruce Wagner’s Wild Palms …

Poster for Northern Exposure, showing a moose crossing a snowy street—the show’s two leading stars’s smiling faces loom overhead.

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Jul 30

Have you found the Riddley Walker annotations site? errorbar.net/rw/

Russell Hoban’s original map of “Inland”—a published map the southeast of England overwritten with Hoban’s addition of new place names & coastlines.

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Jun 23

I love this picture I found on a table top games publisher's website (BTRC) of two geodesic domes next to a folly in the shape of round tower with a pointed conical roof. www.btrc.net

From left to right: small mouldering white geodesic dome; larger very mouldering geodesic dome (taking on a greenish hue!), and rising above both, a stone round tower with a pointed conical roof! In the background are leafless woods and, further back still, a body of water.

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· May 5

Halp! @talkingsilents.bsky.social, @moviessilently.bsky.social, & @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social : Can any of you come to my rescue & identify these stills? They're being hawked on various stock image licensing sites but I assume they're yoinked from a movie!

Black and white photograph of a courtroom. All the people there are white. We see a woman dressed in 1920s clothes (and hat), in the witness stand, raising her to be sworn in. The judge, court clerk, and attorney are also there.

Later in the same same. The woman is looking to her right, perhaps at the clerk or someone out of shot.

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Apr 11

Grist for the domestic horror mill, via @horrormakesushappy.bsky.social :

Tweet from Mx Leah Velleman ( @ LeahVelleman ) with 12/6/20 date stamp:

‘There’s a theory that early Europeans started saying “brown one” or “honey-eater” instead of “bear” to avoid summoning them, and similarly my friend has started calling Alexa “the faceless woman” because saying her name awakens her from her slumber.’

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Mar 11

Also check out Clarence Redd’s weird 1920s SF Mythras-based TTRPG, Odd Soot. There are some excellent maps of 1920s Doggerland & biology text book style drawings of strange aliens. www.frostbytebooks.com/odd-soot

Picture of an mollusc-like alien. Text reads: “Odd Soot. Science fiction mystery in the 1929s. Humanity has reached the stars. An alien plague without a cure threatens civilization. Only a few tragic heroes can save mankind.”

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Feb 10

I don’t know why the BBC would put a horror serial on in the middle of an evening family comedy sketch show. But they did and I still carry the psychological trauma of The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town to this day.

The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town, wearing Victorian evening clothes and cloak, raiding his arms, his face in a hideous grimace. “Comedy” courtesy of the Two Ronnies. (😉)

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Feb 4

Just finished reading Susan Cooper’s “Over Sea, Under Stone.” Fortunately, my copy is the lovely 1982 Puffin edition & not one of the more recent ones.

1965 book cover. Photo collage of a medieval cup and older white man in dark clothes (centre), flying owl (in the lower left), & a bird of prey’s head (top, looming menacingly) — all superimposed over Cornish cliffs. The image is made of of reds, greys, and white.

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Jan 29

NecroNeil's etsy shop -- where one could purchase issues of the brilliant cut & paste #horror movie review #fanzine, #Necronomicon -- has gone dark (rather than just being on a break). Does anyone out there know Neil's status & if he plans to return to #zines?

White man with shaved head moustache and goatee, wearing a black tee-shirt, and holding up a copy of Necronomicon Issue 38, July 2020. I think that this is NecroNeil.

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Jan 12

If you see this post something orange.

The Curious Orange from "This Morning with Richard Not Judy." A giant orange with a man's face and a "Produce of South Africa" sticker, on a counter, next to a variety of other fruit. (IRL: an actor wearing an orange headpiece/ mask, with his body under the counter. Obviously.)

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Dec 28

NecroNeil/ Necro Neil, author & editor of the cut and paste horror film review zine, Necronomicon seems to have closed his Etsy store. Anyone have links to an announcement? Is he okay? zinewiki.com/wiki/Necrono...

Cover of Necronomicon, issue one. Bryce Campbell is being throttled by a disembodied / severed hand.

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Dec 27

Fewer of you may be aware of Clarence Redd's Mythras-based "Odd Soot," set in a weird 1920s in which #Doggerland never sank: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/2...

Cover of Odd Soot: Science Fiction Myster in the 1920s. Shows a page from a scientific book with an anatomical illustration of an alien with tentacular appendages, an octopus like head, but a distinct trunk-like torso/ thoracic area and two stumpy feet. There are swing annotations, the artist’s signature (Clarence Redd), and a plate number (pl. 64). There are several other leaves of paper behind this, making a small stack.

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Dec 14

If you’re cold, they’re cold—let them in.

Painting of Mari Lwyd with the caption “If you are cold they are cold. Let the Mari Lwyd in.”

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Dec 14

#ChristmasEerie. The Dark Is Rising. Box of Delights. The BBC’s Ghost Stories for Christmas. Any other recs? (A question for #FolkHorror, #Horror, #Fantasy fans.)

Cover of 1980s edition of Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising. Uncanny illustration of a horned horseback rider against a winter scene.

Radio Times cover. 1930s-era schoolboy opens a small finely crafted box. His face is illuminated by a light from within the box.

Cover of the BFI’s Ghost Stories for Christmas Definitive Collection DVD set. A hooded skull looks at the viewer.

BFI’s expanded six-disc collection of Ghost Stories for Christmas. An older man with a ghostly pale complexion and whose eyelids appear to be fused closed faces the viewer with his mouth open in horror.

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Dec 8

Gearing up for my annual re-read of one of my favourite novels, Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker. I hope to make a psychogeographic pilgrimage of my own in the not-too-distant future: #ScienceFiction #NowReading #psychogeography #PostApocalypse errorbar.net/rw/

A multi-layered map of the southeast of England. There is an original published, modern map, much of which has been shaded blue to represent rising sea levels. On top is a seemingly crudely drawn new coastline and a number of annotations: corrupted place names such as "Do It Over" for "Dover."

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Nov 27

Shout out for Chas's biography by Carolyn Dillian & Charles Bello! www.penn.museum/research/pub... ( #Archaeology, #natureWriting, also file under #DifficultMen )

Cover of Dillian & Bello's Misadventures in Archaeology: the Life and Career of Charles Conrad Abbott. Picture shows Abbott in a 19th century museum setting, surrounded by glass cases that are full of artefacts.

David Haraldson@lostdiarist· Nov 25

I’ve been fascinated by those odd closed, hidden, & half forgotten underground railway/ subway stations since my first viewing of Neverwhere on the Beeb. I’m glad that Franklin Square is reopening. But a selfish part of me will miss the thrill of seeing it on PATCO on the way into Philly. 🔔