The Crystal Gazer (or The Magic Crystal, 1904) by Gertrude Käsebier.
• “I had to resort to extreme violence”: how Hipgnosis revolutionised the album sleeve. Aubrey Powell, last surviving member of the design team, talks to Joe Muggs.
• Mixes of the week: Radio Belbury: Programme 14; The Conjurer’s Hexmas by SeraphicManta; Secret Mix 139 by A Closer Listen.
• Social progress, high-speed transport and electricity everywhere: Iwan Rhys Morus on how the Victorians invented the future.
• At Cinephilia & Beyond: “The most complete investigation into the origins and making of Citizen Kane.”
• Poor Souls’ Light: seven curious tales for the end of the year, and a dedication to Robert Aickman.
• Music and the Occult: Stuart Maconie and Rob Young spend an hour in the magick circle.
• Alejandro Jodorowsky and Iain Sinclair in conversation at the British Library, July 2014.
• From 1972: An unpublished Victor Moscoso interview by Patrick Rosenkranz.
• The Spooky Story Behind Hollywood’s Favourite Mansion.
• The Lost World of British Tape Recording Clubs.
• 2014 was a year of outrage.
• Pepper-Tree (1984) by Cocteau Twins | Otterley (1984) by Cocteau Twins | Aikea-Guinea (1985) by Cocteau Twins
I recently saw a film based on the dounle sucide/ murder at Greystone Mansion which played out the various different scenarios that are rumoured to be what happened all using dialogue taken only from films (and possibly only the scenes) that had been filmed at the location. Unfortunately I can’t fore the life of me remember what it was called.