Craig Dawson

@dossa.bsky.social

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Corkless heathen.

Ray Alan and Lord Charles (left)
Big stack of Marvel UK’s Secret Wars comic.
The slop.
Office Crabtree
Highlighted text from an online review: The author seems to suffer from some sort of pleonasm-diarrhoea…
A copy of the latest issue of Zarjaz opened to a story called Postcards From The Meg.
Crab: Yoooo! Mezzanine Beetle! What’s up my brotha! Beetle: This fucking guy. Here we go. Beetle: (sigh) Hey Prodigy Crab credit: jakearmy_ on instagram
Jerry Sadowitz as Ebeneezer Goode, from a song that absolutely had no other meaning.
Goose meme. “What’s the goose value, motherfucker?”
Two panel sequence from Judge Dredd: Guatemala. 1. Close up of a display dial on the body of a robot which is flashing red. Dialogue: “Please, colonel! Your output has gone into overload!” 2. The robot colonel looking over its shoulder at a smaller droid. Droid: “if I could adjust your ferocilator- “ Colonel: “Not now, Gomez, you snivelling armadillo! I’m emoting!”
Here’s Johnny!
The four CDs.
The two books.
Four CDs - Promise Me Delight, a 78 - 88 euro pop comp on Ace, Bridges Towards Open Spaces on Two Piers, Jon Savage’s S.F. Sike 66 - 72 and finally, the Junior Boys Own Retrospective 88 - 98.
A beautiful big lump of black dog wearing a “birthday girl” tiara. She fabbbbbbulous.
Cover to CONAN: The Frost Giant’s Daughter showing a fierce looking Conan menacing the reader with a bloodied sword.
Black and white photo of a sign stating “LELVEL 5”
Cover to the book.
A rocky landscape, with a castle in the distance.
Cover to HIGHEST HOUSE. Art by Shimizu
Mandate, as supervised by their manager, Kinky John Fowler.
Close up of some baking instructions. “Do not eat unbaked batter” is highlighted.
Three panels. First panel is a big cityscape showing Mega-City One in all its terrifying glory. Caption: The Big Meg. Home. Inset, and a mysterious man climbs out of a pipe. Caption: Why did I leave it so long? Last panel shows a judge menacing a cit. Caption: Oh yeah. I remember.
Excerpt from the Popbitch email. Not all celebrity interviews are a walk in the park. Some of them are downright weird. And often the downright weird ones involve the late David Gest. David once popped up on a celeb g(u)est spot for Cash in the Attic, flogging some old Michael Jackson memorabilia.
Banner advertising “Trainspotting: The Musical”.
Chaplin poster spotted in a toilet in Swanage, with him doing a fierce “is he though?”
Very odd mural showing a dog leaning out of a balcony window and *another dog giving it a bit of the old chat.
Packet to said rolls. With the tagline “enriched with butter and egg”
Kinky John Fowler
Stephen Toast.
The Gentleman With Thistledown Hair from Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
The weirdest coffee mug I’ve ever seen.
11 • Ringing the Changes • (1955) • novelette by Robert Aickman 36 • My Adventure in Norfolk • (1924) • short story by A.J. Alan 42 • The Leaden Ring • (1904) • short story by Sabine Baring-Gould [as by S. Baring-Gould] 53 • The Bus-Conductor • (1906) • short story by E.F. Benson 60 • The Middle Toe of the Right Foot • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce 67 • Little Boy Blue • (1964) • short story by Charles Birkin 79 • Keeping His Promise • (1906) • short story by Algernon Blackwood 91 • Kecksies • (1925) • short story by Marjorie Bowen 103 • Couching at the Door • (1933) • novelette by D.K. Broster 122 • Don't You Dare • (1968) • short story by John Burke 136 • The Hollow Man • (1933) • short story by Thomas Burke 147 • Browdean Farm • (1927) • short story by A.M. Burrage 158 • A Vindictive Woman • (1979) • short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes 167 • The Ghoul • (1916) • short story by Sir Hugh Clifford 178 • The Horror Under Penmire • (1974) • short story by Adrian Cole 196 • The Upper Berth • (1885) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford 212 • The Engelmayer Puppets • (1979) • short story by Mary Danby 224 • The Signal-Man • (1875) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Signalman 1866) 235 • The House of Balfother • (1963) • short story by William Croft Dickinson 245 • The Brown Hand • (1967) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle (variant of The Story of the Brown Hand 1899) [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle] 258 • The Phantom Coach • (1864) • short story by Amelia B. Edwards
Cover to 65 Great Tales Of The Supernatural, a St Michael hardback.
Cover to TALES FROM BEYOND SCIENCE by Rian Hughes et al.
A blue sign for “Dignity Hunters”, a funeral directors.
Four CDs - David Axelrod - Seriously Deep Colin Blunstone - One Year Beat This - The Hits Of Rhythm King Masters At Work - 10th Anniversary Collection
Ted Rogers and Dusty Bin.
Facebook post reading as follows: Happy Easter to everyone Not heard or seen anything from west Lancashire council saying the same but anyway enjoy 👍
My dog, with a cracking smile. Big ole unit she is too.
Swifty kicking a lion in the chops. As drawn by Hewlett, from Swifty’s Return.
AI bullshit advertising a darts and dominoes league. The darts players arm is…erm…different.
My cat, Jeffy, gazing with awe and wonder at the Monolith from “2001: A Space Odyssey”
A big black stupid dog’s face, with teefs on show.
The cover to DELICATES showing a ghost (the classic sheet style) in the lens of a camera.
Comic strip from 2000AD by reader Aiden Kenny. Shows Dredd with standard helmet, reading a script and, on seeing it’s a McCarthy, yoinks his hat up and out, and declares it “Zarjaz!”
Cover to a Charles Stepney comp on Ace Records.
Donald Trump described the dollar's fortunes as "great" on Tuesday. That triggered a further slump.
Thrust 2.
Poster for Slumdog Millionaire advertised as “the feel-good film of the decade”, because of the poverty and eye-gouging.
Dr Kilgore from an old 2000AD Future Shock
Robot from Emu’s Pink Windmill
Finn monstering a knobhead billionaire.
Kermit in a cloak.
Morrissey. Singing.
From the article - “Can't believe I'm having to write about a fucking aardvark again.”
Kris Kross, 80s hip hop act, famous for having their legs on backwards.