David Allkins
@AllkinsDavid
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Former political correspondent and consultant for United Response. Interested in books, films, politics, media discussion and writing. Header art by Deven Rue
Cornwall, England
Joined July 2015
The anthology 'Cornwall Secret and Hidden' containing 28 short stories (including one of mine 'The Plastic Fairies') is now available for order in paperback and eBook 1)
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Submissions open! Are you a new writer? Do you write literary, historical, romance, sci-fi, mystery or poetry? @bloominonionlit is a new publisher accepting multiple submissions and encouraging new voices. Note: no AI-generated content or previously published work. Good luck!
CONTEST SUBS ARE OPEN! They will remain open until March 31, 11:59pm EST. Free to enter! Send in your story! Link: https://t.co/ZbdYPYYJqX
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Don't invite me to the function unless this is the vibe 🎨 Annie Stegg
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If ever you needed a front page that captured the crass yet also dangerous silliness of so much of our media, and the impact of a right wing nationalism that has done so much harm through history from which we don’t seem to learn …
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'Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack' ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes art: Gerald Hausman
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The sick Reform fake news machine is in full swing on Facebook. The latest fake story is Nigel Farage visiting a "poor girl cancer victim" as her "dying wish". It never happened. It is actually a boy who died from cancer in October last year by the name of Branson Blevin.
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#BOTD Freda Jackson. Brilliant in Brides of Dracula, she was also in Die Monster Die with Boris Karloff and a pair of Harryhausen films.
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In addition to Project Gutenberg, the following are also helpful, free resources, especially for reading classic novels: Standard Ebooks - use to download carefully and aesthetically formatted public-domain classics HathiTrust - use to find and download library-verified scans
More people should know about Project Gutenberg. It makes reading classics so accessible to everyone.
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Remembering English actor Ralph Richardson on his birthday (December 19, 1902 – October 10, 1983). A leading figure of the British stage, his film credits include Things to Come, The Fallen Idol, The Heiress, Long Day's Journey into Night, Doctor Zhivago, and Greystoke.
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Released December 7, 1945, House of Dracula is a American horror film directed by Erle C. Kenton for Universal Pictures. It stars Lon Chaney Jr., Martha O'Driscoll, John Carradine, Lionel Atwill, Onslow Stevens, Glenn Strange, Jane Adams, and Ludwig Stossel.
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Forget those slop public domain kids icons horror movie, the world would heal from a vampire Maid Marian/Robin Hood epic 😎
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A centenery celebration today of the late 🇬🇧 British comedian #ErnieWise OBE born #OnThisDay 100 years ago, seen here with comedy partner Eric Morecambe in the legendary 'Breakfast Sketch' from 1976 choreographed by Ernest Maxin 📺 BBC Television
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Werner Herzog: They created something worse than a man, worse than the dead, worse than a ghost. A man, who remembers dying. A man who cannot die, who cannot truly feel fear and so cannot truly live. Tragedy incarnate. Sisyphus made flesh.
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Pick: 'Night of the Demon' is on @TalkingPicsTV at 2145. It's in the trees…! https://t.co/pDWcvxEkJu
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#FolkloreSunday In Icelandic folklore, Grýla is a terrifying giantess that lives in a cave in the wilderness with her third husband (she ate her two first husbands), her 13 sons and the giant Yule Cat. Her sons, the Yule Lads, are mischievous pranksters who come down from the
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Cronenberg's The Brood (1979) has only gotten better over the years. What a fascinating concept...and the ending is mind-blowing.
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