Temporal Boundary Newsletter

16th November 2025

Hello and welcome to this week’s newsletter.

Psychick Albion

I am excited to share with you the cover reveal for my new book to be published by Repeater. This will be my attempt to reckon with the subject of Psychick Albion in ways that I hope might be a little unexpected. In any event, it will be a very personal take on the subject. It is scheduled to be published in July next year. In the meantime I recommend Repeater’s roster of interesting titles.

Capture Spiral

I anticipate that copies of Capture Spiral: An Escape From Memory should be with me sometime in January. It’s available to preorder now.

Jez Conolly’s “storied” interior odyssey charts his experiences of the prosaic and incongruous from childhood through puberty, fighting for an inner escape from the strangulating conformity of Cleethorpes. A mixtape of memories past, from two tortoises named Toby to the rotating clown heads of Wonderland. Capture Spiral is a user’s guide for a night gallery of childhood-origin neuroses, and a celebration of the “great escape” we call imagination.

Stephen Volk, author of Ghostwatch.

A brilliant, cynical, heart-warming autobiography, wrapped in nostalgia and hauntology, but with poison-tipped needles at its core. Jez Conolly’s tales of growing up in Cleethorpes, the maudlin sadness of Bagpuss, watching queasy Schools and Colleges programmes while off sick from school, and the sheer horror of “laughing bags” and Blackpool’s Doctor Who exhibition should be familiar to anyone from the Scarred For Life era.

Stephen Brotherstone, author of Scarred For Life.

House

A few days ago Charli XCX released this collaboration with John Cale of Velvet Underground fame. House is taken from the soundtrack of the much anticipated (not wholly positively) new film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, and marks an interesting change of pace for the mega-superstar. It’s a slow-burning, unsettling piece of music that somehow puts me in mind of Arvo Pärt until it crescendos into a Chelsea Wolfe-style goth outro.

If you liked Brat summer, you’re gonna love Anglo-Welsh Gothick winter.

That’s all for this week!