London lends itself to the spooky season as much as it does to the festive one. The city has its neo-gothic architecture and its adopted sons and daughters of the macabre imagination. One such adopted son is Dubliner, Bram Stoker, who incidentally just had one of his long-lost horror stories unearthed by a superfan. Stoker was a famed member of a local membership library creatively known as The London Library and since I'm on the market of a new writer's space, I received the official tour. The tour guide, Glen, revealed that it was here in these halls where Stoker wrote his masterpiece, Dracula, as evidenced by found written notes of primary sources and dates that line up with Stoker's seven-year membership at the institution. Now that's a type of history you can really sink your teeth into. 👻
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Musician-wise, London has a handful of representatives on October's playlist: outfits like Fleetwood Mac, Florence and The Machine, Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Rolling Stones. Song-wise I included obligatory hits like Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" and Nina Simone's "I Put a Spell on You". This month's playlist starts with a banger by comeback kid, Christopher Owens, of GIRLS fame, one of San Francisco's musical wunderkinds of the early 2010s. Owens had gone through hell and back so it's good to see him up on his feet.
As for other Shock-tober happenings in London, I may drag Mauricio to The Prince Charles Cinema tonight to see The Exorcist. May we have a side of holy water with our popcorn please? 🍿
To listen to the October playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0enx13gdM5iiOuu6N21K6h?si=6b5fdfdaa5b54887
To listen to the October playlist on Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/something-wicked-this-way-comes-tommys-top-twenty-five/pl.u-qxylEeXI27lx4X
