October is here and, in the Northern Hemisphere, the autumn is upon us once more. Now is the season of falling leaves, of drizzling rains, of chilly mists, of bonfires, and, of course, of ghost…
A new article on the mysterious Liverpool tunnelling tycoon Joseph Williamson by John and Joshi Herrmann is now available to read at liverpoolpost.substack.com
I’m very pleased to be the first guest on the brand new Sense of Place podcast, which is definitely going to be a must listen for me from now on. The Sense of Place Podcast…
VG&M Comic Art Festival 20 October 2017 – 21 October 2017 Moore & Reppion will be at the event 10 am until 2 pm on Friday, and 10 am until 3 pm on Saturday and…
Craft Taproom is a new Liverpool bar owned and run by Merrick: The Sensational Elephant Man writer, Tom Ward, and Wart writer Chris Welsh. So, of course, they’re putting on a mini comic con. On…
The following is an excerpt from the South Liverpool section of 800 Years of Haunted Liverpool (History Press, 2008)
On Saturday the 2nd of April 2016 the Spirits of Place symposium was held at Calderstones Mansion House here in the heart of South Liverpool.
The whole thing came about when I saw that the venue was for hire and I started thinking about what kind of event it would be great to see there. Something the likes of which people who live in London, or Brighton say, might be quite used to seeing advertised but which there never seem to be very many of up here in the North. Something which fused historical and archaeological topics with things like folklore and myth and literature. Something which spoke of the stories – public, personal, true and otherwise – embedded and encoded in the landscape. Tentatively I made some enquiries, things spiralled quickly, and within a month I found myself at the helm of an actual event that had speakers and tickets for sale and was definitely an actual real thing.
And then, on Saturday, it happened. And it was successful. Very successful. And people have sent me lovely tweets, and emails, and even written lovely blogs about it (here and here).
Lots of people have asked me if there will be another one, and do you know what? I think there probably will be. If you’d like to stay informed about that please subscribe here.
Hare’s Eggs at Easter As the Easter weekend draws close, children and adults alike anticipating a chocolate egg binge, the internet is alive with articles on the “true” origins of Easter. Yet, could there be…
Spirits of Place is a one day, multidisciplinary symposium taking place on Saturday the 2nd of April, 2016 in Calderstones Mansion house, Calderstones Park, Liverpool. It’s a kind of cross between a conference and a…
Years and years ago, inspired in no small way by Brian J. Showers’ wonderful book The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories, I wrote a little thing which was micro published by the man’s very…
Just to remind you that from 1pm to 4pm, Wednesday October 29th Myself and John will be leading a workshop on making comics at the International Slavery Museum, as part of Black History Month.…
Seeing as it’s Halloween, Joe Gordon at Forbidden Planet very kindly gave us the opportunity to talk a bit about the supernatural goings on in Sherlock Holmes – The Liverpool Demon, the collected edition of…
Having seen the Liverpool Demon with his own eyes, Dr. Watson sets out to find the fiend’s lair. Fearing the worst, Holmes searches frantically for his companion in the vast, uncharted labyrinth beneath the city’s…
In shops and online tomorrow. At William Brown Museum, Holmes and Watson examine the clawed remains of curator Christopher Connor and find themselves on the trail of a mysterious missing object. Inspector Thornton has to…
Full article The Calderstones of Liverpool by John Reppion, from Darklore Volume Six now free to read online (click on the image to jump to the site)
September 18th, 2012, Mt. Laurel, NJ – Leah Moore and John Reppion return to Sherlock Holmes after their acclaimed Sherlock Holmes: The Trial of Sherlock Holmes series. Sherlock Holmes: The Liverpool Demon features dynamic pencils…
For the last couple of months I’ve been writing a (semi) regular posts over at Yo Liverpool about weird history, forteana, folklore and other fun stuff related to Liverpool and Merseyside. The forum is called…
