Fungus fans! DM us to be our guest to celebrate Beltane - next Wednesday May 1st at The Century Club - with mycology photographer Max Mudie, mushroom musician Brian d’Souza/Auntie Flo and incredible artist jananicole with A Curious Invitation Bureau of Lost Culture #beltane #mushroom #fungus

☠️Fellow Mortals! Climb aboard THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE and ride into gothic darkness - Wednesday at the wonderful The Cinema Museum as our friend (and genius) Stephen Horne @stephenstumm performs a live score to Victor Sjöström's silent 1921 horror masterpiece. Link in comments ☠️

💀 📖 Books of the Dead Gary Lachman our foremost writer on the esoteric returns to tell of the guide books on how we should prepare for death and what happens after - from ancient Egypt and medieval Tibet, up to modern times londonmonthofthedead.com/booksofthedead…

Can't wait for this

Dope Girls Gender, Race, Drugs! Link to listen in comments Marek Kohn came to #bureauoflostculture to tell how fears of womens' emancipation and an imagined threat of foreigners fuelled a moral panic in the 1920s, shaping the drug laws of the UK today Granta Books Soho Radio

💀Friends and Fellow Mortals The Countdown has started! Less than a month to go 👻What are you YOU looking forward to most? Nearly all events are sold / selling out (It’s not that the ones that haven’t aren’t as good, just they are in bigger venues :) #londonmonthofthedead

To follow on from the Dope Girls post below, the original Chinatown was not in the West End but in Limehouse in the Eastern docklands - a dubious and run down area which allowed the myths and fictions around opium dens and the 'yellow peril' of Chinese villains to flourish.

☠️A Day in the Life of Death: John Harris, scion of T Cribb tells the story of London's oldest undertakers. They are specialists in exhumation + repatriation, bury royals, host an extraordinary funerary collection, have their own horses + grow their own hay! Link in comments

More fascinating Dope Girls stuff: actress Billie Carleton and dancer Freda Kempton - both deceased from cocaine related deaths. Both became sanctified in death and were used to stir up a moral panic Also here: Reggie De Vielle and 'Brilliant' Chang, the alleged suppliers

SALON No116: London Labyrinths: Thursday 26th. Link in comments Join London obsessives Pete Smith + M@ as they tell how the medieval street plan, ancient rights of way + archaic parish boundaries still ghost the alleys, courts + lanes of the old city The Horse Hospital