The Sanctuary Gazette

In an interview with OndaRock, Ganesh Seshadri, known as Bid, singer of The Monochrome Set, describes a band centered on its lyrics. In his words, they are what allows the music to change slightly from one album to the next. He writes from what he has lived or imagined, without a moralizing tone and without ever touching on politics. He has been reading poetry since the age of 12 and names Ogden Nash, Edith Sitwell, Swift and Coleridge among his earliest influences.

Writing the songs for an album takes six months on average. Strange Boutique (1980) took three years, with some tracks such as Goodbye Joe and He's Frank dating from 1977. Love Zombies was written faster, as the band needed money. Keyboardist John Paul Moran unexpectedly played the Genesis-evoking part in Rest, unquiet spirit (Fabula Mendax, 2019), which the band ended up keeping.

The origins go back to the B-Sides, formed by Stuart Goddard, the future Adam Ant, with guitarist Lester Square. Andy Warren joined on bass, then Bid on rhythm guitar, with a drum machine in place of a drummer. When Goddard disappeared for a while, Lester Square, Andy Warren and Bid began working on his songs.

OndaRock points out that Bid's voice influenced Franz Ferdinand and Morrissey, and that the band delivered at least four landmark albums between Strange Boutique and The Lost Weekend (1985).

Dark Minimal Project, the Lille-based duo of Guillaume Vanderosieren and Ange Vespers, is changing labels. I Am Not In Love is its first single on Danse Macabre Records and announces a new album expected in 2027. The track is electropop.

The duo had released the album Pleasure Is A Sin on Infacted Recordings, which reached number one on the Deutsche Alternative Charts (DAC).

Danse Macabre Records has lost its manager and founder Bruno Kramm, who died suddenly. The label is continuing its activity and has launched a new website.

Adam Macqueen's Hobbe's Folly came out on October 8, 2026 from Swift Press, as a 240-page hardcover and as an ebook. It is an occult horror novel built across two eras, the author's first supernatural novel after the collection Haunted Tales.

In 1904, Henry Canning, a young employee of an antiquarian bookshop, is sent to the coast to catalog the library of a dead occultist, Matthew Hobbe. In the present day, Ben, a conservation officer at a seaside council, must prove that a small brick building with no door or window, in the middle of a field where 250 homes are planned, is not worth saving. The two narratives alternate.

On Ginger Nuts of Horror, Jim McLeod gives it five stars out of five, finding a slow, polite dread in the 1904 strand, a more brutal one in the contemporary strand, and warning that some scenes are deliberately uncomfortable.

Screambox released the trailer on October 15, 2026 for Your Dearest Darkest Friend, a horror talk show hosted by Ted Raimi. The series is set to premiere on October 30, Devil's Night.

In a mansion, Raimi welcomes actors, filmmakers and special effects artists over cocktails he mixes himself as bartender. Puppets inhabit the place, and the team of The Last Podcast on the Left lends them their voices and helps Raimi run the interviews.

The first season has six half-hour episodes, each with one or two guests. The show is produced by Tony Wash, Charlie Queen, Lauren Leshansky and Raimi, and filming wrapped in early September.