Demons as aliens
Nigel Kneale, writer of the Quatermass serials/films, The Stone Tape, The Woman in Black and many more things besides, has passed away. Although I haven't been fortunate enough to experience much of his work directly (yet), it's still had an effect on me - a hugely disproportionate one, actually. Two of the best accounts I've yet read are, naturally enough, courtesy of k-punk.
I actually had a nasty shock while looking for those k-punk entries - I wasn't getting anything, and Google recommended I look for "Quatermass," because I was of course looking for "Quartermass" (because that's what the character/series is called, yes?). Upon clicking the link and finding what I was looking for, I hurriedly checked the BBC article page - sure enough, Quatermass. As just seconds ago I had unproblematically read the whole page as saying Quartermass, I had a very disturbing moment of vertigo upon discovering this.
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