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A massive congratulations to @coffinboffin.bsky.social and @billbloodyhughes.bsky.social on being awarded the @igagoths.bsky.social Justin D. Edward’s prize for an edited collection!! So proud of you both for Polidori’s justice! 🧛

Goodnight from Marty Holden, going tharn in Oldfield Lane as a shadow is cast by something impossibly huge flying across the full moon. Goodnight from Ursula Till, setting out a midnight picnic for the invisible things that laugh in her garden. Goodnight from Hookland.

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With my other head on.

The psychic infrastructure of England includes a thousand murder barns. Tainted by blood spilled, shunned as sour soil. They haunt not just with their phantoms, but the knowing that history is not a cosy place, that the rural refuses to be idyllic. – #CJosiffe

A quick reminder, especially to those who kindly tend to post early, that #PhantomsFriday is no more but has been replaced by #SpookySunday. @beesincampanula.bsky.social @warksfolklore.bsky.social @finnfolklorist.bsky.social @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social @selmerguy.bsky.social Hope to see you then!

Folk who think Stay Belows never come close to towns, never follow the rivers up to old border bridges, are fools. They are a constant hunger. They like places that offer a feast. Where there is water, there is a way for Stay Belows. – Mike Fellows #VOH

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Embossed mourning card for Elizabeth Day, who died, 22 December, 1887, aged 58 years. Trumpeting angels and cherub caryatids frame a tombstone with the deceased's details and a puff for the undertaker, E. Lenard, 57, St. John Street Road, E.C.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Victorian miniature bier advertising the firm of M Goodwin & Son Newcastle. www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Mourning bonnet, 1876, elaborately trimmed with poufs of ribbon, striped ties, and with an unusual crenellated "sunburst" brim.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Elaborate, all-crape mourning bonnet [I use the most common 19th-c. spelling for the mourning fabric] with a large ruche of black crape to frame the face. Smaller, white ruches were more usual. Late 1860s or early 1870s. uritextilecollection.omeka.net/items/show/428

A difference between posh hotels and their more downmarket relations, is that posh hotels rarely talk about their ghosts. They do not advertise that a room comes with a 3am sheet-puller, the discarnate sobbing of a suicide, a disturbing shift of shadows in the mirror. – #CJosiffe

A throwback to my collaboration last year with @fieldnotesbrand.bsky.social who asked me to be their 2025 artist for their annual subscription boxes. I wrote more about this collaboration in my Substack titled, “A Dull Exorcism” if anyone is interested in reading.

Goodnight from Chris Pole, praying to the Look-In Sapphire Sapphire & Steel poster on his wall for them to come and deal with the phantoms phasing through his home. Goodnight from Maggie Wyles, walking Barrowcross Moor all silvered by a Nightjar Moon. Goodnight from Hookland.

Helloooooo! Is anyone out there?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVIM...

Church porch as excommunicate outreach. Church porch as corpse pause, corpse watch. Church porch as threshold, as site of loosing and binding. Half-consecrated, beyond the blessing of water, wine, salt and ash. Neither in nor out and therefore a place of magics. – #CLNolan

Pa'tedong (tedong: water buffalo) is one of the motifs carved on tongkonan houses in Tana Toraja, South Sulawesi. It represents prosperity and honor since buffalos indicate wealth. The numbers of horns displayed on these old tongkonan houses give you the clue to the family's standing. #WyrdWednesday

“What the Periwinkle Remember”, an excerpt from Marcia Douglas’ novel, features a Rolling Calf. It’s a duppy bull with chains that appears on the night of a full moon and chases travellers. A way to evade the creature: stick a knife in the ground at a crossroads. #WyrdWednesday #Jamaica #Folklore

Edinburgh event! Don't forget friends that we will be in Edinburgh on Saturday 17th April 2027 to run Hidden Charms 6. It promises to be another great day with 8 fascinating speakers. All welcome and tickets via the link... www.apotropaios.co.uk