“Come,” said the Wind to the Leaves one day. "Come over the meadow and we will play. Put on your dresses of red and gold. For summer is gone and the days grow cold." 'An Autumn greeting' by George Cooper #AutumnEquinox🌬️🍂 #BookchatWeekly 🎨 Franklin Booth, 1911

An OOwlish glare ....

"I saw how the slimy blackness grew, and the stones fell away round the hole, and there rolled in what seemed a wave, gulfing the men that lay dead or living, struck by fear, till it heaved and lipped over the step like a living tide of slime." - Adrian Ross, 'The Hole Of The Pit' #BookChatWeekly

In Cumbrian dialects, 'merl' is blackbird In Basque lore, 'white merle' is a faerie-bird whose singing can restore sight to the blind

The Woodwoses and Wildmen of #Suffolk - a Dunwich Museum talk - Saturday 18th October 2025 6:30pm online via Zoom. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-woodwo... @DiscoverDunwich.bsky.social

Just the right amount of Wicker Man-ishness for me.

A fine piece of new-to-me vintage sea serpent art, from the Italian magazine Giornale Illustrato del Viaggi, 13th September 1914 🌊 🐍

This short film is a fave of mine, an excellent mix of dreamy sci-fi and kitchen sink realism, sounds like a great project You can watch The Watchers for free on the BFI player here: player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...

Don't care what it is, I'm buying this record immediately.

Went to see the wonderful Dauntsey Doom painting. Hell looks fantastically delightful. And a skull friend!

One of my most wanted long-lost Folk Horror TV productions is finally unearthed! Can't wait to finally see this.

ANIMAL GHOSTS (1980): Spooky short story anthology centred around, well... animal ghosts. The cover is particularly striking - those animals are freaking out, man!

October 1st is coming soon! Check out the details on our call for proposals and submission guidelines.

I painted this poster back in 2018: What if 'Lonely Water' was an Amicus production? Available from Redbubble, and there's 25% off! www.redbubble.com/i/art-print/Lonely-Water-Film-Poster-by-ste1bro/36959117.1G4ZT

LONELY WATER (1973): Legendary child-frightener, and one of the most influential and effective PIFs ever made. Donald Pleasence's voice helped lower the number of child deaths by drowning and opened the door to the scary, deadly PIFs of the 70s & 80s. A folk horror film condensed into 90 seconds.

Yesterday's 'featured book' 📖 I shared this one fairly recently when I bought it a couple of years ago but recently l have begun taking new photos of my favorite books in outdoor lighting, which I've found tends to better showcase the bindings on these more ornate old books.

CHARITY AUCTION UPDATE: A wonderful postcard from @sketchbuck.bsky.social arrived yesterday! Have just uploaded, so please go see! skullsandsheetsauction.wordpress.com

Thank you! 13 left!!

Updates to the #paranormal database include cryptids, road #ghosts, and a handful of nineteenth century spooks… www.paranormaldatabase.com/recent/

This thread escalates fast

Absolutely loved Meg & Mog. & if ppl haven’t checked out Jan Pienkowski’s illustrations of Joan Akin’s books, then please do 😀

My final post for another excellent #PhantomsFriday (thank you everyone!) and re @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social: a spectral knight in armour gate-crashes someone's dinner party in an illustration for a story by N K Blisset (Harmondsworth's Magazine, 1898.). #ghost #ghosts #medieval #Victorian

It’s on the BBC iplayer thing. Well worth a watch www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

I absolutely love this. So much. So much drawing inspiration!

A meat-devouring beast upon the mountain. Tulou are just one of several legendary beasts described to live upon one of the legendary mountains of Chinese myth and legend.

More talks going up for the Romancing the Gothic programme next year. Get your free talks here! Monstrous Feminine to Trans Vampires: Horror as Counter-Archive with Ishan Tripathi January 17th 10am and 4pm GMT 10 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman... 4 - buytickets.at/romancingthe...

"Something swept with a terrific, rushing noise about the little camp and seemed to surround it entirely in a single moment of time. Defago turned to the woods behind, and with the same stumbling motion that had brought him - was gone." - Algernon Blackwood, 'The Wendigo' #Blackwood #fantasy

The longer you spend in the county, the easier it is to recognise a Wood Sprite's home tree. Even without offerings, there's a palpable sense of being watched, an atmosphere of potential ambush. What some Hooklanders call: 'an air of ancient unease'. – #MattAdams

“The swallows can be distinguished from the martins by their reddish-chestnut throats and foreheads, their beautiful steel-blue backs and wings, and their long, forked tails” What to Look for in Autumn, 1960 Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist : CF Tunnicliffe

It's a race to the end! Thanks for recent reposts, quote posts and reposts of quote posts! And for signatures! The petition to protect hares from shooting in the breeding season is up to 42k, and has 5 weeks left. Let's get to 50k! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... #UKwildlife #mammals

Tonight's screening of RITUAL OFFERINGS: A NIGHT OF SHORT FOLK HORROR FILMS at Reading Biscuit Factory is SOLD OUT – but there are still some tickets available for Thursday's screening: www.readingbiscuitfactory.co.uk/movie/ritual... 🌙🌾🪨

"With her head tucked underneath her arm she walks the bloody Tower" A song first recorded by Stanley Holloway in 1934 and much covered since, about the all-time classic ghost of Anne Boleyn, but do people still see headless ghosts these days? #PhantomsFriday youtu.be/986Ar8iff00

📚 Now available! 📚 THE TIGER SKIN AND OTHER TALES OF THE UNEASY, published by @blpublishing.bsky.social I’ve wanted to bring Violet Hunt’s supernatural fiction back for a while now, so am happy to see these stories reach a wide audience again. Please share!

This #LochNessMonster photo is doing the rounds on social media, accompanied by a fake story about it being real, and new, and attached to a specific eyewitness event. I see people on Facebook groups thinking that the photo is the 'real deal', sigh. However... 1/n

The last sheaf folklore.Farmers believed that as the reapers worked their way through the fields, the harvest spirit would hide in the ever-shrinking crop. This spirit, often embodied as a hare, would make its last stand in the final sheaf. Art my own. #FolkyFriday #Folklore #Art #MHHSBD #ArtYear

I'll be speaking about Upon A White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain & Ireland @stoneclub.bsky.social in London on Oct 20. I'm really looking forward to this, especially as Stone Club founders Lally MacBeth & Matthew Shaw appear in the book. Please come if you can. stoneclub.rocks/events/stone...

𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗕𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗬 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗥 𝘈 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘺 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳, 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘩𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴. PV: Fri 10 Oct, 7:30pm Exhibition: 11 Oct–15 Nov 2025 Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield 🔗 andycropper.art/cupola2025 #Kenopsia #SpiritOfPlace #BusStopGothic #UrbanRealism

Just a few days until Tarot of the Woodland Wardens is out in the world! As a preorder special, we’re giving away prints of the Strength card illustration when the new deck is preordered through participating indie bookstores.

Birch Barkscape... a miniature world of mosses, lichens, and fungi contained within the fissures of Silver Birch bark. Or.... a forest of trees growing alongside parched canyons and dried-up riverbeds? Could be either! #SilverBirch #birch #BirchBark #trees #moss #nature

We need more short horror stories about dinosaur ghosts

"Autumn arrived like a burning ghost ship on the landscape's tide to set the land alight. The fire of the trees' turning spread far across the flanks and the ravens took flight to the highest climes as leaves fell like flung bodies."

"You wasn't made like watch dogs and house cats and cows. You was made a fox, and you be a fox, and its queer-like to me, Foxy, as folk canna see that. They expect you to be what you wanna made to be. You'm made to be a fox; & when you'm busy being a fox they say you'm a sinner!"🦊 #BookologyThursday

We’re delighted to have @odavies9.bsky.social & @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social launching their new book 'Folklore' at @waterstones.bsky.social #Leeds, in conversation with fellow author Stu Hennigan. 25th September Get your tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/folkl... #booksky

“And Summer dreamed sadly, for she thought all was ended In her fulness of wealth that might not be amended; But this is the harvest and the gathering season, And the leaf and the blossom in the ripe fruit are blended.” - William Morris (1834-1896) #FolkloreThursday

The Excitement Of Touching The Eccentric Woodcock On The Back

Sometimes pets are just pets... but sometimes they might be something else. #BookologyThursday

VERY excited to say that I've put up the first of next year's Romancing the Gothic talks and we're diving into the history of GAY GOTHIC PULP with Justin Tate! Check it out! Online, March 21st 2026, 4pm and 9pm GMT 4 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1715374694... 9 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1715525245...

Some good news for a change 🦎

#BookologyThursday shoutout to Meg and her cat Mog, from the book series by Helen Nicoll and illustrated by Jan Pieńkowski