One of my favourite ghost story books, including tales of headless phantoms, ghostly footsteps and screaming skulls. It also has a wonderfully creepy illustration in the introduction 👻 : Ghosts of Derbyshire, published in the 1970s. #phantomsfriday

Eating by candlelight in the shadow of Ironbridge power station ~ David Bagnall (1972)

I like this. What if the Plague doctor mask (not medieval) was based on specific birds :) By Shayna Daniel, AKA Squid Von Bob squidvonbob.tumblr.com/post/1879026...

‘November at its best—with a sort of delightful menace in the air.’ ~ Anne Bosworth Greene. Autumn leaves of bramble (Rubus species). Wellcome Collection.

BBC Archives : 1964 - A Curious Case of Black Magic in Norfolk youtu.be/QWTw3xoGhg4 @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social

More photos from Ben Edge Children of Albion exhibition @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social #folklore #folkhorror #folkhorrorrevival #folkhorrorweek #albionmythologies #albion #mythsandlegends

Loved this exhibition titled Children of Albion by Ben Edge that runs til 26 November 2025 at the Fitzrovia Chapel... #folklore #folkhorror #mythsandlegends #albionmythologies #albion #folkhorrorrevival #folkhorrorweek @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social

Are you looking for some fine fox/fossil art? Them look no further. @mariastrutz.bsky.social can meet all your needs.

Whiskers & Rhymes, Arnold Lobel, 1985.

#PhantomsFriday Fact of the Day

In November hares come to wood edge. Most say this is for cover, for food. Yet more than one old countryman has told me they come to pay tribute to the wood itself, to have one last dance with the Moss Maidens before their cold sleeping. At twilight they feed and mutter omens. - #CLNolan

The witch in legend of the Rollright Stones on the Oxfordshire/Warwickshire border turned herself into an elder tree. Local lore held that if the tree was cut it bled. #FolkyFriday

If you’re still in the Halloween spirit, come and celebrate with me on 11th November at The Horse Hospital, where I’ll be giving a talk on the Televisual Gothic for this year’s @miskatonicihs.bsky.social autumn semester! 🎟️: miskatonicinstitute.com/events/telev...

And here is another blood-drinking #yokai. This one resembles a flying squirrel and it swoops down from trees to latch onto your face. They can also shoot swarms of bats out of their mouths because, well, why not? #FolkyFriday #JapaneseFolklore

Had a great time last night at the debut performance of @hiddenbritain.bsky.social's experimental AV Black Country ghost story Wren's Nest. A big sonic blast of hauntological goodness along with a beautifully rendered patchwork of eerie visuals - check out those upcoming dates..!

Ancient Times issue 2 is on pre-order now! Filled to the brim with stones, explorations in Avebury, poetry, alchemical revelations on Bodmin Moor and walks into Wintery landscapes. stoneclub.bigcartel.com/product/anci...

Leonard Everett Fisher, 1974. #illustration #ephemera #postagestamp #1970s #SleepyHollow #LeonardEverettFisher

Just found out that Mysterious Tales from 1982, in which Keith Barron narrates short folk tales from SW England, was broadcast recently on Rewind TV. A series I've been wanting to find out more about for ages, luckily it's getting shown again from the 16th of November. digiguide.tv/programme-de...

Join us tonight for this haunting film.

#PhantomsFriday repost

‘Hush your tears now little one and listen on the wind. Can you hear it? Listen hard, There is a glimmer of a song from the Northlands. Winter is coming and so are the Northland ones. I can hear it! Soon our basket will be full of berries and candles and songs shall be sung’

Absolute Units returns next Thursday with a very special guest: the author, journalist and environmentalist @georgemonbiot.bsky.social! Join us then as we explore links between people & land, urban and rural, & connect George's work to our collections. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

Shirō Kasamatsu, 1958. “Cat and Leeks.” #printmaking #woodblockprint #1950s #cats #ShirōKasamatsu

Just floating and chillin'

Check out this fine #Pleistocene-themed wall art photographed by my buddy Paul Stewart in Kennington, Oxford

This Saturday at Theatreship - John Renbourn’s guitar! I’ll be joining the brilliant Dariush Kanani, to represent the singing of my beloved Dorris Henderson. John & Dorris recorded 2 albums together in the mid-1960s 🖤 dice.fm/event/dknn5o...

We've been down on the beach today picking up firework debris. It's odd, isn't it, that you can be fined £250 for dropping litter but somehow it's OK to launch rockets containing plastic casings into the sky.

Please sign action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/... @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social

Other work of the Ladybird artists ‘Bonfire Night’ (1951) Artist: Ronald Lampitt

A fox jumping over a tomb, jumping over the moon. If you are lucky enough to witness such an event, you may choose to whisper important news to the fox: the passing of a loved one, the birth of a child, the fall of tyrants. The news will be passed on to the clan #FullMoon #FoxMoon #SuperMoon🦊🐾🌕

This is my drawing of the creepy Ankou sculpture on the church of Lannédern in Brittany. Ankou is a psychopomp, the servant of death who takes the deceased to the otherworld. The original artwork is now available on my Etsy shop here: shorturl.at/HDzSI #WyrdWednesday

Fireworks PIF countdown: number one! HAND (1976) This all-time classic PIF featured bandages that haunted a million nightmares and turned sparklers into something to be feared. It worked on me. Happy Bonfire Night!

Re-sharing one of my favourite #yokai for #WyrdWednesday and the spooky season.

Central Devil's Arrow, Boroughbridge #photography

​Where the veil between seasons and legends is thin. Wayland's Smithy is cradled by a blazing ring of fall foliage. The very definition of a timeless landscape. 🍁 #History #Mythology

"A Leap in the Dark" was a 1970s BBC dramatisation of ghost stories. Some of the early episodes no longer exist but a few have been put on YouTube. This is one of them - The Ghost of Ardachie Lodge. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfH8... #phantomsfriday #halloween #ghosts

Just back from the framers. This lovely winter green man linocut print from @ieuanedwards.bsky.social Support your BlueSky artists.

Remember, Remember the 5th of November Little Mari heads out to see some fireworks, with a sparkler and toffee apple

Not long to go until we get to enjoy our next online talk, this coming Saturday at 8pm via Zoom. This one is delivered by Michael Fortune, who will be joining us to discuss Irish Death Customs. Tickets are just £5 including access to a recording of the talk. Book on EventBrite at bit.ly/flaevents

This Thursday evening will be discussing Conan Doyle's Tales of the Supernatural with the estimable Edward Parnell -- details in link ... thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/arthur...

Get in the mood for Bonfire Night with our latest podcast episode - interview with director of the 'Gatherings' folk events documentary, including details of the Rye bonfire - Folk gatherings bringing community harmony - Other folklore events dreamswarm-podcast.castos.com/episodes/fol...

1937, Lady Seton foolishly steals a bone whilst visiting a pyramid. Sir Alexander Seton described the accursed item as 'round & resembling a digestive biscuit'. Despite having it exorcised & burned, the Setons suffered misfortune to the end of their days & probably never ate digestives again.

"A tawny owl is looking down from its high vantange point at the great fire lit for #GuyFawkes' day. Not often does it see such a fire as this, and is astonished at the red glow and the many sparks" Art by C. F. Tunnicliffe, from 'What to Look for in Autumm' (1960) #BonfireNight

Happy launch day! So glad to be part of this anthology, with a story about a true crime podcaster taking on more than she'd bargained for when visiting the site of a grisly murder (with some appropriately bloody Scottish folklore influence) 🩸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎤

Happy Guy Fawkes day

The latest @folkloresociety.bsky.social newsletter FLS News is out today, and contains a CFP from me and @magicnotwitches.bsky.social inviting proposals for our new @universitypress.cambridge.org series 'Elements in Folklore':

#WyrdWednesday 🔥

This Friday! Come and join us at Tate Britain. Details here: www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...

One night a Mr Harry was making his way down the valley of the Ebwy Fawr, South #Wales, when a spectral fire leapt up in his path. He tried to dodge past it but a huge Hell Hound appeared on the other side, growling at him. He had no choice but to turn around and trudge back up again. #WyrdWednesday