I’ve been at Arundells this evening, conducting a Weird Wiltshire talk about the ghosts of medieval Salisbury. Doesn’t the cathedral look amazing and suitably atmospheric! 🍁👻🍁

Book Cover of the Day:

Boys of New York #944 Sep 16, 1893. published by Frank Tousey The White Wizard of the Bowery; or, The Boy Slaves of New York: A Story of the Mysteries of Mesmerism by Alexander Armstrong (a Tousey house pseudonym) A good cover for the spooky season.

Last night I rewatched The Eclipse, an Irish ghost story from 2009 - my fourth viewing in 10 years. First time I saw it its jump scares sent me through the roof. But it's its subject that I find most haunting and which has me returning to it. Lovely piano/choral score too, by Fionnuala Ní Chiosáin.

While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Thro’ many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. —Percy Bysshe Shelley

UK Haunted Hotels Halloween 2025 Advent Day No.17 The Pied Bull, Chester, Cheshire Booking site: expedia.com/affiliate/Jh... (we may get a tiny commission) #ghosts #hauntings #halloween #hotels #halloween2025 #phantomsfriday #31daysofhalloween

#PhantomsFriday "Mrs Stone" sees a headless man in a Wiltshire lane. "But I see a figure agen the darkness. It were the figure of a man wi’ his arms out and seemed all to bar the way. It were a terrible sight, for it had no head, and was all in a cloud o’ darkness." hauntedohiobooks.com/news/13406/

Have we been wrong about "The Cage" in St Osyth? paranormalreason.com/true-locatio... #phantomsfriday #ghosts #hauntings

'The Hour Glass' in Robert Barr's story, has just been acquired from an antiques shop. It's of great age, but the owner is still disappointed to find it sticks. But then a ghost appears and tells him how its failure to keep proper time was the instrument of a tragedy #PhantomsFriday #BookChatWeekly

"Even a ghost who died by violence, shouldn't lose his legal rights, should he? 'Legal Rites' by Isaac Asimov & James MacRead" Cover by Bill Wayne for the pulp magazine 'Weird Tales' September 1950 #phantomsfriday

#phantomsfriday If you're keen to find new people with similar interests, have a look at some of the starter packs. I have a small one for #fortean stuff on my profile blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs

Haunted Headlines: an oh-so-convincing photo. I tend to post these stories as they come in, rather than let them pile up for #phantomsfriday www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerse...

#phantomsfriday #ghosts #hauntings #halloween A new book with an intriguing title. I know the author did a lecture recently; I just hope she doesn't dredge up the old fables about Hampton Court. Amazon UK link: amzn.to/4nZgnvF Amazon US link: amzn.to/4nb50zs

Before buying her Cornish home Menabilly, Daphne Du Maurier was told a mysterious woman in blue had been seen staring from a window. Writing in the same room years later, the author happened to look out of the window while wearing a blue smock - and wondered, had she been the ghost? #PhantomsFriday

Illustration from The Stereoscope, an uncredited short from Chimney Corner Vol 2 #52, May 26, 1866 A man embarking on a long ocean voyage leaves his wife with a stereoscopic image she can look at to remind her he is alive and well. This goes horribly wrong. #phantomsfriday (story summary in alt)

Oh, and happy #PhantomsFriday to all who celebrate.

'Glimpses Of The Supernatural' is one #ghost book I did pay quite a lot for - anything by Rev F G Lee is rare. The UK first was in 2 volumes but mine is the US 1-volume first (in tiny type). Both were published in 1875. Some spooky gems among the religious prosing. #PhantomsFriday #31DaysOfHalloween

Two weeks to go till our Ghost Story Special - just in time for Halloween! 👻

Second treatment of immunotherapy this afternoon - here for a couple of hours, so checking out some vintage ghost stories today :)

Shall we dance #phantomsfriday

And talking of a little more haunted lurid.. #MatlockBath Pav was always good for a laugh.. though we had a few heart stopping moments this particular night.. wp.me/p6Uf4u-mN #phantomsfriday

"What secret lies within the old walled-up tunnel? "We have a man staying in our house," he said, and described him as having a tall black hat and a cloak. "He goes to the wall of my sister's bedroom - then vanishes..." #Bexhill Observer 22.12.1978. #PhantomsFriday #Sidley #Sussex #Ghosts #1970s

Mention of a police box reminded me of this interview with Tom Baker where he talks about his time hosting "The Ghost Detectives" #phantomsfriday metro.co.uk/2009/10/27/e...

After two false starts (Oxford and Lincoln), I've settled on Nottingham for my birthday. I've been there for my last two birthdays and I love the place. It also has the best pub ever - not Ye Olde Trip or The Salutation Inn - The Pit and Pendulum! #phantomsfriday #ghosts #hauntings

www.spookyisles.com/crich-tramwa... A great night was had at the inaugural Crich Tramway ghost hunt... This slightly sterilised version was submitted to Spooky Isles.. the more lurid version will be going up elsewhere later on... lurid...😬 #phantomsfriday #hauntedDerbyshire

Been a wonky year this year, emotionally, health wise, work wise & financially so it’s lovely to see that I’ve had a couple of lovely people purchasing prints of this, feels like I’m getting back on my feet. Getting more prints in soon. Visit nicktankard.co.uk for info. I also have an Etsy shop 👍🏻

Cover by Bud Sagendorf.

Cover by Matt Baker.

Thanks to skulls in churches on insta I have now got a church to visit on my next trip to the fens. I need to see this guy!!

Goodnight. ✨ May we all slumber undisturbed by any ghostly goings-on. 🖼️ The Ghost Story by Alfred Bestall, 1930.

For centuries after the horrible murder of King Edward II at Berkeley Castle, #Gloucestershire, his agonised screams were said to still be heard echoing round its walls. The King's angry ghost also visits #Neath Abbey, pursuing the spirit of a monk who'd betrayed him. #PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday

"The dawn widened & I saw the desolate houses that crowded the marge of the river, & their dead windows peered into my dead eyes...I grew so weary looking at these forlorn things that I wanted to cry out, but could not because I was dead" Dunsany 'Where The Tides Ebb & Flow' 🎨 S Sime #PhantomsFriday

Cortijo Jurado is a hacienda built in the mid-19th century by the Heredia family, one of the wealthiest in Malaga (Spain) at the time. It covered more than 2,500 square meters in a neo-Gothic style and was built around a central courtyard. (1/2) #PhantomsFriday #folklore #horror #ghosts

Like most places on my infographics, I try to contact the locations to find out about any recent occurrences. Heres my info on the Francis Hotel in Bath, which was printed recently in @forteantimes.bsky.social I hope its legible! #phantomsfriday #ghosts #hauntings #halloween #halloween2025

Near an old Belgian mill, witches, ghosts, and cats came together to dance around an oak tree. They were often spied upon and would then scream 'over hedges and bushes.' The onlooker would arrive home scratched from crawling through thick hedges. 🎨Arthur Rackham #PhantomsFriday

#PhantomsFriday Strindberg's Ghost Sonata (2008) by Tanith Lee. A very moving novella with a tie-in to August Strindberg's play. A man, saved from suicide, is trapped in the household of his rescuers. His destiny intertwines with that of a ghost woman with a strange and traumatic past.

In #Victorian times, medieval St Donat's Castle, #Glamorgan, was haunted by the benign and elegant Lady Stradling but also by: a phantom panther patrolling the passages; 'a hag of horrible appearance'; a piano that played itself; and a huge glowing eye. The final four were exorcised. #PhantomsFriday

In his 1946 book 'Adventures With Phantoms', R Thurston Hopkins claims a close family connection with the 'cursed skull' of William Corder, perpetrator of the legendary 'Murder In The Red Barn' in #Suffolk. Legendary, because the murder weapon was supposedly found by a dream. [1/Lots #PhantomsFriday

#PhantomsFriday "The ghost light is a single bare bulb on a pole that stands centre stage. Tradition says it keeps any ghost from moving when a theatre is empty and dark... Before electricity... the ghost light acted as a pressure-relief valve... if there was a surge in the gas" Palahniuk, Haunted

Is today Friday? YES! #PhantomsFriday #haunting #ghosts #folklore #horror

For #PhantomsFriday, a 'Punch' cartoon from the 1940s. You might like to join in with a ghostly post or two over at @phantomsfriday.bsky.com

Perry White uses "Great Caesar's ghost!" when he is particularly irate, first using the phrase in the 1940 radio serial. The 'real' ghost of Julius Caesar turned in the Superman title, but it was really Metropolis drama critic Waldo Pippin in disguise. #PhantomsFriday #Superman [🎨Al Plastino]

Looking for some ghostly reading matter for Halloween? Ghostly Tales‬ of Japan, my collection of 30 original stories, is available in hardback, paperback & Kindle. www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Andi-Br... #Books #Kaidan #fiction #Japaneseghosts #Yurei #Halloween2025 #yokai #Japanesesupernatural #ghoststory

The ghost of the Dun Cow, killed by Guy of Warwick, was reputed appear in the courtyard of Warwick Castle whenever a member of the Earl of Warwick’s family was likely to die. The spectral bovine made no sound and its hoofs left no marks. #PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday

Beautiful Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire was said to be haunted by lantern men, strange lights that danced over the dark surface of the great mere or moved erratically among the reeds, intent on luring unsuspecting mortals to a watery grave deep within the marshes… #PhantomsFriday

The Croglin vampire violated its victim's chamber in the dead of night. Her family wounded it by gunshot but it fled. It was tracked to a vault littered with corpse limbs; among the desecration 1 mummified cadaver bore a bullet's mark. It was set aflame, destroying the vampire #LegendaryWednesday

"For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, This place is haunted." - Thomas Hood #PhantomsFriday #31DaysOfHalloween #ghosts #hauntings #poetrysky #Victorian