The ghosts are carousing delightedly at another rich and varied #PhantomsFriday. Thank you to everyone for your contributions. It's goodnight from me. And it's goodnight from him (the one sitting beside me that you cannot see).

#PhantomsFriday Fact of the Day

In Wabanaki #folklore, Swamp-woman is a ghost living in the swamp who lures her victims in with mournful cries, then kills them. In some versions she eats children. 🎨Herbert James Draper redbubble.com/people/forgo... #PhantomsFriday #art #giftidea #homedecor #interiordesign #mythology #wallart

According to some Flemish folktales, ghosts live in trees. In one story, nobody dared to go near a pile of rotten tree trunks because it was said to bite and chew. In another, you could only pass a particular tree if you made the sign of the cross first. #PhantomsFriday

A flash fic of mine that #PhantomsFriday folks might enjoy 👇🏻

There are many examples of prehistoric barrows and tombs being haunted by men without their heads (see list below). Could they be #ghosts or folk memories of sacrifices linked to some ancient head cult? (It's a doubtful theory but all I could think of for #FolkyFriday !) #PhantomsFriday #FolkHorror

In 1909 The Strand Magazine ran an article, 'Crime And The Crystal', seriously stated that apparitions conjured up in crystal balls could solve crimes. This vision allegedly proved that the death of a Miss Mooney was not suicide but that she had been deliberately thrown off a train. #PhantomsFriday

A new website: the Poltergeist Archive poltergeistarchive.co.uk #phantomsfriday

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#PhantomsFriday again of course tomorrow, a week after a splendid Hallowe'en Friday. Follow along on @phantomsfriday.bsky.social or better still, use the hashtag for your own #ghost posts: words, pictures, popular culture, #folklore and #legend & #haunted sites ancient or modern - anything ghostly!

East Suffolk is host to many Shucks, phantom hounds who bring a warning of immediate death to those who behold them.One is said to haunt two bridges over a stream in Mill Road, in the little village of Wisset, waiting for those who try to cross the water 🐾 #PhantomsFriday

In Salisbury Cathedral a member of the staff witnessed a glowing noose float over to the tomb of a medieval saint. Within this tomb had been hidden the body of an 18th century lord, hanged for various outrages, and who therefore should not have been buried in holy ground. #PhantomsFriday #Wiltshire

"Ten minutes more of suspense. Then, again, loud, sudden, violent, the bell rang! We burst into the room. There he was, standing in the middle of the floor, rigid, petrified. He groaned in in a terrible, husky voice, 'Oh my God, I have seen it!' and fell down dead." - Rhoda Broughton #PhantomsFriday

Conisbrough Castle, although seemingly quiet these days, has had many spectral encounters. They were also one of the few English Heritage sites to provide a very long list of phenomena! #phantomsfriday #ghosts #hauntings

If you are near water around #Japan's Obon festival (usually in August) & see mist on the water don't wait for it to get closer! It might be a "funayūrei" or ghost ship, full of resentful drowned sailors and ready for you to join them. #PhantomsFriday #ghosts #hauntings #paranormal 🖼️ M. Mayer

"Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize!" Concept art of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion attraction by Marc Davis for #PhantomsFriday.

In #Truro #Cornwall is the wonderfully named SqueezeGuts Alley! It's believed to be haunted by the #ghost of Stephen H. Treffry, who died on Friday 20th December 1787 at 27 from burns & the impact of a fall from the first floor window of his home in SG Alley. #PhantomsFriday #hauntings

Before becoming the Reina Sofía National Museum of Contemporary Art in 1990, this building and its location were steeped in legends and gruesome stories. The museum shows all the signs of a haunted building. (1/3) #PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday #folklore #horror #ghosts #ParanormalSky #HorrorWriter

This was fun! Thanks #HorrorWritersChat for darkening my afternoon in all the best ways. If you'd like to see more of my dark side, check out my collection or the anthologies that include my work: dangerouswhenbored.com/collections/...

Thanks for a most enlightening and potentially cosmic lab at #HorrorWritersChat! Here’s a reflection I wrote on my thesis/WIP “AROMANTIC FRANKENSTEIN.” My blog also contains semi-spiritual, aroace reflections on cult classics. worrydollsandfloatinglights.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/w...

#HorrorWritersChat Thanks Gree, this was fun! For those interested in books described as "Like Encanto but with more gore", which blend modern family drama with cosmic horror and dark humour, try my novel THIRTEENTH, out now with Canelo Horror! Links to my books: cmrosens-fiction.carrd.co

One of my contributions to the cosmic horror subgenre is OUT OF CURIOSITY AND HUNGER, despite the superficial sense that the monster is known and can be understood. www.amazon.com/Out-Curiosit... #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks for the chat today, Gree! It was a lot of fun. Right now, I'm promoting the preorder for my new book Autumnborn: a.co/d/3nikDC9 If anyone is interested, I have it priced at .99 until launch! #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat I have a short story available on itch and currently hosting an art raffle for my followers 😊 gabriel-yuriria.itch.io/all-things-b... bsky.app/profile/gabr...

Thank you for hosting #horrorwriterschat! Two collections available now- 13 horror tales in each Next Door and Revolve. Available all the places or direct from me, donating book proceeds from my shop to my local food bank because no kid should be hungry. linktr.ee/kdbwrites

#HorrorWritersChat Thanks for hosting Gree! Great questions!! Giving a shout out to my new release, the supernatural mystery of vengeful ghosts, family secrets and dark revelations, Ruins!! check it out here: mybook.to/Ruins 🩸📚💙📚👀📢📚😱📚📖💙💀✨ #booksky #writingcommunity #horror #HorrorAuthor

Thank you for tonight's admittance! Recent folk horror release Harrowfield is available to read on KU (but won't be forever!) & can be bought here mybook.to/Harrowfield Harrowfield has secrets & a Terrible Truth but whether it's what people want to hear is another thing. #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks Gree. My cosmic eco-horror novella packs a lot of unpleasant truths, mostly about one family, into a slim volume. Also, eldritch insects. #HorrorWritersChat payhip.com/b/58paC

#HorrorWritersChat Here's my web site. Coming soon to The Horror Zine - my interview with John A. Russo, co-writer of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD with George Romero. trishwilsonauthor.blogspot.com

I'm taking a short break from anything Land of Gold-related, as I've focused on it the entirety of October. Instead, I'm going to once again promote @chaoticauthor.online's wonderful work, as he has been a founder of this incredible hashtag community! bsky.app/profile/chao... #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks for another engaging chat! My debut novel Little White Flowers is available online at most major book retailers, many smaller book retailers, and it's also available either in print or ebook at many libraries. books2read.com/LittleWhiteF... #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks Gree! #HorrorWritersChat, your first Christmas horror story of the season is here! "The Wild Hunt" follows two sisters who run away from home... and discover something ancient in a blizzard. Amazon: tinyurl.com/4y33j7xr B&N: tinyurl.com/ymb8249b Kobo: tinyurl.com/2tuyy4vx

Thanks, Gree and #HorrorWritersChat! I love doing this every week. 😺 The Horror Zine (I'm Media Director): thehorrorzine.com My story THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR appears in the LIZZIE BORDEN HOUSE ANTHOLOGY. More about this book in the next post. www.amazon.com/Lizzie-Borde...

#HorrorWritersChat Thanks Gree_ If you fancy unleashing true evil upon this Earth, then check out my books Actually, you won't need to feel bad because considering teh world right now, someone must've done it already So have fun with smarts, scares and smut! www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

#HorrorWritersChat, do you still need a good, spooky collection to read? With ghosts, budding serial killers, and carnivorous horses, "Hannah and Other Stories" will scratch that itch for you. Amazon: tinyurl.com/mv8p4shk B&N: tinyurl.com/4fznerfe Kobo: tinyurl.com/3u5fpeb6

Thanks for another #HorrorWritersChat ! All you monster fuckers out there might be interested in my magical girlfriend harem parody. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Thank you, esteemed colleagues of #horrorwriterschat. Find all my weird and sinister stuff at writesinister.substack.com, including my debut weird sci-fi horror novel, "AWOO: The Association of Werewolves and Oppressed Otherlings," coming to you as an ebook sometime in the next millennium.

#HorrorWritersChat There is going to be a release party/reading at the Lizzie Borden House in Fall River, MA, Sun Nov 9. Yes, THAT Lizzie Borden. Tours available. You bet I'll be there reading from my story!

The Haunting of Wounded Birds is out in 6 days, but tonight I'll point you towards the man who started #HorrorWritersChat, Matt @chaoticauthor.online Visit his profile and buy a book because we wouldn't be here without him!

Thanks for a fun one, Gree! I have the rights for my haunted house novel back, with art by a human, Lane Faglie, and blurbs from cool people like Clay McLeod Chapman and Kev Harrison! Over a century, five eras pry at the unknowable in a haunted house where no one has died. #HorrorWritersChat

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My chisel cracks the seal open. Only then, did I understand the folly of my curiosity. His scrotum spread slowly across the vinyl-covered seat pad like pancake batter poured into a hot pan. It formed a low-viscosity magma of flesh possessing the characteristics of recent roadkill. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Hello! I’m Gary Kruse, and I write supernatural mysteries, dark thrillers and tales of witches, vampires, ghosts and my Terrible yet bleeding obvious Truth; that humans are the biggest monsters of all…

Electric is the shock which opens the universe to my previously limited sight. A shock too much for my heart which fails & I plunge into a darkness, a void, where those who went before me walk & bewail their fate. The chant 'If only ...' goes round and round, & soon I, too, howl. #HorrorWritersChat

"My chisel cracks the seal open. Only then, did I understand the folly of my curiosity. For the human mind cannot grasp that we are only shadows waiting for a corporeal form to claim us." #HorrorWritersChat

"My chisel cracks the seal open. Only then, did I understand the folly of my curiosity. Colours that taste like oil on my skin. Stars that set my eyes ablaze, their lavender crawling into my brain. My heart, one with the void, growing wings and flying away, never looking back." #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Q4: As the scroll unfurled, I could feel it, like the cold satisfaction of a rival. Some permeating, undeniable pain. Scanning the cyclopean symbols, a second horrible realization: Not only was the pain growing, but the source was not the scroll. It emanated from behind my eyes.

My chisel cracks the seal open. Only then did I understand the folly of my curiosity. There is nothing behind the seal. Nothing. It was a test, and I have proven myself unworthy. I swallow heavily as footsteps thud against the stairs above. They know. #HorrorWritersChat

My chisel breaks the seal and in a flash of lighting forbidden knowledge spills like acid inside me, erasing my being as it flows until I become a suitable, empty vessel. Only then did I understand the madness of my curiosity. When it was already too late. #HorrorWritersChat

Oooh tough question. The seal would be under a pane of glass in a forgotten conservatory, pressed between the roots of a withered rosebush. It hums at dusk, when the light dies slow. Anyone who tries to read the inscription forgets their own name before they read the last word. #HorrorWritersChat