Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Dreaming fox.

art by Fang Chuxiong
#BookologyThursday

And for the cryptozoologists, the final line of the article: "Its forests may shelter yet more hidden relics of a past Australia," he says.

Thylacine survival TBC.

Double wow! Really exciting to hear about these new discoveries!

The image is an old-style black-and-white illustration showing a woman walking near a balustrade. She reaches out towards a tree with one hand, while an urn on a pedestal stands nearby. Below the image, the text reads: "She walks among the tombs."

#WorldBookDay 📚

"She walks among the tombs" 🪦

'A Picture Book for Little Children' • 1812 📚

#History

Title card for the talk, with the details from the main text with an image of a UFO toy

Our next ONLINE fundraising talk:

Sat 21st March, 8pm via Zoom with recording for all ticket holders

INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN
THE VISUAL FOLKLORE OF UFOs

Dr David Clarke and Andrew Robinson will be presenting on everything from hoax photos to kid's toys

Tickets £5+booking from bit.ly/flaevents

A vegetable looking like a person walking

YOU CAN TELL BY THE WAY I WALK
I'M A WOMAN'S MAN; NO TIME TO TALK

And peak book cover design

Peak signage

I love this sign! I've seen other versions posted from other counties (I can't remember where I got this photo from but I've had it saved on my phone for ages).

Next time I'm back home in Herefordshire in going to have to keep an eye out for this.

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From the Davenport Times 1896 #PhantomsFriday #ghosts #hauntings

Stark painting of a still life containing fossils and books, including Charles Lyell's Elements of Geology.

"Fossils (February)" by the English surrealist Tristram Hillier. This 1955 painting was commissioned by Shell for the Shell Book of Nature, Fossils, Insects and Reptiles. From Ark UK: Government Art Collection. You Can Be Sure Of Shell... #FossilFriday

Nocturne by Tyra Kleen 1905 #PhantomsFriday

Detail of a pale clay medieval jug, decorated with a green bird and a heraldic shield

Today we're sharing this delightful detail of a Saintonge polychrome jug, which was found at a medieval tenement site in #Winchelsea, E Sussex.

This type of ceramic was imported from SW France during the late 13th-early 14th centuries & is associated with wine trading.
#MedievalMarch
#FindsFriday 🏺

In January 1898, the Illustrated Police News reported that a mysterious figure with
"the ghastly appearance of a headless woman" was haunting an isolated crossroad outside of Buckingham.
PhantomsFriday

A day late to this I know, but I noticed the hashtag was missing from #PhantomsFriday and it would be a shame if this great artwork was missed.

Art: Cyndy Salisbury

A black and white illustration inspired by Susan Hill's novel The Woman in Black. A woman in late Victorian mourning stands in a graveyard in a flat desolate landscape. There are two stone pillars in the foreground.

An illustration of the ghost of a woman in a dress of the mid to late Georgian era with a sort of skeletal face. She is stood / hovering in front of a detached Georgian house in the dusk, flanked by dark trees, with its front door lit from above.

A print of a black and white illustration inspired by John Masefield's novel the Box of Delights: a bearded man with a heavy pack trudges through snow pursued by wolves. There's a big white house in the distance, and a small aeroplane (in fact a car-o-plane) in the sky. The scene is flanked by trees and emerges from a square box. The face of its beholder is just visible.

A ridiculous black and white illustration (in print form) of worshippers dancing around a ceremonial bonfire in the trees. The flames take the shape of a large cat's head.

Hello! I've been a bit preoccupied lately with real life and stuff but I've finally put a bit of effort into my Etsy shop... added new prints and restocked old ones. Do have a look. Sharing much appreciated. Thank you.

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Horror novel covers from yesteryear. 💙📚🧟‍♀️🔪🙀

#booksky #horrorsky #paperbacks

a windswept figure in rags in the dessert. Above them in the sky. a turbaned king weeps. Pencil drawing.

Good news.
I return to Lord Dunsany this month.
Also-Good morning.

A Long-tailed Tit is captured mid-flight, silhouetted against the golden light of a rising sun. Its delicate wings are fully outstretched, glowing amber at the edges as the sunlight filters through. The blurred outline of trees forms a dark contrast in the background, framing the bird’s graceful ascent. A perfect moment of movement and light, reflecting the lengthening days of early spring.

Brighter mornings, a lighter step, and a Long-tailed Tit soaring towards spring...

Happy #FlyDay!

📷 @andrewfusekpeters.bsky.social

Green-throated Sunbird is a small, brightly colored nectar-feeding bird found across savannas, woodlands of subSaharan Africa. markscheflen.com #greenthroated #sunbirds #bwindiImpenetrableforest #albertinerift #Uganda #montaneforests #birdsofafrica #birdsseenin2026 #birds #biodiversity #conservation

Happy birthday Nosferatu!

Card design available here:
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Our evening film is a slow burning British horror thriller with #EdwardWoodward #JaneMerrow

📽️ THE APPOINTMENT (1981) 9:10pm with #SamanthaWeysom #JohnJudd horror #TPTVsubtitles

Nearly full moon silhouetting catkins hanging from a tree.

Catkin Moon.

Bagpuss (1974)

Painting. Against a blue background, a border of late medieval artifacts. In the centre a man, the artist, who is excavating a piece of land, examines one of his finds while the ghosts of the potters look on.

'Look, he's digging up our pots'
by James Bentley (1921–2004)

#PhantomsFriday

Is that the ultimate origin of this, he made it up?

I've not tried to tackle TAE, think I may put it on the backburner now.

Most of the paperback series I bought new at the time, the others I gathered gradually over the years and then for the last one I needed for ages I eventually went down the online route.