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Grid @isbergillustration.bsky.social · 53m

Yes, You Are The Goodest Girl, I Missed You While I Was Standing Ominously In The Corner Of That Guy's Vision All Day, Too.
#inktober #puppy

A spooky figure holding a pointy dog in its arms on a yellow and teal background. Altogether they have four eyes, though the distribution is uneven.

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 1h

📢 Announcing our theme for the November submission period: Revolutions!

We're looking for daring, subversive, and strange fiction that explores this theme!

⏰ Submissions will open on November 1. Read the full theme description and submission details: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

Colorful illustration of a hand holding a megaphone with text reading Submissions open, November 1 - 31, Theme: Revolutions.

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Tales to Terrify @talestoterrify.bsky.social · 1h

Requirements to join our podcast as a volunteer slush reader:
-Must love horror
-Must be snarky
-Must have a god complex when judging others
-Must be willing to put up with grumpy, misanthropic (unpaid) co-workers
-Cute pet photos a plus, but not required

Apply here: tinyurl.com/TtTSlushReader

A still from the black-and-white Disney animation, "Danse Macabre," of skeletons holding hands and dancing in a circle.

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Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · 2h

One of my favorite things about my current 19th century murder hyperfixation is that the moral of the story is Rich People Are The Worst And We Should Be Mean To Them.

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Fossilized Tree Resin @jamberee13.bsky.social · May 2

Don’t worry everyone I am here to discuss moss now

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Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · 3h

I was, for a time, tempted to change my name to Eglantine, and I still believe I could pull it off.

BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 3h

For the Angela Lansbury centenary, please choose one of the following:

• The Manchurian Candidate
• Murder, She Wrote
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• Gaslight

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 5h

I have now created a separate account for #PhantomsFriday, imaginatively calling it @phantomsfriday.bsky.social
I'm not sure why I've done this, it just seemed right to have all those Friday posts on ghostly books, art, poems, #folklore, haunted locations etc in one place. Please join the feed!

Illustration by Barry Wilkinson of a weird, blurry figure of a man, hands raised and apparently crying out. In the background a man in a doorway is reacting with shock at the sight of it.

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Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · 3h

Pretty much every time I do public speaking. I first noticed it when I acted in school plays, but eventually noticed that it also happens during other kinds of presentations and performances as well. I can remember reading from notes slightly better than anything said/recited purely from memory.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 20h

The conference takes accessibility seriously. This means all our conferences are online and they are free to speakers. We offer accessibility training. We provide slides ahead of time with alt-text, encourage written copies of papers, provide a code of conduct and clear guidelines on the day 1/

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 20h

What's that I see before me? A new Romancing the Gothic conference! Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Radcliffe's last publications with a conference on the work of women and people of marginalised genders in the Gothic and horror...

romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...

Romancing the Gothic 2026 Conference CFP

More Terrors than her Reason Could Justify A 200th Anniversary Celebration of Ann Radcliffe’s Posthumous Publications 2026 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Ann Radcliffe’s final po…

romancingthegothic.com

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 5h

Closer, closer

The letters weillakainofheeder with red, black, and grey scribbles.

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 1d

did you know that right now, we're only a partial skeleton? we're not fully funded, and so we're missing some critical bones.

this is truth

and sadly not sustainable

help us be a full skeleton?

patreon 🖤 www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla...

our coin fundraiser 💀 psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

An old looking skull lays on a cement path covered lightly in brown leaves.

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Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · 6h

A gently ominous, grey reprieve from the blue skies and sunshine that I will be forced to endure here today

Dorian David Leigh @notdoriangray.bsky.social · 6h

I am trying to go walking more and taking photos has been good motivation. I've moved on to the Proper Camera rather than the smartphone one on days when it isn't raining, but I still take phonecam photos on drizzly days.

These might even be gloomy enough for @braegrosz.com

A rusted attempt at a half-hearted pylon holds up power wires in the foreground, stretching from the green grass to the grey sky in the left half of the frame. To the right and in the background, trees shrink away. A storm threatens, the pylon is singing to the lightning.

A bright green paddock grows lush grass in the lower half of the frame. In the distance, a row of trees separates the friendly grass from the menacing grey sky. Power lines cross from a distant pylon to the top of the frame, and to the left is the suggestion of a road. You should jump the fence between the grass and the concrete if you want to chase the lightning.

Trees still half bare from winter reach upwards to an unforgiving sky. The clouds are grey and ponderous. The two tallest trees bookend a thinning of the clouds, a slight shimmer that holds the hope of sunlight.

Trees and grass to the right and the river on the left travel towards a horizon where a sliver of sunset sneaks through the dense clouds. The image is mostly sky: grey, foreboding, heavy, yet beautiful.

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Dr Luke Steubenstein 👹 @lukesteuber.com · 1d

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Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, also recently slammed people who are making Al-generated videos of her late father, calling the clips "gross." She added, "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop pup-peteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 20h

What's that I see before me? A new Romancing the Gothic conference! Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Radcliffe's last publications with a conference on the work of women and people of marginalised genders in the Gothic and horror...

romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...

Romancing the Gothic 2026 Conference CFP

More Terrors than her Reason Could Justify A 200th Anniversary Celebration of Ann Radcliffe’s Posthumous Publications 2026 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Ann Radcliffe’s final po…

romancingthegothic.com

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 23h

You are stronger than you think.
If you had tentacles, you could easily crush sailing ships from below with your dark determination.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 1d

Did you miss last week's talk on the Cumbrian poet and early vampire writer John Stagg?

Catch it here - youtu.be/LCGCOsrQPLc

John Stagg: The Minstrel of the North with John Hartley

YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic

youtu.be

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 1d

Hundreds of talks on Gothic and Horror topics by experts from around the world?

Check it out!

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 1d

I updated the Online Class page so that now you can:

See the programme right up to the end of the year!

See ALL out Saturday and Sunday talks from the last 5 years!!

romancingthegothic.com/class-schedu...

Class Schedules

For classes that have already happened, you can click on ‘Online Here’ to see a recorded version. Check out the YouTube channel for earlier classes as well! Sign up here Date (All times…

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 3d

Anyway I keep forgetting to yell about this book when it is 🍂seasonal 🍂 but THE APPLE-TREE THRONE (a little vanity project I self-pubbed in 2018) is also available on Kobo and in audio!

A young soldier returned from war is haunted by the ghost of his commanding officer (a posh git)

The Apple-Tree Throne

Buy The Apple-Tree Throne: Read Kindle Store Reviews - Amazon.com

www.amazon.com

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Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · 1d

My sister and I borrowed this movie from the library sooo much, when we were kids.

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 1d

The late '70s was a deeply weird time at Disney. Need proof? Let's dive into Escape to Witch Mountain, following two cute kids with psychic powers running away from a scheming businessman. Hijinks ensue.

reactormag.com/escape-to-wi...

Escape to Witch Mountain: An Otherworldly Glimpse Into the Weirdness of 1970s Disney - Reactor

Starring a flying Winnebago, kids with psychic powers, and helpful animal friends!

reactormag.com

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 1d

Julien Adolphe Duvocelle, Skull with Bulging Eyes and Hands Gripping a Wall, c. 1904, pencil and charcoal, 36 x 25 cm (Paris, Musée du Louvre)

A charcoal drawing of a skull with bulging eyes with a scythe gripping a wall (?) in a black frame decorated with bones

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Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · 1d

Yep. I recently discovered that I like apricots now, though as a kid, I disliked everything I ever tried with apricots.

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Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · 1d

My mom loved all olives as a kid. I liked black olives as a kid but not green olives; now I love all olives.

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 1d

#WyrdWednesday
Witches

Agnes Sampson confessed that 200 witches met the Devil in North Berwick church on All Hallows Eve, 1590
Illustration by George Tute, from The Reader’s Digest Folklore, Myths & Legends of Britain

A black and white illustration done in the style of a woodcut. Male & female witches holding torches cavort around a horned figure - the devil. He is wearing a ruff and cape and holding a cape.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · Sep 5

Here are three short pieces of mine that you can read for free:

“Forgotten” - horrortree.com/trembling-wi... (you’ll have to scroll down to find it)

“Clair de Lune” - orchidslantern.com/clair-de-lune/

“Inconsequent” - crowcrosskeys.com/2024/09/07/i...

horrortree.com

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