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Cavan Scott @cavan.bsky.social · 2h

For more check out my newsletter at www.cavletter.com/l/ including Ruairí’s incredible concept art, FEAR OF THE JEDI and my recent reading adventures including last night’s Folklore event at @toppingsbath.bsky.social with @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social Owen Davies.

Prepare for launch –– Iron & Frost #1 hits comics stores!

Plus, Ruairí Coleman's brilliant concept art, Fear of the Jedi gets collected and I share my recent reading adventures!

www.cavletter.com

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you very much for sharing 😁

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 3h

#Folklore
This podcast is essential listening.
@odavies9.bsky.social
& @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social
discuss their social splendid new book Folklore: A Journey through the Past and Present with that @icysedgwick.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

British Folklore from Past to Present with Owen Davies and Ceri Houlbrook

Podcast Episode · Fabulous Folklore with Icy · 14/10/2025 · 51m

podcasts.apple.com

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 16h

I do indeed 🙂

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 16h

🤣🤣 Completely justified!

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 16h

What a brilliant event at the beautiful @toppingsbath.bsky.social. A full house, including a former student, lovely staff & the very talented @skullsandsheets.bsky.social. Look at all those copies of #Folklore lined up 😍 (hand cramp from signing my name too many times is a wonderful problem to have)

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you so much for coming - it was great to meet you. I wish we'd had longer to chat about Doctor Who!

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks so much for coming! It was great meeting you in person and thank you for the brilliant stickers 😁 I owe you a book - DM me where you want it sending?

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you very much ☺️

Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 1d

For anyone in Bath tomorrow (Tues 14th) come along to Topping Books to hear me & @odavies9.bsky.social talk #Folklore www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/bath/...

Folklore: A Journey Through the Past and Present at Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath

www.toppingbooks.co.uk

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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 2d

The Haunted Landscape 2025: Ghosts, Magic and Lore
22 November 2025 10 am - 5 pm
@conwayhall.bsky.social and online

@odavies9.bsky.social & @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social : Legend-Tripping in the British Landscape

www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
9/10
@manchesterup.bsky.social

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 2d

This coin-tree stump in Eryri National Park came with something a little extra

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 2d

From a history of goth to Egyptian mummies, and the science behind that eerie feeling that we aren’t alone, shop our Spooky Season reading list w 25% OFF books by @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social & @odavies9.bsky.social, @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social & more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/10...

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 4d

Have been lucky enough to visit some beautiful little indie bookshops over the last few weeks to sign #Folklore & chat with the lovely owners, from Colours May Vary in Leeds Corn Exchange to The Book Case in Hebden Bridge @booksaremybag.bsky.social #bookshopday

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 4d

Ronald Hutton called it 'The best overall view of the subject... It not only covers the traditional remit of folklore but extends it into many less conventional areas'. And you can't argue with Ronald Hutton 😁 You can buy #Folklore in bookshops & here manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180377/

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 5d

Having a very proud moment, watching one of my wonderful former MA Folklore Studies students present her excellent and very important dissertation research on tree stories as environmental activism at a conference at the University of Brighton 😊😊😊

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you to everyone that joined us at @rncmlive.bsky.social last night for an evening of folklore with authors @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social & @magicnotwitches.bsky.social.
Huge thanks to @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social for bookselling and thanks to @oxrdmcr.bsky.social for supporting this event. #booksky

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 5d

An evening of #folklore, cunning-folk & The Witching Hour @rncmlive.bsky.social this evening, with two wonderful scholars: Mel Giles & Tabitha Stanmore

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 7d

A successful annual parasol forage (apologies to the fairies who were using them as umbrellas or dining tables)

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 9d

The best kind of indie bookshop is one that stocks 8 copies of your book, has somewhere cosy for the littlun to sit while you sign them, & can involve a muddy trek through a beautiful clough to get there

P.S. there are 8 signed copies of #Folklore in Hebden Bridge's The Book Case

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💀Skulls and Sheets👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 10d

Started reading @odavies9.bsky.social and @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social 's folklore alongside @johnnymains.co.uk Halloweird this season.

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 12d

Sadly not - but there might be online ones in the future 😊

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 12d

Be the fairest of them all, excel at domestic chores & rely on your prince to ensure a happy ending? But folklore & fairytale give us much more than gender stereotypes. Come hear me talk on #Folklore & Women in Liverpool on 5 Nov (& Nottingham 19 Nov) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folklore-w...

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 13d

Ooh yay! Thank you!

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks, I love it!

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