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Theo Paijmans

@memizon.bsky.social

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They were strange days—curious dream-like days—and they followed each other silently, like shadows over grain fields. Edith Allonby, The Fulfilment, 1905.

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Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · Mar 29

A warm welcome to my new followers! I post images of weird, supernatural, ghostly and science fiction books from Victorian times to the early 20th century. If it’s strange, it’s probably on one of my shelves.

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Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 1d

Zure kneus.

Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 1d

Remembered by an increasingly small and irrelevant lot of antisemites, neonazis and Jew haters. So what you fart doesn't bother me. Toiletpaper

Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 1d

And yes to 1960s cold war era krimi Gruselgeschichten! I have a 1940s German horror anthology.

Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 1d

You do know that the discipline of today is the loss of tomorrow 😉

Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you Jim!

Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 1d

Berlin does that:)

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Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 1d

You mean ugly terrorists convicted of deadly attacks on Israeli citizens were fed and housed for decades and then set free?

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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 1d

German horror pulps spotted at a Berlin flea market on the weekend.

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Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, Bastei:) You picked them up, surely?:)

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 1d

There was a sequel to this story.

"The Witch of the Willows" (1931) by Lord Dunsany was first published in THE TRAVEL TALES OF MR. JOSEPH JORKENS

Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 5d

I want to share one of my favorite of Lord Dunsany's Jorkens stories. These were the archetypical "club tales" - stories told over a glass of whiskey, which might just be tall tales, but which you wanted to believe.

"Mrs. Jorkens" (1930), first published as "The Mermaid's Husband"

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Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 1d

"On the Borders of Two Worlds", an occult journal that was published annually from 1877 to 1904 (stopped at her death). Written by Dutch spiritist and feminist Elise van Calcar, it offers a wealth of 19th c. international paranormal, psychic and weird accounts. Extremely rare these days.

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Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 1d

Alsof deze doelgroep niet allang een eigen mediawijsheid heeft opgebouwd.

Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 1d

"On the Borders of Two Worlds", the famous occult series from the 1870s to the 1890s. Now extermely rare, it was written by Dutch spiritist, feminist and school reformer Elise van Calcar. She offers a wealth of weird phenomena from the international media of her day.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 3d

Great tip, thanks!

Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 3d

They’d complement what I already collected (top shelves):

Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 3d

Want to buy, sent an e-mail.

Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 6d

Jezus. We verknallen ook echt alles.

Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 6d

Herkenbaar 😂

Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 6d

Aan de hoofdbedekking kun je zien dat het waarschijnlijk om een sjamaan ging.

Er is een correlatie tussen obesitas en oude religieuze rituelen.

Google Fat Ladies of Malta.

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Principia Discordia @principiadiscordia.bsky.social · 6d

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“There is a difference,” Sir John said coolly, “between prejudice and principles.”

“Yes,” Joyce replied. “Other people have prejudices; but I have principles. Just as other people are stubborn but I am firm...

The cover of Masks of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson. The title appears in large red-and-yellow gradient letters against a background of storm clouds and lightning. Below the title, an intricate esoteric design features overlapping triangles forming a hexagram: a green serpent coils through it, emerging with an open mouth at the top. Beneath the serpent are stylized eyes and an inverted triangle containing the “All-Seeing Eye” motif, glowing amid the chaos. The visual theme combines occult symbolism and cosmic energy, echoing Wilson’s blend of mysticism, satire, and conspiracy.

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 6d

A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?

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Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 7d

Good. That means it's over.

Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 7d

Don't we all.

Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 7d

Until the shareholders decree otherwise.