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Serve It Forth Food History Festival @serveitforthfest.bsky.social · 12h

Just 4 DAYS until the first @serveitforthfest.bsky.social on 18 October via Zoom.

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Serve it Forth Food History Festival 2025

Join us for Serve it Forth Food History Festival 2025 for a fantastic day of discussion, chat and learning about food history and traditions

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 21h

Today’s #AScareADay crosses the Styx with Lord Dunsany’s Charon.

The ferryman rows on, weary beyond time, until one day only one soul arrives.
“I am the last,” the ghost says.

And for the first time, Charon weeps.

@romgothsam.bsky.social

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 1d

It’s brilliant!!

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to it here! youtu.be/vuQJAcMFKg8?...

The Spider and the Ghost of a Fly by Vachel Lindsay

YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 1d

Read it here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44620/...

The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly

Once I loved a spider When I was born a fly, A velvet-footed spider With a gown of rainbow-dye.

www.poetryfoundation.org

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 1d

🕷️ #AScareADay

Once I loved a spider… but love bites.

Vachel Lindsay’s The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly (1915) turns a nursery rhyme into a nightmare of beauty, hunger, and revenge.

Beware the velvet-footed ones, they always come for the heart. 💔🕸️

@romgothsam.bsky.social

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 4d

@romgothsam.bsky.social
Read the story here:

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 4d

Like a dark echo of Giselle, Emma Frances Dawson’s “An Itinerant House” brings its betrayed heroine back from the grave…not through love, but through science and a feverish violin’s cry.
When Felipa stirs, it’s not romance that returns… it’s something far stranger.#AScareADay
⚡🎻 #Gothic #WeirdTales

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 5d

Apples of ashes. Waters of bitterness. A banquet of foul delight. Lionel Pigot Johnson’s The Dark Angel turns beauty and every feast into poison ☠️.
#AScareADay 👻
@romgothsam.bsky.social

allpoetry.com/poem/8526407...

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 7d

In Dinah Mulock’s The Last House in C–– Street, a quiet London home hides a secret so long buried it comes back in ghostly form. Some houses remember what we’d rather forget. 🕯️ #AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social

Read it here:

gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/06062…

https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/06062…

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 8d

It did take me a little while to fully understand it!

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 8d

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 8d

A weary traveller enters a warm cottage- yet one look at his eyes turns comfort to dread. There’s something not quite human in that “ghastly fair” face…& all are glad when he hides it again. #AScareADay Read Emily Brontë’s ‘And now the house dog stretched once more’
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The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë/And now the house dog stretched once more - Wikisource, the free online library

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Complete_Poems_of_Emily_Brontë/And_now_the_house_dog_stretched_once_more

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 9d

Deep below, the Kraken sleeps 🌊 vast, ancient, and dreaming of the world’s end. Alfred Tennyson’s sea monster still stirs. #AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social

poets.org/poem/kraken

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks for providing the accessible copy and audio because the original was making my eyes boggle!!

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 10d

You 100% have!!

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 10d

My favourite so far!

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 10d

Today’s #AScareADay, got me reading The Buried Alive by John Galt (1821) ⚰️ A beautiful story about everyone’s worst nightmare- to be conscious while dead. It ends on an electrifying note ⚡️

Read it here: romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/19/t...

The Buried Alive by John Galt (1821)

We’re closing in October and I’m preparing for our annual #AScareADay challenge. I’ll be putting up the full list in the next week but today I’m posting one of our upcoming …

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 10d

Health allowing, I am planning an M. R. James post from 1st December every evening to Christmas Eve. This will include items and artefacts from my own collection, some of them extremely rare #Book #ghosts #DeadDecember 👻📚

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 11d

Read it here: gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/060...

The Sand-Man and other stories

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 11d

“But what we children detested most of all was his big coarse hairy hands…he delighted to touch [our food] until bright tears stood in our eyes.” 🍰💀

Today’s #AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Sandman (1816) brings terror to the table, where even sweets turn uncanny.

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 12d

It really was 😆

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 12d

The Elopement

Sometimes you don’t need to get thee to a nunnery because the nuns will try to get to thee…persistently! What a great story for @romgothsam.bsky.social
#AScareADay

en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Lit...

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 13d

📖 Read it: poets.org/poem/hag
🎧 Listen : youtu.be/pGPeozcz4DM?si…
📜 Full challenge list romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/21/the��

Dare you walk with the Hag tonight? 🌙✨

The Hag

The Hag is astride

poets.org

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 13d

👻 Thrilled that #AScareADay is back with @romgothsam.bsky.social! Each day we get to creep into a different eerie tale or poem from the challenge list and share our thoughts.

🕷️ October 1st - Robert Herrick, The Hag (1648)

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