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Rusty Coffin Nails

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She/They. Greyromantic. Aspiring bog body. Writer. You can support my work via https://ko-fi.com/braegrosz.

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Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · Sep 5

Hello, new followers! And old followers who like handy threads of links to boost!

I’m Rusty, pen name B. Rae Grosz (she/they), purveyor of sad, strange stories, true and fictional. I write about ghosts and other hauntings, often with folklore, fairytale, and/or gothic inspirations.

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B. Rae Grosz

ghost stories & other haunting tales

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 31m

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 · 33m

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

Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · 42m

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 · 5h

#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 · 7h

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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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9h

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 3h

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Hedgehog
14th of the #Emberlings of Oct.
Originals £35 (plus post) each, in UK because people should be able to afford human art.
Message or reply to claim. First come, First served. She is A5. All will be collected in a book with words by @taliskimberley.bsky.social. #witchsky

Drawing of a hedgehog witch looking up at the moon. She has a staff and a snail on her hat.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 16h

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…

romancingthegothic.com

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Haunted Mitten Podcast @hauntedmitten.bsky.social · 23h

Couldn't make it out to Haunting Tales with Leanna Renee Hieber? You can watch it now on YouTube!
@leannareneehieber.bsky.social
@aadl.org
www.youtube.com/live/sItqZvx...

Author Event | Haunting Tales with Leanna Renee Hieber

YouTube video by Ann Arbor District Library

www.youtube.com

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Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · 15d

For fans of folklore, murder ballads, and/or 19th century poetry — a reading of three poems, inspired by the 1810 murder of Polly Williams and the acquittal of the suspected murderer, Phillip Rogers

youtu.be/KTF8aSdQg9g

Three Poems on the murder of Polly Williams

YouTube video by another story by B. Rae Grosz

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Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Portal 8. Staffordshire. Another unconventional horizontal portal made to look like a mossy grave. Gotta watch out for these ones. #tombtuesday

Portrait colour photo of a misty graveyard. A wall runs across the top third of the image and in front it is green grass with graves, and brown leaves on the ground. The closest grave is a rectangle of lime green moss on the ground. The headstone is gone. There are trees in the mist in the background.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · May 23

DW Griffith directed BIRTH OF A NATION (1915), a virulently racist film (and neither his first nor his last one of those) that saw racist violence follow wherever it was screened.

So, naturally, there are film bros and gals who think we should "ignore the racism" and keep it in the canon.

Thread

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 1d

Hey #PortfolioDay! Nice to see you again. My name is Aimee, and I'm a dark-beautiful #DarkArt freelance #illustrator. My current wishlist for projects is: 📚 Book covers and 🃏Trading/Playing card games, but I'm open to anything!
💼: AimeeCozza.com
✉️: [email protected]

An illustration of a person from the chin down. They have both their arms around black wolves, which are asleep and cuddled against the person. Two more wolves are asleep and piled on top. The person and the animals are all smeared and smattered with blood, indicating they had a great meal together.

A man curled over onto his elbows, his head in his hands, amidst green leaves. A glowing, luminous dagger dangles above his neck and spine. His hands are cupped and outstretched towards the sky. Luminous liquid slips through his fingers.

A small child holding a bunny rabbit stuffed animal standing in front of a line of darkened forest. Inside the forest are lots of glowing sets of eyes

An oil painting of a foggy, monochrome forest with a singular man with glowing eyes standing in front of it. Before him are multiple shadows of wolves, their eyes glowing in the darkness as well.

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Kate Blagodatskikh @blagodatskix.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay 👁
I'm Kate, freelance illustrator who works on illustrations, book covers and loves to paint horror, mythology and nature 🌿

Portfolio: blagodatskix.carrd.co

• Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/blag...
• Socials: linktr.ee/Blagodatskikh
• Contact: [email protected]

The illustration of the woman with blind eyes that is surrounded by light.
She has peony flower in her hands and many, many eyes in her body that are visible from the cuts.

The illustration of the woman, siting in the dark with coral and tentacles emerging from her back.

The illustration of the sand watch, figure of woman inside the glass. Watch surrounded by two hands - one old and one young.
Also, there a lot of mushrooms on the bottom and top of the illustration.

The illustration of the mermaid lounging under lily pads in dusk light.

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Sygnin / DTIYS pinned! @sygnin.com · 1d

Heyo #PortfolioDay! I'm Sygnin, I illustrate in an ink & color style.

Interested in working on book/game/card art. I like making art featuring folklore, fantasy, romantic horror.

Portfolio - sygnin.com
Vgen (commissions) - vgen.co/sygnin
Email - sygnin[@]gmail[.]com

art of a female vampire's head looking at the viewer. flowers cover one of her eyes. her dark hair flows upwards and she wears a lace victorian type outfit

art of a silhouetted hooded rider on a horse with horns and red glowing eyes. behind them is a red moon

art of a hunter fighting with a large flying monster that looks like a dragon. based off Monster Hunter game.

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D.D.B.Torres @ddbtorres.bsky.social · 1d

hello #PortfolioDay,
I'm Torres, a freelance artist and illustrator.
I love medieval fantasy, whimsical creatures and dark fairy tales.
I'm always on the lookout for new projects in book publishing, TTRPGs and TCGs.

Email: [email protected]

An illustration of mother Goethel, the witch from Rapunzel. She stands in the center, surrounded by thorny bushes and between two crooked trees, holding a baby wrapped in luminous white cloth and her eyes glowing a malicious golden color. In the foreground we see rampions growing from golden vines which intertwine like braids; in the background, in the distance and in the middle of a forest, we see a lone tower

a red squirrel knight, with body armor and a cape, holding a lance in one hand and standing on its hind legs, with a golden halo aroung its upper torso and head.

the beast (from beauty and the beast), appearing in the middle of a dense rose-bush foliage, gently holding a tiny bird in its huge paws and looking at it with tenderness. the castle tower can be seen in the distance.

toe-thrasher, a rat lord wearing a royal mantle made of white fur, thrashing in the middle of a swamp in its hind legs and holding a black flail. in the swamp, there are numerous yellow eyes

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Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · 1d

He always let me stay up late to watch anything that I was interested in on PBS (for example, the first NOVA about Ötzi the Iceman that aired when I was 4 years old).

Ź🖤🥀 @lalaspeaks.bsky.social · 2d

What’s ONE green flag about your father?

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (StinaMarie) @stinasdemons.com · 1d

It's #Portfolioday!
I'm StinaMarie, and I make creepy and not-so-creepy art with traditional mediums. I have created book covers & book illustrations, commissions, and sell prints & originals. 😈🎨🦇🩸

🎨 stinasdemons.bigcartel.com

#DarkArt #TradArt #Illustrator #Horror

Gouache Illustration of a ghost sitting down reading a book in a darkened library where two candles float in the air around him to illuminate his book

A watercolor illustration of a misty forest scene with a lone skeletal tree on a hill in front of a large white moon.

A watercolor/ink drawing: haunted, dilapidated house looms in front of a stormy sky. A tree stands in the yard in front of it.

Acrylic painting of a weird botanical scene: blue mushrooms, an orchid with a face and mouth full of teeth, and a weird flower with an eye in the center and tendrils coming out of it. There are green leaves and bushes on the ground and it's all encased in a dome. Outside of the dome is a black starscape.

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 1d

A squirrel is standing inside and peeking over the top rim of a hollowed out pumpkin. The top of the pumpkin can be seen behind. The squirrel is wearing a slouchy black witch hat with orange stripes and holding a squirrel-sized chef knife. The knife is because the squirrel has carved the words ‘MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN’ in the side of the pumpkin and in the ground in front the word ‘TODAY’ has been spelled with stringy orange pumpkin guts with seeds scattered all around.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 4d

"For over all there hung a cloud of fear,
A sense of mystery the spirit daunted,
And said, as plain as whisper in the ear,
This place is haunted."

- Thomas Hood
#PhantomsFriday #31DaysOfHalloween #ghosts #hauntings #poetrysky #Victorian

A spooky old mansion seen on the other side of a lake fringed with trees. The illustration dates from an 1893 edition of 'The Letters Of Charles Dickens'.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 1d

J is for M R James from my #folkhorroralphabet series.

matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/folk...

#BLOCTOBER2

Linocut plate and print of ghost story writer M R James working by candlelight as a giant skeleton looms over him.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · Sep 12

One of the places that most creeped me out as a kid reading #ghost books was Hermitage Castle, #Roxburghshire. For one thing it just looks so GRIM. But its ghosts, that of an evil sorcerer called Lord Soulis and his nasty little familiar, Redcap, are particularly unnerving.
#PhantomsFriday #folklore

The forbidding medieval fortress of Hermitage Castle - mighty walls with tiny windows and one gothic entrance.

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Mathraptor @mathraptor.bsky.social · Nov 20

Long Horse fan art from 2021
5.5" x 7.25" fountain pen on multimedia paper.
Peep that alt text!

Long Horse is the creation of Trevor Henderson.

"I kept my light off for as long as I could to try and preserve my night vision, but then I heard something keeping pace with me. It could probably see me, but I couldn't tell where it was coming from. It sounded like... someone dragging a carpet through the dried leaves? But as though it was constricting around me, and the only path to safety was the one that I had come from. There was something else. Something under the sounds of dried leaves and snapping twigs. A hollow clattering sound, like, a bamboo windchime. It just got louder and louder but stayed so quiet? I panicked, and turned on my light. The trees illuminated like street signs, and the carpet of leaves faded into static. It took me a moment, but then I saw it. It was pale, and almost translucent, with thin, white, skin. And all down it's back was a mane of stringy, black, hair. It was impossibly long, and draped over the canopy of tree branches above me. There was no way to tell where it started, but, in the gloom, just out of my lights reach, was it's head. Skull-like, with no eyes to be seen, and grotesquely elongated. Like the skull of a horse. I ran."

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