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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · Dec 21
We've made our latest Solstice donation from the sales of our Wyrd Harvest Press books of £500 to Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust's @gloswildlife.bsky.social Corridor of Life project, which aims to develop wooded wildlife corridors between significant forests and nature reserves

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Corridor of Life ☀️❄️Solstice Charity Donation 2024❄️☀️
❄️Season’s Greetings to All ~ To mark the Winter Solstice, Wyrd Harvest Press & Folk Horror Revival are again making a charity donation of our book sales profits to a Wildlife Trusts&#821…
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There's a ghost in my cider 👻
Photograph of a pint glass with the foam stuck on the side forming something resembling a sheeted ghost.
December 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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A dreamscape for December on #OwlishMonday
🎨 Susan Seddon-Boulet (1941-1997)
A barn owl in front of a round portal from which an eye gazes. Is that a trace of blood by the owl's claws? A slightly uneven moon hangs overhead and finds its reflection in a medieval style city of silver, gold, ochre and rose colours. Diametrically opposite the seeing eye, and under the moon, a face rests
December 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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LUDLOW FOLKIES!
This Saturday afternoon! Honesty box office! Signed books available!
The funniest, most festive British folktales reimagined for the 21st century! Wrap up warm, but SEE YOU THERE!
WWW.TALESOFBRITAIN.COM
December 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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ICYMI - the latest issue of Gothic Studies journal is devoted to the author, mystic, and media star Algernon Blackwood.

The Intro asks how we can understand Blackwood as an author both in and beyond the Gothic tradition and how his work reshapes the genre.

doi.org/10.3366/goth...
December 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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The folklore of Hookland has every mist, every fog, as danger. Tales of it eating certainty, as a warping infection of the land. Stories of sentient fogs, of even a mist on the common providing a cloak for the Hoarse Hag to walk abroad. – Lou Kemp, Hookland artist, 1981
December 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Owl Lady of Guadalupe 💜🐾🌀
an owl facing the viewer, perched on a crescent moon. The owl is cloaked in a starry cloak, and surrounded by rays. Behind her a starry sky. Woodcut, shades of pink, lime gree, white and black, Maria Strutz
December 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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“Night's black Mantle covers all alike.”

(Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas)

🎨 Benjamin Rabier

#owlishmonday
December 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂

Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
December 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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What @drdjohnston.bsky.social said!
drdjohnston.bsky.social Derek Johnston @drdjohnston.bsky.social · 3d
I'm not sure why it's flashing like that, but the image contains the CFP for the edited collection @dianearodgers.bsky.social and I are putting together on Folk Horror on Television. We're looking for a wide range of texts, contexts, and academic approaches. Proposals by 15 January.
Folk Horror on Television: Call for Proposals for an Edited Collection Editors: Derek Johnston and Diane A. Rodgers Since the first academic conference on the subject in 2014 to the present day, there has been a blossoming interest in the genre or mode of folk horror. There has been a particular boom in academic publishing on the subject in the past few years, including edited collections and monographs. However, this work has tended to focus on folk horror in film and literature, despite there being many televisual texts which can be seen as part of or closely related to the genre. The shared importance of ideas of identity of region and nation form a particular connection between television and folk horror. This collection would seek to address some of this gap. Authors are encouraged to engage with examples from a range of national and transnational contexts. Contributors are also urged to consider the breadth of different definitions of and approaches to folk horror, taking into account the concept of genres as cultural categories, defined by their usage rather than by particular textual characteristics. This can lead to a consideration not just of a wider selection of texts, but also to look beyond the text to consider what different audiences may be doing by claiming particular productions as 'folk horror'. We use here the broadest understanding of folk horror as that which also embraces the ‘wyrd’: texts which may be considered uncanny or unsettling rather than necessarily ‘horrific’. We are also keen to include a wide range of approaches to folk horror on television, whether textual studies, histories, fan studies, folkloristics, or other suitable approaches to broaden and deepen our understanding of the connections between folk horror and television. We have strong interest from Bloomsbury’s Spectres, Hauntings and Horrors series. Proposals of 500 words to derek.johnston@qub.ac.uk AND d.rodgers@shu.ac.uk. Closing date for proposals is 15 January 2026.
December 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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#OwlishMonday
The Little Owl from
A Third Book of British Birds & their nests by Brian Vesey Fitzgerald. Colour Illustrations by Roland Green.
(Ladybird Books 1959). Beautiful artwork. I have included the delightful text and book cover below. I have never met anyone who dislikes the little owl.
Artwork showing a little owl perched at the entrance to a hole in a tree (its nest site)
December 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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The Krampus Tree hast gone live...
December 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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I love the sheer unapologetic awfulness of this. Pudding for a head. Headless goose corpse for a body. Then bottles for peg-legs along with the implements to eat him for crutches. THIS, friends, is Dr. Frankenstein's Christmas miracle.
I love the sheer unapologetic awfulness of this. Pudding for a head. Headless goose corpse for a bod
December 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Edward Gorey, 1974. “Vampire”

#illustration #coverart #1970s #EdwardGorey #Vampire
December 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Welcome back to 18th century Cornwall, where Keeper Nancy Bligh is still holding the line against the dark... @samkhorton.bsky.social 's deliciously dark folkloric fantasy Eythin Legacy began with GORSE and continues in RAGWORT!

Buy now👇
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Against a black background, with the illustration for the GORSE cover art in the bottom left corner and the RAGWORT illustration in the top right corner. In the middle, white text reads "There are places, where the join between worlds is so thin a person, if they pressed their ears to the moss, could hear the dead talking in their sleep." The white Solaris logo is in the top left corner.
December 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Photographer and date unidentified.
via Ossian Brown 'Haunted Air'
December 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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mariastrutz.bsky.social
a barn owl (or three) on a post... 🖤🪶🤍
#BookmarkoftheDay
#OwlishMonday
three bookmarks of a barnowl, with stretched out wing, head turned to the left, sat on a post. Starry nightsky behind the owl/s. Linocut, black and white, maria Strutz
December 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Heroes of Great Britain advent calendar - door 15
December 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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It's ridiculous that the Government *still* haven't banned the sale of peat.

Peat bogs are still getting dug up and used for compost and in horticulture. Ministers say they'll ban it 'when time allows'.

Get on with it already! Sign the petition:

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Sign the petition to end peat sales!
No more delays: Let's get peat out of gardens once and for all. The time for uncertainty has ended.
actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk
December 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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During the reign of Bloody Mary, several priest-holes were constructed inside magnificent Athelhampton Hall, #Dorset. Centuries later they were boarded up. Sadly, a pet monkey became trapped inside one of them and its feeble scratching to be let out is said to still be heard.
#MythologyMonday #ghost
A melancholy looking Capuchin monkey, copyright Hung Do, Wikimedia Commons.
December 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Tomorrow! A lovely talk for mid-December as hoodening season approaches
folkloresociety.bsky.social The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social · 6d
Next week: join us for our last online talk of 2025: James Frost, 'The Hooden Horse of Kent'. Tuesday 16 December, 19:00-20:30 GMT on Zoom. Tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-hooden...
James Frost with hooden horses. Credit Caroline Dyal
December 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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'Winter Hedgerow'
Mixed media on Paper

- Time of the Season Exhibition -
Two Doors Studio in Alsager
Open Every Day until Christmas Eve
www.twodoorsstudio.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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All but one have bids!!!

Thank you for the support!
skullsandsheets.bsky.social Skulls and Sheets @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 1d
MARI LWYD CHARITY AUCTION PART 2

A collection of postcards from @drawingdownlore.bsky.social and @anthecorollaria.bsky.social arrived for the auction @blacksmoke1033.bsky.social donated 5 enamel badges, raising money for each charity

Starts at 7pm tonight!
www.ebay.co.uk/usr/skullsns...
December 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Spooky Advent day 15: Martin's Close by M R James. This story of a dead girl haunting her murdererous beau was made into a Ghost Story for Christmas by Mark Gatiss in 2019.
A black and white illustration of a large woman dressed in a long black dress and bonnet on the banks of a gloomy stream. In the foreground is a tree and leaves, on the hill in the background a gibbet cage hangs, complete with body.
December 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · Dec 19
#FolkloreThursday #GothicAdvent A German nun named Ursula loved singing but was so awful she disturbed the rest of the choir. Even after death she joined in until she was banished and turned into an owl. She joined the Wild Hunt and now lives her best life hooting with the Hunt in the winter skies.
Black and white picture of an owl with bright white eyes and beak flying over a landscape of trees Art by Elena Lishanskaya https://www.behance.net/lenlis
December 23, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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#OwlishMonday 'Morning' by Ikai Tadashi (1997)
Art of an owl sitting on a twig with the Sun exactly behind.
December 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM