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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 1h

"Next autumn, when the leaves began to fall, he came back and started sweeping at the top of the path, where he died. Each year he's been getting nearer and nearer to the end of the path. When he gets right to the end - well, I wouldn't want to be the mistress."
A M Burrage, The Sweeper
#BookWormSat

Part of 'The Abandoned House' by Atkinson Grimshaw, showing a path strewn with autumn leaves leading to an old, battlemented house.

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 17h

#PhantomsFriday "Mrs Stone" sees a headless man in a Wiltshire lane. "But I see a figure agen the darkness. It were the figure of a man wi’ his arms out and seemed all to bar the way. It were a terrible sight, for it had no head, and was all in a cloud o’ darkness."
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Illustration of a headless man in 18th century clothes walking in a lane

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M.H.Urban @mhurban.bsky.social · 17h

And horror blended with sci-fi!

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 19h

Before buying her Cornish home Menabilly, Daphne Du Maurier was told a mysterious woman in blue had been seen staring from a window. Writing in the same room years later, the author happened to look out of the window while wearing a blue smock - and wondered, had she been the ghost?
#PhantomsFriday

𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝙿𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚔 💀☕🍂🎃 @andy-paciorek.bsky.social · 4d

Daphne du Maurier
~ Compton Collier (1932)

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David J R Allkins @allkins.bsky.social · 18h

"Even a ghost who died by violence, shouldn't lose his legal rights, should he? 'Legal Rites' by Isaac Asimov & James MacRead" Cover by Bill Wayne for the pulp magazine 'Weird Tales' September 1950 #phantomsfriday

Colour cover for a pulp magazine titled Weird Tales. The transparent ghost of an old man with a white beard and blood stains on the suit he wears sits in a n armchair behind a bookcase. In the foreground, a man in a suit with glasses suits and looks and the ghost. On the left hand side of the foreground man is a pile of papers with a black book on top. The caption to the cover illustration reads "Even a ghost who died by violence, shouldn't lose his legal rights, should he? 'Legal Rites' by Issac Asimov & James MacRead"

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M.H.Urban @mhurban.bsky.social · 17h

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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 21h

"What secret lies within the old walled-up tunnel?
"We have a man staying in our house," he said, and described him as having a tall black hat and a cloak.
"He goes to the wall of my sister's bedroom - then vanishes..."
#Bexhill Observer 22.12.1978. #PhantomsFriday #Sidley #Sussex #Ghosts #1970s

Newspaper cuttings from the Bexhill Observer 22.12.1978. "What secret lies with the old wall-up tunnel." The Thorne, Ninfield Road, Sidley, Sussex.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 21h

'Glimpses Of The Supernatural' is one #ghost book I did pay quite a lot for - anything by Rev F G Lee is rare. The UK first was in 2 volumes but mine is the US 1-volume first (in tiny type). Both were published in 1875. Some spooky gems among the religious prosing.
#PhantomsFriday #31DaysOfHalloween

My US first edition of 'Glimpses Of The Supernatural' by the Rev Frederick George Lee. The covers are dark brown. The title is on the spine in a gold escutcheon. On the front top-left corner there is a gilt representation of a streaky veil running diagonally. Out of it are emerging three ghostly hands, also in gilt.

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M.H.Urban @mhurban.bsky.social · 22h

Yup, with The Devil's Backbone vibes

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M.H.Urban @mhurban.bsky.social · 23h

There are numerous, sinister legends surrounding the place. Some talk about disappearances of teenagers linked to satanic rituals and basements with torture machines. They also tell stories about ghosts from the Civil War, as the complex was used as a hospital and the basements as dungeons. (2/2)

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M.H.Urban @mhurban.bsky.social · 23h

Cortijo Jurado is a hacienda built in the mid-19th century by the Heredia family, one of the wealthiest in Malaga (Spain) at the time. It covered more than 2,500 square meters in a neo-Gothic style and was built around a central courtyard. (1/2)
#PhantomsFriday #folklore #horror #ghosts

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 1d

I have now created a separate account for #PhantomsFriday, imaginatively calling it @phantomsfriday.bsky.social
I'm not sure why I've done this, it just seemed right to have all those Friday posts on ghostly books, art, poems, #folklore, haunted locations etc in one place. Please join the feed!

Illustration by Barry Wilkinson of a weird, blurry figure of a man, hands raised and apparently crying out. In the background a man in a doorway is reacting with shock at the sight of it.

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M.H.Urban @mhurban.bsky.social · 23h

Added to my TBR list

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Mary B @beesincampanula.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire was said to be haunted by lantern men, strange lights that danced over the dark surface of the great mere or moved erratically among the reeds, intent on luring unsuspecting mortals to a watery grave deep within the marshes…
#PhantomsFriday

Looking up through the reeds to a blue sky…

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 1d

The ghost of the Dun Cow, killed by Guy of Warwick, was reputed appear in the courtyard of Warwick Castle whenever a member of the Earl of Warwick’s family was likely to die. The spectral bovine made no sound and its hoofs left no marks.
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday

view of Warwick Castle keep from the castle courtyard

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 1d

For #PhantomsFriday, a 'Punch' cartoon from the 1940s. You might like to join in with a ghostly post or two over at @phantomsfriday.bsky.com

A small boy stands casually with a catapult behind his back. A British police constable has got his notebook out. Between them is a smashed window and broken glass on the floor. The boy i saying: "Poltergeists, I believe they're called."

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 1d

"The dawn widened & I saw the desolate houses that crowded the marge of the river, & their dead windows peered into my dead eyes...I grew so weary looking at these forlorn things that I wanted to cry out, but could not because I was dead" Dunsany 'Where The Tides Ebb & Flow' 🎨 S Sime
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📚 Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany lived in Dunsany Castle near Tara and collaborated with WB Yeats and Lady Gregory. His short story takes the form of a nightmare; the dreamer can think and perceive, but he cannot feel. He knows that a crime against humanity means he can have no afterlife; his corpse is trapped in the mudflats of the Thames; his soul is trapped in his bones. From time to time his corpse is uncovered and reburied. He craves the grave's repose, but each time he's buried a crew wearing cloaks and carrying tapers return his body to the foreshore. He's neither of sea nor land; neither alive nor fully dead. 🎨Unlike Dunsany, Sidney Sime (b Manchester 1865) was born to a poor family and sent to work for Yorkshire mines. However, he became a renowned artist and caricaturist, sought after by high born patrons. Dunsany chose him to illustrate many of his works, saying:
“I have never seen a black and white artist with a more stupendous imagination”.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 1d

In his 1946 book 'Adventures With Phantoms', R Thurston Hopkins claims a close family connection with the 'cursed skull' of William Corder, perpetrator of the legendary 'Murder In The Red Barn' in #Suffolk. Legendary, because the murder weapon was supposedly found by a dream. [1/Lots
#PhantomsFriday

Victorian engraving of William Corder (seen from the rear) shooting his unfortunate girlfriend, Maria Marten, in 'The Red Barn'.

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Beth Death and the Dumb-Belles @shoebillmansion.bsky.social · 1d

#PhantomsFriday

"The ghost light is a single bare bulb on a pole that stands centre stage. Tradition says it keeps any ghost from moving when a theatre is empty and dark... Before electricity... the ghost light acted as a pressure-relief valve... if there was a surge in the gas"

Palahniuk, Haunted

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 1d

In #Victorian times, medieval St Donat's Castle, #Glamorgan, was haunted by the benign and elegant Lady Stradling but also by: a phantom panther patrolling the passages; 'a hag of horrible appearance'; a piano that played itself; and a huge glowing eye. The final four were exorcised.
#PhantomsFriday

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Dawn Colclasure Wilson @dmcwriter.bsky.social · 4d

If you want a quick, #scary read, check out 30 Flash Horror Stories by Dawn Colclasure. A mysterious sign only one man can see...trick-or-treaters getting more trick than a treat...and ghosts that never rest. These are just some of the #creepy tales in this #book! www.amazon.com/Flash-Horror...

30 Flash Horror Stories

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Catherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 1d

Fun carved turquoise magnesite Jack O' Lantern #pumpkin #Halloween #earrings w/ black onyx! via
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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · Mar 22

Between them ‘Municipal Gothic’ and ‘Intervals of Darkness’ have 27 stories full of haunted buildings, haunted people, and working class weirdness. Obviously *I* think they're great – but so do strangers who owe me nothing!

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👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Intervals-Da...

The covers of both books with quotes in praise of them, and of specific stories:

“‘Modern Buildings In Wessex’, which pulls a compelling horror narrative out of several architectural reviews, is an all-timer. Can’t recommend enough... Fans of Ghostwatch and Inside No. 9 – run don’t walk.”

Trevor Henderson

“...a tremendous collection, hugely enjoyable, and essential... for anyone interested in the English ghost story... ‘Men Who Live in Caravans’... is one of my very favourite stories of recent years: a future classic of the English weird, full of an almost unbearable sadness, quite exquisitely told.”

Seán Padraic Birnie

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M.H.Urban @mhurban.bsky.social · 1d

Is today Friday? YES!
#PhantomsFriday #haunting #ghosts #folklore #horror

Dr Paul Lee @drpaullee.bsky.social · 2d

Haunted Headlines: 8 most haunted pubs in London

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8 of London's most haunted pubs to visit this Halloween

Gin and vodka aren't the only spirits you'll find in these London pubs.

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M.H.Urban @mhurban.bsky.social · 1d

#halloween

three skeletons are dancing in a cemetery with the words `` happy halloween '' .

ALT: three skeletons are dancing in a cemetery with the words `` happy halloween '' .

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