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"[The Barn Owl's] shriek is still a bad omen; if it perches on a house to screech, it is a certain sign of death, and if it is heard at a birth, the child will be unlucky all its life." - Christina Hole, 'English Folklore' #BookWormSat #superstition #tradition #birds #owl #omens

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24 tickets left to see Quentin, Comfrey and Jago on the big screen in Liverpool May 14th FACT gallery. www.fact.co.uk/film/qtv-arc...

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Morning. Puffin Flying, Floy Zittin.

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I walked along the canal today trying to find the boat of Trippy Pete. There wasn't a whisper of him, just water folk keen to pass on sightings of the Empress Eel at swimming, tales Stay Belows still hungry from a winter spent sleeping in the mud. The cut's current is folklore. – #MattAdams

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While working on Something Else (TBA 😉), I ended up exploring an interesting tangent: the road movie as a distinctly American type of folk horror. I started with movies from the 60s and 70s, but it goes beyond that. Are there some films (of any era) that you would add to the list?

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Thanks to @momoshaty.bsky.social & @nighttidemag.bsky.social for running this piece! As you make your summertime travel plans, make sure the tourist destination you have in mind is still in the domain of the living… nighttidemag.com/2025/04/25/m...

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My favourite children's book (even allowing for the 20-odd #DoctorWho Target paperbacks I had filling up a shelf in my bedroom!). Cover by the wonderful Anthony Maitland, who also did most of the Leon Garfield covers. #FolkHorror #Hookland #legend #fantasy #fantasyfiction #childrensbooks

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1 week to go until publication day for Tales of Folk Horror. Released on Friday 2nd May in eBook & paperback, pre-order the eBook version now for just £2.99! mybook.to/Folk2 If you are a reviewer or book blogger & would like a digital copy, let me know! C 🖤💀

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My 1976 first edition of 'A Dictionary Of Fairies' by Katherine Briggs. The hardback seems quite hard to find now so I'm pleased to have a copy - it's a wonderful book. #BookWormSat #folklore #fairy #fairies #faery #faerie #fairylore #katherinebriggs #BookChatWeekly

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It’s today! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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🌿🪶🌿"The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off." 📖The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett. #BookWormSat

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As an author of what many call 'horror', let me tell you no being casts a more abhorrent shadow than man. No creature is more monstrous. For those of our kind that hunt for pleasure and live among dead-eyed trophies, we must hope a reckoning of ghosts awaits them. – #CLNolan

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#BookwormSat I recently came across a copy of 'A bird book for the pocket' by Edmund Sandars (1943 edition) and picked it up for the author's charming illustrations, but when I got it home and examined it properly found more personal treasures from its history within too.

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Fox skulls 🖤 tawny owl feathers 🪶 echinoid micraster 🌘 Line-drawing and black tea #FoxFriday #FossilFriday

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There's still around ten tickets left for our folk horror show in Glossop tomorrow evening! If you want to know the connection between Play School and witchcraft, all will be revealed by me and @bobfischer.bsky.social...

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"For you have accepted the role of king for a day. And who but a fool would do that?" Sgt Howie is determined to find the missing girl on Summerisle. Every few years I'll pop on The Wicker Man and never fail to spot something new or an element I hadn't thought through before. Post-It Note art.

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Four weeks tonight, Fri 23 May at 8pm, a livestreamed performance celebrating 100 years since the punblication of M R James's masterpiece "A Warning to the Curious." Register and pay-what-you-can here 100yrsofwarning.eventbrite.co.uk "He has some power over your eyes..."

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A sad fact: one of the last Great auks in the world was beaten to death on the Scottish island of St Kilda in 1840 because some locals who caught it thought it was a storm-conjuring witch.

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I missed #StGeorgesDay, but what the heck: here's St George vs. #Tyrannosaurus for #FossilFriday. You don't have to look hard for the Paolo Uccello reference, but this Tyrannosaurus looks to be giving St. George a tougher time than the dragon in his painting. #paleoart #sciart #dinosaur

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Wiosna (Spring), Michalina Janoszanka, c. 1920s.

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Here's a Friday Shop Plug for you. 🚨 On Sunday I'm going to be shutting up shop for a spell while I get set up on this new telly job down in Bristol. Hopefully not for too long, depends how stressy it is 😬... 👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

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#FossilFriday repost

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Not long to go if you want to give this a go

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Great news to see this classic compilation getting reissued

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Please sign and share if you want to - petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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Happy St Mark's Eve, It was the custom in villages in England on April 24th to sit in the church porch in silence from 11.00 p.m. until the bell struck 1.00 a.m. when it was said that the ghosts of those who were to die during the year would be seen coming into the church.

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It is St. Marks Eve and Little Mari is ensuring the ghostly procession are guided and provided ghost toast as a snack

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My latest Tales of the Weird collection for the British Library has a cover and is available to preorder 🖤 shop.bl.uk/products/ret...

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For #Easter, a #Roman metal brooch in the shape of a rabbit (or hare), with traces of its original enamel decoration still adding a splash of colour. Animal-themed jewellery was popular in the Roman world, especially brooches 🐇 AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #HappyEaster

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I'm doing The Great Satanic Swindle as a live online lecture Tuesday night, worldwide, thanks to Viktor Wynd's Last Tuesday Society. A true-crime / folk horror / performance lecture about a bizarre case of satanic panic in 1980s England. thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/the-gr...

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So, I'm looking for a publisher who would be interested in my unthemed anthology of weird tales - sixteen in all, the stories are all 150+ years old, have NEVER been reprinted and eight are by female authors, INCLUDING a lost Flora Annie Steel short story, which is very exciting. DM's open!

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The Dead of Summer is here...🔥 The great @johnnymains.co.uk returns with a collection of tales to welcome in the summer... in the most brutal and bizarre ways. WYRD IS ICUMEN IN! Grab yours: tinyurl.com/4nwr5dv4

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It’s really happening! The Sorrow Songs album, performed in full at BBC Proms. Amazing… Black History IS British History. Folk is for everyone. www.bbc.co.uk/events/e6dhj5

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It's day two of the Barnes & Noble pre-order discount bonanza including my new book Household Lore! There are corpses! Ghosts! Fairies! Nostradamus! Nudity! Potatoes! And 25% off! What more could you want? www.barnesandnoble.com/w/household-... #Booksky #BookologyThursday #Folklore #FolkloreThursday

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I'm glad for this article - those that vilify gulls usually do because of sheer ignorance. Gulls aren't the problem, they are just animals trying to survive in the landscape we've created. Try to understand them and have compassion.

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Tonight is St Mark's Eve, when, according to English #folklore, if you sit in a church porch tonight and stay silent from 11 pm to 1 am you will see a procession of the ghosts of all the people in the village who will die during the coming year.

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