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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank'nstein's Monster 🎃🕸️💀🦇

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Have-a-go folklorist and writer. My new book Household Lore publishes in November! Pre-order your copy https://watkinspublishinglinks.com/householdlore and learn the secrets of your dark corners...

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank'nstein's Monster 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · Jul 17

📣 Have just fondled my first copy of Household Lore & I'm totes emoshe (as the kids probably don't say any more). To get your mitts on my purple spredges pre-order here: watkinspublishinglinks.com/householdlore
#HouseholdLore #FolkloreThursday #Folklore #BookChatWeekly #Booksky #BookologyThursday 🪴🥔

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 6h

Hello, people of North Wales!

I’m coming to Bangor on Friday to do a lovely event called Ask A Historian, where you can ask me anything about history — tickets still available. All part of Bangor’s 1500th anniversary!

And @katewilliamsme.bsky.social is there too

www.pontio.co.uk/en/events/g%...

Bangor History Festival - Pontio

https://www.pontio.co.uk/en/events/gŵyl-hanes-bangor

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10h

Californian Morning' (mid 20thc) by US artist and printmaker Emmy Lou Packard (1914-1998) #WomensArt

Print featuring a line of different wild plants in silhouette with a singing blackbird perched in one and a dragonfly flying above, all in front of the ocean under an orange sun

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank'nstein's Monster 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 7h

The potato was rotten.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 9h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 10h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Professor Marion Gibson @witchesetc.bsky.social · 7h

If you heard me talking about the 1652 “Maidstone witches” on Radio 5 Live and want to know more, here’s the original trial story: quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A8545...

A prodigious & tragicall history of the arraignment, tryall, confession, and condemnation of six witches at Maidstone, in Kent, at the assizes there held in July, Fryday 30. this present year. 1652. B...

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Jules Gray @julesgray.bsky.social · 21h

What five events defined your childhood?

Playing Dead Man's Fall on Colin's lawn in the Summer of '76
School holidays with both grandmas
Record shopping in Manchester
First kiss (teeth-clashing incident)
Falling down a band and breaking my arm during an elastic band fight

🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank'nstein's Monster 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 22h

What five events defined your childhood?

The heatwave of 1976
Chris Kelly kissing my finger better
The Berlin Wall before and after the fall
School sanitary towels with loops and safety pins
Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, all on a sesame seed bun

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

What five events defined your childhood?

The first moon landing
Thatcher stealing my milk
Vietnam war
Star Wars
The Clash

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 1d

My cartoon for the books page in this week’s @theguardian.com

Title: Where writers really get their ideas.

A writer, holding a note in his outstretched hand approaches a cart in the park. The front of the cart reads 'Fresh ideas' and a colourful umbrella shades the server who is reaching deep into the body of the cart (much as an ice-cream vendor might) and saying:
"I'm all out of mind-blowing concepts and heart-rending narratives, but I've got an acerbic observation, an unexpected outcome and a couple of amusing notions."

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

What five events defined your childhood?

The first moon landing
Thatcher stealing my milk
Vietnam war
Star Wars
The Clash

Dragonrider Sue #fbpe #ktto 🐠🐟 she/her 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @topsyscatmum.bsky.social · 1d

What five events defined your childhood?

Poll tax riots
Brixton riots
Fall of the Berlin wall
Sex Pistols
Jaws/Grease/Poltergeist

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Anna F. Walker @spyglassart.bsky.social · 1d

A little seagull study. Love these pesky birds.

#art #birds

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Artist Susanna Bauer adds thread and crochet to dried leaves, creating miniature artworks #womensart #Autumn #Fall

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank'nstein's Monster 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 23h

Very good!

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HALLOWEIRD @johnnymains.co.uk · 23h

Alan McManus
Plays on the baize and he tries to amaze with his skill
Makes others feel ill

🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank'nstein's Monster 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 1d

This and all the replies are delightful! www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/c...

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank'nstein's Monster 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 1d

I thought you were going for Wicks picks with the first one!

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Robert Wilfort @robertwilfort.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited Nick pics

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This and all the replies are delightful! www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/c...

From the CasualUK community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the CasualUK community

www.reddit.com

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DaveDisaster @davedisasterman.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited dik-dik pic

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Bookshop Day, an annual celebration of bookshops, booksellers and the joy of shopping local. Where would we be without them?

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 1d

#31daysofhalloween #spookybook #booktober #ghosts
The Ghost Wore Black, Chris Woodyard
Some of my favorite stories: The girl who married a ghost, banshees in Indiana, the Angel of Death at the Louisville asylum, MIB, a scuttling cornstalk monster, and Kentucky's fiery devils. Available worldwide.

Cover of The Ghost Wore Black: Ghastly Tales from the Past, by Chris Woodyard, skeletal woman in a black veil edged with lace

Table of contents for book The Ghost Wore Black, Chris Woodyard

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank'nstein's Monster 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited pick pics

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Erika Lee Sears @erikaleesears.bsky.social · 1d

Cheetos 🤭 #art #oilpainting

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank'nstein's Monster 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 2d

In this week's Household Agony column, the Folklore Agony Aunt helps a reader with their knotty decision over what to do with their household spirits when they move… Subscribe and get all the drama in your inbox! #HouseholdLore🏡 #Folklore #FolkyFriday #spirits liza-frank.com/moving-house... 1/3

Moving House(hold Spirits) | Household Agony!

A reader about to move house asks the Folklore Agony Aunt for tips on how best to manage their household spirits...

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank'nstein's Monster 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 1d

Just once, when they close the M23, I'd like the diversion signs to actually divert me to the right place. Just once. Or even when they're trying to divert north and south traffic through the same town, they mark the f*cking signs N and S. Nobody wants to be circling Crawley at 12.30am...

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 1d

stop thinking right now

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