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C.W. Reeve
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Author of weird tales & folk horror, co-host of #WyrdWednesday. Killing me won't bring back your apples (He/Him) 👻

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A drabble from me for Halloween, on the theme of '13'! This is my first swing at one of these & I'm really happy with how it came out. Thanks to @ratbaglit.bsky.social for publishing it. Them rats are good folk!

#Horror #Drabble #Horrorwriting
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In Goethe's version of the Faustian pact, the sacriface ought to give you pause:

If you ever come across a moment in life so beautiful that you wish it never to end, the devil will claim your life and soul.

#WyrdWednesday #romanticism #books #booksky
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Was King William II's death while hunting in the New Forest, #Hampshire, an accident, murder - or was it a pre-Christian god-king human sacrifice made to ensure fertility to the land and future prosperity to the people, as has been suggested? (But by whom I've forgotten - Murray?).
#WyrdWednesday
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Good morning, wyrdlings! @cwreeve.bsky.social here, a bit late but all present, correct and in one piece...

This week's #WyrdWednesday theme:

'Sacrifices, Offerings and Selfless Acts!'

SHOW ME THE WYRD!
a cartoon of a bear with no face sitting at a table with a lot of food .
ALT: a cartoon of a bear with no face sitting at a table with a lot of food .
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November 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this."

IG mr.funkys0ul
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The temperature has dropped so much, we can now play that classic winter game: Is It Wet, or Is It Cold?
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Roller derby implies the existence of roller nottingham
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Join us this #Wyrdwednesday for our topic:

'Sacrifices, Offerings and Selfless Acts!'

Serve us up your tantalizing tales from history, myth and lore about ravenous deities and grand gestures both good and evil!
November 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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ok. dude. what kind of arby's has the kitchen down a set of stairs??? and it's all wooden too? kinda weird for a restaurant this canNOT be osha certified... just building up my complaint list atp
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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well done, everyone 👏🔨
November 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The Haunted Room, Painted at a Farmhouse on Exmoor

🎨 by Alfred James Munning, circa 1950

#PhantomsFriday
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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This drawing by John Hookham from Harry Price's 'Poltergeists Over England' is intended to illustrate that poltergeist activity often centres round young girls. But I find it an especially creepy image. One can almost imagine the girl turning round to welcome it...
#PhantomsFriday #ghost #ghosts
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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"I'm trying to get beyond the world of appearances to something more absolute". Using a monochrome palette, artist Alan Reynolds went under the surface of the landscape and into its soil, evoking what he experienced as the spirit of place #WyrdWednesday
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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The castle of Düsseldorf is said to be haunted by a white lady. According to legend, a duchess named Jakobine & her lover were murdered by her jealous husband. Her ghost was alleged to be seen before a series of fires which plagued the castle.

#WyrdWednesday
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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you fucking what
Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out
Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
November 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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In 'The Black Hands' by Albert Bigelow Paine (Pearson's Magazine, 1903), a white American wakes up to find his skin has turned black. His fiance rejects him and he experiences racial prejudice first-hand. A clumsy device perhaps but well-intentioned and no doubt controversial in 1903.
#WyrdWednesday
November 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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This isn’t “efficiency” it’s an ideological shift towards a Little England university system.

Nottingham is set to become the only Russell Group university with no modern languages or music degrees.

48 courses on the line. We’re fighting it.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees
Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The castle of Düsseldorf is said to be haunted by a white lady. According to legend, a duchess named Jakobine & her lover were murdered by her jealous husband. Her ghost was alleged to be seen before a series of fires which plagued the castle.

#WyrdWednesday
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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The Nine Lives Causway and Eel Marsh House from The Woman in Black. Unpublished illustration.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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In Finnish mythology the sacred white Swan of Tuoni swims in the black river of the underworld.

#WyrdWednesday #folklore #epic #Kalevala
November 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Good morning, wyrdlings! Welcome to this week's wyrdly monochromatic #WyrdWednesday!

This week's theme:

"Novembre Noir - Black & White, from Games of Chess to White Snows, Black Ravens and Whisky Blends"

@cwreeve.bsky.social here, show me your wryd! 👻
a black and white photo of a man hanging from a clock on a building .
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November 19, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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“The ancient Pythagoreans called the two Bears the Hands of Rhea, and the wandering planets the Hounds of Persephone, Queen of the Underworld.”
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
If the internet doesn't turn up in 20 minutes then we all get to go home.
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Wyrdlings!

In the bleak mid-November
grey light made
us give you:

"Novembre Noir - Black & White, from Games of Chess to White Snows, Black Ravens and Whisky Blends"

As this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic.

Tell us something that’s monochrome from folklore, myth or pop culture.
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM