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Denise Jay
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Reader and writer of spooky tales. Geek. Cat servant.
https://denisejaywrites.com/
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December 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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A festive feast of phantoms, a new book by by Paul Weatherhead, "Phantoms of Christmas Past"

UK Amazon link: amzn.to/4nTEUBi

US Amazon link: amzn.to/49gfaeV

#phantomsfriday
December 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
My Book A Strange Death in Devell's Wood is part of the Smashwords 2025 End of Year Sale! Find your next favorite book at smashwords.com/sale and follow @smashwords for more promos like this! #EOYsale25 #ebook #sale #books2read #indiebooks
Smashwords – Sitewide Sale
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December 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Guten Morgen zusammen. Ich wünsche euch allen einen schönen Montag...
December 1, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Watching the @nunkie.bsky.social live broadcasts of an M. R. James story is one of my favourite holiday traditions.

I buy tickets for my family in Wisconsin so we can watch together from opposite sides of the Atlantic.

I hope you'll join us!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-episode...
November 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Our winter submissions call is now open! Details at: www.thefictiondesk.com/news/this-wi...
October 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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I went in search of Wiltshire's last mortsafe. It's in Sutton Veny in the graveyard of St Leonard's church ruins.
But, did it stop 18th & 19th century body snatchers or was it to stop the dead from returning? 🧟
Personally I like the idea that it is keeping a vampire hostage! 🧛‍♂️
#wiltshire #churches
November 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A read for dark nights.
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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This Saturday, 18 Oct, 8pm (UK) a free-to-view livestreamed tale of terror
"The Damned Thing" by Ambrose Bierce
youtube.com/live/Jsnsl90...

available to watch anytime after the broadcast
The Damned Thing
YouTube video by Nunkie Films
youtube.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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🎃It’s the launch of the #UNCANNY HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN🎃

A brand new mini-case every day here until #Halloween!

Today’s nugget of terror is Case 1: Mrs Murphy Says Hello👋

Go to the #Uncanny podcast feed for an extended audio version and exclusive trailer for the upcoming brand new #Uncanny series!
October 1, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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This is what a newly launched batch of Starlink satellites looks like on our #MeteorCameras. All night stacked images are from 21 Sept '25, Oxfordshire, UK. Behind the crud the cameras captured 127 & 160 meteors respectively. Fortunately RMS software is good at filtering out junk
September 23, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Thanks to those who tuned in to "The Uncommon Prayerbook".
The next M R James livestream will be on Hallowe'en and concerns a phenomenally ugly and evil aristocrat: pay-what-you-can here
halloweenmagnus.eventbrite.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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“MANDELSON” HAS, ONCE AGAIN, DEFEATED “HIMSELF”
September 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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September 12, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Fancy listening to an unsettling tale now the nights are drawing in? #vernonlee #violetpaget
This Friday, live at 8pm on YouTube
youtube.com/live/cO1Hv8e...
"Marsyas in Flanders" by Vernon Lee.

revisiting an old favourite...
Marsyas in Flanders, by Vernon Lee
YouTube video by Nunkie Films
youtube.com
September 2, 2025 at 7:29 AM
You've seen Vincent van Gogh's sunflowers. Now see his taters. #art #vangogh
August 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Well worth a view if you're a fan of #MRJames.
All three Nunkie/ThomThomFilms documentaries are now viewable for free on YouTube:
Wits in Felixstowe youtu.be/iYq-MS1790Y
Dim Presences youtu.be/Ne2kYzwvHOI
The Shrew Ash youtu.be/-T4qTLeaaxg

You can subscribe to the Nunkie Youtube channel and let us know what you think...
Wits in Felixstowe
YouTube video by Nunkie Films
youtu.be
August 19, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Wowzers!!! Mark has created an all-sky track-stack of the #Perseids caught on all 4 of our #GMN #MeteorCameras in #Oxfordshire. Over 1,000 #Meteors over the whole night of 12/13 Aug '25. These stacks clear show the #MeteorShower radiant!
August 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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The comet “Veru”, from a 16th-century treatise on comets. Now known as Swift-Tuttle, the comet's been described as "the single most dangerous object known to humanity" (though chances of it hitting Earth are still v. v. small).

More from the book here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...
August 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Paul Lee is seeking anyone who might have seen the edition of Nationwide on the ghosts of RAF Bircham Newton/CITB in Norfolk, broadcast in late 1971/early 1972. He's also keen to hear from anyone who heard Jack de Manio's BBC radio shows on the subject at that time.

Email him on [email protected]
August 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Took a trip to the Essex countryside on Saturday and visited a certain church in a certain village. We received a lovely welcome. No spooks were in evidence. #Borley
August 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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The Temple by H P Lovecraft. Live online tonight at 8pm
Free to view here:
youtube.com/live/DRQsB1t...
THE ARCHIVE OF DREAD: The Temple, by H P Lovecraft
YouTube video by Nunkie Films
youtube.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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It's 100 years since M R James's great ghost story "A Warning to the Curious" was published.
"Dim Presences", Nunkie and ThomThom Films documentary about the story, is now free to view on YouTube.
youtu.be/Ne2kYzwvHOI
checkidoot!
Dim Presences
YouTube video by Nunkie Films
youtu.be
July 31, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Photographs that caused a sensation nearly 100 years ago when they became public are going up for auction in Louth. Interest in the items is already said to be strong, reports Tom Keighley for Grimsby Live. www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby...
Famous fairy hoax photos go under the hammer in Louth
Interest in the items is already said to be strong
www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk
July 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Were the Fox Sisters Really Charlatans? whitecrowbooks.com/2025/07/were...
Were the Fox Sisters Really Charlatans?
If we rely on the majority of internet references, the famous (or infamous) Fox Sisters [...]
whitecrowbooks.com
July 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM