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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · Dec 21
We've made our latest Solstice donation from the sales of our Wyrd Harvest Press books of £500 to Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust's @gloswildlife.bsky.social Corridor of Life project, which aims to develop wooded wildlife corridors between significant forests and nature reserves

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Corridor of Life ☀️❄️Solstice Charity Donation 2024❄️☀️
❄️Season’s Greetings to All ~ To mark the Winter Solstice, Wyrd Harvest Press & Folk Horror Revival are again making a charity donation of our book sales profits to a Wildlife Trusts&#821…
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annelouiseavery.bsky.social
#OldFoxAdventCalendar
The Eighth Window. It was very cold outside, drifts of snow in the lane, and whilst Old Fox was busy in the Great Woods, Pine Marten and Wolf had settled themselves by the roaring fire with the biscuit tin and a pile of jigsaw puzzles. There was a wonderful selection in the cottage, entire cupboards were dedicated to them in the parlour and the lower attics. There were fierce Norsemen and love-lorn knights-errant and princesses wreathed in apple blossom crowns, there were steam ships and locomotives and stage coaches, charming views of Fairyland and wistful Rococo picnics, dozens of brightly-coloured scenes of Shakespeare and Dickens and Chaucer, romantic American views – ice skating on the Hudson! the retreat from Lexington! The first Christmas in the New Republic! There were famous gardens of Devon, with borders bustling with lupins and foxgloves and hollyhocks, and still lifes of oranges and lilac blossoms and chocolate pots, there were cathedral closes and London railway stations and Scottish islands, portraits of French actresses holding enormous bouquets of pink roses and Gibson girls skiing and yachting and playing golf, and a parade of flappers driving different motor cars and lounging around on the French Riviera. But that cold, snow-bound morning both Pine Marten and Wolf picked wintry puzzles to do. Wolf laboured away at "Bob Cratchit's Christmas Dinner" and Pine Marten tackled "The Christmas Waits". The latter, with its charming group of west gallery musicians, looked very much like the bright, festive eves of their own village and as such, it filled Pine Marten with a warm feeling of almost unbearable happiness as the old-fashioned picture slowly emerged.
December 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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#owlishmonday Eye Poetry: Owl on a Maple Branch, Utagawa Hiroshige. 1892
December 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Distorted enchanters, Fungi are nature's Surrealists, neither plant nor animal, possibly alien, more likely faerie. (Elfin Saddle Fungus pictured)
December 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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I aim each year to raise £10 for each auction as a basis, so this year raising £630 ish was a target, so it's really great to have raised more!

I also have a couple of surprise auctions left to list by @drawingdownlore.bsky.social and @blacksmoke1033.bsky.social stay tuned!
skullsandsheets.bsky.social Skulls and Sheets @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 1d
CHARITY AUCTION TOTAL UPDATE

Going through the auctions (not all are paid for yet) we have raised £1027.01 for the charities:

Breakdown:

@galopuk.bsky.social : £216.69
@lovingmeuk.bsky.social: £353.57
Mankind Initiative: £55.17
@refugecharity.bsky.social: £272.79
@womensaid.bsky.social : £134.63
December 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Mole and Frog. Classic New Year characters. So overused.
Mole and Frog. Classic New Year characters. So overused.
December 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Spooky Advent day 8: a vengeful ghost may or may not wreak havok in 1930s Svalbard. Yes, it's Michelle Paver's novel Dark Matter, a story of a young man's terrifying descent into madness in one of the most bleak and isolated places on Earth
A black and white illustration in the style of an old photograph. It's set in Northern Svalbard in the middle of winter - mountainous and icy, and dark. In the foreground is a man in expedition gear of the 1930s. A husky, his only companion, is sat beside him. In the background, out of focus, is a figure of a man.
December 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Edge (Marks on Maps)'
Bitumen
Private Collection

An exhibition of print ..
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November 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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An excellent overview of Krampus and similar figures, and earlier this year he published a follow-up book about Carnival figures that I really ought to get hold of too.
Front cover of the book 'A Season of Madness: Fools, Monsters, and Marvels of the Old-World Carnivals' by Al Ridenour. It has a picture of a person peering through the hole in a large animals pelvis.
December 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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skullsandsheets.bsky.social
I learnt yesterday that Krampus enjoy stealing hats. It is a well established mari tradition as well!
expect hat stealing shenannigans in the future
skullsandsheets.bsky.social Skulls and Sheets @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 3d
I was told yesterday that Little Mari and Little Krampus would be a match heaven. So here they are. Little Mari showing a bouncy Little Krampus her Krampus Bread
December 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Winter Pastoral, SR Badmin.
Illustration of winter snow scene, pheasant and baby firs in foreground, beyond a wooden gate are deer running in a field, rolling hills and trees in distance.
December 6, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Everyone check out the amazing artwork in these zines, I've just bought myself all three, and there's plenty more prints available in Charlotte's etsy store

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charlotteart.bsky.social Charlotte Thomson-Morley - Illustrator @charlotteart.bsky.social · 4d
My zines arrived! So proud of them 🥰
Two zines sitting on a wooden tabletop. One is called Winter Beasts the other Wheel of the Year by Charlotte Thomson Morley An open page from Winter Beasts showing an illustration and text about the Yule cat An open page from Wheel of the Year showing text and an illustration depicting a pan-like creature representing the festival of Ostara/the spring equinox
December 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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This illustration appears on a leaflet about the history of Lichfield Cathedral Close we’ve just found amidst some papers @lichdiscovered.bsky.social

What in the MR James is going on here?
December 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Blue Owl Phoenix 💙🪶🌀
Hope is that thing with feathers (Emily Dickinson)
#OwlishMonday
a white and blue owl flying diagonally into the distance to the right corner into a dark star speckled space. A kingfisher flying downwards on the left . a big spiral at the bottom right in orange red shifting into flames. Acrylic painting, shades of orange yellow red white and blue, Maria Strutz
November 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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A detail from Levi Walter Yaggy's chromolithographic 1887 chart, Physical Geography: a classic mid-century Iguanodon dominates the 'Pre-Adamite' Mesozoic, dwarfing the timid-looking bipedal dinosaur half-heartedly added above. Whole image viewable on the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.
December 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Join us this Thursday (11th December) for the final #FolkloreThursday of the year! Our hosts will share your winter and festive themed folklore at the following times (GMT):
9am-1pm
3.30-4.30pm
6.30-7.30pm
Don't forget to include the hashtag! 🎄☃️🎁❄️
Vintage Christmas postcard showing a Santa-like figure dressed in red robes holding a young boy dressed in blue and with blond hair above an open sack. The boy is shouting. The text Merry Christmas is at the top and there is a background of pine trees and snow.
December 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social
Serious wow! Just when you thought the artefacts from the 70s occult revival couldn't get any weirder.
johncoulthart.com John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 2d
From the latest Midian Books mailer: The Avalon Hill Witchcraft Ritual Kit (1974). "A boxed set of materials and guide books for performing witchcraft rituals....seems to be a hybrid of role-play and 'genuine' Wicca. Needless to say extremely scarce."

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The lid of the box containing the Witchcraft Ritual Kit: a pair of red-lit witches (male & female) are engaged in some saucy shenanigans in front of a small altar holding a lit candle and a chalice. The word WITCHCRAFT is printed in large and groovy red letters below them. From the Witchcraft Ritual Kit: a fold-out chart showing a magic circle surrounded by various astrological names and symbols. From the Witchcraft Ritual Kit: Four circular emblems in different colours bearing images related to Beltane, Summer Solstice, All Hallows Eve and Winter Solstice. These may be detached from the sheet of card surrounding them. Also visible are nine cards each of which has a photo of a different implement (or weapon) used in magic rituals. From the Witchcraft Ritual Kit: a horned goat mask made from card.
December 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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imgregory.bsky.social
Nature surprises
folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 9d
I went for a walk along the River Arun today and when I left the main path discovered what felt like a patch of Atlantic tropical rainforest like you'd be more likely to find on Dartmoor with all the epiphytic mosses and ferns.
Photograph by me of a woodland with branches covered in epiphytic mosses and hart's tongue ferns growing on the floor along with other vegetation. Photograph by me of the forest floor with hart's tongue ferns. Photograph by me of a branch covered in a thick carpet of long mosses. Photograph by me of a woodland
December 1, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Day 8-Stone Circle Solstice-it’s winter solstice and, after a successful evening of foraging,two elderly badgers celebrate the season with a cup of hot berry toddy.In the sky overhead the ancient spirits of the place pass by brighter than ever on the longest night of the year.Available as a print.
December 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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#OwlishMonday
Illustration by C. F. Tunnicliffe (For Plowman’s Clocks by Alison Uttley)
A black & white woodcut style image of a Barn Owl flying over a wooded landscape beneath a towering crag of rock. A crescent waxing moon is in the sky
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Paul Evans.

#painting #contemporary #PaulEvans
December 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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A watercolour drawing of a giant squid, by Adriaen Coenen (1584). From his 'Walvisboek' kept in the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library, Antwerp.
December 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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#OldFoxAdventCalendar
The Eighth Window: The heavy snow had finally stopped that morning, leaving pale blue skies and drifts as tall as Wolf along the lane. After a breakfast of hot buttery muffins and strong lemon tea, Old Fox made his way to the far corner of the Great Woods across the river. There, ringed with gleaming holly trees, like attendants upon a great Dorset barrow-king, was the cottage's Christmas tree to be. It was a magnificent spruce tree, twelve foot high, whose sacred life had been given freely & reverently to Old Fox for that brief season at the turn of 1930, when the light tried so very hard to level in the world. As was usual, Old Fox stood still and listened intently to the tree's tales, stories of the haze of bluebells and violets in the spring, of the little robins and great tits and black caps who chattered and sang on his branches, of the sweet green cool of the woods in the summer, when all the village courted in its lazy realms, of the copper-dun-gilt beauty of the autumn turn, with its scarlet berries and moon-white mushrooms, and now the snows which lay so heavy on his limbs. "Such a life I have had!" said the tree. "Such a life!" And Old Fox bowed to him, a low bow such as a great king deserves. And at that point we must leave them, for there is magic in the deep woods at Christmastide of which us humans have no right to know.
December 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Day seven of #ArtAdventCalendar and #OwlishMonday
Looking Through the Owl’s Eyes
Pen and ink wash picture of a young person in a long dress holding up an owl in front of their face. The owl is perched with its wings spread open and its eyes directly in front of the person’s as if it were a mask.
December 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Day 8 of the #HooklandChristmasTree decoration and the glass Ghost Bear finds a place. A semi-opaque spectre, he reflects silver tinsel, white fairy lights while haunting the branches. All the other ornaments seem to keep a respectful distance away, almost as if they can hear his roar for revenge.
December 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Oh it's #owlishmonday here's a repost with a slightly more accurate rendition of the colors
A linocut of an owl, wings spread, holding an olive branch. It is printed in dark red ink on beige paper.
December 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM