Haunted Bench Project
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🪦 Ghostly & macabre legends of #Harrow & district. #HauntedHarrow #HarrowWeald #HauntedBenches #parkphantoms #cemeteryspectres #gardenshedghosts & c. #pulp #horror & supernatural fiction; stuff like that. Tower Hamlets also features quite a lot. 💀
Pinned
Always loved this one. Bride of Dem's illustration of the entrance to the Egyptian Avenue, #HighgateCemetery
#Book_to_read_on_a_haunted_bench_on_ValentinesDay. Francesca Beauman, 'Shapely Ankle Preferr'd: A History of the Lonely Hearts Ad 1695-2010@ (Chatto & Windus, 2011). Devotes a chapter to William Corder, Maria Marten/Martin and the #Murder_in_the_Red_Barn.
February 14, 2026 at 11:13 AM
#Book_to_read_on_a_haunted_bench_on_ValentinesDay. Francesca Beauman, 'Shapely Ankle Preferr'd: A History of the Lonely Hearts Ad 1695-2010@ (Chatto & Windus, 2011). Devotes a chapter to William Corder, Maria Marten/Martin and the #Murder_in_the_Red_Barn.
Reminder: Should you be unaware, #TheGothicSociety, 'Britain's Purplest Literary Society' have returned from beyond the veil and we reckon you might enjoy a browse of their lovely archive at:
gothrevisit.uk
#Udolpho #JennieGray #mouldering_corpse #gargoyles #ghosts&ghouls #friendsofmyworld etc
gothrevisit.uk
#Udolpho #JennieGray #mouldering_corpse #gargoyles #ghosts&ghouls #friendsofmyworld etc
February 13, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Reminder: Should you be unaware, #TheGothicSociety, 'Britain's Purplest Literary Society' have returned from beyond the veil and we reckon you might enjoy a browse of their lovely archive at:
gothrevisit.uk
#Udolpho #JennieGray #mouldering_corpse #gargoyles #ghosts&ghouls #friendsofmyworld etc
gothrevisit.uk
#Udolpho #JennieGray #mouldering_corpse #gargoyles #ghosts&ghouls #friendsofmyworld etc
The Gothic Society, 'Britain's Purplest Literary Society' are back! We recommend you visit their very lovely archive. There is even talk of New Stuff.
gothrevisit.uk
#GothSoc #Udolpho #JennieGray
gothrevisit.uk
#GothSoc #Udolpho #JennieGray
February 8, 2026 at 12:53 PM
The Gothic Society, 'Britain's Purplest Literary Society' are back! We recommend you visit their very lovely archive. There is even talk of New Stuff.
gothrevisit.uk
#GothSoc #Udolpho #JennieGray
gothrevisit.uk
#GothSoc #Udolpho #JennieGray
Thank you staff at #ideastore, #watney_market, E1. Love the note. (please hurry up & open a bluesky account!)
February 4, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Thank you staff at #ideastore, #watney_market, E1. Love the note. (please hurry up & open a bluesky account!)
Arrived to day from @simongosden.bsky.social. L. H. Maynard & M. P. N. Sims 'Enigmatic Tales #5' summer 1999, inc. stories &/or illos by Paul Finch, Hugh Lamb, 'Dick Donovan,' Gerald Gaubert, Alan Hunter, Sarah Singleton, Colin Pink, Joan Board &c.
February 2, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Arrived to day from @simongosden.bsky.social. L. H. Maynard & M. P. N. Sims 'Enigmatic Tales #5' summer 1999, inc. stories &/or illos by Paul Finch, Hugh Lamb, 'Dick Donovan,' Gerald Gaubert, Alan Hunter, Sarah Singleton, Colin Pink, Joan Board &c.
Autumn-Winter 1972 issue of #Mudflaps fanzine is a #supernatural special, no less. 24 pages of news reports & articles interspersed with pre-WWI non-spine chilling phantom cyclist fiction. #scrapbooksfromfanzineland #ghosts #terrifyingworldofhauntedbenchproject
January 31, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Autumn-Winter 1972 issue of #Mudflaps fanzine is a #supernatural special, no less. 24 pages of news reports & articles interspersed with pre-WWI non-spine chilling phantom cyclist fiction. #scrapbooksfromfanzineland #ghosts #terrifyingworldofhauntedbenchproject
#vampyre_lovers by Chrissie Demant, from an issue of 'The Velvet Vampyre.'
January 19, 2026 at 2:39 PM
#vampyre_lovers by Chrissie Demant, from an issue of 'The Velvet Vampyre.'
@mccartneyjoe.bsky.social Found a copy of 'Sparky Book for Boys & Girls 1972' at this morning's market. Includes Keyhole Kate, Pansy Potter, Sid's Snake, Invisible Dick, I Spy vs Mr X (I like him; proper Victorian stage villain with Dr Evil tendencies), Spoofer, Mr Bubbles, etc.
January 18, 2026 at 12:04 PM
@mccartneyjoe.bsky.social Found a copy of 'Sparky Book for Boys & Girls 1972' at this morning's market. Includes Keyhole Kate, Pansy Potter, Sid's Snake, Invisible Dick, I Spy vs Mr X (I like him; proper Victorian stage villain with Dr Evil tendencies), Spoofer, Mr Bubbles, etc.
Just completed 'The Ghoulish Horror of Croglin Grange', a one-off(?) themed scrapbook-zine of obscure origin. #CroglinVampire #scrapbooksfromfanzineland
January 16, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Just completed 'The Ghoulish Horror of Croglin Grange', a one-off(?) themed scrapbook-zine of obscure origin. #CroglinVampire #scrapbooksfromfanzineland
Made up to have copped a copy of John Canning [ed]'s '50 Strange Stories of the Supernatural' (Century/Souvenir, 1974) with this striking cover illo, artist unattributed as was (is?) too often the case. Ghosts, witchcraft, curses, voodoo & juju, clairvoyance, mumbo jumbo, etc.
January 16, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Made up to have copped a copy of John Canning [ed]'s '50 Strange Stories of the Supernatural' (Century/Souvenir, 1974) with this striking cover illo, artist unattributed as was (is?) too often the case. Ghosts, witchcraft, curses, voodoo & juju, clairvoyance, mumbo jumbo, etc.
Vampire Love, illustration by Chrissie Demant. Ist appeared in either Velvet Vampyre, Intervamp or Vat. #vampzines #fangsonfriday
January 9, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Vampire Love, illustration by Chrissie Demant. Ist appeared in either Velvet Vampyre, Intervamp or Vat. #vampzines #fangsonfriday
1/3 Books/mags/zines I most enjoyed in 2025. These selections may SURPRISE you. They may even SHOCK you. Lit bores need not trouble themselves.
January 4, 2026 at 6:11 PM
1/3 Books/mags/zines I most enjoyed in 2025. These selections may SURPRISE you. They may even SHOCK you. Lit bores need not trouble themselves.
Kicking off the New Year (OK, it was published 25 Dec if we're gonna be accurate), a 'Worlds of Strangeness' Winter special from Nigel Taylor and friends. Original Horror, Fantasy, SF fiction plus articles, micronicles and what have you. Find it on Am*z*n. Get a copy and be with it! 🖤🖤
January 4, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Kicking off the New Year (OK, it was published 25 Dec if we're gonna be accurate), a 'Worlds of Strangeness' Winter special from Nigel Taylor and friends. Original Horror, Fantasy, SF fiction plus articles, micronicles and what have you. Find it on Am*z*n. Get a copy and be with it! 🖤🖤
Maybe the single most attractive publication I clapped sunken eyes upon in 2025. Adam Newell's 'The Croglin Vampire' scrapbooklet from Sangrail Press/ Withnail Books, 2024. Only drag, its a limited edition (250 copies) & seriously sold out .
January 2, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Maybe the single most attractive publication I clapped sunken eyes upon in 2025. Adam Newell's 'The Croglin Vampire' scrapbooklet from Sangrail Press/ Withnail Books, 2024. Only drag, its a limited edition (250 copies) & seriously sold out .
December 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
‘Ah youth, lost and wind borne. Ah the friends, the family, the dear ones, the departed. Ah those voices from the dead past. Come again, lost ones, forever lost, forever living. Come and haunt me now and through eternity.’ — Ralph Finn, 'No Tears in Aldgate,' 1963
December 26, 2025 at 7:05 AM
‘Ah youth, lost and wind borne. Ah the friends, the family, the dear ones, the departed. Ah those voices from the dead past. Come again, lost ones, forever lost, forever living. Come and haunt me now and through eternity.’ — Ralph Finn, 'No Tears in Aldgate,' 1963
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I've spoken alot about my grandad, but I've rarely discussed his battle with Dementia.
He is my motivation for signing up for the 50 miles in January challenge. I will be sharing folklore along the way. Please share or donate if you are able. Thank you!
fundraise.dementiauk.org/s/27334/2788...
He is my motivation for signing up for the 50 miles in January challenge. I will be sharing folklore along the way. Please share or donate if you are able. Thank you!
fundraise.dementiauk.org/s/27334/2788...
Amy Boucher
Hi there, This month, I’m walking 50 Miles for Dementia UK – a cause close to my heart. Just £10 could pay for the telephone costs of two families calling its free Dementia Helpline, so any sup...
fundraise.dementiauk.org
December 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I've spoken alot about my grandad, but I've rarely discussed his battle with Dementia.
He is my motivation for signing up for the 50 miles in January challenge. I will be sharing folklore along the way. Please share or donate if you are able. Thank you!
fundraise.dementiauk.org/s/27334/2788...
He is my motivation for signing up for the 50 miles in January challenge. I will be sharing folklore along the way. Please share or donate if you are able. Thank you!
fundraise.dementiauk.org/s/27334/2788...
a haunted christmas & a ghastly new year to all our reader. #ghostsoncamera #wapping #terrifyingworldofhauntedbenchproject
December 24, 2025 at 6:09 AM
a haunted christmas & a ghastly new year to all our reader. #ghostsoncamera #wapping #terrifyingworldofhauntedbenchproject
#Benchwatch "A ghost of more recent vintage reputedly haunts the public bench on Weald Lane. Sighted early evenings during late autumn through winter, what appears to be outline of a young-trenchcoated man w/ stringy hair staring ahead as though awaiting someone he knows will never arrive."
December 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
#Benchwatch "A ghost of more recent vintage reputedly haunts the public bench on Weald Lane. Sighted early evenings during late autumn through winter, what appears to be outline of a young-trenchcoated man w/ stringy hair staring ahead as though awaiting someone he knows will never arrive."
Too posh to be a fanzine, Jennie Gray's magnificently proper gothic and frequently acerbic 'Udolpho,' quarterly publication of the Gothic Society from 1990-1998 (early issues simply 'The Goth'). 🖤
December 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Too posh to be a fanzine, Jennie Gray's magnificently proper gothic and frequently acerbic 'Udolpho,' quarterly publication of the Gothic Society from 1990-1998 (early issues simply 'The Goth'). 🖤
#nonemoreGothic Monk Lewis's 'The Castle Spectre' as reproduced in 'The Hour of One: Six Gothic Melodramas' introduced by Stephen Wischhusen (Gordon Fraser, 1975) #terrifyingworldofhauntedbenchproject
December 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
#nonemoreGothic Monk Lewis's 'The Castle Spectre' as reproduced in 'The Hour of One: Six Gothic Melodramas' introduced by Stephen Wischhusen (Gordon Fraser, 1975) #terrifyingworldofhauntedbenchproject
#vampyrelove #ghoulfriday - another of the bride's, first appeared in an issue of the Gothic Society's #Udolpho during its #TheGoth incarnation.
December 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
#vampyrelove #ghoulfriday - another of the bride's, first appeared in an issue of the Gothic Society's #Udolpho during its #TheGoth incarnation.
#fanzinefriday. vols 1 & 4 of obscure #HauntedHarrow fanzine; #ghosts & macabre history/ legends inc. the Phantom Nun of St Mary's, Springheeled Jack, Scarum Castle, Mad Monk of Marsh Lane, man mistaken for headless horseman, haunted Bench (RIP), witchcraft in Stanmore, &c #ghoulfriday
December 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
#fanzinefriday. vols 1 & 4 of obscure #HauntedHarrow fanzine; #ghosts & macabre history/ legends inc. the Phantom Nun of St Mary's, Springheeled Jack, Scarum Castle, Mad Monk of Marsh Lane, man mistaken for headless horseman, haunted Bench (RIP), witchcraft in Stanmore, &c #ghoulfriday
#HauntedBench update. It's still missing, presumed carted away by the bloody council (see also the ancient stone bench in Byron Park) #philistines. I so hope they didn't know to strew the ground with salt. #hauntedbench #wealdlane #fallencomrade
December 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
#HauntedBench update. It's still missing, presumed carted away by the bloody council (see also the ancient stone bench in Byron Park) #philistines. I so hope they didn't know to strew the ground with salt. #hauntedbench #wealdlane #fallencomrade