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Lynn Huggins-Cooper
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Horror maven. Thanatologist. Creative Writing lecturer at Falmouth. Author. She/her, ADHD. Views all mine...mine I say!
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Lynn Huggins-Cooper @hugginscooper.bsky.social · Nov 17
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Whilst we are findingways to live deliciously, how about delving into @scarfolk.bsky.social - below is a festive post from the Book of Faces

#horror #HorrorWriters
Spooky skeletal reindeer and sleigh. Words: SOON SOON SOON! It will be time for the mandatory Krist Mass Slay rides though the rubbish choked streets of Scarfolk! Hurry up to reserve you and your families spots today. If you don't get on the list that is checked twice....well.....don't!
November 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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A message from @hookland.bsky.social from The Land of Faces. Do you follow Hookland? If not, why?

#horror #horrorwriters
Tree stump with new growth. Words: We have allowed superstition to become a word loaded with negative judgements. Is someone who believes in the ghosts of felled trees, the persistence of Wood Sprites and their revenges against the axe superstitious? Yes, but this should not be assumed as a bad thing. – Dr. M. Benn
November 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Interested in screenwriting?

#writing #screenwriting
4Skills I NFTS: Script to Screen | NFTS
Welcome toChannel 4and theNational Film and Television School'sbooking page for an exciting week of online sessions that are all free and open to anyone to join
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November 21, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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If you're cold...

#Cryptids #Cryptozoology
Images if cryptids with 'If you are cold, they're cold. Bring them inside'
November 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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I spun with my arms outstretched as the sky swirled above me.
Red and purple aurora over dark trees Red and purple aurora with white cloud bank over dark trees Red, green and purple aurora over dark trees Red, green and purple aurora over brightly golden lit stone terraced houses
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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I grew up with Ladybird books and find such pleasure and comfort in the seasonal illustrations.

‘Bonfire Night’ (1951)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
Old Ladybird books illustration of Bonfire Night - people in a garden gathered in a circle around an open bonfire.
November 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Gothic woman in white devilish costume with wings and words 'You look happier' and 'Thanks, I stopped people Pleasing and became the weird, feral little menace I should have been all Along'
October 31, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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'Darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells:gourds being cut, pies being baked.'
Owl and halloween decorations halloween decorations pumpkins and seed pods Halloween table decorations including crystal ball The halloween tree by ray bradbury
October 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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When you realise your chintzy coffee matches your reading choices...

#Horror #HalloweenCore #Halloween
Costa coffee cup on top of 'bog people' book with a pumpkin in the background
October 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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The time approaches...
#Halloween #ClocksChange #Horror
#DarknessFalls
Vampire woman moving the hands on a clock. Text says 'remember to move your clocks ahead one more hour closer to halloween'
October 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Mycogical magic!
The amazing world of fungi – in pictures
Dr Tom May, a mycologist at the Royal Botanic Gardens and an expert witness at the Erin Patterson trial, has collaborated with renowned fungi photographer Stephen Axford for Planet Fungi, a new book f...
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October 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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5th horseman - The Big Light. 6th horseman - high or tight collars. Which horsemen would you add to the ND Nemesis herd?

#neurodiversity #ADHD #Autism
Images of 4 spectral riders in a grid labelled the 4 horsemen of the neurodivergent: loud noise, bad texture, alterations to a comfort food, change in plans
October 10, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Well, it's Creative Writing I teach, rather than English - but yep, guilty as charged...

Strewing wonderful examples and seeing students gobble them up is one of the best parts of a truly *great* job :)
October 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Just popping by in The Love Bus - beep! Beep! All aboard! We have the best snacks and I've been baking.
Bus striped in trans flag colours blue/pink/white. Words 'if your child is trans, your role is simple: love them louder than the workd hates them'
October 4, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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L - Let the Right One In
Y - You Are Not My Mother
N - Needful Things
N - Nosferatu
Shadow of vampire (nosferatu) on stairs - blue background
October 2, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Clipart of smiling white 'sheet ghostie' on a background of orange paint with autumn leaves and bats. Says 'me on the last day of september'
September 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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I started making Halloween bunting this evening with autumn maple leaves - so relaxing...
#DopamineFix #Halloween
Jack o'lanterns cut from leaves and mounted on vintage print Jack o'lanterns cut from leaves and mounted on vintage print Jack o'lanterns cut from leaves and mounted on vintage print
September 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Call for Papers
‘Gothic Selves/Artificial Others’, University of Hull, UK (28-31 July, 2026) Once speculative, artificial intelligence now haunts contemporary society, with public discourse around its application …
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September 19, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Call for papers: HORROR STUDIES NOW, May 28/29 2026, Northumbria University

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#horrorNU
September 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Romancing the Gothic 2026 Talk Series – Call for Papers
In 2026, our annual conference will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of Ann Radcliffe’s final, posthumous, publications. An early Gothic writer, Radcliffe was known to some as the ‘…
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September 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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They're back...the northern lights dancing over the village below us.
#NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis
Purple northern lights over village Purple northern lights over village Purple northern lights over village
September 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Caroon of skeleton driving a bus full of ghosts and pumpkins saying 'next stop September'
August 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Spent time in good company today at the village festival. Alpaca babies!
Dark brown alpacas 2 dark brown alpacas
August 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Neurodiversity Anthology
Our second anthology will gather a wide range of creative responses on the theme of Neurodiversity and the More-Than-Human. We want to foster neurodivergent situated knowledge that is not limited to t...
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August 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Hoping to get time to read some of this over the weekend. What's on your tbr pile?

#Booksky
August 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM