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Welcome to Willerby, where the supernatural is as everyday as the weather. More than fifty free short stories about the weird events that happen in our village, all on our website. https://willerby.substack.com www.welcometowillerby.co.uk

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · Mar 23

Welcome to Willerby.
A village where the supernatural is as everyday as the weather. Free short stories.
Stephen King/M R James/Eerie Indiana/Black Mirror/Twilight Zone.
"A sort of supernatural archers."
"Throwaway ghost stories about the most important things in life."
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk

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Photo of a road with two white village signs on either side of it.

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 31m

A chair in a shed in front of a blue crate being used as a table with a kettle and plate on it.

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 10h

Gibbet Cross.
A Willerby Story.
Don't stop here after dark.
willerby.substack.com/p/gibbet-cross

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 9h

A rusting old ruined tractor in rough dank grass.

Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 10h

Gibbet Cross.
A Willerby Story.
Don't stop here after dark.
willerby.substack.com/p/gibbet-cross

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Alison Honeybone @alihon.bsky.social · 12h

The start of this tale is the most perfect evocation of that slow, eerie realisation that (in the words of Wilco)...'no it's not OK'....

Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 15h

Gibbet Cross.
A Willerby Story.
Th ghosts are always trying to find their way home.
willerby.substack.com/p/gibbet-cross

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 15h

Gibbet Cross.
A Willerby Story.
Th ghosts are always trying to find their way home.
willerby.substack.com/p/gibbet-cross

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 15h

Gibbet Cross.
A Willerby Story.
Th ghosts are always trying to find their way home.
willerby.substack.com/p/gibbet-cross

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 1d

Gibbet Cross.
A Willerby Story.
Do not linger at the petrol station at the site of the old gibbet.
This and fifty more free stories on our village website. Link in bio.

Come find us.

willerby.substack.com/p/gibbet-cross

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 1d

Don't hang around there too long.

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 1d

Promises to Keep.
A Willerby Story.
Where might we end up if we take the roads less travelled?
willerby.substack.com/p/promises-t...

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 1d

Reader comment. Up with your best. I like it a lot.

Reader comment. Sad and creepy. Beautiful.

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 1d

#FolkloreThursday
Black Annis A hag with a taste for human flesh (especially children). She is said to haunt the countryside of Leicestershire. From the Reader’s Digest Folklore Myths & Legends of Britain. Illustration by George Tute.

A woodcut style of illustration showing a horrific hag-like figure in the undergrowth with two dead children grasped in her claws. A crescent moon is in the sky.

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 1d

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 1d

Promises to Keep.
A Willerby Story.
Where might we end up if we take the roads less travelled?
willerby.substack.com/p/promises-t...

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 1d

We wonder whether Jack would be called a Stay Below in Hookland.
willerby.substack.com/p/flytipping

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 1d

We all loved this. Why did Jake come back? Was it to save someone else or just to be seen?

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Haunted UK Fiction (Podcast) @hauntedukfiction.bsky.social · 1d

New episode available now on the Haunted UK Fiction podcast! A haunting ghost story by Robert McDermott that will linger in your mind longer after the episode has ended.

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S01 - Episode 02 - It Shows Up When It's Needed by Robert McDermott

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 1d

Promises to Keep.
A Willerby Story.
What might we find if we turn off the path?
willerby.substack.com/p/promises-t...

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 1d

Promises to Keep.
A Willerby Story.
What might we find if we turn off the path?
willerby.substack.com/p/promises-t...

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 1d

We wonder whether Jack would be called a Stay Below in Hookland.
willerby.substack.com/p/flytipping

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

In ponds, pools and rivers, Stay Belows feel the cooling, notice the littering of acorns and leaves upon the surface. We feel the first chill as desire for gloves, hug of sweater. They feel it as a hunger. An instinct for one final feast before taking to the mud for the long sleep of winter.

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 2d

Promises to Keep.
A Willerby Story.
What might we find if we turn off our familiar roads?
This and fifty more free stories on our village website.
Come find us.
willerby.substack.com/p/promises-t...

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 2d

Promises to Keep.
A Willerby Story.
What might we find if we turn off our familiar roads?
This and fifty more free stories on our village website.
Come find us.
willerby.substack.com/p/promises-t...

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