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"Speak now, come now, rise now from the forest, from the furrows, from the field and live" https://folkhorrorrevival.com/ #FolkloreAgainstFascism Posts by Richard Hing, views my own

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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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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 21h

Adventurers descend where no-one has descended before, into 'The Maracot Deep', where they encounter monstrous crustaceans, bizarre fish and millions of plastic microbeads (alright, I made that bit up). From the serialisation in The Strand, 1927, of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel.
#WyrdWednesday

A monster lobster attacks a diving bell while a weird-looking fish swims away.

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 20h

Glumly Greetings: Folk Horror Harvest #Halloween2025

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 21h

I've got four first edition hardbacks of this left here (which I'm happy to sign and personalise) with a free bookmark by my mum. If you'd like to grab one for cover price plus p&p please drop me an email at [email protected] (sorry, posting to UK only).

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 1d

An enormous scary tree in an illustration by Nikolai Vorobiev for a 1970s book on Russian folk tales. I'm embarrassed that I know nothing about the story because it looks cool. However, the picture seemed ideal for #ThickTrunkTuesday.
#folklore #legends #folktales #illustration #Russian

A gigantic tree with eyes waves claw-like branches menacingly as a knight on horseback, dwarfed by its size, prepares to fire an arrow. Crows are flying around.

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 2d

FEAR IN THE FENS FESTIVAL Woo hoo I will speaking on ‘Becoming Wolf: The English Eerie and History of the UK Werewolf’ Sat 25th October, 3.00 at fearinthefens.com in Kings Lynn. There will be a showing of An American Werewolf in London #31DaysOfHalloween

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XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore @xingwu.bsky.social · 2d

Kang Nang (傒囊) is a haunting presence in Chinese folklore, a mountain-dwelling creature that looks like a child. When spotted, it silently extends its hand, inviting you closer. But beware: if you grasp its hand and lead it away from where it stands, it dies. 1/2
🎨 Shan Ze

干寶，搜神記十二，"兩山之間，其精如小兒，見人，則伸手欲引人，名曰「傒囊」，引去故地，則死。"

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 10h

I do wonder what Nael is up to these days and if he knows how feted his poem has become.

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Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 4d

Every working, professional poet in the world today would give their right arm for one of their poems to have had the exposure and impact that this six year-old's has had over the years.

Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 4d

Today's animal theme for #BookWormSat wouldn't be complete without Nael's classic poem 'The Tiger' 🐅

🎨 by Brian Wildsmith

The Tiger by Nael, age 6, from 'They're Singing a Song in The Rocket'

The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

Painting of a tiger in dense undergrowth by Brian Wildsmith

https://www.brianwildsmith.com/wild-animals

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HALLOWEIRD @johnnymains.co.uk · 16h

Today on the BBC Archive youtubes, I have mostly been watching THE GHOST HUNTERS from 1975.

Strange goings on, indeed. Benson Herbert is a one.

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1975: Meet THE GHOST HUNTERS | Classic BBC Documentaries | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 10h

Lucky, I'd love to find a copy for myself. Have you read it yet?

Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 10h

Joan Forman is probably my favourite writer of true ghost story books. I read this one last year, but I'd forgotten this one about the peculiar bubble figures.

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John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social · 4d

#DailyGhost
4) DALLINGTON CHURCH
Northamptonshire, 1907. Two girls out for a walk enter the church. Inside, they are terrified to see the place full of kneeling people who seemed "to be made of a substance similar to bubbles". No explanation has ever been offered, and the apparition never reoccurred

Haunted East Anglia by Joan Forman (1974 / 1990)

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Robert Lloyd Parry @nunkie.bsky.social · 2d

From next Sunday until Christmas Eve, there are many performances of M R James's greatest stories, live all over the UK, and online. Full details here: www.nunkie.co.uk/schedule
Hope to see you somewhere...
(illustration by Paul Lowe)

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 10h

Hm, I'll take that as avoid then, when I have such a huge backlog of other things to watch.

Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 10h

I hear Amanita is helpful for revelations

Swirly psychedelic art of a frog or toad sitting cross-legged on a fly agaric mushroom, surrounded by other mushrooms, by Shamanska Kate

Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 10h

Love this song, and the Frantics original is great too, a bit more atmospheric than driving

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The Frantics - No Werewolf

YouTube video by GotYouFish

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Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 1d

Your daily dose of wtf....

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Tamlyn @tamlynrogers.bsky.social · 7d

I know the world is a bit grim right now, so please enjoy this instead:
youtu.be/YpKx1tQ6VG0?...

Allah-Las - "No Werewolf" (Official Video)

YouTube video by Innovative Leisure

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 10h

I went searching for the cover artwork and found that @memizon.bsky.social posted it on Twitter a few years ago.

Front cover of 'Spookerisms: 25 weird and eerie happenings easily re-told as one's own experiences' by Elliott O'Donnell. Above the title and description on the cover is a bevy of traditional white sheet draped ghosts.

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Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 14h

1/3 According to a Flemish folktale, bokkenrijders or buckriders, who were said to be thieves, ghosts, or sometimes even witches, and rode through the sky on the backs of goats in Flanders and the Netherlands, had stolen the Queen's laundry.

#WyrdWednesday

Art from Affiche: "De Bokkenrijder of het skelet." Opdrachtgever: Het Hollandsch Tooneel. Shows a buckrider riding through the sky. Castle in the far distance. Clouds.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 16h

For #WorldOctopusDay we'd like to share with you this rare octopus skeleton that was found at the Palace.

An empty glass display box that, crucially, contains no bones.

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 14h

Drop something SKELETAL

Photograph of the skeleton of a Stegosaurus on display in the Natural History Museum, London

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/stegosaurus-brought-to-life.html

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Stephen Graves @stephengraves.co.uk · 21h

🚨 TOMORROW! 🚨

🌞 THE SEVERED SUN + director Q&A 🌞

Thursday October 9th at 7:30pm, Reading Biscuit Factory

Folk horror fans, this is not to be missed!

🎟️ Tickets here 🎟️

www.readingbiscuitfactory.co.uk/movie/the-se...

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 20h

And here's the cover of the 1949 Rider & Co. Ltd edition, another wonderful artwork.

Front cover art of 'Haunted Britain' by Elliott O'Donnell, depicting a swirling cloud in which menacing figures with bright red eyes and mouths are visible in the swirls. Less distinct are a coach and horses and a horse rider with antlers. Occasional gaps in the cloud reveal the walls of a ruined house, a manor house, and a tree. On the books spine is another cloudy figure and a crossroads.

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 1d

Tuesday’s ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat.1726, f. 37r

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