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Roger Clarke. Author of A Natural History of Ghosts, published by Penguin Books (2012). Former writer for the Independent Newspaper UK, Sight & Sound. In it for the long haul with chronic ill health, colitis from childhood, CPTSD and 21 other conditions.

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · May 6

'Beautifully written, lithe, complicated and hugely rewarding' Sunday Times

'Splendid... a compelling read... Clarke manages to give goose-flesh and a giggle while informing the reader...an enviable feat' Scotland on Sunday

'Outstanding...deeply enjoyable' Shade Point

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 7h

John Vigar @johnevigar.bsky.social · 8h

This door at Eastwood church in Essex dates from about 1150, which is extremely rare. The hinge has an inscription which (more or less) says ‘blessings on those who come and go’.

Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 8h

Goodnight

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 12h

I try to mininimise Amazon use but this Marion Gibson Kindle edition of Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials is 99p today

amzn.eu/d/f7cnPN0

Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials eBook : Gibson, Marion: Amazon.co.uk: Books

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 12h

#31daysofhalloween #spookybook #booktober #ghosts
Ghosts in the Great War and True Tales of Haunted Houses Thrilling Personal Experiences of “Daily News” Readers,
S. Louis Giraud

Red book in front of multicolored floral curtain

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 15h

3) The 3-year pilot has now been turned into a permanent feature in the Irish govt budget, opened up to another 2,000 entrants next year, with a view to increasing those yearly numbers sometime after:

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Basic income support scheme for artists to be made permanent and opened to new entrants in budget

Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations

www.irishtimes.com

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 1d

Goodnight

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 1d

Morris Kantor, Haunted House, 1930, oil on canvas,
94.3 × 84.5 cm (37 1/8 × 33 1/4 in.), Art Institute of Chicago

"Morris Kantor drew inspiration from the material culture of historical New England—ladder-back chairs, colonial portraiture, marine painting, wallpaper—in this fantastical rendering of a supposedly haunted house in rural Massachusetts. A shadowy figure lurks at the composition’s darkened right edge, an unknown presence encroaching on the comforts of the sitting room. Kantor later recalled that such a setting, with “its peculiar moldy smell, the fading beauty of old plaster discolored by time and living … turned my imagination to the past, to the people who had lived there and gone.” A Russian immigrant, the artist engaged with the stories and objects of American history as catalysts for his Surrealist, dreamlike musings." -AIC

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 1d

My great uncle the archaeologist Louise Stephenson Clarke, who ran the Fitzwilliam during the war and left all his money to his butler.

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 1d

All that polishing and Victorian precision engineering. Automation has removed a raft of jobs perfect for people with OCD etc

Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 1d

Just watched the whole thing and it briefly lifted my gloom, the self-sufficiency of everyone then is so profoundly beautiful. In their eyes you can see they see a different horizon.

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 2d

Full harvest supermoon in Aries in about an hour from now, here in Shoreditch. Meanwhile tea, mooncake and plums to celebrate a Chinese-English household. Goodnight

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 2d

Mooncake Festival tonight
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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 3d

Goodnight

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 3d

Attitude. Fab.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 3d

October 5: Apologies for the bad news, but today is one of the 3 unluckiest days of the year in the Roman calendar. Definitely let people know that the underworld opens up to the living today (mundus patet) and so you just can’t leave your house, especially to sail (also on August 24 & November 8).

The tomb was designated the “Tomb of Cerberus” after the incredible mural of Hercules fighting the three-headed dog that guarded the underworld.

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 3d

Oh maybe not the Avengers then, the dates don't match. Maybe it was the other way round!

Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 3d

Here are some recent books I bought. I spend too much on books, but what can you do

Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 3d

I buy at least six a month minimum. I need no encouragement! 😅

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 3d

They're very wise in Lancashire

Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning. I won £30 on the UK Lottery.

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for your kind words, G

Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 4d

Goodnight

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 5d

The pews of English churches are wooden bestiary. A carved chronicling of all the country's imagined animals. Here are dragons! Here are antlered dormice, here are winged hares! Prayers distracted by wonderful beasts. – Lucy Hay, architectural historian, 'Wooden Wonders', BBC Two, 1979

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 4d

And gifts!!

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Dr_Alessandra_P @alessandrapino.bsky.social · 4d

Today’s #AScareADay, got me reading The Buried Alive by John Galt (1821) ⚰️ A beautiful story about everyone’s worst nightmare- to be conscious while dead. It ends on an electrifying note ⚡️

Read it here: romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/19/t...

The Buried Alive by John Galt (1821)

We’re closing in October and I’m preparing for our annual #AScareADay challenge. I’ll be putting up the full list in the next week but today I’m posting one of our upcoming …

romancingthegothic.com

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