Phantoms Friday

A poster advertising the original 1960s 'The Haunting'. The tagline reads: 'You may not believe in ghosts but you cannot deny terror.'

And finally (from me). 'Nuff said, as Stan Lee used to say.
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Sorry, I've just seen all your hashtags and realised you didn't didn't need me to tell you all that. Still, an excellent choice of movie though. I must revisit it myself. Anything with Peter Wyngarde in it's worth watching, anyway.

Painting depicting a child in a long nightgown, approaching a melancholy lady ghost sitting on a chair. Another child watches from the bed.

'The Lady Ghost'
by Adelaide Claxton

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Hi Rivka. Thanks for joining in. What a beautiful painting.

We ended up at Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, very old and very haunted. I was going to include more locations but we were stuck there for hours due to rain so had to curtail our tour. I got a pic of the cursed galeon though.

More details:

www.paullee.com/ghosts/ghost...

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Superb research.

Photograph of a cassette tape called 'Ghost Busters and other themes with an illustration of three ghosts. Above someone has written the text 'To whom might you dial?' humourously mocking the fact that the ghost in the middle looks posh and distinguished rather than scary.

#PhantomsFriday Time to dust off this cassette

Another #PhantomsFriday #Halloween treat

Alfhausen and the Alkenkrug Pub

Near Alfhausen, the ghost of an evil publican can be challenged to a race.

He manifests as a hot rod.

#PhantomsFriday #Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Alfhausen_and_the_Alkenkrug_Pub

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Now enjoying #BurnWitchBurn starring #PeterWyngarde and #JanetBlair #FritzLeiber #ConjureWife #Halloween #PhantomsFriday #witchcraft #voodoo

Good, underappreciated film. The British title was rubbish: 'Night Of The Eagle' (maybe to tie in with 'Night Of The Demon'). It was based on Fritz Leiber's 'Conjure Wife', my Pan copy of which I happened to post recently. Confusing, because 'Burn, Witch, Burn' was the title of an A E Merritt novel.

The "Lordly Dog"

For blaspheming against the sacraments with his dog, the mind of a noble in Breinermoor was reduced to that of a dog. And even after death, he haunts the region in canine shape.

#PhantomsFriday #Germany #folktale #folklore #dog
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_%22Lordly_Dog%22

The Spider and the Fly - Arthur Rackham by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble The Spider and the Fly - Arthur Rackham The Spider and the Fly from Aesop's Fables Please look in my shop for more work by Arthur Rackham

1/2 The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly:
Once I loved a spider
When I was born a fly,
A velvet-footed spider
With a gown of rainbow-dye.
She ate my wings and gloated.
She bound me with a hair.
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3525... #art #giftideas #PhantomsFriday #illustration #Halloween #poetry

No, I think I looked once. I bet there was an article on him in the much missed Book & Magazine Collector - mind you, he'd probably published half a dozen more by the time the article appeared. I have an anthology by Richard Dalby presented to Hugh Lamb and signed by both. Two more greats!

The spectral face of a bearded old man peers in through a window at a man who has his back to us.

"Now a great fear was on me, that fear which we feel in nightmares, but which is happily strange to our waking hours. I knew that only a thin pane of glass divided me from something not of this world and not of God."
- A M Burrage, 'The House Of Unrest'.
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Cover of the Dell paperback edition of the Phantom of the Opera. The illustration shows a cloaked figure playing the organ.

Back cover of the Dell paperback edition of the phantom of the opera showing a detailed map of the Paris Opera House.

Detail of the map of the Paris Opera house from the Dell paperback edition of the Paris Opera House.

Detail of the map of the Paris Opera house from the Dell paperback edition of the Paris Opera House.

The back of the 1943 Dell paperback edition of The Phantom of the Opera has a map of the Paris Opera House with all the important locations marked. Dell published hundreds of books, now known as Mapbacks, with similar maps on the back covers. #PhantomsFriday

I'm really enjoying #ScarsOfDracula right now, first time viewing when I thought I'd seen all the #HammerHorror movies. Featuring the very young and handsome, sadly late #DennisWaterman and #ChristopherLee #Halloween #Dracula #vampires #PhantomsFriday

The Pale Horse Haunting the Town Hall of Wernigerode

You may have heard of ghosts taking on the shapes of headless horsemen.

But have you heard of the one about the ghost of a headless horse?

#PhantomsFriday #Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory #horse
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Pale_Horse_Haunting_the_Town_Hall_of_Wernigerode

And Patrick Troughton!

An etching depicting a theatre stage, under which a man is holding a light that brightly illuminates a woman dressed in a white gown. In the front part of the stage there is a large glass screen. The audience doesn't see the glass but the ghostly apparition of the woman reflected on the glass, as she seems to be confronting the actor on the stage behind the glass on the stage.

A closeup of the man with the lighting apparatus.

A closeup of the woman playing the ghost.

A closeup of the ghost and the actor on the stage.

Pepper's ghost, the haunting stagecraft invention of the 1800s

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Hi! thanks for joining in. Excellent stuff. The variety of posts (not just ghost stories) really keeps this feed lively.

Another haunted location in Nottingham; Ye Olde Salutation Inn.

More details here:

www.paullee.com/ghosts/ghost...

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Ruined chapel in brownish stone in a churchyard full of tombstones with carved tops.

Another for #PhantomsFriday and #Halloween. A woman stumbles upon a church full of dead worshippers--including her late husband and child. It proves a dire omen.
thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/a...

Text of ghost story about a Grim Reaper apparition from Haunted Ohio: Ghostly Tales from the Buckeye State, Chris Woodyard

Cover of Haunted Ohio: Ghostly Tales from the Buckeye State, Chris Woodyard, smoky grey clouds and a skull face inside a map of Ohio on the moon, Red lettering

A Grim Reaper apparition for #Halloween.
From my book Haunted Ohio: Ghostly Tales from the Buckeye State, Chris Woodyard (available worldwide)
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The Phantom of the Operal - André Castaigne - Fantôme Opéra, ca 1911

In the book, the Phantom of the Opera, Erik the #phantom is described as corpse-like & with "death's-head". He has no nose, & his eyes are so deep within his skull that all one can see are the actual sockets, except when his yellow eyes glow in the dark. 😬 #PhantomsFriday #ghosts #Halloween

Front and back wraparound book cover artwork. It shows a bleak scene with bare trees. In the distance are two spooky ruins, one surrounded by a green glow and the other glowing red. To the left a witches cauldron bubbles over a fire. On the right a large tree is bedecked with jack-o'-lanterns. An owl also sits in the tree. On the ground are three witches hats and three brooms, and a pentagram has been drawn in the earth.

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'Hallowe'en Hauntings', edited by Peter Haining (1984), art by Ionicus (not a book in my collection sadly).

These William Kimber publications with their Ionicus wrap-around covers are just gorgeous and getting harder and harder to find. I picked up a few about a tenner apiece not that many years ago (not this one). No hope now. How many books has Peter Haining done? I must try and find out but it's lots!

This is one is strictly ghosts and hauntings but no other themes. WyrdWednesday and FolkyFriday are themed. I've found FolkloreThursday hit and miss and FolkloreSunday was defunct last time I checked it. I haven't checked on LegendaryWednesday for a while.