C.W. Reeve

How to be a Writer.
1. Stare out of window at rain.
2. Experience a certain lassitude.
3. Contemplate the infinite.
4. Tea.

A black and white cat laying on a tartan rug, giving it some sass.

Herbie aka The Herbalizer aka Herbington Bear aka Dr Herbilicous

#Caturday

Re-posting!

A black and white cat laying on a tartan rug, giving it some sass.

Herbie aka The Herbalizer aka Herbington Bear aka Dr Herbilicous

#Caturday

A gaunt, besuited man recoils in his chair, his face upturned in horror, as a towering, diaphanous figure bends over him—its hollow eyes burning with hate and despair, its form wavering between the solid and the spectral. Benjamin Edwin Minns’ haunting illustration for Flaxman Low.

“Eyes were looking down into his own, dark eyes full of hate and despair.”

(E. and H. Heron)

🎨 Benjamin Edwin Minns

#phantomsfriday #goldenageofillustration #bookillustration #booksky

They do say if you say its name three times in the mirror...

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#PhantomsFriday #supernatural #photography #uncanny #ghosts

Screenshot of newspaper clipping that reads: "AFTER A GHOST. A Mail Carrier Attempts to Use a Club on It When It Suddenly Vanishes. A ghost is said to have made its appearance near the Ohio and Pennsylvania state line, but is seen in Ohio near Livingstone's coal bank, which is about five miles from Mt. Jackson and a short distance from the Maple Grove distillery, says a New Castle correspondent."

"The older residents claim that about 25 years ago, a man was murdered in a stone quarry near by and his ghost appeared in the quarry which had to be abandoned and has not been worked until a few weeks ago..."

— from pg. 8 of the Youngstown Vindicator, December 19th, 1894

#PhantomsFriday

I'm not arguing for the existence of a clearly fake spook. It's a post for a weekly hashtag, it's only meant to be a bit of fun on an otherwise gloomy Friday.

"...though Katie King resembled Florence Cook, others claimed King was taller than Cook, with a larger face and different hair and skin. They also claimed King and Cook were both visible at the same moment, so Cook could not have been playing the role of the spirit..."

A grainy photograph showing a man in a suit, waistcoat and beard standing next to a woman, statuesque, in a white shawl. The woman does not look real.

Sir William Crookes, the discoverer of Thallium, standing next to the spirit known as Katie King, as manifested by the medium Florence Cook.

Crookes was able to photograph, speak with, and even weigh King several times. However, some believe King to be no more than Cook dressed up.
#PhantomsFriday

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

Frontispiece to edition of A Tale of Two Cities. Outdoor scene beneath a tree of group gathered around a table.

‘I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.’ ~ Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities.

This #BookWormSat celebrates the birthday of Charles Dickens with a day of wholly Dickens, more Dickens with a side of Dickens. Join us.

Ha! Maybe they took turns!

📸 from 1874, courtesy of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

A grainy photograph showing a man in a suit, waistcoat and beard standing next to a woman, statuesque, in a white shawl. The woman does not look real.

Sir William Crookes, the discoverer of Thallium, standing next to the spirit known as Katie King, as manifested by the medium Florence Cook.

Crookes was able to photograph, speak with, and even weigh King several times. However, some believe King to be no more than Cook dressed up.
#PhantomsFriday

A gaunt, besuited man slumps in an armchair, his face a mask of terror, as a towering, spectral figure looms behind him—its form a void, its eyes two bars of eerie light piercing the gloom. Benjamin Edwin Minns’ chilling illustration for The Story of Yand Manor House, where the darkness itself seems to watch, and the air hums with the weight of unseen dread.

"You will think I am beside myself; but as the light went out and I sank almost paralysed into an armchair, I saw two barred eyes looking at me!"

(E. and H. Heron “The Story of Yand Manor House”)

🎨 Benjamin Edwin Minns

#phantomsfriday #goldenageofillustration #bookillustration #booksky

The cover of Sandman Slim #12, King Bullet

All February, the ebook of KING BULLET—the book that was supposed to be the end of the Sandman Slim series—is on sale for $1.99 in all your favorite formats. (the absolutely last, I'm not kidding, for real final Sandman Slim novel, IN THE DEVIL WIND, will be out later this year)

#WyrdWednesday This also reminds me of Tony Martin in his book 'Dinosaurs without bones', who calculated how much force vomit from a Brachiosaurus with a 14 metres long neck would hit the ground with.

The answer: enough force to kill you.

Thank you, @cwreeve.bsky.social for gathering wyrd & wynderful antediluvial lore from all the Wyrdlings!

Almost fossilised @wunderkammertales.bsky.social is here now to do the #wyrdwednesday brontosaurus with you until the pterodactyls come home!

A page from a 1925 edition of The Wide World Magazine showing the 'dinosaur' carving and nearby fossil dinosaur tracks.

In 1925, S Hubbard, Curator of Archaeology at Oakland Museum, highlighted a foot-high carving in the Painted Desert, #Colorado, as 'undoubtedly' one of a #dinosaur, proving either mankind existed in the Triassic [?] or that there must be 'left-over' dinosaurs about. [2nd pic follows]
#WyrdWednesday

A giant, grey sauropod leans to attack a hippo in the river. They are both partially submerged. Other hippos dwell in the distance.

"The head was distinctly snake-like, a long thin tail & a body approximating the size of an elephant, or at least that of a hippopotamus."

Roy Mackal describing Mokele-mbembe, a mythical sauropod believed to still exist today in the Congo River Basin
#WyrdWednesday

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Good morning, Wyrdlings!

I hope you all ready for this week's dino-tastic #WyrdWednesday!

The theme - “Wyrd Prehistory & Untimely Dinos”.

@cwreeve.bsky.social here, ready to make things totally roar-some! 🦖

A white candle, stuck into a bottle, dripping red wax.

'Why does it always gotta be blood?'

An ESQUIRE cartoon. An angry woman in what may be fancy nightclothes, holding a recently fired gun, stands over what we see as the legs of a fallen man (the rest is cut off by the edge of the door). She's saying: "And another thing..." The clock reads 4, so maybe he came home late once too often.

Magazine cartoons are good.

I actually did spend some time looking for a gif of the prom scene from Carrie! Unfortunately (or fortunately, I guess), Bluesky don't seem to have a lot of the more gruesome gifs.

Prom scene averted!

Please sir can I have some more On making a living as a writer

“I didn’t have rich parents, a childhood bedroom to return to or an infatuated billionaire intent on marrying me. Either writing had to make me money or I couldn’t do it. “

I wrote about making a living from writing in the new economy.

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Darn straight!

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I've no idea! 😆😆

It was fun, though. A nice lil' distraction from the horrors!