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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
It is publication day for SCRATCH MOSS. Please be buying it from your vendor of choice, or ask your local library to get it in. Available in paperback, ebook and audiobook.
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I grew up in Herefordshire, but moved for a few years up near Oldham, and the first time we went there we were greeted with the large sign proudly proclaiming it to be the 'home of the tubular bandage'.
Going to have to try to visit Ross-on-Wye's horse tooth swan while I'm there too
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I've just learned about a swan floor mosaic MADE OF HORSE'S TEETH in Ross-on-Wye
Little Mari and Black Shuck are preparing for Crufts. They’ve decided to enter into the ‘Working’ group (harbinger of doom is a job)
The Treasure Digger (1925) by Louis Moe, Norwegian painter and illustrator #PhantomsFriday
Two witches, a devil, and a frog shaking their groove thing at the witches' sabbath.
An illustration by Louis Le Breton for 'Danse du sabbat', in Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal, 1863. Wikimedia Commons, public domain #WitchSky #illustration #art #ArtHistory
"Wrented" by Charley Harper, 1968 #ArtSky #Spring
"Many people view the grinning skull as an unpleasant reminder of their mortality, but to House Wrens an empty cranium is just another home-site with a domed ceiling... Home is where the heart is, even if it's a transplant."
I will never not adore "and allies" in a fieldguide title. Don't mess with the grasshoppers or the earwigs and crickets and cockroaches will fuck you up
More hares coming for March! As it’s a full moon here’s a panel that I made a couple of years ago which combined many of my favourite things. This one is called Solstice Hare and a reminder of the colour and energy that is coming as we head into spring.
Available as a print. See my linktree. 🥰🌿
CFPs and Events: Monsters, Victorians, Osgood Perkins, Cottingley Fairies, fairy tales, folklore
CFP: Monster Media Conference 2026 University of Edinburgh, 18-19 June 2026 (in person and on line) Deadline: 15 March 2026 This conference aims to explore the relationship between monsters and the…
The fields have been harrowed. The fields have been frost-scarred. Now comes the sun to warm soil, wake its ghosts. Every crack leaks possibility. A hearing of spear against shield, a hearing of words spoken by the restless dead. Even with worm devoured tongues, they desire conversation.
March 22nd in Arlington, Va.! Details and tickets at events.ticketleap.com/tickets/prof... .
In a Flemish folktale, a woman who was said to have been a thief during life haunted a town in the shape of a deer. The ghost deer would knock on doors and wait. Between her horns she carried an illegible text. She stopped appearing when someone deciphered the text.
🎨Eugen Krüger
#WyrdWednesday
Lady and the Tiger, Frederick Stuart Church (1842–1924).
So the answer to Frank R. Stockton's question 'The Lady, or the Tiger?' is "Why not both?"
Dreaming fox.
art by Fang Chuxiong
#BookologyThursday
And for the cryptozoologists, the final line of the article: "Its forests may shelter yet more hidden relics of a past Australia," he says.
Thylacine survival TBC.
Double wow! Really exciting to hear about these new discoveries!
#WorldBookDay 📚
"She walks among the tombs" 🪦
'A Picture Book for Little Children' • 1812 📚
#History
Our next ONLINE fundraising talk:
Sat 21st March, 8pm via Zoom with recording for all ticket holders
INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN
THE VISUAL FOLKLORE OF UFOs
Dr David Clarke and Andrew Robinson will be presenting on everything from hoax photos to kid's toys
Tickets £5+booking from bit.ly/flaevents
YOU CAN TELL BY THE WAY I WALK
I'M A WOMAN'S MAN; NO TIME TO TALK
And peak book cover design
Peak signage
I love this sign! I've seen other versions posted from other counties (I can't remember where I got this photo from but I've had it saved on my phone for ages).
Next time I'm back home in Herefordshire in going to have to keep an eye out for this.
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From the Davenport Times 1896 #PhantomsFriday #ghosts #hauntings
"Fossils (February)" by the English surrealist Tristram Hillier. This 1955 painting was commissioned by Shell for the Shell Book of Nature, Fossils, Insects and Reptiles. From Ark UK: Government Art Collection. You Can Be Sure Of Shell... #FossilFriday
Nocturne by Tyra Kleen 1905 #PhantomsFriday
Today we're sharing this delightful detail of a Saintonge polychrome jug, which was found at a medieval tenement site in #Winchelsea, E Sussex.
This type of ceramic was imported from SW France during the late 13th-early 14th centuries & is associated with wine trading.
#MedievalMarch
#FindsFriday 🏺
In January 1898, the Illustrated Police News reported that a mysterious figure with
"the ghastly appearance of a headless woman" was haunting an isolated crossroad outside of Buckingham.
PhantomsFriday