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YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic The Vampire by Conrad Aiken

Listen to it here read by the magnificent @romgothsam.bsky.social

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The Vampire She rose among us where we lay

#AScareADay Conrad Aiken’s The Vampire.
She comes weeping, her eyes “so sweet, so poisonous,” and all who follow her are lost.
Desire and death move together like the plough through flesh and bone. 🌒

poets.org/poem/vampire

Just 4 DAYS until the first @serveitforthfest.bsky.social on 18 October via Zoom.

You can still get your ticket! Get 25% off with code SERVE25.

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Today’s #AScareADay crosses the Styx with Lord Dunsany’s Charon.

The ferryman rows on, weary beyond time, until one day only one soul arrives.
“I am the last,” the ghost says.

And for the first time, Charon weeps.

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It’s brilliant!!

YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic The Spider and the Ghost of a Fly by Vachel Lindsay

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Read it here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44620/...

🕷️ #AScareADay

Once I loved a spider… but love bites.

Vachel Lindsay’s The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly (1915) turns a nursery rhyme into a nightmare of beauty, hunger, and revenge.

Beware the velvet-footed ones, they always come for the heart. 💔🕸️

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Read the story here:

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Like a dark echo of Giselle, Emma Frances Dawson’s “An Itinerant House” brings its betrayed heroine back from the grave…not through love, but through science and a feverish violin’s cry.
When Felipa stirs, it’s not romance that returns… it’s something far stranger.#AScareADay
⚡🎻 #Gothic #WeirdTales

Apples of ashes. Waters of bitterness. A banquet of foul delight. Lionel Pigot Johnson’s The Dark Angel turns beauty and every feast into poison ☠️.
#AScareADay 👻
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In Dinah Mulock’s The Last House in C–– Street, a quiet London home hides a secret so long buried it comes back in ghostly form. Some houses remember what we’d rather forget. 🕯️ #AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social

Read it here:

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It did take me a little while to fully understand it!

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A weary traveller enters a warm cottage- yet one look at his eyes turns comfort to dread. There’s something not quite human in that “ghastly fair” face…& all are glad when he hides it again. #AScareADay Read Emily Brontë’s ‘And now the house dog stretched once more’
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Deep below, the Kraken sleeps 🌊 vast, ancient, and dreaming of the world’s end. Alfred Tennyson’s sea monster still stirs. #AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social

poets.org/poem/kraken

Thanks for providing the accessible copy and audio because the original was making my eyes boggle!!

You 100% have!!

My favourite so far!

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 …

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...

Health allowing, I am planning an M. R. James post from 1st December every evening to Christmas Eve. This will include items and artefacts from my own collection, some of them extremely rare #Book #ghosts #DeadDecember 👻📚

Read it here: gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/060...

“But what we children detested most of all was his big coarse hairy hands…he delighted to touch [our food] until bright tears stood in our eyes.” 🍰💀

Today’s #AScareADay @romgothsam.bsky.social E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Sandman (1816) brings terror to the table, where even sweets turn uncanny.

It really was 😆

Scary nun in dark habit menacing look

The Elopement

Sometimes you don’t need to get thee to a nunnery because the nuns will try to get to thee…persistently! What a great story for @romgothsam.bsky.social
#AScareADay

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The Hag The Hag is astride

📖 Read it: poets.org/poem/hag
🎧 Listen : youtu.be/pGPeozcz4DM?si…
📜 Full challenge list romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/21/the���

Dare you walk with the Hag tonight? 🌙✨

👻 Thrilled that #AScareADay is back with @romgothsam.bsky.social! Each day we get to creep into a different eerie tale or poem from the challenge list and share our thoughts.

🕷️ October 1st - Robert Herrick, The Hag (1648)

Bonus Episode: Serving Food History Forth presented by Fear Feasts Podcast Episode · Fear Feasts · 10/09/2025 · 1h 1m

In this bonus episode of Fear Feasts presents @serveitforthfest.bsky.social
I share how I found my way into food history and why I’m curious about the foods people make and the meanings behind them. 🍞📖🍇

Listen on all podcast platforms 🎧

#ServeItForthFest

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Thank you :-)

Feast yourselves! (darkly, or lightly)