cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social · 1hAt the end of my street, but not my doing. I am going to get blamed for it just like when the key line and UFO signs went up and everyone assumed it was me or Brian Harvey. 0291
cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Just attended a fantastic talk on aircraft accident investigation. Came away with three story ideas. It pays authors to be exposed to ideas outside of their comfort zones - even if the speaker did use a Hookland rule: “Don’t anger the ancient gods.” 1907
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026We walk passed buildings that leak ghosts. We are window watched. We are scratched with shadows. A psychic toll is paid for our navigations in headache, in a pressing into the back of the neck. This is our phantom reality. – #DAKilroy #Ghosts 021632
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Not to piss on anyone’s chips, but Hookland won’t be doing any ‘31 days of spookiness’ malarkey. Halloween is not that big a thing in a county that does hauntings in a matchbox every day of the year. The gothic is not tinsel on this ghost soil, it’s a bone tattoo. 1042937
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialSimon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"I do not know what I expected. Perhaps to find a doddering and frail praying mantis, whispering about the station, blown by seawinds, a chalk-white ghost who would husk at me with voices of grass and reeds blown in the night." Ray Bradbury, Emperor of The October Country. 1347
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialHuw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Anybody around in Sheffield on the 21st of November? The film Tether that I did VFX for is showing and I expect I shall be there - anybody else up for it? 221
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Goodnight from the phantoms stuck in the cells below Coreham Crown Court, bemoaning their contemptible state of waiting upon judgement. Goodnight from Eleanor Merril, looking for tide-gifted Blood Lace blooms in the moonlit rock pools of Clinker Cove. Goodnight from Hookland. 2423527
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Fill in your book, take it back to the tourist centre and get a special Mr. Lookout certificate and badge ... 4715
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Re-introducing a Hookland childhood nightmare/beloved icon. Mr. Lookout – the ghost bear mascot of the Hookland Tourist Board's 'I-See! series of books'. The scarrer of many a child's imaginations as depicted by @tomsbrown.bsky.social. #MrLookout #Hookland 721236
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026For even the solitary witch never truly walks alone. She may be rarely seen at those guerrilla covens of extreme need, but she travels with the spirits of the land. Her constant companions are genii locorum – whispering, protecting and teaching as she navigate her way. – #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky 019324
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Dropped in a Hookland vinegar cake to all at @treadwells-books.bsky.social as a small thank for hosting such a magical evening last week. They still have plenty of signed copies ‘Hookland Fragments’ with a special insert if you want to order from them. 719021
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Goodnight from High-on-the-Hill Farm, where the Trigg family are enjoying a stubble-goose feast after having paid their quarter day tribute to Faery. Goodnight from Ralph Shenwood calling on the Archangels for strength to resist answering the Hoarse Hag’s call. Goodnight from Hookland. 2329730
cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My internal radio is playing dark 1970s Cairo jazz and I'm cursing members of the British far right. Yes, I know this is a default setting. 0521
cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Contemplating adding 2,000 Light Years as one of my funeral songs. 3180
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026For when they hold the Feast of the Archangels and they make much in their sermons of St. Michael defeating Satan, I ponder why so many churches resemble nothing other than forts. Angels and saints that need stone security against the world fail to impress me. – #CLNolan 019826
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We were pylon pilgrims. Each transmission tower a sacred destination in the electric ley of the land. The Hum called us to walk to them, to move under their steel legs and into our temporary temples. We marched lines of electrical ecstasy. – Tattoo Labyrinth Dave #VOH 524930
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 29/09/2026#OtD 29 Sep 1907 while addressing a meeting on Parliament Hill Fields in London, UK, Sam Mainwaring, Welsh machinist and libertarian socialist credited with coining the term "anarcho-syndicalism", collapsed and subsequently died. He was 65 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1260... 06017
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Goodnight from Charlie Hazelgrove, sitting on the deck of the Narrow Escape and listening out for the telltale tuck-tuck-tuck of a black-lanterned canal boat in hopes of procuring certain illicit goods. Goodnight from Lizzie Pecksmith, waiting for the voices to arrive. Goodnight from Hookland. 2626534
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialM. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A few more photos of the Haunted Free Library (showing off the hinges & door design for @legendaryvermin.bsky.social ) - we’ve started populating it with books. For the grand opening, lots of these are new (or read once) - like stocking full candy bars for #Halloween #Horror #BookSky 69213
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026From the introduction to the Hookland Tourist Board I=SEE STRANGE HOOKLAND book: 722148
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Hookland is ghost country. Hookland is witch country. If you suspect some monstrous thing is lurking in your nightmares, you might just find it in that place of legends. – #CLNolan, Children’s Hour, BBC Regional Programme, 1936 224134
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialChris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026In case you missed it, our episode on the Oz Factor. Is the strange quiet a gateway into the supernatural, or simply what the brain does when confronted by something terrifying? Simon wonders why the Victorians seem to have missed the Oz Factor altogether, while Chris cites a few 19th c examples. 1123
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialLunatraktors @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This #StandingStoneSunday, please enjoy Clair's silk painting Megalithic Lichen D, inspired by the piper's stone at Athgreany, Co. Wicklow. 1166
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A constant recommendation. 723344
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Still a bit blown away to see copies of ‘Hookland Fragments’ in the wild. Here is a signed copy available from @treadwells-books.bsky.social 732637
cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Being bitter about the work of other is not a default writer setting, it is a choice. A bloody awful choice. Don’t do it kids. It withers your soul and the rest of us get bored hearing about it. 0568
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialianeames.bsky.social @ianeames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A lovely talk including re-enchantment as resistance, the themes and hopes of Hookland, and childhood influences. There was wine, and it was held in a very nice bookshop. This led to the inevitable, and I purchased things. But hey, there was wine. I'm now where to put my complimentary stickers. 1141
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialThe Swamp Wytch @theswampwytch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If you were blessed enough to attend @hookland.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social talk last night at @treadwells-books.bsky.social , please share any photos or impressions from the evening! There are many of us who would have loved to have been there and wish to live vicariously through you. 💚 49112
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialPhil Hine @philh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A most inspiring talk by @cultauthor.bsky.social at Treadwells last night. Plus free fascist numpty-bothering stickers! 0666
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026#ReEnchantment is resistance. 118349
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I hope you found it re-enchanting. I hope you have put your stickers to good use. You are all wonderful stories. 2946
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Thank you to everyone who came to the Hookland talk at Treadwell's last night. I'm really sad I didn't get to speak to some of you last night, but I can't properly express how much it meant to see you in the audience and hope to talk to you in person and at length at some soonish point. 321116
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialHuw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Thank you so much to @zos93.bsky.social for sorting it all out and being an Actual Wizard and @willdrivetrains.bsky.social for coming in and being lovely; and of course especial thanks to @cultauthor.bsky.social - I don’t have proper words yet, but I loved the talk and meeting you very much. Magic. 2112
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialCMJ @cmeej.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Good day Hooklanders. Still buzzing from last night’s talk by @cultauthor.bsky.social So lovely to encounter the human behind @hookland.bsky.social and add some juice to my enchantment battery. Feeling refreshed this Friday morn. 💪 3453
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialduncan gates @duncangates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I have been in the room where a little bit of @hookland.bsky.social appened Thank you @cultauthor.bsky.social @treadwells-books.bsky.social 291
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026From tonight's Hookland talk on Re-enchantment as Resistance at @treadwells-books.bsky.social. 'Folklore is often the wild frontier of belief, the place where wonder may still live. Here be Woodwoses, here be Harrowhounds, the ghosts which whisper wisdom.' #FolkloreThursday 1417260
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Locals call the steps up Tingle Hill 'ill-lucked'. Talk of them as having been 'spat on by faeries', cursed by the cunning who don't want anyone 'to see what they get up when they are holding their queer parliaments on the crown'. To tread them is peril. – Dr. M. Benn 118322
cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Mrs. S. is playing what sack of shit taxidermy animal would you be. 6220
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialGraham Annable @grickle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Seasonal threat. #grickledoodle #fall #autumn #horror #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor 226249
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The land becomes cold to the touch. The year turns towards restless ghosts and mists with a thousand tiny teeth. The dead in their dream incubation chambers come close to waking. They sniff the air for an alarm call of bonefire smoke and a rotting carpet of fallen apples. = #CLNolan 221641
cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I am only ever an accidental contrarian. I genuinely don't mind Their Satanic Majesties Request. 0171
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Of course most of this is insidious rumour. Reports of neighbours hearing footsteps, screams from empty flat above. Inexplicable mists coming through the ceiling. Nothing anyone wants to put on record. Yet we still look up, ask if something is stored in its psychic battery. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts 1979
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 19/09/2026We look up at rooms which have hosted murder and we wonder if they now hold ghosts. For we all know stories of places where spectral loops of trauma play. Townhouses turned to territory of terror. Properties that make estate agents shiver, that stay on the books. – #CJosiffe 523329
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The land withers. Autumn is told in both the fading scars of drought and the gathering mud. Hooklanders call this blurred border of days harbrim. A time whenthey know that mists are coming to eat certainty and monsters feast to fatten ahead of hibernation. – #DAKilroy, 1982 523137
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I told you next week's Hookland talk at @treadwells-books.bsky.social came with stickers ... 1321233
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's been a blink of time since the Pylon People's Hum went silent. While we no longer see them marching across fields, under roads, they're still with us. Not only as remnants of a community living on canal boats, but as part of the county's living line of folklore. – Dr. M. Benn 519925
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is such a lovely thing to read, especially from one of my academic heroes. 11128
Reposted by @cultauthor.bsky.socialhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Give me hedge and a cloud-omened sky and I'll give you a witch-telling of tomorrow. Give me autumn lanes to walk and verges to harvest and I'll make my witch-graft a healing of illnesses yet to knock at door of winter. Let the land be my calendar of magics. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky 320237
