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Ruadán Books @ruadanbooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Spend an hour this Saturday with us, soaking up Derbyshire folk horror, to celebrate the release of @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social's THE BRINK! 📅 9.26.26 ⏰ 1 PM ET 📍 Register: links.ruadanbooks.com/BrinkLaunch Hosted by @elizadearnley.bsky.social, it'll be an eerie good time. #BookSky #HorrorSky

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Ruadán Books @ruadanbooks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Join us next Saturday for THE BRINK's launch party! @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social will read from her debut novel, English folk horror with teeth, and host @elizadearnley.bsky.social (folklorist, writer, artist) will lead the Q&A. Sign up now: links.ruadanbooks.com/BrinkLaunch #BookSky #HorrorSky

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

To celebrate the arrival of the gorgeous and mesmerising The Fairy Spotter’s Guide, we asked its author @elizadearnley.bsky.social for a list of some of her favourite books and films that have inspired her work on fairy tales and horror. Check it out and get your tickets on our website!

Hannah holds up a pile of books while she looks away.

A cream banner which includes an image of The Fairy Spotter's Guide. At the bottom it says: "Tuesday 15th September, 7pm. Fairies and fabulous creatures with Elizabeth Dearnley + Sarah J Coleman."

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Lisa Grimm Grinning Ghosts Come Out to Socialise @lisagrimm.com · 22/06/2026

Hope to pick this up when I'm over in the SCORCHING HEAT this week.

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TimYouster @timyouster.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Oh! I lives in Yorkshire AND I makes ghosts too! (I forgets both things sometimes.) endlyfolk.bigcartel.com

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Endly Folk

Individual handmade clay ghosts. Each one is unique, full of charm, and searching for a loving home to haunt.

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Gwenthalyn Engélibert @gweneng.cpesr.fr · 18/06/2026

NEED. 🤩🤩🤩

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The Abominable Jonathan L. Howard @jonathanlhoward.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I can't overemphasise what an extraordinarily good range of books these are and how inspirational. I picked up THE HAUNTED LIBRARY the other day, read JUST THE INTRODUCTION FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, a light bulb went on over my head (it emitted a ghastly green glow) and I ran off and wrote a short story.

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Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Happy Publication Day to HAUNTED YORKSHIRE 👻🌿🐺🦊 My new @blpublishing.bsky.social anthology explores all things ghoulish in God’s own county, with work by Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Emily Brontë, Arthur Machen, Andrew Michael Hurley & more! Also included: barghests, boggarts & malevolent squirrels 🐿️

Cover of Haunted Yorkshire, showing a spooky-looking Whitby Abbey in ghostly shades of pale blue.

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Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Beholden to strange customs and inhabited by denizens of ill-omened aspect… but what was Yorkshire like in the haunted past? The new #TalesOfTheWeird from @blpublishing.bsky.social & @elizadearnley.bsky.social might tell this Lancashire lad more!

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Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Ghost story aficionados! Does anyone have any favourite ghost, horror or weird fiction short stories set in Yorkshire? Bonus points if they contain barghests 🐾

Ghostly green barghests stalking the moors

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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 15/10/2025

Charity shop going HARD on the haunted dolls this Halloween!

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Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Slowly unpacking my study and filling a drawer with pressed seaweed, like a Victorian lady botanist 🌿🪸

A cabinet drawer filled with sheets of pressed seaweed in shades of red, brown and green.

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Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Moving house in two days with all the essentials packed 🍄🌿🫙🪶

A series of packing boxes with increasingly weird labels.

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Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Huge news! 🌿✨💍✨🌿 I’m overjoyed to be marrying my love Darrick, and also exceptionally excited about this ring, which is basically a forest in ring form 🌳💍💚 It is tourmaline, peridot and diamond!

A very sparkly engagement ring with a tourmaline centre stone, surrounded by peridots and diamonds, pictured against a moss-covered tree in the Hermitage of Braid.

Me and my fiancé Darrick in a wood at sunset.

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Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I popped into @mediamuseum.bsky.social on my way back from the festival yesterday, and was so happy to catch up with my favourite exhibit, the Pepper’s Ghost darkroom! I found this absolutely magical as a child, and still do now - there are so many throughlines between this and my work today! 🎞️✨🕷️

Pepper’s Ghost illusion at the Bradford Media Museum, showing a bathroom being used as a darkroom under red light.

Pepper’s Ghost illusion at the Bradford Media Museum, showing a bathroom being used as a darkroom. The red light is now white.

Pepper’s Ghost illusion at the Bradford Media Museum, showing an ordinary bathroom with a comedy spider in the bathtub.

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Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

On my way to @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social to take part in this wonderfully weird event tomorrow! Very excited to talk creepy dolls, toys and all things spooky 🧸🕸️👁️ www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/tales-...

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Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

GOBLIN HAIR 🌿💚🌿 bringing me ever closer to my final fae form 🧚🏾

A selfie of Elizabeth with gobliny green streaks in her hair.

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Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

A VERY long shot, but I just found a ring in Bute Park, Cardiff, in case anyone has lost one! I left it where it was #butepark #cardiff

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

This photograph captures Sir David Attenborough seated outdoors on the rugged terrain of Skomer Island. Behind him, the ocean and coastal cliffs form a scenic backdrop under a clear sky. Sir David, dressed in a khaki jacket and light trousers, looks towards the camera with a gentle expression, exuding a sense of warmth, calm, and wisdom. Around him, puffins can be seen flying and perched on the rocky ground, illuminated in rays of golden sunlight as the sun sets behind the cliffs.

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Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

First experiment with yarn dyeing: avocado skins and stones (which should create a dusty pink dye) 🥑🧶🌸

A steel pan full of wool soaking in an alum mordant

A steel pan of wool steeping in a pinky-orange dye bath

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Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Just going through my saved clothes/costume/sewing inspo Instagram folder, and I CLEARLY have a colour palette 🍂🌸🍃🍑💛 …pastel autumn?

A screenshot of an instagram folder filled with images of clothes, all of which are russet, green, mustard, pink and peach.

A screenshot of an instagram folder filled with images of clothes, all of which are russet, green, mustard, pink, purple and peach.

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Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

WILD GARLIC PESTO 💚🌱🌿🍋 Made with the frankly indecent amount growing in the woods by my parents’ house

A bowlful of wild garlic leaves next to other ingredients for pesto: lemon, olive oil and parmesan

Wild garlic pesto spooned into ice cube trays

A ridiculous amount of wild garlic growing in a wood

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! We’re lucky to work with so many knowledgeable and inspiring contributors, many of which are here on Bluesky: @verityholloway.bsky.social @elizadearnley.bsky.social @kjsoar.bsky.social @ladyliminal.bsky.social @amalexathorn.bsky.social @melissae.bsky.social …

Covers of Hellebore magazine, Occult Britain, and The magical card Battle of Britain

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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It's enormously hard to get people to sign petitions supporting trans people, let alone trans children, so if you're in the UK, please do sign this. Right now, trans people need all the help you can give.

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Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Edinburgh is running out of time to meet its climate and transport goals. Running a tram-train on the Edinburgh South Suburban line would cut traffic, emissions and congestion and improve access to the city for locals. 🚋🚋🚋 Sign the petition here: www.change.org/p/reopen-edi...

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Sign the Petition

Reopen Edinburgh's South Sub using Tram-Trains

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

As a lifelong movie fan & an elder who’s been reading, writing, teaching, & talking about politics & horror for decades, I carved out some time today to compile a list of apolitical & socio-culturally neutral horror films for your viewing enjoyment.

A blank sheet of lined loose leaf paper.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

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Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

What?! The Prince Charles is an institution - please consider signing!

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Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

New online course on Friday 25 April at @freudmuseumlondon.bsky.social! 🕷️🕸️🧶🪡 Come join me and Katharine Fry for a day exploring the magical and macabre fairy tale worlds of Louise Bourgeois and Paula Rego, held to accompany the museum’s Women & Freud exhibition 🕷️ www.freud.org.uk/event/the-fa...

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The fairy tale worlds of Louise Bourgeois and Paula Rego - Freud Museum London

All registrants will receive their link to join via ZOOM. Attendees will also receive access to the recording on the Monday after the event, available to

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Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Hive mind, can you recommend any good recent short stories in the genres of romance or historical fiction? Looking to expand my student reading list and sure there are some good ones I’ve missed!

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Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Very much looking forward to a dive into the haunted toybox of creepy dolls on Saturday 18 January - join me there! 🧸🕸️🦇

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I'm hosting an event for SGSAH Literature+ Catalyst on Memory, commemoration and curation (Fri 24 Jan 2025, 1-5pm). Contribs: me, @elizadearnley.bsky.social, @amfoster.bsky.social, Ann-Marie Einhaus, Arunima Bhattacharya. For research students at Scot Univs. Register: www.sgsah.ac.uk/e_t/dp/liter...

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Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities - Events and Training - Discipline+ Catalysts - Literature

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🥀 𝚂𝚞𝚜𝚊𝚗 𝙱.🖋 🚫 No DM’s @sbwordmuse.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

“January dry, hard, glittering, cold, and the wicked naked beauty of the scraped blue skies.” —Sylvia Plath

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Even in winter, the wood calls out to be walked. Its paths tell your boots to ignore the mud. Its occulted roots whisper to your bones with promises of clearings you've never encountered before. The way into it is a seduction that makes even the oldest of us young again. – #DAKilroy, 1982

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Did...did a Brussels sprout write this

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Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Pomander making this afternoon 🍊🌿🎗️

A pine kitchen table covered with pomander-making ingredients - oranges, cloves and ribbons - and a pile of ivy leaves.

A finished pomander: an orange studded with cloves, divided into segments by red, light green and dark green ribbons.

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Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Glowing fibre optic mycelium at the Edinburgh Botanics 💚💙💜

A tree in the Edinburgh Botanics with a network of mycelium made from glowing fibre optic cables spread out beneath it in shades of green, blue and yellow.

A close-up on mycelium made from fibre optic cables in shades of turquoise and cerulean blue.

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Paul Stephenson @hollowstone.press · 13/12/2024

It's beyond ridiculous that a treatment that is perfectly safe for children with one medical condition be outlawed for children with a different medical condition just because it makes some people feel icky. That's not science.

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Laura Pearson @laurapauthor.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Things my 8yo bookworm said on the way to school. 1. Sometimes I get out of breath from reading 2. It’s like you’re a shape, and books can be really good, but some of them don’t fit you. Like you’re a hexagon and they’re an oblong.

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Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk · 12/12/2024

I have just signed this, urging the minister to listen to trans people and reconsider. Further comments I added in the thread below.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Christmas card created c.midC20th, by George Buday, at Netherne Hospital where he was compelled live. One of many cards he designed for art therapist Edward Adamson, Buday was a professional artist & historian of Christmas cards, who had his own studio in an old summerhouse in the hospital grounds

Red and black woodcut of a robin on a pine branch in front of an open book of Christmassy pictures

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Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Absolutely amazing find in the Amnesty bookshop just now - a first edition of Carols for Choirs vol. 1 🎄🎼✨ I’ve been after an old copy of these for years now, so very pleased to spot this as I walked by the window!

An old copy of Carols for Choirs vol. 1, a dark green book with an angel playing a trumpet on the cover, with a Christmas tree in the background.

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Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

SO EXCITED FOR THIS 🌺🌸💐🌈💕

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Glass is a ghost-holder. Its fused silica, its sodium carbonate entangles past and future. An amorphous prison for shades out of time. Of all gateways that give glimpse onto the enfolding world of spirits, none is more common in our homes nor more particular in its peculiarities. – #CJosiffe

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Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Brambly Hedge X folk horror is basically my personality

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SimzArt @simzart.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The rain will stop. 🌈

Two characters kissing each other in their kitchen while it's raining outside.

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