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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

From the introduction to the Hookland Tourist Board I=SEE STRANGE HOOKLAND book:

REMEMBER:

Don’t go out by yourself at night. Many things in this book are thought to be imaginary, but being out by yourself in the dark can still be dangerous – even if you don’t encounter the Danebury Grim.

If you see something that scares you, tell a parent or a trusted adult such as a teacher. In extreme cases where you can’t find an adult you can trust, you could even tell a police officer.

Don’t provoke Faeries of any type. You would not like people shouting your name, poking you in your bed with a stick or throwing stones in your bath, so don’t do it to Faeries. No-one likes ill-behaved children, least of all the Elves of Hookland.

Don’t signal for UFOs with torches. It is not only a waste of batteries, it can be misinterpreted by the emergency services. Besides, we can’t promise that all UFOs are friendly or interpret your signal as a positive message.

Show some respect for the graves of the dead. If you were buried in the ground you wouldn’t appreciate another child dancing on your grave or trying to dig it up would you?

Remember to take extra care when looking for things around water – both by the sea and along rivers and pools. Even if he is imaginary, the King-Under-the-Sea should be shown some deference and Stay Belows not encouraged to grab at you when dangling your legs or trailing your hands in cool, apparently calm water.

Imaginary things can’t hurt you unless you believe in them with all your heart and then they are really quite dangerous.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thread icon thingie. Witches (and others) our Samhain/Halloween offerings (so far) are ready! thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/products?cat...

Semi transparent with with stars in their hat is surrounded by candles and autumn leaves and guarded by two black cats. Pencil drawing with mixed media, colour applied.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Whilst out and about and cake-bothering booksellers, I saw my first Hookland sticker out in the wild.

A Hookland sticker on a pipe covering up some fascistic filth. The sticker reads: HERNE THE HUNTER HATES YOUR RACIST BOLLOCKS

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👻Skulliam🎃Boo-tler🍂Yikes🕷️ @yeets.biz · 19/09/2026

i need to know what happened

sign in a restaurant "due to recent events Bigfoot discussions are no longer permitted on the patio"

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Goodnight from Gemma Wray, who knows enough about predatory spirits to refuse the pleas of entry to her cottage by silver-eyed children claiming to be lost. Goodnight from Jamie Blackstone, dreaming of the undertow that will take him to the Fathom Brides. Goodnight from Hookland.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The post box at Oak Acre has gained a reputation as one those places where you can post a letter to a dead loved one and possibly receive a reply. The GPO investigated to see if someone in from the Father Christmas letters reply team had gone rogue, but the results haven't been publicly shared.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Goodnight from Bill Horn, gluing each matchstick with ritual precision as he builds a replica of The Blood Wives stone circle. Goodnight from Andrew Dobbs, too ashamed to visit A&E as every slur he called Susie Wyles manifests as a violence of scratches across his skin. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Séamus Bellamy @seamusb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Having settled into my new digs, I finally had the opportunity to read @hookland.bsky.social 's Hookland Fragments. What David has given us in his first collection is nothing short of a wonder; a source of inspiration that will launch one hundred writing careers.

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Tim Dedopulos @ghostwoods.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I can count the national governments I approve of on the fingers of one foot.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hookland album covers, an occasional series. Number 12: Dave Padbury's 1983 'A Twist In The Wyrd'.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Even in death, disparities between rich and poor are rarely erased. The wealthy departed live apart in grand houses, employ a watch of lithic angels. Sometimes they retain pale servants to tend to them, running boneyard errands under a constancy of parasols. – #CLNolan

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Tim Dedopulos @ghostwoods.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

@brandesstoddard.bsky.social Brandes! Very, _very_ happy birthday <3 I hope you have a delightful day, and that the year to come is kind to you and the family. Much love.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It exists as a physical thing. As manifestation. As a night remembered and a county found.

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Tim Dedopulos @ghostwoods.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

@whoisnot.bsky.social Very, very happy birthday, Gábor. I hope the coming year is truly transformative. Much love.

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Shoe queen of Atlantis @salomekjones.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

We had a nice surprise recently. A box of special Red Phone Box hardcovers was discovered. You'd think we would have one, but when we had to leave London, I accidentally packed only one copy and it was one of the mass printed ones. I'd forgotten how beautiful they are.

Illustration from Red Phone Box. Maz Fishbein and Max, the cat. Look how beautiful the layout is.

Illustration from Red Phone Box for a story originally called Hello, Dolly, but when we couldn't get permission to use the song lyrics, it was changed.
The illustration features a bunch of weird kids keeping a woman in a phone box. All illustrations by Kara Yoon Frame.

The end papers have these beautiful out of copyright historical London maps. Slip cover by Gábor Csigas.

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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 30/04/2026

THE PYLON PEOPLE RETURN ⚡️📡⚡️ Seven years have passed since the first Pylon People release. Seven years that somehow feel like a century of bad signals, dead air, black fields, and voices coming through the static. ⚡️📡⚡️Available on Bandcamp only: pylonpeople.bandcamp.com/album/hookla...

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Hookland Transmission #2: The Electric Ley, by Pylon People

5 track album

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Goodnight from Leah Flitford, yet again scrubbing ectoplasm off the skirting boards after a séance gone awry. Goodnight from Pengrove Primary School, where all the leaves and twigs on the nature table have twisted themselves to spell the words: ‘WE KNOW’. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Welp, just deleted Google Chrome from all my devices. Which took some doing on the Macs because of the hidden 5Gb LLM model it had sneakily installed without permission, which is *why* I'm yeeting this malware browser for good.

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Tim Dedopulos @ghostwoods.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

It's true. And amazingly good fun!

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Goodnight from Mary Marlow, pouring extra cider into the Gathergood stew she’s making for her late husband’s birthday dinner. Goodnight from Susie Mugford, feeling hollowed out by The Boom-boom Club and wishing there was a spell to cure the heart of tenderness. Goodnight from Hookland.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

There will be disappearing dolphins (@iansimmons1960.bsky.social take note); naked amnesiacs; daylight vanishings; UFO cults; black dogs; cunning folk and even a mention of Spring-heeled Jack. There might even be some free Hookland fudge.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

If you have ever wanted to hear me talk about folklore, Forteana and Hookland in an East End pub, this is your chance.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Goodnight from The Bloody Babe pub, where the ferret fashion parade has sharply divided regulars on the wisdom of ever putting animals in costume. Goodnight from Dr. Fiona Low, continuing her experiments on containing spirits in the magnetic fields of C90 cassettes. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Let's see, what sort of thing for today, then? Let's stay in Hookland for a bit- King Under Sea of that county. Good morning.

visage of a stern, severe undersea monarch with driftwood crown/horns, fish netting, pearls, and pop tabs from cans. Pencil drawing with colour applied.

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Tim Dedopulos @ghostwoods.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Did I mention the time I spent a month planning and executing a Chaos Magick ritual that spectacularly -- and implausibly -- brought me the exact result I asked for in less than five minutes? It's here, if you're curious. old.reddit.com/r/Experience...

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My most spectacularly successful attempt at magic

I've dabbled in magic a bit over the years, and one occasion in particularly sticks in my mind for how ludicrously quick and exact the results...

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Tim Dedopulos @ghostwoods.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

That would be the time @hookland.bsky.social, our friend SD, and I accidentally spent a couple of weeks in a parallel reality version of the UK. It's too long to thread here, but: www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_... We literally saw reality shift in front of our eyes. Wild, paradigm-shattering glory.

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Reddit - Dive into anything

"Eye-witness event(s) that cannot be explained with critical thinking." **Please read forum rules before posting**

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Tim Dedopulos @ghostwoods.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I lived in a pub when I was younger, a rural spot a short way outside the market town of Andover in (Old) Hampshire, southern England. One of the places I used to drive out to was an old, decrepit hill-side pond in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by really gnarled trees.

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Tim Dedopulos @ghostwoods.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

In honour of @cultauthor.bsky.social's birthday yesterday, here's a few reposts of links to some of my strangest experiences.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

You tell yourself it's the ivy moving against the glass. Tell yourself old, half-abandoned buildings are full of noises you'll never fathom out. Then the voices start and you realise no writhing vegetation, no auditory pareidolia from ancient pipes offers up full sentences.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

The locked attic room in Ashcourt from where science fiction writer Olag Gandle disappeared on February 15th, 1936. The disappearance remains unsolved and a matter of much speculation. It has entered the folklore of the county as faith, as ritual. #LightACandleForOlagGandle

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

...at any rate, good afternoon. Queen of Owls from Hookland for you.

An owl like figure offer a claw displaying three talons. Three drops of blood depend from each talon. Pencil drawing with applied colour.

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Tim Dedopulos @ghostwoods.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I need to say a very sad R.I.P. to @mystificus.bsky.social. She was wickedly funny, ferociously clever, endlessly insightful and entertaining, and a good friend. The world is dimmer for her loss. Rest well, Cee. We'll miss you.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Some homes hold their ghosts with quiet forbearance. They do not boast of their phantoms nor advertise for psychic researchers to poke and test them. They accommodate both living and dead residents, afford privacy to both sides. Places of gentle spectral tolerance. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Goodnight from the long-shuttered cabins of the abandoned Neverland holiday camp, its resident shades still drunkenly dancing to Petula Clark records. Goodnight from the fields of Coldharbour Farm, where a bear made of mist is moving against the prevailing wind. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Tim Dedopulos @ghostwoods.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Good night, my brother. Bòn chans.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The land has been year-walked. The future has been met in the lanes and ways. The cunning folk have conferred. On the doors of The Raven, The Woodwose's Crown and all the other pubs they use, the proclamation has gone up: 'This is the YEAR OF THE GREEN PATHS.'

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

What the cunning folk of Hookland do on #NewYearsEve - year-walking. May your troubles not cross the threshold of midnight. May blessings walk down the lane to meet you in the coming year.

Year Walking

Many countries have a living folk tradition of being able to see into the future at certain times of the year. In Sweden, it is known as Årslång – year walking – and it is practised at Christmas and New Year’s Eve depending on the village. Practitioners are said to go into a deep trance where they encounter various supernatural beings who will challenge them with riddles and tasks. If successfully completed, the beings will then allow a glimpse of events that will happen in the coming year.

Strangely, the cunning folk of Hookland also use the term year walking for some forms of divination. Whether it is fairly safe to dismiss some folklorists claims that the shared names shows that the Hookland type of omen walking has clear ties to the Swedish via Danish invasions is a matter I shall not decide. There are both signifiant similarities and differences between the same named practice. For a start, year walking in Hookland is not restricted to only Christmas and New Year’s Eve – dates far too arbitrary, far too tied to calendar convenience for the county’s cunning folk. The practice is also undertaken at the quarter days and other old festivals such as St. Lazarus Eve when the worlds of the living and the dead are known to rub against each other.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Day 24 of #HooklandChristmasTree decoration. We place miniature ceramic bee hive on the tree. Time to tell the sleeping bees all our news, tell them of the year. All its joyful arrivals, all its harrowings and sad exits. We sing them the land and ask for honeyed blessings.

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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

16/12/25 - nocturn

small hours
big time

night walk uphill - lane / trees / damp
stars beyond murk - black dog to heel

an itchy drawing
with Belmont Transmitter rising on the left

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I remember certain roads Dad used to speed down. Way above the speed limit despite what Mum would say. He'd race them like we were being chased by something invisible. Now when I go down them, I can't help but feel spooked. Feel as if something is about to leap from the trees. – Cassie Beard #VOH

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Debbie Mia @debbiemia.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This is vaguely threatening 😭

Front of card that has a picture of a spider with bunny ears. The text says "This year you'll be invited by the EASTER SPIDER"

Inside of card with the text "Don't worry. She still leaves LOTS of eggs."

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