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Terri Elizabeth Reid @terrielizabethr.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#SpookySunday Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller Knocking on the moonlit door But only a host of phantom listeners That dwelt in the lone house then Stood listening in the quiet of moonlight To that voice from the world of men The Listeners: De La Mare Art: Atkinson Grimshaw

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The witness took a look inside all the nearby rooms and found them to be empty. She saw the apparition on a second occasion, too. The owners had never had the impression their house was haunted or knew of any tale to account for the ghost's presence. It was never seen again and remains a mystery.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

...which I took to be the housemaid going up before me. I went up the entire flight of stairs under this impression to the first floor, when suddenly at the top I could see nobody. This puzzled me, as I could not account for anyone being able to disappear so quickly.'

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In my thread on haunted staircases, I'd forgotten this one. In June 1884, Kathleen Leigh Hunt was staying with her cousin in a house in Hyde Park Place, #London. She told the @spr1882.bsky.social : 'One morning I seemed to see, about two stairs in front of me, a figure...' [Cont: #SpookySunday

An illustration from an article by Beckles Wilson in The Strand Magazine in 1908 of a woman in Victorian dress climbing a domestic flight of stairs. In front of her is walking a ghostly woman dressed as a housemaid.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

“The thing with October is, I think, it somehow gets in your very blood. Unapologetically. Almost ruthlessly.” (Anne Sexton) 🎨 Seth Fitts #owlishmonday

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

"The Evening" 🎨 Charles Dana Gibson (1899) #SpookySunday #Spooktober

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I can’t remember which Blueskyer remined me that staircases are liminal, like bridges and crossroads, and therefore favourable for hauntings. There are many #haunted examples – such as the one where the famous Brown Lady of Raynham, #Norfolk, was maybe photographed in the 1930s. [More #SpookySunday

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#SpookySunday A ghostly gathering of forlorn femmes by German artist & illustrator, Thomas Theodor Heine (1867-1948) #Gothtober

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Morning. 🖼️ Roberto Weigand, 1968.

Two magpies perched in a tree against dark teal background, painting.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

From the Rijksmuseum.

Painted illustration of kingfisher perched on a branch overhanging landscape below of river and fields, trees in distance.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Owl of the Day: Little Owl 📷 Pascal De Munck

Photo of owl perched on tree stump, description from ebird: ‘Small owl of fairly open country, such as farmland with hedges and scattered trees, orchards, open woodland, and quarries. Distinctive, with white-spotted upperparts. Staring yellow eyes and white brows, together with frequently upright stance, often create alert appearance. Nests in cavities in trees and rocks. Sometimes active by day, perching quietly on posts or rocks, but mainly active dusk to dawn. Flight low and undulating. Vocalizations are comprised of a range of endearing squeaks and high-pitched hoots.’

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Bonus Book Cover of the Day:

JOHN BELLAIRS
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
DRAWINGS BY EDWARD GOREY
Haunted house on hillside in silhouette against purple sky background. Below is a hand with a candle coming out of the top of it and three glasses and a plate with some kind of food on it.

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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The safest place to be #drawing #ink #art

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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If discord is your cup of tea. I have one of those where art and music are shared: discord.gg/UsStAcGYpc

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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

'The Stinky Garden' inktober day eight #joncarling #inktober2026 #stinky

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Manen Lyset @manenlyset.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy Halloween!

Painting of a lone ghost with a lone tree.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl! 🦉❤️ The solemn gaze from across the centuries gives an air of ancient wisdom! From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC. Met Museum 📷 by me #OwlishMonday #Archaeology

My photo shows a small, roughly square-shaped piece of limestone carved to depict a frontal face of an owl. The owl has large, rounded eyes and a long, pointed beak highlighted with fine diagonal incised lines. The face is outlined by two symmetrical fan-like feather patterns with a raised border around the eyes, cheeks, and beak. Dimensions: Height 10.3 cm x Width 11.1 cm x Depth 2.5 cm This relief represents the ancient Egyptian owl hieroglyph 'm'. The limestone plaque is displayed in a glass case at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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Travis Vengroff @ventravis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Tomorrow... We return with a brand new story: DON'T MIND RIKU CAVE. We've worked on this podcast for quiet a while now and it's filled with what we love about audio horror: deep, slow-burn stories entangling science, history, and terror that place capable people in upsetting situations.

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Wisteria: Ashikaga Flower Park, Japan. Photography by Hiro Ino on 500px

Captured at Ashikaga Flower Park in Tochigi Prefecture, this photograph by Hiro Ino offers a lush botanical composition of cascading wisteria (fuji) blossoms in shifting shades of soft violet-purple (murasaki-fuji) and pale rose-pink (usubeni-fuji). In the upper section, sweeping tendrils of lavender wisteria drape like an ornate floral curtain from heavy, gnarled timber supports, contrasted by fresh spring green foliage. In the foreground, dense clusters of delicate pink wisteria spill over a raised wooden planter in layered, cloud-like mounds. Along the lower right border, a carpet of white and pink daisies dots the garden floor. Diffused, soft daylight envelops the blossoms, highlighting the silky, translucent texture of individual petals.

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Birnam sycamore, Perthshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. A mighty tree on the bank of the River Tay #thicktrunktuesday

Two men looking at a massive tree trunk with roots exposed at the base and.branches silhouetted against the sky

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Liz Cooksey, UK textile artist who is inspired by natural habitats, hedgerows, garden boarders, meadows #WomensArt

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In the journals of Cumbrian shipbuilder Kelsick Wood (1771-1840), details of his shipyard contracts and inventories share the pages with his own idiosyncratic watercolour paintings. Here’s just a few, including his self-portrait simonfrancisbrown.com/kelsick-wood...

bird and light foliage on page with written ship's records

portraits of woman and upset man on page with written ship's records

drawing of ship's prow with detail of exotic chieftain on page with written ship's records

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🖼️ Michael Virelli

Spiderweb lined with dew in branches and fern, forest scene, painting.

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Grania3 @grania3.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Which is why he's on my list when I need some help out of being sad. His behind the scenes stuff, outtakes, films, his tv show...all very helpful always.

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Grania3 @grania3.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Or you could watch the 13 episode list that they released ahead of the AHS 13 premiere...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Queen of Clubs, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, Art Nouveau pioneer and Glasgow School Artist #WomensArt

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Elizabeth Tutty @tutty352.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

St James’Church Great Ormside. #AdoorableThursday

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A few random abstract images from #Iceland.

Flat grey pebbles on a black sand beach with little specks of sand on top of them and directional trails of sand to the left of each pebble where the wind has sculpted the sand.

A frozen pool with snow on the top, a little open gap with lighter area reflected and a dark black rock to the bottom left.

Small pieces of broken icebergs on a black sand beach with the icebergs covered in the sand after strong winds.

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Edinburgh O'Clock @edinburghclock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train. A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social. Please repost with your own caption.

Delicious images of Edinburgh from Tom Duffin

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Book Cover of the Day:

Cover - M R James, Collected Ghost Stories, church ruins, cemetery, tree on cover.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ghost, Hester Cox.

Deer amongst trunks of trees in forest, painting.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pink Cyclamen (1870) by Fidelia Bridges, US artist #WomensArt

Painting of a delicate pink flowering plant in a terracotta plant pot all against a sage green background

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Edinburgh O'Clock @edinburghclock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Traditional Japanese umbrella, Jurin-ji temple (十輪寺), Kyoto. Photography by Damien Douxchamps on Flickr.

Gazing upward from beneath the glowing canopy of a traditional oil-paper umbrella (wagasa), the viewer is enveloped in a sea of radiant, sun-drenched crimson. A precise radial matrix of fine, split-bamboo ribs radiates outward from a central spindle, woven with an intricate, geometric web of structural threadwork. Through the translucent, oiled washi paper, the dark silhouettes of leafy tree branches project like delicate ink brushstrokes against a glowing red sky. The scene evokes a rich, immersive sensory atmosphere: the warm, vermilion-tinted light filtering onto the face, the faint, earthy aroma of perilla oil and aged bamboo, the soft rustle of wind through temple trees overhead, and the deep, quiet sanctuary formed beneath the red dome.
Captured within the tranquil grounds of Jurin-ji (十輪寺)—a historic Tendai temple in western Kyoto famously known as Narihira-dera after the celebrated Heian-period poet Ariwara no Narihira—this large outdoor umbrella (nodaigasa) traditionally shelters guests during open-air tea gatherings (nodate). The construction of a traditional wagasa represents one of Japan's most refined heritage crafts, where a single length of bamboo is meticulously split into dozens of flexible ribs, joined to a hand-carved wooden hub, and stretched with hand-poured mulberry paper sealed with natural vegetable oils. Every detail—from the structural tension of the bamboo frame to the delicate hand-strung thread reinforcement (kikyō-buki)—honors centuries of monozukuri (artisanal mastery and reverence for material), transforming a functional shade into a portable architectural sanctuary.

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A pair of male Northern Flickers chasing each other around in the tree tops.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another day spent fruitlessly searching for the Black Library in Weychester Cathedral. Another dozen subterranean rooms visited, but no new clues. It remains firmly occulted. Remains legendary, an engine of the imagination. – #MattAdams

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Grania3 @grania3.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I want a long incredibly sensual dress in that color.

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Eloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Chestnut-winged Cuckoo This is a long-tailed, migratory bird known for its distinctive black crest, rusty wings, and bright orange throat, often seen in South and Southeast Asia. It's a brood parasite, laying its eggs in other birds' nests,. 📸: @saikat_banik_wildlife

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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Debbie Criswell - October Moon. Acrylic on canvas.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Goodnight. 🖼️ Linette No

Little ghost and owl perched on a branch, three trees and moon in background, painting.

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Grania3 @grania3.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Whenever I see men like this, being so idiotic and cruel, I think about the women in their life. What were they like? Did these men have strong wives and they felt so inadequate that they turned their hate on other strong women or possibly bachelors who were taught to dislike women?

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Grania3 @grania3.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Those colors...absolutely beautiful.

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Skog @skog100.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The sunflowers i grew from seed this year are finally flowering ..the ones that came up from birdseed flowered much earlier so i didn't think these would make it ..but they have 🌻

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