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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Some sculptural highlights from a recent visit to Folkestone #seaside #sculpture

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Barbara Windsor’s memorial plaque at ‘The Actor’s Church’ St Paul’s near Covent Garden.

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Most fun I’ve had in a theatre in a long time. #deathnote

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I’m going to the M.C. Escher exhibition today. Or at least I will be. No matter how far I go I never seem to get any closer… #escher #art #prints

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Hanging around the Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Hayward Gallery today #art #southbank

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I haven’t read Terry Pratchett’s Nation. This is because the copy I got from Oxfam has a secret hidey-hole brutally carved through the pages. I only noticed the day I tried to read it. #books #pratchett

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

When the #podcast returns, it will be with a higher budget. That’s an entirely new basket I’m balancing my tablet on.

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The murderous intent concealed behind the eyes. #books

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It’s a bit dusty, but the podcasting mic still seems to work…

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I judged this book by its cover and purchased it immediately #book #edgarwallace

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I wasn’t curious enough to find out was going on in this cover #books

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This is excellent news networkonair.com/blog/post/6-... #bluray #physicalmedia #network

Network returns - the DVD and Blu-ray label is back.

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#BOTD Montague Rhodes ‘M.R.’ James, the most influential of all ghost story writers. James was a member of the Cambridge Chit-Chat Club. Each Christmas he would perform a new story for them. These atmospheric, scholarly tales are oft cited as the finest ghost stories ever written

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It has real Enid-Blighton-with-corpses vibes. I had to have it. #books #hitchcock

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

#BOTD Edward Frederic ‘E. F.’ Benson. Benson wrote over 50 ‘spook stories’, sometimes humorous, always atmospheric. Lovecraft was among his many admirers, and his story The Bus Conductor was adapted for the Ealing anthology Dead of Night and an episode of the Twilight Zone. #books #ghosts

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Scenes from the The Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy in Paris. Beaten only by the catacombs in terms of the sheer quantity of human bones on display. #bones #skeleton #museum

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

#newbook The Narrenturm, the ‘Fools Tower’, was built in 1787 in Vienna as a psychiatric hospital. Built like a circular fortress, it contained 139 patient cells but proved impractical & closed in 1869. It now houses the Federal Pathologic-anatomical Museum, the subject of this small book.

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I hope you can judge a book by its cover because this looks amazing #scifi #books

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Scenes from the Battle of Britain Museum, on the coastal cliffs just outside of Folkestone. #history #museum #ww2

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

#BOTD sci-fi horror author John Wyndham. So-called “master of the middle-class catastrophe" his stories often centre around ideas of genetic manipulation and augmentation, but set within ordinary homes and small communities. Works include Chocky & The Day of the Triffids. #books

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It’s a very sad thing, but do we need the live coverage? Is there an expectation she might come back?

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

#BOTD Ann Radcliffe, pioneer of #gothic fiction. She was a huge commercial & critical success, in part because she offered rational explanations for the fantastical in her work, giving her books a more ‘respectable’ veneer. Classic works include The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian.

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The Lethieullier #Dolls House. Currently displayed at the Huguenot Museum in Rochester, the house is styled like Palladian mansion. It was given to 10-year-old Sarah Lethieullier by her merchant father, but as a teaching aid rather than a toy. She was expected to learn how to run a household.

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

It’s a quiet Sunday afternoon and I’m spending it in my happy place. #vinyl #hitchcock

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Doesn’t know whether she’s coming or going… #books

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

#BOTD A. M. Burrage. A prolific writer known for war memoirs & children’s tales in his day, he's now known for ghost stories, with fans including M.R. James. His ghosts were often portents of danger, & he innovatively used timeslips & switched perspectives to disorienting effect #books #ghosts

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Scenes from Trentham #Gardens. They were designed by Capability Brown although the formal gardens laid out by Charles Barry in the 1840s are its most distinct feature. Trentham Hall once overlooked them but it was demolished as estates became increasingly unaffordable for owners in the early 1900s

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

#newbook Over earth… The shadow of a dark wing… The blackness is focused on a small English town - the centre of a conspiracy against the human race, a tyranny which, with its conquest of death, would destroy all that is best in humanity itself. #books #scifi

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

#newbook “Are ghosts a thing of the past, or do spirits still roam the British Isles? Through original research Peter Moss has found that ghosts are being seen and felt as much as ever. Indeed, haunting may even be on the increase.” Published 1977, the cover presumably shows how new ghosts get made

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Scenes from Rochester Castle. Strategically important, it was subject to sieges in the First & Second Baron’s Wars. Notably, it was taken from King John who kept it under siege for 7 wks, but lost it the following year to French Prince Louis. The walls still stand but the floors & roof are long gone

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

BOTD Amelia Edwards, novelist, journalist and author of the much anthologised The Phantom Carriage. A renowned Egyptologist, she travelled extensively and set many of her suspenseful tales in far flung locations. Other ghostly works include The Four-fifteen Express and Number Three. #books

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Ghost Stories of an Angry Lady in a Raincoat. #books #ghosts

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

#sexystaircases an enormous classical stone staircase at the Upper Belvedere in Vienna. #stairs #belvedere

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

#newbook Horror begins at home and houses often capture and contain the nightmares that have occurred within them. Drawing examples from film, television and literature, Taylor explores why we are drawn to haunted and haunting places, and how we sense that unsettling things might be going on inside

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Scenes from the Belvedere in Vienna. Made of 2 palaces, the upper & the lower, it was created as the summer residence of Prince Eugene of Savoy in the early 1700s. It was used to house of the royal art collection & became Austria’s first public museum. It’s also the home of Klimt’s painting The Kiss

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Is she a ghost or is she giving birth to flowers? #books

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

#BOTD Robert W. Chambers, author of The King in Yellow. A prolific author of over 80 books, he wrote many weird stories in his early career, but later focused on romance & historical novels, to the frustration of fans like Lovecraft. Other supernatural works include The Maker of Moons. #books

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

More cuddly creatures at Peak Wildlife Park. Some of the enclosures are open - you can go in and pet them! #animals #wildlife #zoo

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Just catching up with the Meerkats at Peak Wildlife Park. #animals #wildlife

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A cast of Bruno Lüdke, once considered a German serial killer. A thief with a mild intellectual disability, he was forced to confess to a woman’s murder & went on to confess to 80 more. He never faced trial, instead was experimented on at the SS-run Institute of Criminological Medicine until he died

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Extra posts on Vienna’s Josephinum Museum. This is Gall’s skull. Joseph Gall developed a theory of the mind based on anatomy assigning personality traits to different areas. Although this led to the pseudoscientific phrenology, the idea that parts of the brain perform different tasks was far-sighted

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David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

#sexystaircases These Viennese steps would have once taken patients to the practice of Sigmund #Freud. Most of his belongings ended up in London, but the museum in #Vienna has created a facsimile of his waiting room.

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