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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the old cedars beside the medieval ruins of Acton Burnell Castle in #Shropshire. #ThickTrunkTuesday #castle #medieval #tree

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Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A killing moon hanging over Edinburgh Castle, flanked by the cross outside St John’s. A nice view to snap last night on the way back from a gig.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

"Le démon des glaces” (The Arctic Marauder) 🎨 Jacques Tardi (1974) #nationalcomicbookday

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

AUTUMN MIST I encountered the perfect gothic scene for #AutumnEquinox. Walking through my local Yorkshire churchyard the leaves had begun to fall and it was completely shrouded in mist.

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Era una noche oscura y tormentosa @manuelabennet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"An ancient horror settled on the street, (...) To choke the summer's final breath complete In a dark sepulchre of winter's cold. And well I knew in that dead hour of night That autumn brought no simple change of year, But an old ice-god rising in his might To claim the world in desolation drear."

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The Great Detective @greatdetective.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

DEATH OF A GHOST Margery Allingham (1934) #SpookySunday #illustration Frontispiece for the US edition by Boris Artzybasheff

Doubleday Doran 1st ed.
DEATH OF A GHOST BY MARGERY ALLINGHAM
PUBLISHED FOR THE CRIME CLUB, INC. BY DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & CO. INC GARDEN CITY, N. Y. 1934

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 19/09/2026

‘Death’ Hannes Bok, 1947

DEATH
By Clarence E. Flynn
WHY do you fear me?
I am your friend. I but guide trav'lers
Rounding the bend-
Lead them to freedom
From time and age,
Help them start writing
On a new page.

Seek for me never,
Keep your course true-
When I am needed
I'll come to you,
Then I will show you
Roads without end-
Why do you fear me?
I am your friend.

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Spectropia: or, Surprising Spectral Illusions, Showing Ghosts Everywhere, and of any Colour, by J. H. Brown (1865) #SpookySunday See comments for instructions on seeing ghosts everywhere.

FOURTH EDITION.
SPECTROPIA
OR
SURPRISING SPECTRAL ILLUSIONS.
SHOWING GHOSTS EVERYWHERE
AND OF ANY COLOUR.
BY J. H. BROWN.
LONDON:
GRIFFITH & FARRAN, CORNER OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD.
R. & C. TREACHER, BRIGHTON.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

"Bat, bat, come under my hat, And I’ll give you a slice of bacon;" (Nursery Rhyme) 🎨 Jessie Hall (1892) #BaturDay

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Written on this date 207 years ago. • John Keats •

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye. – Thomas Nashe, 'A Litany in Time of Plague' (A song from Summer's Last Will and Testament, 1600) #BookWormSat

Raffaele Mainella: watercolour illustration for 'Nos Invisibles' by Charles d’Orino (Clotilde Briatte) 1907.

Death walks a tired young woman towards a distant bright mountain through a dark misty valley.

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Valentine @valent6228.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Night - River Landscape with a Ruined Abbey - John Laporte (1761–1839) #romanticism #gothic_nocturne

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

BOSOLA: Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens. FERDINAND: Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle. She died young. – John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi (1623) #BookWormSat

Skull Crowned with Snakes and Flowers (for 'The Duchess of Malfi') by Henry Weston Keen ca. 1930
Black-and-white drawing with pen and black ink, brush and wash.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

This is Leonard Bernstein's score of Schumann’s “Manfred” Overture, Op. 115. He wrote at the top, “Who’s read Byron lately?”

First page of the large conducting score of Schumann's Manfred, with Lenny's annotations

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Cine Antiqua - filmes clássicos @cineantiqua.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Max Schreck durante as filmagens de Nosferatu, 1922.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

"The spirits I have raised abandon me, The spells which I have studied baffle me, The remedy I recked of tortured me I lean no more on superhuman aid;" (Lord Byron "Manfred") 🎨 John Martin "Manfred on the Jungfrau" (1837) #BookwormSat

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The Great Detective @greatdetective.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Bat was turned into several film adaptations and a novel. It pioneered the trope of setting comedic mysteries in old, dark houses which seem to be haunted. #illustration #coverart Unsurprisingly, it also inspired Batman.

Dust jacket cover and spine for Grosset & Dunlap edition of the novel (1926)

THE BAT
A Mystery Story
by MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
and AVERY HOPWOOD
Courtesy of ROLAND WEST Photo Play Productions

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, coming and going in great, whirling circles." Bram Stoker 'Dracula' (1897) 🎨 'The Bat' (see ALT) #BookWormSat

An 18th-19th century b&w print of a bat in flight near a Gothic style ruin with foliage on the dilapidated wall in the foreground. The illustration, titled THE BAT, appears to have been taken from a book: Page 236 is printed on the bottom right corner. The artist is unknown.

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Mary B @beesincampanula.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

There was a full moonlight, and I could see that the noise was made by a great bat, which wheeled around, doubtless attracted by the light... and every now and again struck the window with its wings… Dracula Bram Stoker #BookWormSat 🦇

Edward Gorey poster in sepia tones showing a cloaked figure reading a playbill held up by bats!

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#SpookySunday An inventive twist on the headless horseman, Lionel Feininger, 1898, has instead illustrated a headless cyclist using his skull as a lamp. Be seen & be safe! Or in this case, be scared!

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Lord George Byron contemplating the Colosseum in Rome #art Arthur Willmore or James Tibbets Willmore, after the original composition by William Westall

An image in mostly soft brown tones, with the nobel poet in a red-and-blue outfit reclining on a hill by the ruined Colosseum.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

In the Cloister, Palermo 1840 oil Martinus Rørbye ~ (Danish, 1803–1848) #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

'I have seen,' he said, lowering his voice, 'I have seen the Bodach Glas.' MAC-IVOR WARNED OF HIS FATE BY THE GREY SPIRIT. Grey Old Man serves as a fatal family omen in Walter Scott's Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since (1814) #SpookySunday

WAVERLEY.
MAC-IVOR WARNED OF HIS FATE BY THE GREY SPIRIT.
Illustration to Walter Scott's 'Waverley'
1823-1840
After: Charles Robert Leslie
Print made by: James Mitchell

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Whitby Gothic @whitbygothic.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

+++ On this very evening, the 1st August 1893. From the Log of the Demeter, which is travelling from Varna to Whitby +++ " We seem to be drifting towards some terrible doom " The picture is the Dmitry from Narva, wrecked in 1885 which inspired Bram #BramStoker #Dracula #Whitby #GothicHorror #OTD

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026

“I bear in my shirt a head; the head of Urien, That governed a court with mildness; And on his white bosom the sable raven doth glut.” (Llywarch Hen “Elegy on Urien Rheged”, c 600 CE) 🎨audrey benjaminsen #BookwormSat

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

" - Good God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn." - William Wordsworth #WyrdWednesday #Pagan #poetry

Drawing of Triton by Annibale Caracci, approximately 1600.

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Insatiable vampire l'éternelle Luxure Sur la Grande Cité convoite sa pâture. #wyrdwednesday #gothic Le Stryge (The Gargoyle / The Vampire), fifth state, by Charles Meryon 1853

A black-and-white etching from Meryon's album 'Eaux-fortes sur Paris'. A grotesque gargoyle from Notre-Dame Cathedral, with black birds circling around it, the city in the background.

TEXT:
C. Meryon del. sculp.
MDCCCLIII
A. Delâtre imp. rue de la bucherie. 6. Insatiable vampire l'éternelle Luxure
Sur la Grande Cité convoite sa pâture.
C.M.

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The horned Madonna of Portinari Chapel, Milan (1460s) #wyrdwednesday

Horned Mother Mary with horned Baby Jesus

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Human skeleton reads a list of animal names Title page for: Cornelius van Dyk's "Osteologia", 1680 (Rijksmuseum)

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Bear Unknown artist, 16th century (British Museum)

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026

"And great and weary Charon rowed on and on beside the little, silent, shivering ghost. ... "I am the last," he said. No one had ever made Charon smile before, no one before had ever made him weep." (Dunsany) 🎨 José Benlliure y Gil (detail) #PhantomsFriday

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B. Rae “Rusty” Grosz @braegrosz.com · 24/07/2026

Mediums who weren’t up to DIY-ing their cons could purchase ready-made ghosts, self-rapping tables, self-playing guitars, and other séance supplies from the secretly circulated catalogue “Gambols with the Ghosts,” issued by Ralph E. Sylvestre of Chicago. #PhantomsFriday

Somewhat aged and torn cover of the catalogue “Gambols with the Ghosts,” featuring illustration in shades of purple depicting a scene of ghosts flying over a landscape of moonrise over water, an owl perched on a bare tree, a satyr playing a pipe, the skull of a horned animal, a large sphinx, and small pyramids

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all. Byam Shaw's #illustration for Poe's The Masque of the Red Death in 'Selected Tales of Mystery' (London 1909)

A dark image in shades of red and black. The red light cast from the tall Gothic window high above reveals the Red Death in his red robe standing beside masquerade guests who have fallen dead on the floor. A clock with a long pendulum shows twelve fifteen.

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Marco Rosenkranz @marcorosenkranz.de · 21/07/2026

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In their spirit photography in the 1920s and '30s, the Scottish-born brothers Craig and George Falconer specialised in ectoplasm. The results are rather artistic. #PhantomsFriday

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026

“Two for Joy” 🎨 Bryan Angus

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

#WyrdWednesday Contemporary artists Anna & Elena Balbusso's depiction of Guy de Maupassant's 1887 supernatural tale 'Le Horla'. Tormented by nightmares, the narrator is attacked by an evil entity who induces the feeling that something is weighing upon his chest as he sleeps. All does not end well.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

📷 Wilson A Bentley

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AMERICAN RAIN @americanrain.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Tuesday .

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

seeker of shade in weald

Photograph monochrome

in forest, an open space of dark where the light outside is viewed , as though from a cave

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The Great Detective @greatdetective.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Poster for screenings of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

Thursday & Friday July 16th & 17th
The Hound of the Baskervilles
It's the picture with that bone-chilling HOWL!
It's Ten Times the Terror in TECHNICOLOR!
Based on the Novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Released thru United Artists
Copyright 1959 United Artists Corporation, Country of Origin U.S.A.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026

“All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair” (Coleridge) 🎨 kAt Philbin “Sentinels” (2014)

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Philip de Loutherberg, 'Avalanche In The Alps'. #art #artsky #landscape #mountains #Switzerland #Alps #Sublime

A painting of snow and rock crashing down a cleft in the mountains as a group of men, dwarfed by the avalanche, look on aghast.

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them—She was the Universe. Ending to 'Darkness' by Lord Byron, assumably written in July 1816 during 'The Year Without a Summer'. #wyrdwednesday #art Józef Rapacki 1918

Józef Rapacki: 'Nokturn'

A dark oil painting of chapel with a statue of Saint.

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Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Simon Luttichuys, Vanitas nature morte avec crâne, livres, estampes et peintures de Rembrandt et Jan Lievens, avec un reflet du peintre à l'œuvre, 1635-1640, Huile sur panneau de bois, 36 x 47 cm, Musée Nationale de Gdánsk .

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