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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Very delighted to receive my contributor copy of this beautiful annotated manuscript book of M R James’ ‘Oh Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’ from @crumpledlinenpress which features my illustration on the cover!

A hard backed book: ‘The Haunted Archive - the Annotated Manuscripts of M R James ‘Oh Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’ Edited by Paul M Chapman and Mark Jones’ featuring a silhouetted figure of a man walking along a beach in the sunset, pursued by another figure in the background.

An open book. On the right hand page is a photograph of a handwritten manuscript.

An illustration of a man in a flat cap on a beach at sunset being pursued by a figure in the background.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I haven't been here much recently, because we just moved to Cromarty 🖤

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 25/07/2026

Lola Dupre loladupre.com

a strange building, its not real though. Its got lots of floors and if it was real, it would fall over

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Warm up sketch/Widow’s Bay fan art.

A woman in a folk horror flavour headdress I’ve repeated the image twice behind it

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

An illustration I did for The Small Hand by Susan Hill. This story was published together with The Woman in Black in a nice hardback edition in 2024 by Vintage Classics. Signed giclee print £75 free UK P&P Email: nicktankardart@gmail.com for worldwide shipping costs and enquiries. Thank you.

An illustration of a narrow country lane surrounded by hedges and a small patch of woodland. Through the spindly bare winter trees a shape of a large house in silhouette against a stormy looking sky, great big clouds and a flock of jackdaw. A lone figure stands on the lane in the foreground, it stares at the house. Spooky and atmospheric. Black crosshatched pen and rolled block printing ink applied with a rubber roller.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Midsummer-ish in Applecross... Took this at midnight last night. Thanks to the neighbours for keeping the hall light on for added atmosphere 👍

A cottage silhouetted against a darkening pink tinged sky. There is a single sliver of yellow light coming from a window.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Nighthouse… something I’ve been faffing with for a while now. A fictionalised view from Coille Ghillie in Applecross (there’s no castle or lighthouse, never mind one like this). It’s a bit clunky and I’m not sure where to go with it from here (maybe a picture book).

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The entire second series of #BrokenVeil is now available. Join the Broken Veil Channel on Patreon to hear it, ad free, and more. Patreon.com/brokenveil

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

‘Paris Rooftops’ by my partner Clare. One of my favourites. Signed giclee prints available: £94.00 plus P&P 10% discount code: CLARESARTPRINT10 (apply on checkout). Etsy Link: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/7...

A stylised painting of rooftops in Paris. A jumble of rooftops from the foreground continues to the far distance where the white domed Sacre Coeur church rises above. Clare’s energetic use of black line drawing, watercolour and colour pencils depict an almost abstract version of this huge city. Dashes of red marks suggest the hundreds of chimney pots, the scene in bathed in a hazy pink and yellow watercolour wash suggesting the city near the end of a long hot summers day. Patches of pale green and yellow ochre contrast with the hazy pinks and bright red chimney pots. Beautiful.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Hello from this spooky little scamp! I am currently in the middle of moving house. No studio / brain power (on top of ongoing boring burn out. BORING) so not drawing anything I’m inclined to post. But I actually had fun doing this so I might do a few more of these photo collagey type things.

A ghostly child grinning on a shiplap clad landing. Black and white photo collage thing.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Todays Brontë adjacent foofling: drawing from a screen grab of the BBC’s adaptation of the Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (on iPlayer now if you fancy watching it). Trying out watercolour pencils.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

A Jane Eyre inspired thing… pencil drawing of a Highland path transmogrified into odd Victorian lass #bookillustration

A sepia tinted illustration of a woman in early Victorian dress. Her silhouetted figure is made from a pencil drawing of a path through a windblown stunted wood, which blends in to the surroundings in the foreground.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Channelling Schalcken with this little candlelight study in pencil crayon

A small pencil crayon drawing of a girl in a striped blue and white dressing gown holding a lit candle. She is smiling slightly and wears glasses. She has short hair and is about 12 years old. The background is dark.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Happy Mayday everyone! Here’s to those Summerisle apples 🤞🍎🌞

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 24/04/2026

Clair de lune Charles-Victor Guilloux, 1895

a serene, dark landscape at night, featuring a prominent tree, a small boat on a waterway, and a bright moon reflecting on the water.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I'm not here very much right now (not a lot of drawing going on, lots of very boring life things going on instead etc) but I just popped on here, saw these and snapped them up. Who doesn't like a few new brushes?? Thanks Jason! Off to have a faff around with them now...

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Can't really get anywhere near actually drawing anything at the moment... too much going on at home. But I did manage to take five minutes to faff around with the Photo Booth app on my iPad, transforming a few recent drawings. Quite addictive.

A black and white pencil drawing of some stuffed deer heads put through a kaleidoscope app.

A pencil drawing of a chimney and some clouds put through a kaleidoscope app.

A pencil drawing of a shadow of a pointed finger against a wall with small framed pictures put through a kaleidoscope app.

A black and white pen sketch of a clump of trees on a hill put through a kaleidoscope app

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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Crumpled Linen Press @crumpledlinenpress.com · 27/03/2026

Cover reveal! Thanks to the fabulous @sarahcoomer.bsky.social, we have a cover for our facsimile manuscript edition of 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad.' The Kickstarter pre-launch page is going live in the next few days. Stay tuned! #MRJames #Ghoststories #manuscripts

Professor Parkins walks the lonely shore at Burnstow, unaware of a figure in the distance tracking him...

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Into the mouth of the beast… faffing around with a slightly daft version of Dracula’s castle based increasingly roughly on that portrait of Vlad the Impaler. I did a black and white version too which I (obviously) almost prefer…

An illustration of Dracula’s castle based on a portrait of Vlad the impaler. A man approaches the castle on foot. There’s a massive spectral wolf waiting to greet him and a mysterious ring of white fire burning next to the path.

A black and white version of an illustration of Dracula’s castle based on a portrait of Vlad the impaler. A man approaches the castle on foot. There’s a massive spectral wolf waiting to greet him and a mysterious ring of white fire burning next to the path.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Hello! I've been a bit preoccupied lately with real life and stuff but I've finally put a bit of effort into my Etsy shop... added new prints and restocked old ones. Do have a look. Sharing much appreciated. Thank you. sarahcoomershop.etsy.com

A black and white illustration inspired by Susan Hill's novel The Woman in Black. A woman in late Victorian mourning stands in a graveyard in a flat desolate landscape. There are two stone pillars in the foreground.

An illustration of the ghost of a woman in a dress of the mid to late Georgian era with a sort of skeletal face. She is stood / hovering in front of a detached Georgian house in the dusk, flanked by dark trees, with its front door lit from above.

A print of a black and white illustration inspired by John Masefield's novel the Box of Delights: a bearded man with a heavy pack trudges through snow pursued by wolves. There's a big white house in the distance, and a small aeroplane (in fact a car-o-plane) in the sky. The scene is flanked by trees and emerges from a square box. The face of its beholder is just visible.

A ridiculous black and white illustration (in print form) of worshippers dancing around a ceremonial bonfire in the trees. The flames take the shape of a large cat's head.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Lady of the Hermitage. Bit cheesy but I had the urge to draw a spooky Georgian, inspired by Hermitage House in Edinburgh, which was built around 1780.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Hello! Long time no see! Here’s today’s WIP, a pencil crayon drawing of Tom Durie, jester to Anne of Denmark, from Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger 1614 portrait. I started this intending to do a scribbly, scratchy, quick thing but I don’t seem to be able to do that.

A very unfinished pencil crayon drawing of Tom Durie, jester to Anne of Denmark, from Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger's 1614 portrait.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I left my old job a couple of years ago. I’m getting by (just) but crikey, having done my tax return & seen how little I’m earning it was a shocker, it’s getting more & more difficult to earn money from illustration. I have been out of action too so…I’ll get cracking! Buy my art (FEBRUARY) 🙏🏻

A black pen in a crosshatch technique and black block printing ink applied with a roller on white paper illustration. The dark silhouetted shape of a woman in a black funeral dress stands at the foot of a bed in an Edwardian style room, she stares at a tired looking man under a heavy quilt. Moonlight shines into the room from behind the woman. Creepy and atmospheric.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Today’s ridiculous pencil drawing: Nosferatu shadow (feat. my little fat hand)

A pencil drawing of a hallway at night with a shadow on the wall of a hand pointing, Orlok style

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Today’s ridiculous pencil drawing: Nosferatu shadow (feat. my little fat hand)

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I love Calke Abbey. Here's a sketch I did yesterday from a photo I took there a few years ago.

A pencil drawing in an open sketchbook of a jumbled collection of stuffed animal head trophies and antlers on a bed. There are stacked picture frames along the walls and propped next to the fireplace. It's a room in the National Trust property Calke Abbey.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Happy Burns Night. A more important national day than St Andrew’s and it’s for a poet. My art isn’t very Scottish (people who don’t know me often guess I’m Irish for some reason) but there are occasional clues.

A very rough some would describe as “poor” sketch of a giant stag with a tiny head. Alan of the Glen is written next to it.

Ghosts of Scottish churchyards shows a huge ghost dressed in tartan outside a rain swept church and graveyard

THE LAST THiNG I REMEMBER BEFORE I LOST MY CLOTHES shows a highland cow with glowing eyes

This one is called hashtag visit Scotland and is one of my most popular prints. It shows a highland cow on two legs with misty hills and a farmhouse behind her

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

It’s Robert Burns’ birthday and in there somewhere in my Michael Marra, Neil Gow, Dougie Maclean, growing up in Ayr tribute to socialist folks wandering about the hills of a weekend in the 1950’s pointing at things.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Went to do some drawing, got distracted by 1965 Man Alive film on YouTube about 4 women sharing a flat. So I drew that. ‘Girls’ playing at real life before settling down and marrying. Indulging in the mild tedium of independence before the real drudge begins seems to be the message.

A sketchbook spread showing pencil drawings of faces and impressions taken from a 1965 documentary about 4 young women sharing a flat in South Kensington. Bouffanted hair dos are prevalent.

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Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

You can't buy the book, but you CAN buy the postcard of the book. Right here: www.colemandesign.co.uk/shop #Bookish #DoctorWho #InsideNo9 #Detectorists

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

About to start on the final edits to the Rubha Hunish wood engraving, aiming for a proof print before day's end. In the meantime, to take your mind off the madness of the human world, here's Sgùrr nan Gillean in the Cuillin of Skye, in a winter snowstorm. In watercolour and wood engraving.

Watercolour. An ascending mountain ridge of three rocky pinnacles in a winter snowstorm.

A print in black ink of a wood engraving of the same mountain in a snowstorm.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black, revisited. Faffing about with portfolio work.

An illustration in the style of a sepia photograph. Between two stone gateposts is a desolate graveyard. There is sea, and beyond it, land but the landscape is very flat. A tall woman dressed in late Victorian mourning is stood amongst the graves, looking spooky and mardy.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Slightly pathetic aurora snaps from Applecross

A slightly greenish night sky over the Inner Sound in northern Scotland

A slightly pinkish cloudy sky over a row of cottages at night

The gable end of a cottage with light coming through a door and window in front of a slightly blueish night sky

A slightly blue night sky tinged with pink. It’s also a bit cloudy.

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Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Nuts in May on BBC FOUR tonight.

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Hidden Britain @hiddenbritain.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

+ SCHOOLS IDENT CLOCK // RABIES SIGN + Made these in Dec as Xmas gifts for a couple of good friends. Both were very pleasing to make so I've popped a small batch in the shop, available to pre-order for shipping in Feb. Short run and only available for a limited period. hiddenbritain.bigcartel.com

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Harbinger. Another upbeat digital daub for January 🤪🥳

A black and white illustration that looks a bit like a photograph. There are winter trees in the mist are behind a dry stone wall. In front of this a blurred shadowy slightly transparent figure of a girl dressed in black carrying a white plastic bag points to something to her left.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 06/01/2026

Ice Palace, Leadville, Colorado William Henry Jackson, 1896

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Signal Man. A cheery new drawing for January.

A black and white illustration that looks a bit like a photograph. A fuzzy image of a man wearing black clothes and a hooded top is in front of a railway cutting. There's a lot of scrubby grass and gravel, and the tracks can be seen behind the figure. There are a few brick built houses on the top of the embankment, and on the ground is a sign at an angle - the words on it read 'IN EMERCENGY CALL SIGNALMAN'.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Happy New Year folks... (bit of 'A Christmas Carol' heavy grid this year unsurprisingly) #artvsartist2025

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Impromptu leftover ink monoprint of the Bishop's House in Sheffield. It's the wrong way round because I forgot to reverse the reference pic.

An inky black monoprint of some large winter trees and a timber-framed house at night.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Sketches with my new posh felt tips, of Kirkcarrion in Teesdale and a lane in Mid Devon

A black and white brush pen drawing of a clump of trees on top of a hill

A black and white drawing of a lane in Devon, the road surface is shiny with puddles and the hedgerows are high. There’s a tree on the right.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Best present award definitely goes to my husband Jamie who gave me this beautiful picture by our lovely friend the artist Rose Strang from her Coigach series of paintings.

A small painting of a misty mountain in the Scottish Highlands, hung unframed on a wall painted grey.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Really loved the Room in the Tower GSFC... here's my take on the excellent story by E F Benson (one of my very favourites). Merry Christmas everyone! Xxx

A black and white illustration - a gothic stone mullioned window with a view of treetops and two large bats. On the right there is a painting of a sinister woman with an unpleasant smile on her face. She is dressed in black with a black headdress. Underneath this self portrait is a small picture of a young boy in an oval frame, and an ace of diamonds playing card, also framed.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Spooky Advent day 24: Quis est ist qui venit? Plucky Prof Parkins comes a creepy cropper with bolshy bespooked bedding in M R James' Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad. And thus ends my creepy countdown, thank you all for following along. Merry Christmas!!

A black and white illustration: A beach at sunset. A silhouetted man in the foreground is about to walk past us. He is wearing a flat cap, a jacket and plus fours. In the background there is a figure of what might be a person but also might be a vengeful wraith. Who knows.

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Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Spooky Advent day 23: The Dead Room. An aging actor's murky past begins to eerily resurface in the radio studio where he's recording an episode of his long-running horror series. Written by Mark Gatiss in 2018, it was the first (and so far only) 'purpose written' GSFC since 1978's the Ice House.

A black and white illustration: The actor Simon Callow is in the foreground looking worried / a bit gormless (my fault not his). Brhind him can be seen the figure of a young man (Joshua Oakes-Rogers) with longish blonde hair, staring intently at Callow. There are bright studio lights above and the letters s-s-s are superimposed on the image

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