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Michael @selmerguy.bsky.social · 1h

What did Kenny G say when he got on an elevator? . . . . . . . . . Man, this place rocks!

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Michael @selmerguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Drop some TELEVISIONS 📺🖤

The Kuba Komet, a German media center from around 1960 that included a television, a radio and a record player.

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Jussi @finnfolklorist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tootsie's Orchid Lounge has been the heart of Nashville's honky-tonk scene since 1960. This legendary watering hole launched countless country music careers and remains haunted by the spirits of musicians, #SpookySunday

Night view of Tootsie's Orchid Lounge in Nashville with purple lighting, neon signs, and people walking on the sidewalk along the brick street.

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Phil Watson @frenchmegaliths.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The menhir of Le Repaire in Esse (Charente) is 2.65m tall. An inventory from 1844 records that a follower of Charlemagne burned candles around it in 789. Card by Dupuis in Angoulême. #StandingStoneSunday.

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jondmaas.bsky.social @jondmaas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

ERIC SCHMITT: Mr. Smith, did you or did you not appear with Edith Evans in "Hay Fever"? JACK SMITH: No sir, that was MAGGIE Smith.

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Michael @selmerguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sarah, this is lovely. I needed a bit of harmony today and this is just what I was looking for. Thank you for sharing this.

Michael @selmerguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you see this, QTP with a bat! 🦇

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Fires burn blue … Methought the souls of all that I had murdered Came to my tent.” (Richard III) Candles dim & lightbulbs flicker in the presence of spooks. But in addition to the ominous, ubiquitous Corpse Candles, there are a number of other ghostly glows. [More #SpookySunday #ShakespeareSunday

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Come for the amazing book illustration. Stay for the hilariously long title that takes three posts to fully cover. #SpookySunday

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EVERY AGE GETS THE DRACULA IT NEEDS 3 of the best covers #31daysofHalloween Penguin, 1979, shows Dracula the #vampire escaping his coffin; Modern Library edition, 1932, shows the Count as a member of high society; Constable, 1916, #Dracula as a bat-like creature scaling the walls of his castle

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This ghastly illustration comes from Ernest Suffling's 'Decameron Of A Hypnotist' from 1898. I've never read it, or Suffling's more famous work, 'The Story Hunter', which I'm realising is a serious oversight on my part. This looks creepy as hell. #SpookySunday

A man clasps the arms of his chair in horror as a corpse-like figure rises out of the seat in front of him.

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The Internet Archive has a copy of the printed edition of the play that includes this engraving of the Ghost Ship effect.

Illustration from the play The Flying Dutchman showing a sailor pointing at the ghostly ship.

It looks like the 1828 production used a magic lantern to project an image of the ghost ship. This article has Fitzball’s own description of how the effect was created and suggests it may have been the first stage production to use a magic lantern in this way.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Flying Dutchman, or The Phantom Ship was a play by Edward Fitzball from 1826 about a ghostly ship that foretold doom to all who saw her. It was performed regularly for the rest of the century and was popular enough to inspire a parody version by Christy’s Minstrels in the 1860s. #SpookySunday

Poster for performances of the plays The Flying Dutchman and Sweeney Todd.

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Can we get EYE Filmmuseum trending here? It's Bluesky! We need, what, five posts? Let's make some noise to support a nice Dutch archive that gives us lots of free silent movies to watch.

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Julie Covington will always be my Evita.

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.

Poster for the 1922 movie the blonde vampire. The illustration shows a woman in a red and green dress, smoking a cigarette and encircled by her victims.

The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 03/10/2026

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For some weird reason spotting spoons stuck in people's hats has made me happy ever since I was a little girl. Just seemed like a smart way to carry a spoon in case of emergency eating. Was it only a thing in the low countries? Anyway, some examples:

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Gustaue Flavbert @cataribartok.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Do you know about the Spanish Students? They were a musical group that was popular in Europe and the US in the late 1870s. Their stage costumes featured ivory spoons tucked into their hats.

Poster for the musical group, the celebrated Spanish students. The illustration features a large group of musicians playing guitars and bandurrias They are wearing capes and hats with ivory spoons tucked into the brims.

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The @500songspodcast.bsky.social patreon bonus about The Bee Gees, with a mention of the band Toe Fat, allows me to post this DEEPLY unsettling album cover

Cover for the self titled album Toe Fat , featuring human bodies with blank toes for heads

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

DRACULA COOKBOOK 1978 This gothic delight imagines what #Dracula served his guests; he does not eat (or drink wine) himself of course! #31DaysOfHalloween

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." Arthur Conan Doyle, 'The Adventure of the Copper Beeches', 1892 #BookwormSat 🎨 by Helen Allingham

Painting 'View over Sandhills' by Helen Allingham
It shows an idyllic summer scene of cottages nestled amongst trees with a cornfield with several figures in the foreground.

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Michael @selmerguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This sounds fun. Which movies are you showing?

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 02/10/2026

"Say, Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees, you finish that coke jingle I asked for?" "Sure did, boss, minor key and overwhelmingly bleak, just like you wanted" "what" (learned about this via @andrewhickey.500songs.com's bee gees ep, as you might imagine)

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Bee Gees 1960s Radio Coke Ad “Another Cold and Windy Day”

YouTube video by The Jivetalkin Show

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I just finished listening to this and it was one of my favorite episodes so far. I don’t think many non-British people will understand how weird it was for a band to hang out with Cream, work with Barbara Windsor and Frankie Howerd and have major hits with those oblique, melancholy songs.

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today is the birthday of the young vaudevillian, Julius Marx. I wonder what happened to him?

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Hey guys! I'm Burke, he's Hare, and before we get into today's unboxing video, we just wanna talk a little about today's sponsor, Surfshark

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The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner?

We are a UK-based record label / mailorder store / distributor, specialising in all forms of esoteric / industrial music, but particularly: Industrial, Dark Ambient, Black Ambient, Japanese Noise, Neo...

Cold Spring releases music that fits your description. They list some of the genres they cover as Dark Folk, Drone, Doom, Noise and Death Industrial. They just released a compilation of soundtracks from Tarkovsky movies that looks intriguing. And a lot of the cover art features standing stones.

coldspring.bandcamp.com

Cold Spring

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Lisa Grimm Grinning Ghosts Come Out to Socialise @lisagrimm.com · 02/10/2026

Day 2 of #Booktober - a mid-century modern classic. Fantastic dust jacket, and delightfully gossipy stories. The Ida Lupino one is properly creepy.

That Ghost I Saw
Some excursions into the
SUPER NATURAL
As told to & recounted by
DANTON WALKER
These things couldn't possibly happen but they did, - to
NOEL COWARD, BEATRICE LILLIE, MAE WEST, STUART CLOETE, IDA LUPINO, BURL IVÉS...

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

THE BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE by Florence Marryat, published the same year as Dracula, 1897. Harriet, daughter of a mad scientist & a voodoo priestess, has the blood of the #vampire flowing through her veins; she's draining the life out of those she loves. First edition with bat #31daysofHalloween.

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People just don’t write ragtime ditties about skeletons like they used to.

Sheet music for song, The Skeleton Rag. The illustration shows small creatures, perhaps pixies, dancing in the moonlight.

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You can stop making this joke when it stops being funny. Today is not that day.

Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

People just don’t write songs about ouija boards like they used to.

Sheet music for song Weegee Weegee (Ouija Ouija) Tell Me Do. The illustration shows a well-dressed young couple using a ouija board.

Sheet music for song called Ouija Mine. The illustration shows a spirit directing two people using a ouija board.

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it's not actually an honor to end up on the cover of Viziers Monthly. it shows your machinations aren't subtle enough

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FAB Press @fabpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cats just have a way of naming themselves.

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ELSA LANCHESTER Bride of the Hunchback by M.J. Simpson can now be Pre-Ordered! The limited collectors edition with printed page edges & individually numbered signature plate autographed by the author is available exclusively direct from FAB Press www.fabpress.com/elsa-lanchester-limited-edition.html

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Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I give this post a thumbs up. Or do I?

Image of a Mr. Sardonicus punishment poll. The illustration shows a thumbs up gesture that can be flipped around to show thumbs down.

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Happy William Wellman Wednesday (with plane-mounted camera on the set of the underseen Young Eagles in 1930. Most of us have probably seen these shots and not the film)

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I can’t wait to see what you come up with. You always have the best books.

Lisa Grimm Grinning Ghosts Come Out to Socialise @lisagrimm.com · 01/10/2026

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IT BEGINS. #Booktober 2026 kicks off with Gibbet Hill by Bram Stoker, rediscovered in our amazing @nlireland.bsky.social 2 years ago by Brian Cleary, and republished in this beautiful edition with the proceeds going to the Charlotte Stoker Fund. #spookybooks #31sp #halloweencountdown

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This post is going out a youngster, but it’s got to come back a star!