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Michael A Cox @shin-mc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Appropriately wet weather for 'There Will Come Soft Rains' day.

A copy of The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, open at 'There Will Come Soft Rains', showing today's date: August 4, 2026. Rainy window & world in the background.

Michael A Cox @shin-mc.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I might, and did! We're big into St Fillan's glowing arm around here. I was told today that St Margaret has 45 miracles associated with her, but sadly a radiant appendage isn't one of them.

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Michael A Cox @shin-mc.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

60ft underground in the centre of Dunfermline: St Margaret's cave, where Scotland's only royal saint would come to meditate and pray in the 11th century. Access was retained via tunnel when the council filled in the valley to build a carpark in the 1960s.

Industrial-looking subterranean steps lead deep underground.

St. Margaret's cave, with model of kneeling St Margaret.

Model of St Margaret kneeling in prayer, holding a crucifix.

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Michael A Cox @shin-mc.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Jukebox Pan spotted at Armstrongs Vintage, Edinburgh.

Detail of a vintage jukebox surround showing a colourful rendering of the great god Pan playing his pipes.

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Michael A Cox @shin-mc.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I love the ending of IV. I wish they'd left it there...

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

“This year there was a net increase of about 90 shops in the UK selling significant numbers of second-hand books, taking the overall total to about 1,375, probably the highest number there has ever been.” wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2025/12/seco...

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Second-Hand Bookshops in Britain: 2025 Report

This year there was a net increase of about 90 shops in the UK selling significant numbers of second-hand books, taking the overall total ...

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Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Happy New Year! At midnight on Hogmanay, the Watch Stone will move from its position guarding the approach to the Ness of Brodgar to take a drink from Stenness loch. (Or so it is said!) Wishing you all a wonderful 2026, filled with folklore, fun and many a hike to an ancient site 💚🪨🎉

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Michael A Cox @shin-mc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

When I first saw 'Strange Roads / With the Gods in Spring' I thought it was a single continuous story title, and still wish there was a story by that name!

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Michael A Cox @shin-mc.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Placed a small order with @swanriverpress.bsky.social and it came with more bonus freebies than I know what to do with! Thanks, very generous. 📚

A book surrounded with postcards and bookmarks.

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Michael A Cox @shin-mc.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Hi, thanks so much! And same, my header is from the cover art! :)

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Michael A Cox @shin-mc.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

"Doarlish Cashen...is an ancient, bleak and remote farmhouse..." Felix Kelly's atmospheric illustration of the home of Gef the Talking Mongoose, from 'Haunted Houses' by Joseph Braddock (1956, Batsford). #PhantomsFriday #ForteanFriday

Black & white illustration of a remote farmhouse on a hill, with a dark figure climbing towards it, and the text "Doarlish Cashen...is an ancient, bleak and remote farmhouse...". Artist: Felix Kelly.

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Michael A Cox @shin-mc.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Just arrived: latest issue of Faunus, the Journal of the Friends of Arthur Machen. Includes article by me about the recurring motif of Japanese bureaus in Machen's fiction. If that sounds appealing, probably join FOAM if you haven't already: arthurmachen.co.uk

Cover of Faunus number 52, posed on a bookshelf.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Mawnan Church and Woods in #Cornwall, scene of the mysterious 'Owlman' sightings in the 1970s: a #Fortean and #cryptozoology favourite. In 1993 I found it an atmospheric location with its ancient granite church. The wood wasn't as spooky as expected but it will have grown a lot thicker in 30 years!

A modest medieval, gothic church built of grey granite blocks.

In among the deciduous tress of a wood growing on a steep slope covered in a carpet of autumn leaves.

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Michael A Cox @shin-mc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

New 'Hodgsoniana' post from me.

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Michael A Cox @shin-mc.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Autumn colours at Devilla Forest, Kincardine.

Near-symmetrical photo of autumnal treelines tapering into distance around loch edge, with blue sky and white clouds reflected in the water.

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Michael A Cox @shin-mc.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

New addition to the Machen collection, watched over by Pan. 📚

Hardback copy of 'Ritual & Other Stories' by Arthur Machen, stood on a bookshelf.

Eerily-lit figurine of Pan, in front of some Arthur Machen works on a bookshelf.

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Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Any Edinburgh-adjacent weirdsters should pop into @argonautbooks.bsky.social to take advantage of their #TalesOfTheWeird ( @blpublishing.bsky.social ) sale and grab a spoooky tote to boot!

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Michael A Cox @shin-mc.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Cairnholy II, Neolithic chambered tomb, Dumfries and Galloway. #StandingStoneSunday

Photo of Cairnholy II, a Neolithic chambered tomb with two standing portal stones in front of it, on a green hill on a clear day.

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Michael A Cox @shin-mc.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

#MementoMoriMonday 💀 Spotted at St Mary's Chapel, Grandtully, Perthshire. 18thC stone depicting Abraham offering Isaac for sacrifice.

Weathered 18th century gravestone in an overgrown churchyard, showing (from top) an angel, initials, a crest, and Abraham offering Isaac for sacrifice while another angel looks on.

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