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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 14h

Goodnight from Davey Smith, excited by the air being thick with bonefire incense sending smoke-wraith prayers to boundary gods. Goodnight from the midnight sisters of Bramble Street, sharing cigarettes, gossip and protective charms against the wounds of the night. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Icelandic word for psychologist is "sálfræðingur". It literally means "soul expert". For short we call them "sáli" or "soulie".

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another day spent fruitlessly searching for the Black Library in Weychester Cathedral. Another dozen subterranean rooms visited, but no new clues. It remains firmly occulted. Remains legendary, an engine of the imagination. – #MattAdams

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm sad today from the news that my cousin Johnny died last night from lung cancer in Salisbury, I'm afraid from addiction issues. Between the ages of five and ten we were friends and allies in all that golden summer of boyhood, and had many adventures roving hills and woods and fields of wheat 🌾🌞🤺

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And a pleasing Dr James feel as a bonus 👻

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And his name was quite naturally, Michael

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's the Feast of St Michael and all Angels. The date of the old hiring fairs in The Isle of Wight and Dorset. And my late father's birthday: he farmed at Bowcombe, Presford and Billingham. I miss him.

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

R for Resurrection Men--one of the entries in A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, covering the basics of Victorian mourning & deathlore. Fab illustrations by @landisblair.bsky.social Available worldwide Corpses gone off were shipped to medical schools in barrels labeled pork or fish.

Black and white drawing of two men in suits, one in a bowler, one in a top hat, standing above an open grave in a graveyard crowded with tombstones. They hold ropes and are dragging the body of a woman in shroud and cap out of the grave by a rope round her neck. A lantern at the left gives light. A spade stands against a tombstone on a pile of dirt and another lies on the ground.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Still a bit blown away to see copies of ‘Hookland Fragments’ in the wild. Here is a signed copy available from @treadwells-books.bsky.social

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can't really be at the Science Museum and not spend a quiet moment with the Rolls Royce WWII engine designed by a team which included my grandfather, Geoffrey Morris. Wish I'd met him. Believe he was Operation Paperclip after the war.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Goodnight from Prosperine’s Bookshop, its patrons enchanted by Emily c. Banting’s talk on magical garters and the Empress Eel’s folkloric power. Goodnight from the pubs of Store Street, where strange stories are a currency to be swapped for pints of Lazarus ale. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Goodnight and goodnight to Hookland

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

George Woodward, 'The Dog And The Devil', 1808. Enjoy! #Devil #dog #humour #broadside

A bulldog is leaping on a man disguised as a horned devil, watched by a man in the costume of the early 19th Century and another man with a long grey beard, dressed as a conjurer. Below it reads 'The DOG & the DEVIL!' with the story told beneath.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Even inland, the salt-hag is tide-pulled. Gulls call her to come to shore and see the wave-polished augeries on display. Sea-seasoned winds make promises of things to be summoned at the slack. She walks to her secret cove. Her first glimpse of sea an intoxication. – #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 22/09/2026

[1980] The Edge of the Ceiling - Alan Garner, best known for his children's fantasy novels, talks about his life and writing process. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D6_kO_4WqM

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The Edge of The Ceiling - Alan Garner

Alan Garner talks about his life and writing process.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Johnny is great and a vital historian of often undeservedly forgotten horror and the fantastical

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Goodnight. And, second time round might hit, Equinoctial Salutations....

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Now about these toxic phone-calls, Charles...

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's the Autumn Equinox an hour after midnight in the UK, a seasonal transition I always find comfortable, and I forgot to wish you Equinoctial greetings, bows and hat-liftings when I just wished you goodnight

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Hayley Stevens @theghostgeek.com · 21/09/2026

It's time for the annual reminder that Halloween is fast approaching, which means companies and organisations are going to use ghost claims to promote their business, to try and get people to visit their Halloween events. If you don't like it because gHoStS dOnT eXiSt then just don't go, okay?

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NHS update: one bureaucracy problem solved, four to go, including the most difficult one

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Have been recycling old contributor copies but saving this one, which has two David Lynch interviews, one by Mike Figgis and one by me. How haunted we are by this beautiful man.

Copy of the BFI magazine Sight & Sound, March 2007

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

'To see the spectres, it is only necessary to look steadily at the dot, or asterisk, which is to be found on each of the plates, for about a quarter of a minute, or while counting about twenty, the plate being well illuminated by either artificial or day light.'

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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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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Remember that long form I had to fill in for my local hospital to get myself on the waiting list for an operation? Text today from the hospital saying I hadn't completed it. Check in on the website and it says I HAVE completed it. NHS bureaucracy is killing me. After six weeks, not on waiting list.

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missscarlett2024.bsky.social @missscarlett2024.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Blagdon Inn, Paignton (Devon) - 4 January 1978 - The #ghost burns down the pub. It was rebuilt, but closed in 2022 and is being converted into private apartments. #SpookySunday

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missscarlett2024.bsky.social @missscarlett2024.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Another impressive illustration from the Illustrated Police News for #SpookySunday

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Making music in 1631. Man's hat seems to be miraculously hovering above the table. A miracle! By Jan Miense Molenaer of Haarlem, whose day is today.

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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Endured a colonoscopy today which was marginally more pleasant than seeing that 18th Century Whig aristocrat from my storied past bothering the news cycle for days now. Goodnight.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

September hedgerow flora-a small scientifically proven bit of botanical relaxation for your brain. Zoom in to the patterns and details and an extremely cool experiment has shown that these good sprigs will help you recover from stress 60% more quickly 🌿

Flowers blooming in a Norfolk garden in September 2021

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