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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 15h

I ought to have thought of that - and according to the reply above, you're absolutely right. It does have a grim humour about it which I'd like to think is unintentional considering the subject matter.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 19h

Combine two film titles to make a third: 'Horrid Henry Portrait Of A Serial Killer'

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 20h

"La Martyre" - and I'm sorry but I don't know the artist. It clearly dates from the First World War - there's a German helmet on the piano and that appears to be a Red Cross nurse lying dead beside the enthusiastically performing Death. #31DaysOfHalloween #gothic #GreatWar

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's a pretty fair impersonation of Bocklin's own style. I rather like the idea of him being buried on his own Isle Of The Dead.

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

Goodnight Johnny

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That's a coincidence. I've just ordered 'Deep Water', about half an hour ago.

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Only a year since this incarnation of me entered Bluesky. Feels like an eternity.

Cover art by Andrew Holmes for Bram Stoker's Dracula, detail.
Penguin Books 1979

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

“And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, 'Man,' And its hero the Conqueror Worm.” Edgar Allan Poe died #otd 1849 🎨 Harry Clarke

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C.W. Reeve @cwreeve.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase.” - Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat #WyrdWednesday 🎨 by John Coulthart

A man observes a black cat by candle. The candle illuminates the cat in such way that its shadow is fooking mahoosive on the wall behind it.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 07/10/2026

At Samhain it is believed that the dead return home, coming to seek hospitality and see how the living have gotten on. This leads to happy reunions at times, while in other cases, the disappointed dead bring the fright we associate with Halloween today. #WyrdWednesday

A spooky vintage room with faded paint, with images of superimposed figures somewhat transparent all over it, two hands on the wall as if trying to get out.

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

IS THIS THE FIRST VAMPIRE FILM The Devil's Manor, or The Haunted Castle, a 3-minute silent film released in 1896 in France (Le Manoir du Diable) by the Lumière brothers, inventors of the motion picture projector & Georges Méliès. It shows the vampire as bat!

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

How to accessorise for #WorldOctopusDay Octopus brooch set with sapphires, diamonds, and a cultured pearl, Bonhams. Opal and diamond octopus brooch, emerald eyes, c. 1955, Bonhams. Silver octopus chatelaine, red glass eyes, 1887, The Metropolitan Museum

Octopus brooch in gold with a large pearl "head", writhing tentacles set with sapphires and diamonds.

A carved opal octopus brooch with diamond tentacle highlights and emerald eyes.

A silver chatelaine shaped like an octopus, made of beaten silver, with red glass eyes. Its writhing tentacles hold a graduated series of 8 chains with loops meant to hold accessories like a pencil or thimble.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The folk tales never seem to feature women - just male farmhands, foolish youths etc. Most women would have more sense than to traipse off with fairies with the promise of food, drink or gold.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

'The Boundary Of Life And Death By Edgar Allan Poe' as presented by Alberto Martini. #WyrdWednesday #EdgarAllanPoe #Poe #31DaysOfHalloween

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Serbian vampire Petar Blagojević became the subject of an official 1725 report after villagers claimed he returned from death and attacked them. When his body was exhumed, observers interpreted its condition as proof of vampirism and burned it. #WyrdWednesday

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Tiffany Leigh Rose 🖤🥀 @tlrose.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Beware of traipsing over the burial sites of the Nordic haugbùi, or “barrow-dwellers,” for the spirits are known for showing no mercy dispensing their specific form of punishment if disturbed to resurrection: Reciting poetry to trespassers. #WyrdWednesday 🖼️ The Merry Cemetery by Amrita Sher-Gil

A painting of an atmospheric but cheery looking cemetery decorated with different cross tombstones, and in the background are a line are little buildings, some showing the silhouettes of people.

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Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the ballad ‘The Wife of Usher’s Well,’ a grieving mother is visited by her three dead sons. They wear hats made from a birch tree growing by the gates of Paradise and must depart before sunrise. #WyrdWednesday 🎨H.M. Brock

The three sons departing from the Wife of austere Well.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

These tales are a reminder that in medieval accounts of fairies are equated with the Dead. Even in later, more familiar folklore, they tend to live in a twilight world that exists under the earth (the same medium, of course, where you bury people).

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In some Welsh (at least) stories, the fellow inveigled by the fairies is safe until he partakes of any food or drink offered him - then somehow he becomes part of their world. When he returns, his deadly old age catches up with him once he tastes normal food, this rendering him fatally mortal again.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's a common in trope in #fairy lore that a man mysteriously vanishes and then returns centuries later. He has spent the time in the land of the #fairies but it seems just a few hours to him. Returning to the mortal world, he soon crumbles into the dust of the dead. #WyrdWednesday #folklore

My beloved copy of the 1880 first edition of 'British Goblins' by Wirt Sikes. In gilt and white inlay, the cover shows a man vanishing to nothingness as another seeks to embrace him.

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#WyrdWednesday “Sometimes they come back” The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs (1902) An elderly couple possess a talisman that will grant three wishes. They are warned there will be dire consequences if they use it. Foolishly they wish for money & receive it as compensation for the death of their son.

Illustration for "The Monkey's Paw" by Maurice Greiffenhagen. A elderly couple are in great distress. The father holds up the monkey’s paw to wish their son back in the grave.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A fantastic drawing by Grieffenhager, too.

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Liz Overs @overslizzie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When a girl is drowned by her elder sister in competition for love of a knight, a minstrel crafts a harp from her body; yellow hair for strings. The minstrel performs at the elder sister’s wedding but when strummed the harp sings only the truth of the murder, exposing the crime🪉 #wyrdwednesday

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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Husband's Strange Experience. Meets Wife He Thought Dead at Bexhill. Sequel To Drowning Mystery." Bexhill Observer 14.8.1937. #WyrdWednesday

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In Norse folklore, draugr are malevolent animated corpses that savagely attack anyone who disturbs their burial mounds. They are envious of the living, yearning for life's simple pleasures, and can curse their enemies. The draugr inspired J. R. R. Tolkien's barrow-wights. 🎨Kim Holm #WyrdWednesday

A bloodthirsty draugr prepares to attack with his battle axe. Image by Kim Diaz Holm.

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The medieval English chronicler William of Newburgh recorded several 12th-century stories of corpses leaving their graves to terrorize communities. He even remarked that such cases were so numerous it would be difficult to record them all. Medieval England had a revenant problem. #WyrdWednesday

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The original cover design by Biro is much inferior to the brilliant design by Anthony Maitland for the Puffin edition but I have to admit the Leatherman is pretty scary.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The gruesome Leathermen were resurrected after 1000+ years to protect 'The Giant Under The Snow', John Gordon's classic folk horror for kids, published in 1968. #WyrdWednesday #folkhorror #BookChatWeekly #booksky

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mauna Loa Crater by William Hodges, 18th Century, back when Hawaii was still called the Sandwich Islands on the maps. #Hawaii #volcano #landscape #art

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thank you. At first I thought that long branch was fallen but its still firmly attached - just resting!

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Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wyrdlings! "The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague”, Poe famously wrote and for the anniversary of his own death, we give you: “Sometimes they come back – Return from the Great Beyond” as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic. Come, tell tales of the living dead! 💀

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One of the things about #31DaysOfHalloween is that it's an excuse for me to repost some of my stuff. Here is my American one-sheet poster for the splendid #gothic horror 'Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell'. Most of Hammer's poster art was crap - love this, though. #HammerHorror #horrorfilm

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Without question my favourite tree is the oak. And here's one that's grown to splendour over hundreds of years in parkland on the Welsh Border. #ThickTrunkTuesday #tree #oak

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

But also, to be fair, one of the first mysteries.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thank you to everyone who contributed to #SpookySunday yesterday. I vanished into the ether for a while but really enjoyed going through all the interesting posts that had manifested in my absence. I'm looking forward to more splendid spookiness next week. #31DaysOfHalloween

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

I agree. I had some lovely fluke finds, especially thanks to one particular monthly book fair run by a couple of lovely blokes who had absolutely no idea what they were selling. But that was 20 years ago now...

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#SpookySunday When the Rectory at Syderstone, Norfolk was plagued by ghostly activity in 1833, the Rector opened it to people to investigate - to no avail "We had a variety of thoughts & explanations passing in our minds before we were on the spot, but we left it all equally bewildered" said one!

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David Castleton (Author) @david-castleton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A phantom black dog is said to haunt Tring, Hertfordshire. Some claim it's the spirit of a man hung then gibbetted for drowning a woman he accused of being a witch. The dog appears in a flash of flame, accompanied by the sounds of chains dragging. #folklore #spookysunday #gothic #31DaysofHalloween

Large black dog with staring eyes and its tongue out running through a field.

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