In the Swedish folktale 'Charcoal Nils and the Troll-Woman,' a man named Nils married a woman who unbeknownst to him was a troll. Upon learning the truth, he abandons both his wife and their children in the middle of a frozen lake as wolves approached. #BookologyThursday

Old Japanese cats can become shapeshifting bakeneko. When a shopkeeper falls in love with a beautiful woman his business declines. Unknown to the shopkeeper, she is bakeneko, using her supernatural powers to avenge his past bad treatment of cats. #bookologythursday #catlore

🖤🖤🖤 #BookologyThursday FROM LOVE we slipped into midnight like the death of the sun Segovia Amil

#BookologyThursday #31DaysofHaunting: The chase of #Fionn mac Cumhaill for his eloped bride #Grainne and her lover #Diarmuid „went for years, and many times did the Fianna come close to catching them but never once did they succeed. This is why throughout the length and 1/2

In the ruins of Berry Pomeroy Castle, a ghostly woman in white appears, mourning the lover who betrayed her. Some say she leaps from the highest tower over and over, forever falling, forever reliving the moment her heart was shattered. #BookologyThursday #31DaysofHaunting

"They had not sailed another league, A league but barely three, When she espied his cloven foot And wept most bitterly. "'Oh, hold your tongue, my love,' he cried. 'Why weep you so mournfully?'" - "The Daemon Lover" (British Ballad) #BookologyThursday

In Celtic legend, lovers separated by war or tragedy return in another life, drawn together by fate. But sometimes, fate is cruel—one remembers, the other does not. A love reincarnated, but never fulfilled, is the most tragic haunting of all. #BookologyThursday #31DaysofHaunting

Salomé "It is thy mouth that I desire, Jokanaan. Thy mouth is like a band of scarlet on a tower of ivory. It is like a pomegranate cut with a knife of ivory... ... I will kiss thy mouth, Jokanaan. I will kiss thy mouth." #BookologyThursday #31DaysofHaunting

With the fame of one Lord Dracul it is easy to miss Hermuthruda, Wild Queen of Scotland, so great and terrible that She only appears to us through a Celtic(?)-to Anglian(?)-to Danish war story of fresh corpses used to mimic an army. #FairyTaleTuesday #31DaysofHaunting

Wyrdlings! We're going back in time to celebrate World Retro Day next week! Share fashion, food, films, music, events and pop culture from your favourite bygone eras as we celebrate our own Wyrd Retro Day on #Wyrdwednesday! Here and over on 🦋 & 📸 Image by Dirk Puehl

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Macbeth A4Sc1 #ShakespeareSunday #31DaysofHaunting art: Horseman by Zdzisław Beksiński

Tomorrow on #BookologyThursday we want stories of Cruel Intentions - Sinister Schemes and Dubious Ploys! We look forward to sharing your posts! #Bookchatweekly

#BookologyThursday In "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," alien life-forms silently, subtly, and almost imperceptibly invade Earth, taking over the bodies and minds of people. The book has been adapted into four different movies, one of which features Donald Sutherland. 📚👽💖

“The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.” - Bram Stoker, Dracula #BookologyThursday

NEw ArT Hunger of the Spiral Mixed Media Collage 11x14 "A Monster Book of Monsters" Been dealing with some serious burnout after drawing everyday for 13 years ! Great to have some new art to show and working on a New Book ! 📖 #31daysofhaunting #darkart #art

#WyrdWednesday 'Every time I go to sleep,I know I may never wake. How could anyone expect to?You drop your tiny,helpless mind into a bottomless well,crossing your fingers and hoping when you pull it out on its flimsy fishing wire it hasn't been gnawed to bones by nameless beasts'

#BookologyThursday #31DaysOfHaunting They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us, death would be relief. Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Image: Natali- Hall

Subs for our next anthology Interneting Times are open, and we have a website! (Still under construction) click the link for details endoftheworldpublishing.com

A collection of stamps inspired by UK folklore will be released by Royal Mail. The designs are the work of artist, Adam Simpson. Aren't these wonderful! Which is your favourite? #Folklore

"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul"- Emily Dickinson Those feathers and souls burn bright in the darkest times. Those are the stories we are looking for. Interesting Times: a Hopepunk anthology, click the link for submission details endoftheworldpublishing.com/current