Autumn and Winter.

Today is All Souls' Day. This day developed in the Middle Ages as a time for comfort and connection between the living and the dead: a day to ensure no one was left alone in death, and to reassure the living of their place within a vast community of souls. unherd.com/2020/11/how-we…

Don't miss this lecture on the legends of #puydeDôme in the former seigneurial castle of Saint-Genès-Champanelle👉 Chaîne des Puys clermontmetropole Puy-de-Dôme, mon Département Auvergne Tourisme 🌻 #legendes #conférence #patrimoine #Auvergne #folklore

YULETIDE HAUNTINGS has contributions from @kjsoar, Maria J Pérez Cuervo, Alice Vernon, Verity Holloway, Edward Parnell, John A. Riley and Julia Round, with cover image by Courtney Brooke and art direction Nathaniel Hébert. Edited by Maria J Pérez Cuervo. 👉helleborezine.bigcartel.com

Great interview with the very inspiring George and Vanessa of London Dreamtime👇

On Thursday this week I’ll be presenting online in lightning style⚡️at the University of Copenhagen Research Occultism & Popular Culture in Europe conference! My talk will be on ghostly authorship: ‘In Constant Touch with My Father’: W. T. Stead Beyond the Grave. Details 👇 engerom.ku.dk/english/calend…

"I found that people in the Russian Space Program, and our own, the US Space Program, believed that they were engaged in intercepting information from angelic or 'off-planet' intelligences." - dwpasulka 👇 thethinkersgarden.com/alien-encounte… #aliens #disclosure #ufotwitter #UFOs

There is more to the historic capital city of Auvergne than meets the eye. Here are 5 ways to experience hidden Clermont-Ferrand 📷 visitauvergne.org/5-ways-to-expe… #myAuvergne #clermontferrand

What is #Christmas without its ghost stories? In this 19th-century Christmas ghost story from Auvergne, a vampire-like creature rises from the grave to prey on a spiritually unprepared adolescent. visitauvergne.org/occult-auvergn…

Today is Twelfth Night, the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas - a time for festivities marking the close of the Christmas season, and the transition from midwinter into the new year. In History Today I've written about a wonderful Twelfth Night wassail: historytoday.com/archive/out-ma…

Weather wizardry: In the 1960s, one scientist working for a research organisation in Auvergne accidentally created a tornado machine. This is his story. visitauvergne.org/the-bizarre-st… #Auvergne #histsci

Featuring ghosts, witches, and strange magic, Le Collège Noir is a new animated series that takes inspiration from the spell-binding #folklore of #Cantal. Here's my interview with its creator, Ulysse Malassagne: visitauvergne.org/inspired-by-th…

A beautiful city of art, Riom is largely unknown outside France. Its world of hidden histories is worth exploring. Here’s why. Riom Limagne et Volcans Agglomération Auvergne Tourisme 🌻 visitauvergne.org/hidden-riom-5-…

The city of Riom in Auvergne Tourisme 🌻, center of France, enlighten by #visitauvergne . Nearby the Chaîne des Puys and its 80 volcanos lies a city of art and history, made of lava stone. Atout France UK&IE visitauvergne.org/hidden-riom-5-…

In their new exhibition "L’orée des légendes", artists Tristan Lohengrin and ↡↟n o e m i e↟↡ depict a hidden and enchanted #Auvergne few knew existed. visitauvergne.org/hidden-auvergn… Auvergne Tourisme 🌻 Massif du Sancy

Perched above a waterfall that drops into an ancient pool, the Château du Sailhant is one of Auvergne's most breathtaking castles. Read this interview with its owner and restorer, Joseph Pell Lombardi: visitauvergne.org/what-to-see-th… Auvergne Tourisme 🌻 #Cantal #architecture

Now introducing Clermont-Ferrand's very first night tour: The Haunted Clermont Experience. Descend, with me, into an underworld of dark legends and histories... Check out visitauvergne.org/tours for more info! Origine Auvergne #auvergne #madeinauvergne #clermontferrand

Revealing the full cover design for 'Silence of the Gods' - thank you to Tom Holland, Owen Davies and Prof. Ronald Hutton for their very kind endorsements. Coming in June 📚 cambridge.org/core/books/sil…

At long last, I am delighted to announce that Hexen Press will publish my book: Aradia's Hidden Hand: The Untold Life of Roma Lister. It will be the first-ever monograph on Roma Lister, a medium and close friend of the American writer Charles G. Leland. thethinkersgarden.com/contract-signe…

Spooky tales galore next Wednesday! ⬇️