If you can, please support Independent publishers. This is the most challenging part of the year for them. Jacaranda Books Peepal Tree Press Saraband Books Dead Ink Books Sandstone Press Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow Wrecking Ball Press Knights Of Galley Beggar Press Tramp Press Charco Press

We post this adorable little snippet each #WinterFolklore season. For those who have had a difficult week, we hope this helps... 'Little Timo's Christmas Tree / Тимошкина елка / Timoshkina Elka' (1966) dir. Vladimir Degtyarev.

This Soviet adaptation is inspired by Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet, but more closely follows E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1816 novella 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King'. #WinterFolklore / #GothicAdvent 'The Nutcracker / Щелкунчик / Schelkunchik' (1973) dir. Boris Stepantsev.

Boars and pigs held an important place in Japanese society for millennia, being the meat that Buddhism could not outlaw, such was its prevalence. Despite this pig yōkai are less common than other animals and reserved primarily to anime and manga. #WyrdWednesday 🖼: L. Ohara

Secret zine library! capitaldaily.ca/news/secret-zi…

We proudly announce that Šum #17 "Meta-Futures" arrives on December 27th! Diagonalize your way into the new year with texts by Bosco García / @_infinitography, Jonathan Ratcliffe, Miroslav Griško, Timotej Prosen & Subset of Theoretical Practice, edited by mad(r)evoluti0nary & xen꩜nym

To all our friends & followers across the world - thank you so much for sharing the Folklore Film love this year. Wishing you all a safe, productive & happy new year... and #NewYearsEve! 🍾 'The Mascot / Fétiche' (1933) dir. Ladislas Starevich, Irène Starewitch.

With “Mother of Pearl,” a new album from Sarah Davachi and Sean McCann, out now, revisit “For In Between Days,” a playlist Davachi compiled for Artforum last year. artforum.com/music/a-playli…

"Rejected as a shameless exhibitionist, she carried on unhindered, refusing to place her sexuality—or her body—under wraps."—Wex Assoc. Curator Daniel Marcus on Hannah Wilke, the subject of a current Pulitzer Arts Foundation retrospective. Read more in artforum. artforum.com/print/202201/d…

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HAPPY 40th BIRTHDAY NICK!! Can't believe it's 40 years since we were blessed to have you in our lives. LOVE YOU x x x x❤️🎊🎈🎉Nick Newby-Carter

"Literacy is the path to communism" Soviet poster, 1920

Another successful book hunting expedition.

Black Sunday (Italian: La maschera del demonio, lit. 'The mask of the demon') 1960 Italian film directed by Mario Bava #githic #retrohorror

We were driving back home from Glasgow two years ago today when we heard the tragic news about Andrew Weatherall. What a loss to all of us.💔 Here's Julian with the Guv'nor

Did you know Gertrude Atherton's 'The Striding Place' (1896) was first titled 'The Twins'? The story centres on a man's disturbing encounter in the woods, and was rejected by 'The Yellow Book' for being "too gruesome" victorian-gothic.co.uk/misc-gothic #ofdarkandmacabre #dontgointothewoods

The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift by ( @annebellapollen, designed by Roland Brauchli) is back in!