It's that time of year again!

GOTHS FOR BREAKFAST

A day of writing workshops, talks and cooking classes on Gothic themes to raise money for 'Magic Breakfast' - providing breakfasts for hungry children!

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Wouldn't be right to celebrate the life of Carl Weathers without this utter piece of cinematic poetry

Ed Gorey

You want to spend Christmas with a root vegetable man?

Fine. Go ahead and spend Christmas with a root vegetable man. See if I care.

Heads Up!

Last chance to enter my 'win my guitar' competition

To enter the draw, you will need to buy my new album SPLiT on CD or vinyl from my online store before 5 pm tomorrow. I'll be making the draw on Friday using Wheel Of Names

Good luck amigos

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2) THE EBONY FRAME, Edith Nesbit (1891)
'I hope I shall never again know a moment of terror as blank & absolute…Either all the known laws of nature were nothing, or I was mad. I stood trembling…while the black velvet gown swept across the hearthrug towards me.' #GothicAdvent

Frau Perchta, the Terrifying Christmas Witch. Frau Perchta isn’t as well known as Krampus these days, which is a shame, because this Christmas-time goddess/witch/all-around-terrifying-gal deserves a lot more press. She’s a staple in the Alpine regions of southern Germany and…

#Celtic #FaustianFriday : When death approached, the #skriker appeared like a Banshee, predicting the event to come. Sometimes this portentous figure wandered the forests of Yorkshire and Lancashire, screaming; or like other #fairies he engaged in shape-shifting, transforming
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If you go down to the woods today...
'The King's Slaughtering Place.'
The Illustrated London News 25.4.1874.
#FaustianFriday

I feel like, if you were to scour the internet, there is not a single atrocity that has ever been committed that some dick didnt refer to as a mistake.

Mass murders, wars, hate crimes, sexual assaults, someone will call you out for condemning them with 'everyone makes mistakes.'

Hibernia #Atlantic #Ocean 6.9.1872 'The Northern Lights were very fine & looking over the taffrail, in the shadow of the wheel-house, the screw threw out the jelly-fish like great stars falling into the white foam on the dark sea, the effect of which was very beautiful.' #Brassey

1800's ship captain: This expedition will be the most dangerous undertaking and we all may well perish on the journey. We should bring a monkey with us. It will live in my room.

I’d prefer this to getting an Uber tbh

Sussex Pottery money box (1844) with the face of the Brede Ogre. This ogre nearly ate all the children in Sussex, they outwitted and killed him, but he came back as a ghost... #FolkloreThursday #Brede #Sussex #Pottery #Ogre #Ghost #History #1480s #1840s

My vacuum has apparently developed the capacity to feel both lust and shame.
#technologyhasgonetoofar #aiwillkillusall

Didn’t get the #EmergencyAlert . Can only assume this means I’ve been marked for sacrifice.

Jokes at the end of Only Connect are getting weirder
Victoria Coren Mitchell

Half of British television always starts like this.

Merry Christmas! A thread of some delightfully bonkers Victorian and vintage cards

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