A weary ghost looking for a warm place to rest.

#DontGoIntoTheWoods A lady gathering ivy at Christmas in the woods near Rowlands Castle on the South Downs met a horse & rider. When she looked away for a moment they vanished, and at the point they disappeared there was impenetrable undergrowth on either side of the road.

“Them two bodies you mean! Drawn-out man-size in marble!” A Ghost Story for Christmas: ‘Woman of Stone’, adapted from the story by E Nesbit. Christmas Eve BBC2 10.15pm. Hope you enjoy. bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0k…

A Ghost[ed] Story for Christmas 👻💔🎄 #aghoststoryforchristmas #mrjames #markgatiss #bbctwo

#BOOKOLOGYTHURSDAY Pre-central heating & electricity, snow was oft portrayed as a fatal entity , creeping up on the unwary: 'Cauld's the snaw at my head, And cauld at my feet, And the finger o' death is at my e'en, Closing them to sleep.' (Allan Cunningham, artist unknown)

If the kids are united... Ghostly revenge in LOST HEARTS (1973). #horror #gothic #ghosts #mrjames #britishhorror #ukhorror #tvhorror #folkhorror #70s #creepykids

Witches in the air from the book "the Devil in Britain and America (1896)".

The cold fields of winter are not asleep. They are formed of ghost soil. No frost-hardening, no wind running across them with razors in the mouths of its gusts, will ever be enough to keep their phantoms from waking. – #CLNolan

Hooklanders talk of 'the Other Path'. It flows from sea to county's northern edge, but never starts nor end in the same place twice. It's said if you walk too far along it, you'll find yourself in Faery. This may explain another name it has – 'the Way of the Lost'. – #CLNolan

#CharlesDickens

A postcard featuring the Lincoln Imp (and, perfectly, addressed to Tennyson Street). It was sent in 1905, just a few years after the Imp and its legend became famous. lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2024/02/20/the…

Grandfather Frost is the master of the winter fairy tale.

ICYMI: My Christmas ghost story short film THE DEAD OF WINTER is now available to rent on Entertainmint, with all proceeds going to Launchpad Reading! 👻❄️🎄 Starring 𝗢𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗻, Christina Cole and James Swanton. Link to follow!

Entertainmint Launchpad Reading 𝗢𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗻 James Swanton Rent THE DEAD OF WINTER on Entertainmint here: entertainmint.com/projects/the-d…

Christmas Eve means A Ghost Story for Christmas... Mark Gatiss 💙 makes his annual spooky return with Woman of Stone, adapted from the story by E Nesbit. With Celia Imrie, Eanna Hardwicke, Monica Dolan, Mawaan Rizwan, Phoebe Horn. 📺 BBC Two and #iplayer - 10.15pm, 24 December.

Come see me talk about vampires then watch the new Nosferatu in January…

Spooky Advent day 24: Quis est ist qui venit? Spooky seaside sheet shenanigans in M R James' Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad. And thus ends my creepy Christmas countdown, thank you all for following along...

Listen to this to help get you in a festive mood

Merry Christmas to all from this rather uncomfortable looking frog 🎄✉️🐸

"The Great Cold's on her way... This is the most dangerous of them all, and she'll come in the afternoon, when the sky changes to green, straight in across the sea. [She's] very beautiful, but if you look her in face you'll be frozen to ice." #BookwormSat