This week we’re celebrating MUP’s commitment to #OpenAccess publishing! Until the end of October, enjoy free digital access to the Introductions of three #goth-tastic books🦇 Explore the free content manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/OGOM_books/ Learn more about #OA at MUP manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/open-access/

Exciting post day! Check out A Cursed Collection of Haunted Dolls: From Real Life to Literature and Movies by Fiona Dodwell. The perfect read for this Spooky Season 👻 Check out the podcast episode last month with Fiona, and if you want a copy...... amzn.eu/d/5rQ2dja

Halloween is almost here, and if you haven't already, you need a copy of Ghostlore by Icy Sedgwick in your life. Uniquely illustrated with beautifully evocative descriptions of 50 spooks from across the globe, get yours now 👻 🎃 amzn.eu/d/fgCtyUt

Fascinating talk about the law and the supernatural by Naomi Ryan at the QED Conference!

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This weeks Halloween episode of Time between Times sees me joined at the firepit by Icy Sedgwick the Host of Fabulous Folklore and author and folklorist of great renown . Join us as we discuss many things and I tell one of her favourite Ghost stories podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tim…

Morning! There's a few entries from the Coals Archive which didn't have too much info added back when I started it in 2021. The Coronation Pit, opened in the 1820s was one such, so I've done a refresh of the page to include a little bit more data. northeastheritagelibrary.co.uk/coalsarchiveho…

Halloween is a popular time for various love divinations. A common one advises you to gaze into a mirror after sunset on #Halloween and brush your hair by candlelight to see the face of your true beloved. [Img: Sandrine Petit Gagnon]

Fancy some folklore on 5 November treat? Dr Jack Hunter is going to be telling us all about Folklore of the Tanat Valley at our next The Folklore Centre, Todmorden online talk. 7 pm GMT, replay available. Grab your ticket: folkloremythmagic.com/event-details/…

It's Bonfire Night in the UK. G. C. Moore Smith related a popular Bonfire Night rhyme in Birmingham in 1919. 'Bonfire night! The moon shines bright. Forty little angels dressed in white. Can you eat a biscuit? Can you smoke a pipe? Can you go a-courting At ten o'clock at night?'

Come on, people! It's in-person AND online!!

Today is Remembrance Sunday. It is a time to think about those who often had no choice but to perform heroic acts on our behalf. I’m thinking of my hero, Simon pdsa.org.uk/what-we-do/ani…

At Uncanny Live and so pleased to see ciaranokeeffe live!

The Haunted Landscape 2025: Ghosts, Magic and Lore 22 November 2025 10 am - 5 pm @conwayhall & Online 2.30 pm Icy Sedgwick : Northern Ghosts: The Bargest and Gytrash Tales of ghosts who haunt the landscapes of northern England. conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/event… 7/10 DK Books UK

This Saturday I'll be assisting at the wonderful LondonForteanSociety @forteanlondon.bsky.social 'Haunted Landscape VII: Ghosts, Magic and Folklore' at Conway Hall. Speakers include Icy Sedgwick The Folklore Podcast @magicnotwitches Roger Luckhurst Owen Davies Ceri Houlbrook. Join us! forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-ha…

Anyone else had their saved lists on Internet Archive just disappear?

Now at #TheHauntedLandscape from Conway Hall and LondonForteanSociety @forteanlondon.bsky.social - Icy Sedgwick. She'll be talking about Barguest &G

Roy Vickery will be sharing some queer plant lore in this online talk with The Folklore Centre, Todmorden on Wednesday 3 Dec at 7 pm GMT! Get your ticket here: folkloremythmagic.com/event-details/…

It's time for festive folklore with my podcasting pals on Fabulous Folklore. First up, The Loremen Podcast chat about Christmas superstitions and a bizarre carol about corporal punishment. Plus we chat about my Christmas tradition of watching Die Hard. youtu.be/0YmXZqzOc2s?si…

Get entering the big How Haunted? competition, and you could win an actual haunted doll!! 👻 Meet Angela. And she is just one of three prizes that will be won.