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M. N. Tarrint

@m-n-tarrint.bsky.social

Click below to listen to the narrated version of the poem Sleeping Red, a nod to one of my favorite childhood illustrators, Trina Schart Hyman. Narration completed with my voice. aghostinthedoorway.substack.com/p/sleeping-r...

Sleeping Red

Creepy Little Poem #67

aghostinthedoorway.substack.com

August 25, 2026 at 4:06 PM

M. N. Tarrint

@m-n-tarrint.bsky.social

What happens when a creepy person and a creepy house go looking for each other? Find out here...
aghostinthedoorway.substack.com/p/house-hunt...

House Hunting

Creepy Little Poem # 83

aghostinthedoorway.substack.com

August 9, 2026 at 8:42 PM

M. N. Tarrint

@m-n-tarrint.bsky.social

This is a short poem encapsulating some of my experience living in a rural area next to some very old woods. There are sounds at night, some of which are strange and unidentifiable, and there is I think, something else...

aghostinthedoorway.substack.com/p/nocturne?r...

Nocturne

Creepy Little Poem #74

aghostinthedoorway.substack.com

August 4, 2026 at 3:11 PM

M. N. Tarrint

@m-n-tarrint.bsky.social

A hauntingly beautiful poem by writer, poet and artist Chaiga T. Cheska.

open.substack.com/pub/chaigatc...

MirMarnian Poetry: The Coat Keepers

I think I knew the valley before I knew my name, that pale and quiet country where the light sits neither quite as morning nor as flame, and no one asks where you have been all night.

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August 4, 2026 at 3:09 PM

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Art & Nature

@capecodfairytales.bsky.social

#Poetry #Painting #EverdayMagic

Nature is not stingy
with her miracles
We simply forget to look

- Sara Sarna

🎨 Kevin Kia

August 4, 2026 at 12:33 PM

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Art & Nature

@capecodfairytales.bsky.social

#Poetry #Painting #August

When August days are hot an' dry,
When burning copper is the sky,
I'd rather fish than feast or fly
In airy realms serene and high.

- Paul Laurence Dunbar

🎨 Asia Spettel

August 2, 2026 at 6:10 PM

M. N. Tarrint

@m-n-tarrint.bsky.social

I think everyone knows a spot somewhere on the edge of town or in the woods where people go to light bonfires or perform rituals of some kind. Here is a poem inspired by such a haunting place.
aghostinthedoorway.substack.com/p/a-fading-c...

#ghoststory #haunted #ouija #horror #poetry #literature

A Fading Cabin Light

Creepy Little Poem #82

aghostinthedoorway.substack.com

August 2, 2026 at 11:29 PM

M. N. Tarrint

@m-n-tarrint.bsky.social

A beautiful painting by artist Jeff Dillon
substack.com/@jeffdillonf...

#fineart #raven #illustration #painting

Jeff Dillon Fine Art (@jeffdillonfineart)

My name is Jeff Dillon and I'm a Canadian landscape painter. This is my art and I'd love to hear what you think. Jeff

substack.com

August 2, 2026 at 11:23 PM

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Bird (he/him)

@birdobserver.bsky.social

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever.

#books #reading #booksky #poetry

A poem by Langston Hughes titled "Tired". It reads as the following:

"I am so tired of waiting,
Aren't you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two --
And see what worms are eating
At the rind."

November 20, 2024 at 3:34 AM

M. N. Tarrint

@m-n-tarrint.bsky.social

An eerie poem for the restless dead behind an iron gate:
aghostinthedoorway.substack.com/p/iron?r=3b3...

#ghoststory #horror #literature #poetry

Iron

Creepy Little Poem #73

aghostinthedoorway.substack.com

July 31, 2026 at 4:28 AM

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Jennifer Ouellette

@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social

Artist Cleverly Turns Manhole Cover Into a Waffle Maker for a 3D Chalk-Drawn Possum and Squirrel laughingsquid.com/manhole-cove...

Artist Cleverly Turns Manhole Cover Into a Waffle Maker for a 3D Chalk-Drawn Possum and Squirrel

Artist David Zinn cleverly turned a cement-smeared manhole cover into a waffle iron for a 3D chalk-drawn possum and squirrel.

laughingsquid.com

July 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM

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Honeygloom

@honeygloom.bsky.social

Look like you’re wearing an entombed parasite without all the guilt. Check out my cultured freshwater pearls and pentagram bracelet on Ko-Fi.
#bsnm #horrorsky #witch #pentagram

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Freshwater pearls enclosed in a pentagram, pink, grey, and teal. Bracelet is draped over a branch.

Text says: There once was a little parasite, ok a lot of little parasites, they love the ocean. Passively hunting, like invisible vampires, they slip on currents of water-breath into an unsuspecting oyster. Oysterflesh is sensitive, maybe more so than even a fairytale princess’, so the little vampire parasite, taking microscopic nibbles, hurts. Once, an oyster heard a story from a fisherman about immurement, when a person, or perhaps their shadow, is walled up inside a new building, for favorable auspices in the future. So the oyster, aching inside from a parasite it can’t remove, begins to immure the hungry intruder. Layer by layer of fine crystalline calcium carbonate soon becomes a beautiful tomb for the unlucky little parasite. The oyster, feeling much better, told all the other oysters about this cure. These mummified parasites are quite beautiful and make a pretty trinket for a lucky human. Now of course, the pearls in this bracelet are cultured, freshwater pearls, but it’s a nice story anyway.

July 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM

M. N. Tarrint

@m-n-tarrint.bsky.social

Hello, just wanted to share this week's poem from substack. I had weird childhood fears. ..https://open.substack.com/pub/aghostinthedoorway/p/street-eyes?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3b39ng

July 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM

M. N. Tarrint

@m-n-tarrint.bsky.social

Read at open mic at Jarrod's Coffee, Tea and Gallery this Past Sunday. Reading the creepies aloud is fun! Got some cool little earrings there too. Just posted this new one on Substack-

open.substack.com/pub/aghostin...

July 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM

M. N. Tarrint

@m-n-tarrint.bsky.social

Awesome little coffee shop in Mesa Arizona called Jarrod's Coffee, Tea, & Gallery where I participated in a poetry open mic. Coincidentally, I'm told the place is haunted.
Jarrodscoffeeteaandgallery com