Gainsborough on #SpookySunday - classy!
"Some one came knocking
At my wee, small door;
Someone came knocking;
I'm sure-sure-sure;
I listened, I opened,
I looked to left and right,
But nought there was a stirring
In the still dark night..."
Walter de la Mare #BookwormSat
🎨 Thomas Gainsborough
At my wee, small door;
Someone came knocking;
I'm sure-sure-sure;
I listened, I opened,
I looked to left and right,
But nought there was a stirring
In the still dark night..."
Walter de la Mare #BookwormSat
🎨 Thomas Gainsborough
October 25, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Gainsborough on #SpookySunday - classy!
Did you know?
In the Victorian era, a headless woman was reportedly seen haunting a lonely crossroads in Buckinghamshire, England.
The Illustrated Police News published an account of a mysterious apparition that had allegedly been appearing on a deserted country road.
#Victorian #history #ghosts
In the Victorian era, a headless woman was reportedly seen haunting a lonely crossroads in Buckinghamshire, England.
The Illustrated Police News published an account of a mysterious apparition that had allegedly been appearing on a deserted country road.
#Victorian #history #ghosts
October 25, 2026 at 9:31 AM
October 25, 2026 at 11:58 AM
#SpookySunday The Reader's Digest condensed edition of Shirley Jackson's 'The Haunting of Hill House' featuring illustrations by Ben Stahl, 1960. #Gothtober.
October 25, 2026 at 2:38 PM
#SpookySunday The Reader's Digest condensed edition of Shirley Jackson's 'The Haunting of Hill House' featuring illustrations by Ben Stahl, 1960. #Gothtober.
Something jolly for #SpookySunday. Anything with 'Live Laugh Love' on it deserves a good poltergeisting.
October 25, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Something jolly for #SpookySunday. Anything with 'Live Laugh Love' on it deserves a good poltergeisting.
‘See’st thou yon gray gleaming hall,
Where the deep elm-shadows fall?
Voices that have left the earth
Long ago,
Still are murmuring round its hearth,
Soft and low’ ~ The Haunted House, Felicia Dorothea Hemans and
@racheldeering.bsky.social supernaturally here for this very uncanny #BookWormSat
Where the deep elm-shadows fall?
Voices that have left the earth
Long ago,
Still are murmuring round its hearth,
Soft and low’ ~ The Haunted House, Felicia Dorothea Hemans and
@racheldeering.bsky.social supernaturally here for this very uncanny #BookWormSat
October 25, 2026 at 11:49 AM
And good morning! Earlier than I expect because I'd forgotten the clock went back last night. #SpookySunday
October 25, 2026 at 8:19 AM
And good morning! Earlier than I expect because I'd forgotten the clock went back last night. #SpookySunday
Bruto and Cesar's ghost by Edward Scriven (1802)
#SpookySunday
#SpookySunday
October 25, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Bruto and Cesar's ghost by Edward Scriven (1802)
#SpookySunday
#SpookySunday
#Halloween is all about #witches and #ghosts. In English scientific circles in the second half of the 17th century, there was a discussion about whether such things existed and how their existence could be proved. [The Conversation]
theconversation.com/the-17th-cen...
theconversation.com/the-17th-cen...
The 17th-century British scientists who investigated hauntings
The Royal Society was Britain’s principal scientific institution and some of its fellows were dabbling in the investigation of spirits.
theconversation.com
October 25, 2026 at 11:49 AM
SAMHAIN At Samhain, the dead & the #fairies are one, indulging in their furious revelry #31DaysofHalloween #SpookySunday. Image: Alan Lee
October 25, 2026 at 4:42 PM
SAMHAIN At Samhain, the dead & the #fairies are one, indulging in their furious revelry #31DaysofHalloween #SpookySunday. Image: Alan Lee
#SpookySunday #Gothtober 'There was no cry from the woman & the howling of the wolves was but short.' Wilfred Satty's illustration for the 1975 annotated edition of 'Dracula.'
October 26, 2026 at 12:18 AM
#SpookySunday #Gothtober 'There was no cry from the woman & the howling of the wolves was but short.' Wilfred Satty's illustration for the 1975 annotated edition of 'Dracula.'
October 25, 2026 at 6:50 AM
Thank you to everyone who contributed to #SpookySunday yesterday. The quality of posts was as usual phantasmagorically fantastic. Next week's is on All Souls Day, which at least sounds spooky - so bring it on!
October 26, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Thank you to everyone who contributed to #SpookySunday yesterday. The quality of posts was as usual phantasmagorically fantastic. Next week's is on All Souls Day, which at least sounds spooky - so bring it on!
An excellent question for #SpookySunday.
What unfinished business do ghost peppers have
October 25, 2026 at 6:15 AM
An excellent question for #SpookySunday.
“For house hunters who are not superstitious or squeamish it means there are big bargains to be found. There is a whole category of dwellings called jiko bukken, which means ‘stigmatised’ or ‘incident’ properties.”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'I live with a ghost': Japan's haunted homes attract bargain hunters
Properties where someone has died in tragic circumstances can have big reductions in price.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 29, 2026 at 6:46 AM
Halloween is near! It's time to post this marvellous articulated #Roman skeleton, presumably meant to be a reminder to enjoy life to the fullest, since pleasure ends irrevocably with death. In Petronius’ Satyricon, the host of a dinner party brings out a small skeleton with moveable...🧵 1/2
October 25, 2026 at 12:15 PM
October 25, 2026 at 4:05 PM
To start off this week's #SpookySunday, what better than a great quote from the master, Montague Rhodes James, plus a Grimshaw with a particularly haunted house vibe.
"The moon was behind it.. the black drapery hung down over its face so only hints of that could be seen..what was visible made the spectators profoundly thankful that they could see no more than a white domelike forehead and a few straggling hairs" MR James The Mezzotint
#BookWormSat
Img:JA Grimshaw
#BookWormSat
Img:JA Grimshaw
October 25, 2026 at 8:10 AM
To start off this week's #SpookySunday, what better than a great quote from the master, Montague Rhodes James, plus a Grimshaw with a particularly haunted house vibe.
October 25, 2026 at 2:14 PM
'Rope And Ghost' by Ferdinand Nigg, 1899. It might be better not to ponder on what the ghost might have done with the rope or is intending to do with it...
#SpookySunday #Spooktober #31DaysOfHalloween #ghost
#SpookySunday #Spooktober #31DaysOfHalloween #ghost
October 25, 2026 at 2:02 PM
'Rope And Ghost' by Ferdinand Nigg, 1899. It might be better not to ponder on what the ghost might have done with the rope or is intending to do with it...
#SpookySunday #Spooktober #31DaysOfHalloween #ghost
#SpookySunday #Spooktober #31DaysOfHalloween #ghost
“Oh, very gloomy is the house of woe,
Where tears are falling while the bell is knelling,
With all the dark solemnities that show
That Death is in the dwelling!”
(Thomas Hood “The Haunted House” 1844)
🎨 Samuel Read (1854)
#SpookySunday
Where tears are falling while the bell is knelling,
With all the dark solemnities that show
That Death is in the dwelling!”
(Thomas Hood “The Haunted House” 1844)
🎨 Samuel Read (1854)
#SpookySunday
October 25, 2026 at 11:00 AM
“Oh, very gloomy is the house of woe,
Where tears are falling while the bell is knelling,
With all the dark solemnities that show
That Death is in the dwelling!”
(Thomas Hood “The Haunted House” 1844)
🎨 Samuel Read (1854)
#SpookySunday
Where tears are falling while the bell is knelling,
With all the dark solemnities that show
That Death is in the dwelling!”
(Thomas Hood “The Haunted House” 1844)
🎨 Samuel Read (1854)
#SpookySunday
October 25, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Balvenie Castle is one of Scotland’s oldest stone castles. Visitors report unexplained sounds and shadowy figures, including a white lady who walks the castle grounds, and spectral horses in its courtyard.
#spookysunday #Scotland
art: Arthur Rackham
#spookysunday #Scotland
art: Arthur Rackham
October 25, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Balvenie Castle is one of Scotland’s oldest stone castles. Visitors report unexplained sounds and shadowy figures, including a white lady who walks the castle grounds, and spectral horses in its courtyard.
#spookysunday #Scotland
art: Arthur Rackham
#spookysunday #Scotland
art: Arthur Rackham
Happy #spookysunday! Cone with me on a walk round a foggy graveyard.
October 25, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Happy #spookysunday! Cone with me on a walk round a foggy graveyard.
A very tatty but presumably carefully rebound copy of a shilling paperback from 1894. Still rare as hen's teeth, I should think.
#SpookySunday #spooktober #BookChatWeekly
#SpookySunday #spooktober #BookChatWeekly
October 25, 2026 at 3:53 PM
A very tatty but presumably carefully rebound copy of a shilling paperback from 1894. Still rare as hen's teeth, I should think.
#SpookySunday #spooktober #BookChatWeekly
#SpookySunday #spooktober #BookChatWeekly