A Long-tailed Tit is captured mid-flight, silhouetted against the golden light of a rising sun. Its delicate wings are fully outstretched, glowing amber at the edges as the sunlight filters through. The blurred outline of trees forms a dark contrast in the background, framing the bird’s graceful ascent. A perfect moment of movement and light, reflecting the lengthening days of early spring.

Brighter mornings, a lighter step, and a Long-tailed Tit soaring towards spring...

Happy #FlyDay!

📷 @andrewfusekpeters.bsky.social

a windswept figure in rags in the dessert. Above them in the sky. a turbaned king weeps. Pencil drawing.

Good news.
I return to Lord Dunsany this month.
Also-Good morning.

Horror novel covers from yesteryear. 💙📚🧟‍♀️🔪🙀

#booksky #horrorsky #paperbacks

A black and white illustration inspired by Susan Hill's novel The Woman in Black. A woman in late Victorian mourning stands in a graveyard in a flat desolate landscape. There are two stone pillars in the foreground.

An illustration of the ghost of a woman in a dress of the mid to late Georgian era with a sort of skeletal face. She is stood / hovering in front of a detached Georgian house in the dusk, flanked by dark trees, with its front door lit from above.

A print of a black and white illustration inspired by John Masefield's novel the Box of Delights: a bearded man with a heavy pack trudges through snow pursued by wolves. There's a big white house in the distance, and a small aeroplane (in fact a car-o-plane) in the sky. The scene is flanked by trees and emerges from a square box. The face of its beholder is just visible.

A ridiculous black and white illustration (in print form) of worshippers dancing around a ceremonial bonfire in the trees. The flames take the shape of a large cat's head.

Hello! I've been a bit preoccupied lately with real life and stuff but I've finally put a bit of effort into my Etsy shop... added new prints and restocked old ones. Do have a look. Sharing much appreciated. Thank you.

sarahcoomershop.etsy.com

Art: Cyndy Salisbury

Detail of a pale clay medieval jug, decorated with a green bird and a heraldic shield

Today we're sharing this delightful detail of a Saintonge polychrome jug, which was found at a medieval tenement site in #Winchelsea, E Sussex.

This type of ceramic was imported from SW France during the late 13th-early 14th centuries & is associated with wine trading.
#MedievalMarch
#FindsFriday 🏺

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From the Davenport Times 1896 #PhantomsFriday #ghosts #hauntings

Peak signage

And peak book cover design

Title card for the talk, with the details from the main text with an image of a UFO toy

Our next ONLINE fundraising talk:

Sat 21st March, 8pm via Zoom with recording for all ticket holders

INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN
THE VISUAL FOLKLORE OF UFOs

Dr David Clarke and Andrew Robinson will be presenting on everything from hoax photos to kid's toys

Tickets £5+booking from bit.ly/flaevents

Double wow! Really exciting to hear about these new discoveries!

Painting of a deer in the forest at night.

In a Flemish folktale, a woman who was said to have been a thief during life haunted a town in the shape of a deer. The ghost deer would knock on doors and wait. Between her horns she carried an illegible text. She stopped appearing when someone deciphered the text.

🎨Eugen Krüger
#WyrdWednesday

March 22nd in Arlington, Va.! Details and tickets at events.ticketleap.com/tickets/prof... .

CFPs and Events: Monsters, Victorians, Osgood Perkins, Cottingley Fairies, fairy tales, folklore

CFP: Monster Media Conference 2026 University of Edinburgh, 18-19 June 2026 (in person and on line) Deadline: 15 March 2026 This conference aims to explore the relationship between monsters and the…

More hares coming for March! As it’s a full moon here’s a panel that I made a couple of years ago which combined many of my favourite things. This one is called Solstice Hare and a reminder of the colour and energy that is coming as we head into spring.
Available as a print. See my linktree. 🥰🌿

SCRATCH MOSS by David Barnett with a miner's lamp and a magpie linocut

It is publication day for SCRATCH MOSS. Please be buying it from your vendor of choice, or ask your local library to get it in. Available in paperback, ebook and audiobook.

www.canelo.co/books/scratc...

You & Yours

The train window is one of the best cinema screens It forces us to stitch together narratives from the briefest glimpse. In a blurred moment whole stories race into us. We see a track and know it is older than the line we travel. We see a track and all of its treading ghosts wave to us. – #DAKilroy

We've noticed a significant uptick in corpse outlines at places believed to haunted. It's hard to tell if these ghost-markers are warning or warding. They often seem to memorialise the dead as appeasement. – Sophie Morley of Woden College's Graffiti Research and Formalisation Team (GRAFT), 1981

Following The Hum was hard. I remember freezing Februarys, muddy March marching. Winds slipping passed whatever armour you had against the weather like a vorpal blade. Yet we kept walking. Pylon-to-pylon, a strange navigation, a faith in electric leys. – Signal-catcher Rose, ex Child of The Hum #VOH

I believe it

The concrete cicatrix of the war haunts the landscape. Even those elements which become children's dens serve as trauma mirror. Pillboxes as ghost gateways to battles never fought, an invasion of shadows from elsewhere. – #DAKilroy

Folk faith sorceries often deploy like to thwart like. A system of sympathetic magic to defeat hostilities believed to be walking abroad. The placement of Wicker Queens on agricultural land as field wards is an example of imitative practice and many a farmer will tell you it works. – Dr. M. Benn

Once you realise many tombs are nothing more than dream incubation chambers for the dead, a walk in Ashcourt Necropolis becomes a navigation of visions. No amount of bricked thresholds stops them leaking. Stay still too long and you risk being caught in terminal ephialtes. – #CLNolan

G'Nite Hookland

Goodnight from Lewis Bramwell, comforted by the thought that if he dies due to tripping on one of the hundreds of books on his staircase at least his ghost will have a lot to read. Goodnight from Gemma Cross, scrabbling to make a chalk circle around her bed. Goodnight from Hookland.

Great angle as usual

I can almost smell these