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@chriswoodyard.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 1:23 PM

#ForteanFriday Damned Desks
In this, another in our series of Objects of the Damned, we poke around in the pigeon-holes of haunted, hoodoo, and deadly desks. You know the drill: found dead at his desk with a look of stark, staring horror.
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Tombstone carved in the shape of an open rolltop desk, with books and ledgers on top and inside. A stone curb and another tiny tombstone are seen on the plot. Photo by Tim Grimes https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/10950

@chriswoodyard.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:10 PM

For #ForteanFriday Fearing the Reaper: A Fight with Death “I felt certain if that shade came on and touched me, I was a dead man.” A fight to the death–with Death.
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead

Black and white drawing of a skeletal Grim Reaper walking in a graveyard with two tombstones and some trees behind him. He carries his scythe and an hourglass.

@chriswoodyard.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 11:02 AM

For #ForteanFriday, "Mistresses of the Dark:" one of my favorite #Fortean topics: The ghostly Women in Black, dressed like veiled Victorian widows, flitting around in the dark, terrorizing communities in the US and abroad throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Cover of The Ghost Wore Black: Ghastly Tales from the Past, Chris Woodyard, showing a skeletal face behind a long, sheer, lace-edged veil.

@chriswoodyard.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 1:20 PM

#ForteanFriday The first chapter in #TheVictorianBookoftheDead is on personifications of Death. Here we meet a Reaper-like Death Angel, who discusses, in a weirdly bureaucratic way, the persons who are to be taken.
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