John Henry Falle

@thestorybeast.bsky.social

Storyteller. Acting Thing. Beard owner. Expect: Folk Horror. Dolmens. Poetry. Exciting facts about the Island of Jersey.

@robertsaunders.bsky.socialReposted by @thestorybeast.bsky.social

Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849.

"I have seen, habitually, some of the worst sources of general contamination and corruption in this country, and I think there are not many phases of London life that could surprise me. I am solemnly convinced that nothing that ingenuity could devise to be done in this city, in the same compass of time, could work such ruin as one public execution, and I stand astounded and appalled by the wickedness it exhibits. I do not believe that any community can prosper where such a scene of horror and demoralization as was enacted this morning outside Horsemonger Lane Gaol is presented at the very doors of good citizens, and is passed by, unknown or forgotten. And when in our prayers and thanksgivings for the season we are humbly expressing before God our desire to remove the moral evils of the land, I would ask your readers to consider whether it is not a time to think of this one, and to root it out. I am, Sir, your faithful Servant. Charles Dickens".
@terrortapespod.bsky.socialReposted by @thestorybeast.bsky.social

We'll be performing one classic Terror Tape and one of our forthcoming brand new episodes. Be the first to hear it weeks before anybody else. This will be our last live show for some time so don't miss it! See you in South London on Saturday, senors y senoras! 🎙👻💀🎟

@brainmage.bsky.socialReposted by @thestorybeast.bsky.social

Oh god though. Imagine being a flintstones and getting an appliance that's really into it. Like, everyone else's vacuum beast is all "it's a living" and yours is just snuffling about the place going "yes daddy more, more". Toilet pelican quietly whispering "thank you".

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