Thanks to everyone for joining us on #SpookySunday - a fun, fascinating and fearful time was had by all! I'm looking forward to more splendid spookdome next week.

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Newcastle's keep has several ghosts, but perhaps the most unusual is that of a Spanish cavalier who walks across the Great Hall and is only visible from the waist down. Other spooks include a mischievous flower girl who haunts the stairs and Roman soldiers. #SpookySunday #folklore #gothic #wierd

“She rose ... with an indescribable grand melancholy of indifference and detachment ... Dishonoured and tragic, she was all before me.”

- Henry James 'The Turn Of The Screw'

Miss Jessel doll created by me in 2025.

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#SpookySunday 'The drowned man's ghost tries to claim a new victim for the sea' by Danish artist Thorvald Niss (1842-1905)

#SpookySunday Phantom Femmes by Belgium artist, Gaston Bogaert, (1918-2008) whose work had an unsettling appeal.

Daughters of the Night
by Lajos Gulácsy, c.1900
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The Occult Files of Dr. Spektor was a comic book from the early 1970s. Each issue featured Dr. Spektor investigating a different occult occurrence which was sometimes a ghostly event but it usually involved something like a mummy, werewolf or another corporeal creature he could punch. #SpookySunday

Frontispiece to one of my favorite Gothic chapbooks: Tales of Terror! or, More Ghosts (1802). Illustration credited to “Crookshanks Del.”

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FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE A vampiric #ghost returns from the grave to prey on her lover, dressed in her shroud. Draws on Keats & Poe & also Le Fanu & Arthur Machen. The story is from F. Marion Crawford, author of Wandering Ghosts, 1911.
Image: Mihály Zichy, The Ghost Hour, 1880
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Well, these two Penguins have never been in front of my eyes before despite much rummaging on bookstalls over the years. Extraordinary. The Ghost Nun is especially suitable for #SpookySunday

And talking of #Vikings (as I was, below), here is a ghostly one, accompanied by a procession of apparitions of many different peoples, in an illustration by Stanley Wood for Guy Boothby's novel 'The Marriage Of Esther'.
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In the 1920s a man and woman met at the top of the Eiffel Tower, he to propose, she to break up. When she rejected him, they say she either was pushed over the edge or slipped. Now, tourists occasionally hear a spectral scream as they relive this rejection eternally #SpookySunday