Dublin pals. Would be lovely to see you at Books Upstairs this Friday evening at 6:30pm for the Dublin launch of #NoVacancy Book your free ticket via Books Upstairs website
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Nigel Kneale’s Crow
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Folklore, folk-horror, Old English, Old Norse, runic transliterator, pre-Christian archaeology, mythology, counterculture, Lovecraft, Howard, Tolkien, Tarkovsky, Bela Tarr, occulture, shamanism, psychogeography, Old Irish manuscripts, Chaos Magic, Kafka.
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@hookland.bsky.socialReposted by @darkandlonelywater.bsky.socialOctober is change. October is spirits. We walk the edge of its fields, knowing they wait for the first frost of the year to crack them and release their ghosts. - Katherine Gidding, Hookland artist, talking about her 1939 painting 'The Lip'
@hookland.bsky.socialReposted by @darkandlonelywater.bsky.socialAutumn comes to the cottages with carpets of apple rot that sour the air with vinegar tang. Comes in a dressing of the year not in green gowns, but wounded rags of brown. It comes as a fear of early darkness. A terror of hungry spirits that rush the path. – #DAKilory, 1982
@darkandlonelywater.bsky.socialI've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality. Jean Cocteau
@hookland.bsky.socialReposted by @darkandlonelywater.bsky.socialThe Long Neolithic lives as call to mystery, call to wonder. Whether we respond to those calls as archaeologists, ley hunters or stone pilgrims – we respond with stories. The Long Neolithic tithes in narrative. With typology or folklore, we all pay our dues. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
@chaptersbookstore.bsky.socialReposted by @darkandlonelywater.bsky.socialI absolutely love Martina Devlin's writing. Edith, Charlotte & now Glorious Monsters, taking us into Mary Shelley's extraordinary world. How lovely to have Martina pop in to sign copies on her way to teach at the Irish Writers Centre. Ireland really is a remarkable little literary island. 💚📚
@hookland.bsky.socialReposted by @darkandlonelywater.bsky.socialGive me stone bestiaries. Give me lithic libraries of strangeness. Let me look up and see impossible animals, a telling of folklore above me. May carvings roar their stories as part of the transmission of the living lore. – #CLNolan #FolkloreSunday
@darkandlonelywater.bsky.socialThank you, Richard, for my copy of ‘Rescue Archaeology’. 2025-03-10 is particularly affecting. I hope to upload a review very soon. M.
@darkandlonelywater.bsky.socialWe just need a rabies-type retro advert about plague, maybe involving a hovercraft, someone in a camel coat and a Morris Minor 🤠
@darkandlonelywater.bsky.socialRTÉ to explore C.S. Lewis’s Belfast roots in new documentary, The Lion, The Witch and the Ulsterman
@darkandlonelywater.bsky.social“You forget, Paul, my profession is raising the dead.” 🤠
@darkandlonelywater.bsky.socialIntriguing, keep us posted 🤠
@tuatha.ieReposted by @darkandlonelywater.bsky.socialIn today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday newsletter, we head back in time to the Bronze Age as we visit Kenmare Stone Circle in County Kerry.
@darkandlonelywater.bsky.socialMorning 🫡
@darkandlonelywater.bsky.socialNext up on my book reviews list for work is Chloe Aridiis’ The Shadow of the Object.
@archaeologynews.bsky.socialReposted by @darkandlonelywater.bsky.social2,000-year-old Vesuvius eruption that buried Pompeii helps scientists date Earth’s history more precisely
A new study has made argon-argon dating more precise by using the well-recorded eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE...
More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/09/vesu...
@tuatha.ieReposted by @darkandlonelywater.bsky.socialThe megalithic tomb known as 'The Calf House' in the Cavan Burren.
The monument’s unusual name comes from the fact that it was modified and reused in the 19th century as an animal shelter.
The Cavan Burren is a wonderful place for a walk to encounter millennia of Ireland's memories.
@darkandlonelywater.bsky.socialMonday morning…
@archaeologynews.bsky.socialReposted by @darkandlonelywater.bsky.social5,000-year-old arrow emerges as Norway’s melting mountain ice reveals older archaeological finds
Archaeologists have recovered 48 prehistoric arrows from melting mountain ice in Norway’s Jotunheimen mountains. One of the oldest is a 5,000 to 6,000-year-old arrow
@darkandlonelywater.bsky.socialYoung Clint pocketing rats just before he flew off to bomb a big spider 🤠