AUTUMN the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart. So beautiful today in its quiet gloom!

VAMPIRE MERMAIDS - Thread Mermaids are not the sweet hair-combing creatures of children's picture books & Disney; they are known to lure fishermen to their deaths using their seductive voices, much like sirens, some of them even hunger for human blood

My granny called the glass or mirrored balls we hung on the Christmas Tree witch balls. As a child, I had no idea this was in any way unusual!

I love the whimsy in this. Fairies riding peacocks and wait... a miniature unicorn!

Only weeks away!

CROSS STONE A Wonderful example of the English eerie halfway up the steep flank of Bridestones Moor. Takes its name from the fragment of an 11th century cross found in the wall of a barn

A life-sized vampire puppet - sounds just the thing!

DARK FAIRY TALE Pinocchio is frankly terrifying. He's set alight, enslaved to a puppet master, lynched by ruffians, swallowed by a fish & plunged alive into a boiling pot before becoming a real boy. Illustrations by Folkyard from my treasured 1914 Dent edition

VAMPIRE GRAVE A 300 year tomb in St Aidan's Church near St Helens is known locally as the #Vampire grave due to the folklore arising from its wonderfully gothic appearance. The tomb is distinguished by an engraving of a serpent encircling a memento mori skull

'Fairies weren’t always cute – they used to drink human blood and kidnap children,' by Coffin Boffin theconversation.com/fairies-werent… via The Conversation Fairyland has a hunger for human blood.This links fairies to the vengeful dead & to vampires #FolkloreSunday 🎨John Anster Fitzgerald

FAIRY ANGELS Lady Wilde believed 'faeries are fallen angels [...] cast down for their sinful pride' 1887 🎨uncanny fairy angels at Highgate Cemetery #GothicFairies #FolkloreSunday

Happy 1st September - the spooky season is almost upon us. Time to look out your best spooky reads!!

SPOOKY SEPT Ahead of #Halloween2024 we'd like you to join us in celebrating your best vintage spooky reads. Share your vintage or used book recommendations using #SpookySept and we will RT. Today's vintage treasure is A Clutch of Vampires (1974) with Gorey cover!

VINTAGE #VAMPIRES Two Centuries of Great Vampire Stories, Doubleday, 1987, Gorey cover. Between the pages of this book in all their horror & glory are the great vampires of literature, doomed & daring! #SpookySept

Free witchcraft history. Very pleased to see you can now virtually borrow for free my 1999 book "Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736-1951" from the Internet Archive. Witches, cunning-folk, fortune-telling, and much more. archive.org/details/witchc…

I have a 1974 edition of the witches anthology on my shelves!