So many of the laughs are from the shock of the surreal that it's impossible to recapture that as they're so memorable (and quotable).

Also, not a film, but Blackadder is another one.

I'd quite like to bring back the name popinjay for parrots.

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*I'd want to recover the old memories of watching and quoting after having seen it again though.

When ploughing your fields make sure to put a little cake in the soil as an offering to the spirits of the land.
#FolkloreThursday

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Poster for a group show by Lally MacBeth, Matthew Shaw and Penny MacBeth at Field System

I Dreamed Another's Dream
@field-system.bsky.social
Friday 1 May 2026
Saturday 23 May 2026
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A four-panel comic strip by Cryptid Club. Panel 1: A small, brown, horned monster with large, googly eyes asks, "Have you heard the legend of Mothman?" Panel 2: The monster continues, "He only appears to humans before a disaster." A small white ghost floating nearby replies, "Woah!" Panel 3: A woman with long red hair holds a pair of scissors to her forehead in front of a mirror, smiling. She says, "These bangs are gonna be so cute!" Panel 4: As the woman prepares to cut her hair, the silhouette of Mothman with glowing red eyes appears in the window behind her, signaling the impending "disaster."

Artist: @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social

An engraving depicting six children holding hands and dancing around a maypole.

I'm doing an online talk with Creswell Crags on 27 April, examining the folklore of May Day! It's at 6 pm BST. [Image by Isaiah Thomas, Public Domain]
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Submissions are open for my anthology, "Passing Strange: Queer Weird Arthurian Tales"!

We want stories that include: an LGBTQ+ main character; a spec fic element; and an Arthurian element. Artworks or illustrations of stories also welcome!

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Bumping the thread again. Submission form at the end.

Hans Printz, 1919. “Mönch und Nonne” (Monk and Nun)

#illustration #1910s #witch #witchcraft #HansPrintz

Blue front cover of the book. Text reads A Year in Willerby. Illustration is of main street. Link print. Cobblestone road and timber cottages.

The 2nd printing of our book, A Year in Willerby, is now available to order.
Limited edition run of 100 copies.
12 of our most loved stories. 149 pages, locally printed and bound with original lino cut prints.
Sent straight from the village with a handwritten letter.

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Cover of the paperback Haunted Houses by Aidan Chambers showing a creepy old house on a lonely hill in the twilight complete with swooping bats

One from the vaults! Haunted Houses (Piccolo 1971) - a selection of famous hauntings and ghostly encounters recounted by the great Aidan Chambers

That Sight & Sound issue is a particularly great find, it usually goes for quite a bit. It was my first introduction to the world of what's now called folk horror.

Come one! Come all! To the Bedlam Ball!

Painting depicting a dark haired woman in a long, black dress wearing a small, red flower in her hair. She is reaching out to an owl who is perched on what's left of a white tree. A crescent moon is in the sky between them. A small cloud sits just above the woman's head.

Woman Supplicates Owl in Shattered Tree
by Gertrude Abercrombie, 1954
#OwlishMonday

Stone Club is returning to The Social!
After four years of sold out events let’s see what year five has in store.
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I could be really obvious and say The Wicker Man, and that is indeed a strong contender, but I'd actually go for Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I did the classic thing of watching it so many times when younger I know it all now so it would be wonderful to be surprised and laugh afresh.

Happy World Curlew Day!

We've put together some facts about our favourite bird and how you can help!

Share them with your friends and family to spread the love for the Eurasian Curlew as far as we can!

#Curlew #WorldCurlewDay #Nature

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Waterstones Bath tonight! Tickets here. Come on down, Bathy types.

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The Bloody Ploughman apple is named after a Scottish tale of a ploughman who's shot dead for stealing apples from an estate. When his body is returned to his wife, she tosses the blood-stained apples he stole, and they sprout into a tree that grows blood-red apples. #FairyTaleTuesday

It's alive!!

What I've read of Blackwood I loved, some of my favourite weird tales, but I don't think I've read any of the stories included in this so it'll be great to discover them.

Front cover of the book 'Tales of the Mysterious and Macabre' by Algernon Blackwood

Just struck charity shop gold!

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Do you live in the UK? Are you registered to vote in next month's elections? If not, you'd better get a move on, as tomorrow is the last day you can register. Fortunately, it's easy to do online. www.gov.uk/register-to-... 🗳️

The origin of the modern slang term 'to yeat' something (probably).

Brownish illustration of "The Bat" showing a bat flying over a ruined abbey or church with gothic arches.

For #ForteanFriday on #BatAppreciationDay, The Burbank Bat Light. A fiery spook light with bat wings is seen near Burbank and San Fernando.
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Mervyn Peake’s illustration of tower in front of castle, landscape.

‘This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.’ ~
Mervyn Peake. #BookWormSat

Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves, and all manner of high strangeness abound in these beautifully illustrated books. I missed out on these at the time, sadly. Anyone for reprints?