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My short #horror story 'Needles' recently fell out of print, so it's up on my blog if anyone would like a read. It's based on the true story of Kitty Hudson, dubbed 'the human pin cushion', an early patient at the now defunct Nottingham General Hospital in 1783. cwreeve.com/2026/04/22/n...

Witches' Sabbath, by Francisco Goya (1820–1823). #WyrdWednesday

According to legend, blues musician Robert Johnson sold his soul to the Devil to become a great guitarist. He met the Devil at a crossroads in Clarksdale, Mississippi near the Dockery Plantation at midnight. In another version of the tale, they met at a graveyard. #WyrdWednesday

The bwci bo is a Welsh bogeyman featured in a nursery rhyme. In this rhyme, the creature lives in a family's well, and drags each child under the water when they come over to wash. The bwci bo is never described, perhaps because no one who sees it lives. #WyrdWednesday

Good morning, Wyrdlings! All Hallow Eve is upon us, so for this #WyrdWednesday we're going super spooky with our theme: “Exit Light, Enter Night – Night Creatures, Wyrd Spells and Dark Tales!” @cwreeve.bsky.social here. SHOW ME YOUR WYRD 👻👻

Wyrdlings! Metallica was founded on a #WyrdWednesday back in 1981 and Samhain is neigh upon us, so we give you in the spookiest of weeks: “Exit Light, Enter Night – Night Creatures, Wyrd Spells and Dark Tales” as this week’s topic! Come, sit and tell the scariest stories...

Supermarket Cat purveyor of pumpkins offers his selection

Next time I try to head north during a storm someone please remind me to do a DO NOT TRAVEL.

Mount Haguro, Yamagata, Japan

Don't forget that the time thief will be returning our stolen hour tonight, use it wisely! (Not applicable to all nations. Terms & conditions apply.)

being unobtainable is such a chore

because it is relevant to my work, I have tried very hard to educate myself on how AI works, be fair and measured in how I evaluate it, and regularly test new tools to confirm or debunk my priors and tbh AI haters are just nailing it with less work like 99% of the time. keep at it folks

someone left a Prouds catalogue on the coffee table and every time I walk past and glance at it I can feel my Nan who got through two depressions and migration take over my body and demand I insist upon something heavy and gold with links that can be cut & sold as needed in case things get bad again

Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 American science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer & written by Harry Kleiner, about a submarine crew which is shrunk to microscopic size and sent into the body of injured scientist Dr. Jan Benes to repair damage to his brain. Shenanigans ensue! #WyrdWednesday

"That night Carter camped in a roadside meadow beneath a great lygath-tree to which he tied his yak, and in the morning resumed his northward pilgrimage." (H.P. Lovecraft "The Dream Quest Of Unknown Kadath") 🎨 "Brehm's", 1891 #WyrdWednesday

We, too, would roam without a sail or steam, And to combat the boredom of our jail, Would stretch, like canvas on our souls a dream, Framed in horizons, of the seas you sail. What have you seen? - Charles Baudelaire, The Voyage (🎨Jean Vaber, 'Baudelaire Writing Les Fleurs de Mal') #WyrdWednesday

Good morning, wyrdlings! It's #WyrdWednesday again, and our theme this week is: “Suspension of Disbelief – Opium Dreams & Wyrd Voyages!” @cwreeve.bsky.social here, ready to share your posts. Come along and ride with me on a fantastic voyage!

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Ah my favorite Cryptids and legends

Wyrdlings! Even in our favourite season, we might be inclined to be elsewhere for a spell. So, for Coleridge’s birthday, we give you: “Suspension of Disbelief – Opium Dreams & Wyrd Voyages!” as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic. Come, sit & tell of strange matelots, pleasure domes & demon lovers!

SS Alkimos (WWll cargo vessel) is known as Australia’s "most cursed shipwreck." During salvage attempts mysterious fires, broken towlines, and freak accidents occured. A human skull was later found inside the hull. Local animals reportedly refuse to go near the shoreline. #SpookySunday B4 and now

Protest in Norwich tomorrow: 7pm Monday 19th October at Broadland Business Park. Residents fear it could harm neighbouring wildlife sites including Marston Marshes.

Birthday beats for Alan.

'Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!' -Emily Brontë Join #BookWormSat this Saturday for a day of Gothic Literature! 🎨Rovina Cai

Under The Silver Lake for Tax Purposes

subtly trying to spread the word in every day conversation that novellas are so back now that I’ve written a novella

Necromancy, a 1972 American supernatural horror film directed by Bert I. Gordon and starring Orson Welles. The plot follows Cato, an enigmatic cult leader in a small California town who attempts to harness the powers of a local woman to resurrect his dead son. Look at that artwork! #WyrdWednesday

Wyrdlings! "But will they come when you do call for them?", Hotspur asked Welsh wizard Owain Glyndŵr. Wyrd mother @cwreeve.bsky.social and you proved that the spirits from the vasty deep did come when you called! @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social is now here to summon more with you. Let's do this!

#WyrdWednesday Occult film maker Kenneth Anger declared that Brian Jones was a witch. Unfortunately he was to lose the battle against the forces that assailed him. There are some that consider addiction a form of possession. (Photo of the Beggar's Banquet session, Michael Joseph, June 1968)

Necromancy, a 1972 American supernatural horror film directed by Bert I. Gordon and starring Orson Welles. The plot follows Cato, an enigmatic cult leader in a small California town who attempts to harness the powers of a local woman to resurrect his dead son. Look at that artwork! #WyrdWednesday

Autumn Term 1934. Colwall Court School of Domestic Economy, Pages Avenue, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex. #WyrdWednesday

Hubble, bubble, toil and all that jazz! Good morning, Wyrdlings, and welcome to this week's wynderfully #WyrdWednesday! The theme: “Something Wicked This Way Comes – Dark Arts!” @cwreeve.bsky.social cooking up some magic this morning. Send me your posts to add to the pot! 👻🧙‍♀️

Wyrdlings! In the middle of everyone’s favourite season – witchy, wyrd, wynderful – we Mothers would be amiss if we did not give you: “Something Wicked This Way Comes – Dark Arts!” as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic. Come and conjure tales of Necromancy, Bibliomancy and Anythingelsemancy!

Today's nightmare fuel: our Hardee's fries advertising statue. 🍟

Before dawn

This is a repost of my "three glasses of wine" story, first posted on the other site. Read on for all the sordid details:

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

“With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase.” - Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat #WyrdWednesday 🎨 by John Coulthart

Zombie Detective #WyrdWednesday

#WyrdWednesday “Sometimes they come back” The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs (1902) An elderly couple possess a talisman that will grant three wishes. They are warned there will be dire consequences if they use it. Foolishly they wish for money & receive it as compensation for the death of their son.

Good morning, wyrdlings! This #wyrdwednesday we are celebrating the birthday of Edgar Allen Poe, writer of mysteries & the macabre, with our theme: “Sometimes they come back – Return from the Great Beyond” @cwreeve.bsky.social here, ready to share your posts & reach our Edgar Allen Poe-tential!

Wyrdlings! "The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague”, Poe famously wrote and for the anniversary of his own death, we give you: “Sometimes they come back – Return from the Great Beyond” as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic. Come, tell tales of the living dead! 💀

These two 1st-2nd c. CE Roman marble theatrical masks represent comedy and Melpomene, muse of tragic theater. They were discovered in the peristyle of a ruined Roman villa of La Estación in Antequera, Spain. Note the little face of the actor behind the large open mouth of the comedy mask! 😆 🏺 📸 me

What do you think? Is this accurate? #horrorauthor #gothic #bakcrooms #horrormovies

Fluid wave pattern carpet staircase.