Jason D. Brawn

An enjoyable Saturday night, despite the continued rainfall, seeing an anthology of creepy and ghostly tales by M.R. James. Many thanks to London Month of the Dead for hosting this event and Midnight Circle Productions for their performance and production.

First event by Concrete Atlantis, titled The Megalithic Imperative: 3rd Stone Anthology book launch and live music from Urthona @markopilkington.bsky.social Insightful and enjoyable, especially engaging conversations with like-minded people. #stonecircles #earthmysteries #hauntology #folklore

A perfect Saturday morning exploring St. Mary's Crypt and Churchyard with expert and historian James Paterson, part of London Month of the Dead. Also included was someone's disemboweled heart kept inside a jar (photo 9). #crypt #gothiclocation #graveyard #churchesofinstagram #churchyard

Great lecture and book signing from Paul Gambino. #victoriandeath #deathculture #victoriangothic #victoriantimes

VAMPIRES: TWO CENTURIES OF GREAT VAMPIRE STORIES Doubleday 1987 ed. Alan Ryan. Edward Gorey cover. In the pages of this treasured book in all their glory, are some of the great #vampires in literature, male & female, invisible & metaphoric, doomed & daring! #31DaysOfHalloween

Part of my busy weekend. #fairytales #folklore #gothictales

Another glorious bit of Gothic. This is Rheims Cathedral painted by David Roberts in the early 19th Century. Droolworthy. #Gothic #medieval #Rheims #church #architecture

A Gothic chapel by Charles Marie Bouton, early 19th Century. #Gothtober #gothic #medieval #landscape #art

'Traumland' by Caspar Rauh. #WyrdWednesday #fantasyart #art

Random night shots of Walthamstow Village last night.

An enjoyable and insightful talk by Freudian expert and horror film theorist @psycstar.bsky.social taking us on a psychoanalytic journey through horror cinema, discussing legendary titles. #sigmundefreud #theuncanny #psychoanalysis #abjectart #jacqueslacan

A fascinating talk by the brilliant and wonderful Madeleine LeDespencer about the history of the Grand Guignol, including its culture and influence on today's horror cinema. Also the talk covered Poe's influence and its origins. #grandguignol #frenchgothic #horrortheatre

I've posted this before but I'm going to post it again because it didn't get much love on that inferior Friday thing. An example of the spooky penny broadsheets sold in the early 1800s. They never seemed to learn that a picture tells a 1000 words, thereby making a 1000 words redundant. #SpookySunday

La cabina (The Telephone Box) from @hobbslane.bsky.social #lacabina #horrorshort #spanishhorror #horrormodel #horrorfigure

A THIN #GHOST Is one of my favourite book titles. The original decorative cloth cover with spider's web design published by Edward Arnold in 1919 is as ghoulishly good as M. R. James's writing. A #gothic gem of a book #SpookySunday #Booksky #31daysofHalloween

WITCHY CAT NAMES PYEWACKET is the name of a witch's familiar found by witchfinder general Matthew Hopkins, 1644. GRIMALKIN another witchy name derives from 'grim' grey, 'malkin', a hare or spinster; Graymalkin is the witches' familiar in Shakespeare's Macbeth #FolkloreSunday #31daysofHalloween

A brilliant and well researched talk by @jendeavour.bsky.social on grief and terror in Victorian child bereavement that engaged the audience. #victorian #victorianstudies

Four Gothic 'blue covers' or 'shilling shockers' reproduced in Peter Haining's 'A Pictorial History of Horror Stories'. #BookWormSat #Gothic #Gothtober #31DaysOfHalloween

Fantastic evening at Brompton Cemetery 🪦 for Memory, Murder and Metamorphosis. A concert that explores love, memory and mortality through three masterpieces of string quartet repertoire from The Idalia Quartet. Finally, I want to thank London Month of the Dead for hosting this great event.

The grave of actor Ernest Thesiger, who played the iconic Doctor Septimus Pretorius in The Bride of Frankenstein, lies in a large family plot with his parents. #thebrideoffrankenstein #doctorseptimuspretorius #ernestthesiger #horroricon

Seriously scary Hell Hounds in Rosa Bonheur's 'Legend Of The Wolves', 19th Century. #31DaysOfHalloween #legend #folklore #FrenchArt #womenartists

Wow. Denholm Elliott and Hazel Court in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, season 3 (1958). Had no idea he’d appeared in an American production so early on.

Wow! What a read. Thoroughly loved this issue titled 'The Devil Has The Best Tunes'. A fantastic study of folk horror in American music: folk; blues; synth; rock; black metal; and Hip Hop. @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social #folkhorror #folkhorror #occultmusic #robertjohnson

A BEAUTIFUL VAMPIRE Lady Deverish drains the life force of her entire family, including her dog, to remain young and beautiful. Amazingly this little known #Vampire story was published as early as 1896 by Arabella Kenealy, it predates Dracula #31daysofHalloween #Gothtober

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Great issue.... @helleborezine.bsky.social #folkhorror #folklore #folkloreofthebritishisles #occulthistory

And speak of the Devil! Just as we return home from Sybil Leek’s 1950s’ village home, this arrives from the US! A 1971 who’s who of famous American witches (and Manson) with Sybil heading the front cover. A possible indicator to public attitudes to sorcery before The Exorcist landed.

From @deadinkbooks.bsky.social this fascinating anthology of new folk horror tales across the country, featuring talented writers like @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social #folkhorror #folkhorrorweek #horroranthology #mythsandlegends

Goodies from London Month of the Dead, like the classic Swap Shop episode from the eighties. #ouijaboard #pendulum #occulture

Delivery... @sheershearsmith.bsky.social #reeceshearsmith #horrorbookstagram #horrorbook #horrorcollector

In my thread on haunted staircases, I'd forgotten this one. In June 1884, Kathleen Leigh Hunt was staying with her cousin in a house in Hyde Park Place, #London. She told the @spr1882.bsky.social : 'One morning I seemed to see, about two stairs in front of me, a figure...' [Cont: #SpookySunday

Charity shop find. Love this film as well as the stageplay. #ghoststories #jeremydyson #andynyman

HISTORY OF VAMPIRES The Histoire des vampires et des spectres malfaisans (1820) was written by French demonologist Jacques-Albin-Simon Collin de Plancy & based on prior 18th-century treatises, local European folklore, and historical #vampire panics #31daysofHalloween Image: second edition, 1820.

A perfect residence. #gothichouse #gothicbuilding

Enjoyed tonight's performance of Shirley Jackson's seminal ghost story The Haunting of Hill House in a packed audience at @richmondtheatre.bsky.social #shirleyjackson #thehauntingofhillhouse #horrortheatre #horrorplay

My reading companion, after seeing the atmospheric The Haunting of Hill House. @forteantimes.bsky.social #forteantimesmagazine #ghostsandhauntings

Getting ready for tonight's stage adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House at @richmondtheatre.bsky.social #thehauntingofhillhouse #horrorplay #horrortheatre #ghoststory #shirleyjackson

Autumn comes to the alleys with a crowding of ghosts. Schoolboy firework anticipation triggered by the smoke of every garden bonfire. Comes with half-heard voices full of leaf-rasp and branch-stretch. It comes with waking shadows. – #DAKilory, 1982 #Autumn

Great publications from @treadwells-books.bsky.social @threeravenspod.bsky.social

An excellent discussion to promote @threeravenspod.bsky.social newly released book on ghost stories and Halloween lore at @treadwells-books.bsky.social #ghoststories #halloweenlore #folklore

New special edition of Antony Clayton's book called Netherwood: Last Resort of Aleister Crowley is beyond brilliant. #aleistercrowley #occultists #netherwood

TREATISE on VAMPIRES & REVENANTS By Calmet, a Benedictine Monk who lived through the European #vampire epidemic in the eighteenth century. It was translated across Europe as The Phantom World in 1850. Image is my 1993 reprint with cover illustration by Frank Papé #SpookySunday #31daysofHalloween

A wonderful evening last night attending a magnificent interview, conducted by film and TV historian Jonathan Rigby, with Amicus and horror legend Chloe Franks. #amicushorroranthologies #chloefranks #horrorlegend

THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD (1971) Four years after Torture Garden, Robert Bloch scripted the third Amicus horror anthology from four of his own stories. There’s no novelisation and no movie tie-in paperback! But you can still read the stories each segment is based on… #AmicusAnthologies

Special thanks to @princecharlescinema.com for tonight's screening. #thetexaschainsawmassacre #horrorclassic

Weekend read. #thedarksidemagazine #forteantimesmagazine @markopilkington.bsky.social

First in the queue at @princecharlescinema.com #thetexaschainsawmassacre

Gustave Dore, 'The Witch', 1853. #31DaysOfHalloween #witch #witchcraft #spider #art

Following an excellent online lecture on Victorian slums, as part of my MA Victorian Gothic, I am now excitedly ready for this talk by one of my editors and Hauntologist/Folk Horror expert Professor Robert Edgar. @uophistory.bsky.social @bradbeaven.bsky.social #folkhorror #hauntology