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The Theatre Royal on Drury Lane carries a lodger who never bought a seat. A tall gentleman in a grey cloak and powdered wig walks the Upper Circle and, at one unbroken stretch of wall, steps forward and is gone. A good omen to the company. A man was walled up there in 1848, a knife in his ribs. I cannot say the one is the other. I can say the tale has held together for a century and a half. https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/the-man-in-grey-of-drury-lane #VictorianLondon #GhostStory
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ROOMS is #horror audio #microfiction
Explore more ROOMS at https://patreon.com/wkeithtims (free).
Cecile: Rae Witte
Photo: Pixabay / Overlay: Minkmagic#audiofiction #audiodrama #fiction #noai #hauntedhouse #supernatural #ghosts #ghoststory
ROOMS VIII - Wooden Hall
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ROOMS is #horror audio #microfiction
Explore more ROOMS at https://patreon.com/wkeithtims (free).
Cecile: Rae Witte
Photo: Pixabay / Overlay: Minkmagic#audiofiction #audiodrama #fiction #noai #hauntedhouse #supernatural #ghosts #ghoststory
ROOMS VIII - Wooden Hall
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ROOMS is #horror audio #microfiction
Explore more ROOMS at https://patreon.com/wkeithtims (free).
Cecile: Rae Witte
Photo: Pixabay / Overlay: Minkmagic#audiofiction #audiodrama #fiction #noai #hauntedhouse #supernatural #ghosts #ghoststory
ROOMS VIII - Wooden Hall
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ROOMS is #horror audio #microfiction
Explore more ROOMS at https://patreon.com/wkeithtims (free).
Cecile: Rae Witte
Photo: Pixabay / Overlay: Minkmagic#audiofiction #audiodrama #fiction #noai #hauntedhouse #supernatural #ghosts #ghoststory
ROOMS VIII - Wooden Hall
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ROOMS is #horror audio #microfiction
Explore more ROOMS at https://patreon.com/wkeithtims (free).
Cecile: Rae Witte
Photo: Pixabay / Overlay: Minkmagic#audiofiction #audiodrama #fiction #noai #hauntedhouse #supernatural #ghosts #ghoststory
ROOMS VIII - Wooden Hall
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[Source: Variety]
British film director John Irvin dies at 86 in the U.K. His films include “Ghost Story” (1981) with Fred Astaire, “Raw Deal” (1986) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Vietnam film “Hamburger Hill” (1987), and “Next of Kin” (1989) with Patrick Swayze.
TAGS: #JohnIrvin #Variety #GhostStory #FredAstaire #RawDeal #ArnoldSchwarzenegger #HamburgerHill #NextOfKin #PatrickSwayze
URL: https://variety.com/2026/film/obituaries-people-news/john-irvin-dead-hamburger-hill-1236837824/
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#kindleunlimited #libros #terror #books #horrorbooks #amazon #horror #misterio #mystery #novel #literaverso #booktodon #80s #genx #retro #aventura #adventure #ghoststory #cosmichorror -
DeadHead
The seat beside him was supposed to be empty.
The man in the pilot’s uniform took the empty seat beside me just as they closed the cabin door, and for one impossible second I thought he was the person I had killed.
Not because of his face.
His face was wrong. Too narrow. Too pale. Clean-shaven where Gordon had worn a short beard to hide the scar under his chin. The man beside me had no scar, no beard, no blood on his shirt, no look of surprise frozen forever in the dark pupils of his eyes.
But he had Gordon’s stillness.
That was what made my hands tighten on the armrests. The same awful quiet. The same way of occupying space as if the world had already happened and he was merely waiting for the rest of us to catch up.
He placed a black leather flight bag under the seat in front of him, buckled his belt, and turned to me with a small, tired smile.
“Sorry,” he said. “Almost missed it.”
I nodded because nodding was easier than speaking. My mouth had gone dry the moment he sat down.
Outside the oval window, rain slipped in bright threads down the glass. Blue runway lights blurred and trembled in the dark. Somewhere beneath my feet, engines groaned awake, deep and animal, and the plane gave a little shudder.
The man looked past me toward the window.
“Bad night to fly,” he said.
I forced myself to breathe.
“Are you flying the plane?”
He smiled again, but this time it seemed to arrive a second too late.
“Not this one.”
His uniform was dark navy, almost black in the cabin light. Four silver stripes on the sleeves. Wings pinned above the breast pocket. He looked like every pilot I had ever seen coming through terminals with coffee in one hand and the secret knowledge of weather in the other.
And still, for half a second, some ugly little part of me wondered how he had gotten there.
Not into the seat.
Into the uniform.
The thought came and went so quickly I almost missed it. But he didn’t. I knew he didn’t. His eyes shifted toward me, calm and dark and unreadable, and I felt suddenly exposed, as if the cabin lights had brightened just over my row.
I looked away first.
There was something wrong with him.
Maybe it was the rain.
Maybe it was the fact that no one had checked his ticket.
Maybe it was because the seat beside me had been empty all through boarding. I had watched it, prayed over it, guarded it like a miracle. No one beside me meant no questions. No accidental touches. No one noticing the mud on my cuffs or the bandage wrapped too tightly around my left hand.
No one leaning close enough to smell the smoke in my coat.
“I’m deadheading,” he said.
Read the rest of the story on Medium
#AirplaneHorror #atmosphericArt #DarkArt #darkFiction #deadhead #Deadheading #DeathAndJudgment #eerieIllustration #FictionWriting #ghostStory #GothicFiction #gothicIllustration #HauntedFlight #HorrorFiction #juneteenth #kmls #moralReckoning #murder #mystery #PeaceGrooves #psychologicalHorror #Racism #shortStory #StormyNight #SupernaturalThriller #suspense #ThePassenger #ThePilot -
This evening's viewing distraction: a revisit to 1981's Ghost Story, based on Straub's novel, boasting a cast of elder Hollywood royalty: Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., & John Houseman, & an early #film for Alice Krige.
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#Horror #Horreur #GhostStory #1980sFilm #HorrorFilm #PeterStraub #AliceKrige #FredAstaire #JohnHouseman #DouglasFairbanksJr #MelvynDouglas
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Creative Writing: Of Golden Light and Dappled Grays
I went for a walk today under golden light and dappled grays. Everyone said it would be a beautiful day, and I could feel that. The sky was cloudless, and the grove of trees around the neighborhood diffused the sunlight. It is the one thing I loved the most about the neighborhood I lived in. Always calm and muted. Even with the tranquility, we had lots of visitors. Visitors who always seemed sad, like they were missing someone. The neighborhood was odd. These visitors would show up at the […] -
Creative Writing: … and Stormy Night
“If only they would tell the truth,” the lost girl mused. Katie watched as the teens in the group wandered into the woods. “If these children knew my story, they would never come out here.” Only a few would be returning, and they wouldn’t be returning whole. She knew this from the moment she issued the challenge over a hundred years ago. She was killed right here, in the woods, at the very spot where she used to tell the story and where the challenge always began. This firepit […]https://ceriashwardauthor.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/creative-writing-and-stormy-night/
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Creative Writing: The Darkened…
The night, dark and stormy as always, felt cliché. And the first person who could find the totem left behind would be the winner of this strange game. They decided to play a game based on the stories they told as kids as a joke. The ones that made you think twice before sleeping in the dark of your bedroom. The spooky stories that were certain to give you a slight fright. But this little game was not based on any old story. It had its origins in an actual event that occurred nearby, in the […]https://ceriashwardauthor.wordpress.com/2026/05/24/creative-writing-the-darkened/
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👻💀👄 SPOOKY MOUTHS REQUIRE WASHING 👄💀👻
I know we said we'd go secret hunting, but I have other spooky games I wanna get to before we go trudging through that, so let's get our washing on and start #MouthWashing for some more #SpookySeason #Sunday #Stream #Shenanigans
https://twitch.tv/undead_zeratul
#Game #Games #Gaming #VideoGame #VideoGames #VideoGaming #Horrorgame #HorrorGames #HorrorGaming #ScaryGame #ScaryGames #ScaryGaming #SpookyGame #SpookyGames #SpookyGaming #Spooktober #Spooktober2024 #ChooseYourOwnAdventure #GhostStory #SpookyScarySkeletons #Streams #Streaming #LiveStream #LiveStreams #LiveStreaming #Twitch #TwitchStream #TwitchStreams #TwitchStreaming #Streamer #LiveStreamer #TwitchStreamer #SmallStreamer #ContentCreator #ContentCreators #ContentCreation #SmallContentCreator #SmallContentCreators
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🎃👻💀 SPOOKY SEASON CONTINUES TO SPOOK! 💀👻🎃
Today we've got an indie horror game called #Amygdala to try out! Seems like it might be short so if we finish early we'll move on to something else. Come stop by for some unique monster designs and maybe some #cozy #ClassicDoom action all on today's #Sunday #Stream #Shenanigans
https://twitch.tv/undead_zeratul
#Game #Games #Gaming #VideoGame #VideoGames #VideoGaming #Horrorgame #HorrorGames #HorrorGaming #ScaryGame #ScaryGames #ScaryGaming #SpookyGame #SpookyGames #SpookyGaming #Spooktober #Spooktober2024 #ChooseYourOwnAdventure #GhostStory #SpookyScarySkeletons #Streams #Streaming #LiveStream #LiveStreams #LiveStreaming #Twitch #TwitchStream #TwitchStreams #TwitchStreaming #Streamer #LiveStreamer #TwitchStreamer #SmallStreamer #ContentCreator #ContentCreators #ContentCreation #SmallContentCreator #SmallContentCreators #Doom #DoomII #DoomIIHellOnEarth #TNTPhobia
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🎃👻💀 HAPPY SPOOKTOBER EVERYONE 💀👻🎃
We're kicking off this year's #SpookySeason with the next game in the #DarkPicturesAnthology, #HouseOfAshes! Come stop by for some chill atmospheres and #spooky #scary #GhostStories on another #Sunday #Stream #Shenanigans
https://twitch.tv/undead_zeratul
#Game #Games #Gaming #VideoGame #VideoGames #VideoGaming #Horrorgame #HorrorGames #HorrorGaming #ScaryGame #ScaryGames #ScaryGaming #SpookyGame #SpookyGames #SpookyGaming #Spooktober #Spooktober2024 #ChooseYourOwnAdventure #GhostStory #SpookyScarySkeletons #Dootober #Streams #Streaming #LiveStream #LiveStreams #LiveStreaming #Twitch #TwitchStream #TwitchStreams #TwitchStreaming #Streamer #LiveStreamer #TwitchStreamer #SmallStreamer #ContentCreator #ContentCreators #ContentCreation #SmallContentCreator #SmallContentCreators
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31) THE GHOST CLUB: AN UNFORTUNATE EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF NO.5010, John Kendrick Bangs (1894)
"I looked at him a minute, and then I said, 'But, Hawley, I thought you were dead.'
'I am,' he answered. 'But why should a little thing like that stand between friends?'" #GothicAdvent#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature #GhostStory
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30) THE GIANT WISTARIA, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1891)
"He strode heavily across the porch, till the loose planks creaked...his brows fiercely knit above his iron mouth. Overhead the shadows flickered mockingly across a white face among the leaves, with eyes of fire"#GothicAdvent#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature #GhostStory
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29) WARNED BY THE WIRE, Louis Glass (1895)
"Could it be possible be that I was asleep? I got up and walked over...Everything was too clear to me and the ominous click typed out the following sentence: Spike-driver Catton will be killed in the new cut tomorrow" #GothicAdvent#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature #GhostStory
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27) THE BLIZZARD, Luke Sharp (1888)
"An astonishing sight met his eyes...A skeleton sat on a stump looking at him, if the eyeless sockets can be said to look, and on the fallen log beside the stump sat a second skeleton with its skull resting in its bony hands" #GothicAdvent#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature #GhostStory
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25) A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Charles Dickens (1843)
"The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went. Every one of them wore chains like Marley’s Ghost; some...were linked together; none were free." #GothicAdvent#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature #GhostStory
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24) THE LADY’S WALK, Margaret Oliphant “I stood and listened with a something of excited feeling which I could not control: the sound of this third person, whose steps were not to be mistaken though she was unseen, made my heart beat” #GothicAdvent
#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature #GhostStory
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23) LA VILLE VAMPIRE, Paul Féval (1874)
"The young girl was on her knees on the back of her horse. She threw away her garland, threw away her veils…she made a touching sight. Suddenly, the spider trapped her in its web…There was a sound of grinding bones." #GothicAdvent#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature #GhostStory
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22) THE HIGHER LIFE, Mary E Braddon (1907)
"out of the darkness rushed the demon pack, the spectral hounds that hunt the souls of sinful men - the evil spirits of the air, implacable, fierce, inexorable tormentors, who chase unhallowed souls that have escaped" #GothicAdvent#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature #GhostStory
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20) THE OLD HOUSE IN VAUXHALL WALK, Charlotte Riddell (1882)
"The fire was not quite out, and at that moment shot up a last tongue of flame. By the light, transient as it was, he saw that the figure pressed a ghostly finger to its lips" #GothicAdvent#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature #ghoststory
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19) OH, WHISTLE, & I'LL COME TO YOU, MY LAD, M R James (1904)
"a horrible, an intensely horrible, face of crumpled linen. What expression he read upon it he could not or would not tell, but that the fear of it went nigh to maddening him is certain" #GothicAdvent#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature #ghoststory
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18) A WICKED VOICE, Vernon Lee (1890)
"a sapphire engraved with cabalistic signs presented to him one evening by a masked stranger, in whom wise folk recognized that great cultivator of the human voice, the devil" #GothicAdvent#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature #ghoststory
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17) THE VAMPYRE, John Polidori (1819)
"[it's] punishment after death, for some heinous crime committed whilst in existence, that the deceased is not only doomed to vampyrise, but compelled to confine his infernal visitations solely to those beings he loved most" #GothicAdvent#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature #ghoststory
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16) 'THE REAL AND THE COUNTERFEIT', Louisa Baldwin (1895) "a feeling was creeping over the strong young man that he had never known before. He opened his dry mouth as the thing floated towards him, and there issued a hoarse inarticulate cry" #GothicAdvent
#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature #ghoststory
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15) THE BODY SNATCHER, Robert Louis Stevenson (1877)
"A nameless dread was swathed, like a wet sheet, about the body, and tightened the white skin up on the face of Fettes; a fear that was meaningless, a horror of what could not be, kept mounting in his brain." #GothicAdvent#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature #ghoststory
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14) THE GHOSTLY RENTAL, Henry James (1876)
"Suddenly...I became aware that this gloom was animated; it seemed to move and gather itself together. Slowly…it took the shape of a large, definite figure, and this figure advanced & stood at the top of the stairs." #GothicAdvent#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature #ghoststory
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12) THE STRIDING PLACE, Gertrude Atherton (1896)
"[He] stood rigid, breathless...Was that a hand? It thrust itself still higher above the boiling foam...four frantic fingers were distinctly visible against the black rock beyond." #GothicAdvent#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature #ghoststory
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10) FROM THE DEAD, Edith Nesbit (1892)
"the door of the chamber of death open[ed] slowly. I heard slow steps in the passage, slow heavy steps…the touch of hands on my door outside, uncertain hands that felt for the latch. Sick with terror, I lay clenching the sheet" #GothicAdvent#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature #ghoststory
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9) BERENICE, Edgar Allan Poe (1835)
"still the phantasma of the teeth maintained its terrible ascendancy, as, with the most vivid hideous distinctness, it floated about amid the…shadows of the chamber. At length there broke in upon my dreams a cry as of horror" #GothicAdvent#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature #ghoststory
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8) THE OLD NURSE'S STORY, E. Gaskell (1852)
"I…heard no sound of little battering hands upon the window-glass, although the phantom child had seemed to put forth all its force; & although I had seen it wail & cry, no faintest touch of sound had fallen upon my ears" #GothicAdvent#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature #ghoststory