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"Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve they start telling each other ghost stories. Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about spectres" Jerome K. Jerome, 1891 #PhantomsFriday #BookChatWeekly #GothicAdvent

1/5 Viktor Rydberg was a Swedish writer known for a poem about a Tomte visiting a farm on #Christmas night. He makes his rounds, checking the family & livestock, while considering the passage of time. redbubble.com/shop/ap/1560... #LegendaryWednesday #gothicadvent #art #illustration #bookchatweekly

Sleeping Tomte and Cat - Jenny...

#GothicAdvent Carol Singers in Poland by A. Piotrowski, 1929

#GothicAdvent Carol Singers in Poland by A. Piotrowski, 1929

#GothicAdvent Carol Singers in Poland by A. Piotrowski, 1929

#GothicAdvent A lady gathering ivy at Christmas in the woods near Rowlands Castle on the South Downs met a horse and rider, who vanished suddenly. It was suggested she had encounted the ghost of local highwayman Charlie Pierce, who was killed when he was decapitated by a low-hanging tree branch.

#GothicAdvent A lady gathering ivy at Christmas in the woods near Rowlands Castle on the South Downs met a horse and rider, who vanished suddenly. It was suggested she had encounted the ghost of local highwayman Charlie Pierce, who was killed when he was decapitated by a low-hanging tree branch.

#GothicAdvent A lady gathering ivy at Christmas in the woods near Rowlands Castle on the South Downs met a horse and rider, who vanished suddenly. It was suggested she had encounted the ghost of local highwayman Charlie Pierce, who was killed when he was decapitated by a low-hanging tree branch.

According to Slavic superstitions (mainly – the southern ones), a child conceived/born during the Christmas season, is likely to become a vampire. #GothicAdvent #ijulemørket #dailyspooklore #vampiresweekly Art: Albert Joseph Penot (detail)

According to Slavic superstitions (mainly – the southern ones), a child conceived/born during the Christmas season, is likely to become a vampire. #GothicAdvent #ijulemørket #dailyspooklore #vampiresweekly Art: Albert Joseph Penot (detail)

According to Slavic superstitions (mainly – the southern ones), a child conceived/born during the Christmas season, is likely to become a vampire. #GothicAdvent #ijulemørket #dailyspooklore #vampiresweekly Art: Albert Joseph Penot (detail)

The closer the Christmas, the closer Julegeita is to your home! This mysterious Christmas goat comes down the mountains/out of the woods, and enters a town/village through the oldest gate. Julegeita is known for punishing lazy kids and his sweet tooth. #GothicAdvent #ijulemørket #dontgointothewoods

The closer the Christmas, the closer Julegeita is to your home! This mysterious Christmas goat comes down the mountains/out of the woods, and enters a town/village through the oldest gate. Julegeita is known for punishing lazy kids and his sweet tooth. #GothicAdvent #ijulemørket #dontgointothewoods

The closer the Christmas, the closer Julegeita is to your home! This mysterious Christmas goat comes down the mountains/out of the woods, and enters a town/village through the oldest gate. Julegeita is known for punishing lazy kids and his sweet tooth. #GothicAdvent #ijulemørket #dontgointothewoods

#FolkloreThursday #GothicAdvent A German nun named Ursula loved singing but was so awful she disturbed the rest of the choir. Even after death she joined in until she was banished and turned into an owl. She joined the Wild Hunt and now lives her best life hooting with the Hunt in the winter skies.

#FolkloreThursday #GothicAdvent A German nun named Ursula loved singing but was so awful she disturbed the rest of the choir. Even after death she joined in until she was banished and turned into an owl. She joined the Wild Hunt and now lives her best life hooting with the Hunt in the winter skies.

#FolkloreThursday #GothicAdvent A German nun named Ursula loved singing but was so awful she disturbed the rest of the choir. Even after death she joined in until she was banished and turned into an owl. She joined the Wild Hunt and now lives her best life hooting with the Hunt in the winter skies.

In Norway, it was customary to throw outside your brooms on Christmas Eve, so witches had something to ride, and wouldn’t come steal your horses to join åsgårdsrei (the Wild hunt). #FolkloreThursday #ijulemørket #dailyspooklore #GothicAdvent Art: Seigneurgens

In Norway, it was customary to throw outside your brooms on Christmas Eve, so witches had something to ride, and wouldn’t come steal your horses to join åsgårdsrei (the Wild hunt). #FolkloreThursday #ijulemørket #dailyspooklore #GothicAdvent Art: Seigneurgens

In Norway, it was customary to throw outside your brooms on Christmas Eve, so witches had something to ride, and wouldn’t come steal your horses to join åsgårdsrei (the Wild hunt). #FolkloreThursday #ijulemørket #dailyspooklore #GothicAdvent Art: Seigneurgens

In Norway, it was customary to throw outside your brooms on Christmas Eve, so witches had something to ride, and wouldn’t come steal your horses to join åsgårdsrei (the Wild hunt). #FolkloreThursday #ijulemørket #dailyspooklore #GothicAdvent Art: Seigneurgens

In Norway, it was customary to throw outside your brooms on Christmas Eve, so witches had something to ride, and wouldn’t come steal your horses to join åsgårdsrei (the Wild hunt). #FolkloreThursday #ijulemørket #dailyspooklore #GothicAdvent Art: Seigneurgens

In Scandinavia the night before the 13th of December is Lussi Night, named after a demonic witch who rides forth at this time to unleash a horde of demons to torment the land in the forthcoming dark nights of winter #GothicAdvent 🎨 by Andy Paciorek from this book: www.blurb.co.uk/b/10407793-s...

Beware out there tonight, #Krampus is abroad! #GothicAdvent #GothicYuletide #FolkloreThursday 🎨'Krampus in the Wild' by Andy Kehoe andykehoe.shop

#FairytaleTuesday #GothicAdvent #GothicYuletide Perchten is an early December Austrian festival of masked parades to drive out the 'devils of winter' from villages Percht mask from the Salzburg region, Austria, 18th century Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Berlin www.smb.museum/en/museums-i...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

28) YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835)
The cry of grief, rage, and terror, was yet piercing the night…There was a scream, drowned immediately in a louder murmur of voices, fading into far-off laughter, as the dark cloud swept away" #GothicAdvent

#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature

28) YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835)
The cry of grief, rage, and terror, was yet piercing the night…There was a scream, drowned immediately in a louder murmur of voices, fading into far-off laughter, as the dark cloud swept away" #GothicAdvent

#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature

28) YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835)
The cry of grief, rage, and terror, was yet piercing the night…There was a scream, drowned immediately in a louder murmur of voices, fading into far-off laughter, as the dark cloud swept away" #GothicAdvent

#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature

28) YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835)
The cry of grief, rage, and terror, was yet piercing the night…There was a scream, drowned immediately in a louder murmur of voices, fading into far-off laughter, as the dark cloud swept away" #GothicAdvent

#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature

28) YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835)
The cry of grief, rage, and terror, was yet piercing the night…There was a scream, drowned immediately in a louder murmur of voices, fading into far-off laughter, as the dark cloud swept away" #GothicAdvent

#GothicFiction #gothic #fantasy #gothicfantasy #horror #horrorbooks #HorrorCommunity #horrorfiction #bookstodon #victorian #histodons #literature

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

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

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

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

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