King's College Chapel, Cambridge, by David Roberts, early 19th Century.
#StainedGlassSunday #Cambridge #Gothic #architecture #medieval
Remote
The Ghost Monk
@theghostmonk.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
Enthusiast of British (mainly) ghostlore, folklore and vintage ghost and weird fiction. Collector of old magazines. Also keen on prehistoric monuments, old churches and suchlike. Am decidedly Q. All scans/photos my own (unless stated). Runs #SpookySunday
🌉 bridged from 🦋 theghostmonk.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact
🌉 bridged from 🦋 theghostmonk.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact
117 Followers
4 Following
33 Posts
Joined February 24, 2025
Thank you all for another phantasmagorically fabulous #PhantomsFriday. The feed has now disappeared into the ether and been replaced (easily, which amazed me) as #SpookySunday. I was going to take a break but I'm being confusing enough already - so the hauntings will begin again Sunday August 2.
One of Jan Parker's terrifying illustrations to be found in 'Witchcraft and Black Magic' by Peter Haining (1982). #BookologyThursday #witchcraft #blackmagic #magick
'The Dragon's Den' by James Campbell. I love the hyperreal depiction of the rocks and saturated greens of the ivy. So much so that at first I failed to notice the knight creeping warily towards the cave.
#dragon #knight #legend #landscape #art
A mid-Victorian 'stereoscope' card by one Martin Laroche. The card was used to create a 3D effect when looked at through a viewer.
#PhantomsFriday #Victorian #ghost #photography
The most important fantasy literature for me growing up were the Target #DoctorWho novelisations, most written with brio by former script editor Terrance Dicks, the others by the writers of the original teleplays. It was a thrill as each came out: you never knew which story it would be!
#BookWormSat
Final one for #WyrdWednesday. (A newspaper cartoon by Hans Arnold from - and I can't think why I'm assuming this - the 1970s.)
#mermaid
A Holly Blue butterfly I photographed on some ling (I think?).
#butterfly #butterflies #naturephotography
Gustave Dore: 'Shades Of French Soldiers From The Past Exhort Soldiers To Victory On The Rhine'. Drawn in 1875, the subject shows that the 'Angels Of Mons' idea accidentally over-popularised by Arthur Machen during World War 1 had been around for some time.
#PhantomsFriday #Machen #ghosts #art
And here's one I prepared earlier...
#PhantomsFriday
RE:
Quoting
Two of the rather obscured Stone Row, Parc y Marw in #Pembrokeshire. 'Marw' means 'the dead' and the area was considered haunted - in fact a footpath veers a mile out of its way to avoid it. #Folklore states its #ghost is either a traditional White Lady or 'a prehistoric hopgoblin'.
#WyrdWednesday
The Raven's Bowl beside an ancient track in the hills above Llangollen, North Wales. Probably the base of a medieval wayside cross but it's unknown what happened to the cross itself. The hollow socket forms the 'bowl' of its romantic name. #StandingStoneSunday #medieval #antquities #Wales
Two of the rather obscured Stone Row, Parc y Marw in #Pembrokeshire. 'Marw' means 'the dead' and the area was considered haunted - in fact a footpath veers a mile out of its way to avoid it. #Folklore states its #ghost is either a traditional White Lady or 'a prehistoric hopgoblin'.
#WyrdWednesday
An illustration by Fanny Railton of an owl with Puck from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.
#OwlishMonday #owl #fairy
A creepy #legend is attached to Jedburgh Abbey, Scottish Borders. At his wedding in 1285, Alexander III was startled by a spirit which suddenly manifested among the congregation. It prophesied his death in the coming year. A few months later he was fatally thrown from his horse. [1/2
#PhantomsFriday
"In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
- Albert Camus #BookWormSat #Camus
Here's hoping everyone got the memo about #PhantomsFriday having been moved forward to become #SpookySunday (I will repost any contributions posted today on Sunday). Still the same theme - ghosts. Encounters with weird things OK provided not considered cryptids or belonging to fairy-lore. Avanti!
Modern stained glass in the ancient Church of Saints Asaph and Cydeyrn, Llanasa, in North-East Wales.
#StainedGlassSunday #Wales
Another one for #13MorbidMonday theme of 'Such Wickedness'. Here is the bizarre 'Evil Powers' by Ivar Arosenius, 1907. Note the little priests in the corner - who are not faring too well!
#weird #weirdart #fantasyart #devil #demon #dragon
'The Spookissimus' is here to remind everyone about #SpookySunday, the new feed for posts on all things ghost (replacing #PhantomsFriday, which has been cast into the Outer Darkness). Ghost-related words, art, haunted sites, #folklore, popular culture will all be reposted: @spookysunday.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
This week's #13MorbidMondays theme is 'Years and Years'. Here is a dead king by Gustave Dore who has been sitting on an equally redundant throne for years and years.
#Gothic
Keep those birds hydrated! Here's a sparrow in my garden taking advantage of the bird bath.
#bird #birds #heatwave #photography
Weird pictures of the day are a couple of vintage Spanish Edgar Rice Burroughs' paperbacks with cover illustrations by Prieto. (Not books I own, btw). #weird #weirdart #artsky #fantasyfiction #BookChatWeekly #booksky #VintagePaperbacks #EdgarRiceBurroughs
One of those places that look like they ought to be haunted. I wonder if they intended those figures to be as creepy as they look? Not a place one would want to spend alone at night!
#Australia #Melbourne
RE:
The font in Walsoken Church, #Norfolk, by John Sell Cotman, early 19th Century.
#FontsOnFriday #church #churches #medieval
Oops. Should have been #13MorbidMondays
RE:
Quoting
Another one for #13MorbidMonday theme of 'Such Wickedness'. Here is the bizarre 'Evil Powers' by Ivar Arosenius, 1907. Note the little priests in the corner - who are not faring too well!
#weird #weirdart #fantasyart #devil #demon #dragon
