Emma Butler
@emmabutler.bsky.social
Creator of horror drama podcast The Rue Papers.
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Emma Butler
@emmabutler.bsky.social
· Dec 20
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So my Patreon subscribers will get a story from me on Christmas Eve and I have set it so non-subscribers can buy it if you wish (set it as cheap as Patreon allows)(at least I hope I set this up). So just in case you fancy it…
Watching Conjuring 2 and I know it takes a lot of liberties with the Enfield story but it does look like a 70s house and it reminds me how creepy 70s houses were, all dark and dim and power cuts and TV going off at midnight
February 1, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Watching Conjuring 2 and I know it takes a lot of liberties with the Enfield story but it does look like a 70s house and it reminds me how creepy 70s houses were, all dark and dim and power cuts and TV going off at midnight
Oh, that was weird - when my Alexa alarm went off this morning, instead of playing the usual alarm sound, it started playing Numb by Linkin Park. A song I have never played on my Alexa. I don’t even have songs set up as my alarm. Disturbing to hear Alexa say ‘tired of being what you want me to be’
January 29, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Oh, that was weird - when my Alexa alarm went off this morning, instead of playing the usual alarm sound, it started playing Numb by Linkin Park. A song I have never played on my Alexa. I don’t even have songs set up as my alarm. Disturbing to hear Alexa say ‘tired of being what you want me to be’
What do you mean Teletubbies was filmed near where Charles Walton was murdered?!
January 26, 2026 at 1:16 PM
What do you mean Teletubbies was filmed near where Charles Walton was murdered?!
Why the FUCK is it still January?
January 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Why the FUCK is it still January?
Reading The Enchanted April and struck by how Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot are longing not just for sunshine but secretly longing to get away from being good to other people and living for other people and want to snatch some happiness for themselves
January 24, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Reading The Enchanted April and struck by how Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot are longing not just for sunshine but secretly longing to get away from being good to other people and living for other people and want to snatch some happiness for themselves
Note to all ghost books - if you’re going to quote Derek Acorah as a source I’m going to assume everything that follows is complete bollocks
January 24, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Note to all ghost books - if you’re going to quote Derek Acorah as a source I’m going to assume everything that follows is complete bollocks
Reposted by Emma Butler
GOOD MORNING WITHERED HILL STILL 99p/$1.99 ON KINDLE IT’S A REALLY GREAT BOOK, SOME SAY THE GREATEST BOOK, THE GREATEST FOLK HORROR BOOK, WRITTEN BY A GREAT GUY THAT’S WHAT SOME PEOPLE SAY LET’S MAKE HORROR FOLK AGAIN, NO TARIFFS ON THIS BOOK #MAKEHORRORFOLKAGAIN
www.amazon.co.uk/Withered-Hil...
www.amazon.co.uk/Withered-Hil...
Withered Hill: A dark and unsettling British folk horror novel
Withered Hill: A dark and unsettling British folk horror novel eBook : Barnett, David: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
January 24, 2026 at 9:36 AM
GOOD MORNING WITHERED HILL STILL 99p/$1.99 ON KINDLE IT’S A REALLY GREAT BOOK, SOME SAY THE GREATEST BOOK, THE GREATEST FOLK HORROR BOOK, WRITTEN BY A GREAT GUY THAT’S WHAT SOME PEOPLE SAY LET’S MAKE HORROR FOLK AGAIN, NO TARIFFS ON THIS BOOK #MAKEHORRORFOLKAGAIN
www.amazon.co.uk/Withered-Hil...
www.amazon.co.uk/Withered-Hil...
Right. I am settled into the coffee shop with a large black coffee, a notebook to make random spontaneous notes for the stories I’m trying to write, and The Black Monk of Pontefract (book, not spirit. I hope) Let the morning begin.
January 24, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Right. I am settled into the coffee shop with a large black coffee, a notebook to make random spontaneous notes for the stories I’m trying to write, and The Black Monk of Pontefract (book, not spirit. I hope) Let the morning begin.
It’s always a good moment in any drama when Michael Emerson shows up
January 22, 2026 at 7:36 PM
It’s always a good moment in any drama when Michael Emerson shows up
Ooh, new Fortean Times has hit the Libby app (did you know you can read magazines through your library Libby app? Cos you can! I use it a lot rather than buy magazines and then have them lying around the house and never reading them)
January 22, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Ooh, new Fortean Times has hit the Libby app (did you know you can read magazines through your library Libby app? Cos you can! I use it a lot rather than buy magazines and then have them lying around the house and never reading them)
Ok, now we need to find some Anglo-Saxon sheet music….
Amazing to hear the kind of music they heard - and it’s still the same principle for wind instruments now #DiggingForBritain
Amazing to hear the kind of music they heard - and it’s still the same principle for wind instruments now #DiggingForBritain
January 21, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Ok, now we need to find some Anglo-Saxon sheet music….
Amazing to hear the kind of music they heard - and it’s still the same principle for wind instruments now #DiggingForBritain
Amazing to hear the kind of music they heard - and it’s still the same principle for wind instruments now #DiggingForBritain
That box is gorgeous, and I can’t believe it’s not only still whole but could still be opened.
(Although slightly worried that opening it would unleash a great evil in the world although I still would….) #DiggingForBritain
(Although slightly worried that opening it would unleash a great evil in the world although I still would….) #DiggingForBritain
January 21, 2026 at 9:40 PM
That box is gorgeous, and I can’t believe it’s not only still whole but could still be opened.
(Although slightly worried that opening it would unleash a great evil in the world although I still would….) #DiggingForBritain
(Although slightly worried that opening it would unleash a great evil in the world although I still would….) #DiggingForBritain
the delicate balancing act of trying to pick a bus that will neither get me there late or very early - dare i risk one that is supposed to arrive just before I'm supposed to get there? what is the chance of those irritating 'held at this bus stop to close up gaps in service' stops slowing me down?
January 21, 2026 at 7:28 PM
the delicate balancing act of trying to pick a bus that will neither get me there late or very early - dare i risk one that is supposed to arrive just before I'm supposed to get there? what is the chance of those irritating 'held at this bus stop to close up gaps in service' stops slowing me down?
I’ve mentioned before how I once lived in a flat that I only realised after I left was haunted..
Just remembered - there was an attic and I used to hear something running up and down it. I always said it’s squirrels, just squirrels, really heavy squirrels.
Then I had the attic inspected…
Just remembered - there was an attic and I used to hear something running up and down it. I always said it’s squirrels, just squirrels, really heavy squirrels.
Then I had the attic inspected…
January 21, 2026 at 2:47 PM
I’ve mentioned before how I once lived in a flat that I only realised after I left was haunted..
Just remembered - there was an attic and I used to hear something running up and down it. I always said it’s squirrels, just squirrels, really heavy squirrels.
Then I had the attic inspected…
Just remembered - there was an attic and I used to hear something running up and down it. I always said it’s squirrels, just squirrels, really heavy squirrels.
Then I had the attic inspected…
Damn damn damn - he always says ‘we’re not going to do the thing’ right before he does the thing.
January 21, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Damn damn damn - he always says ‘we’re not going to do the thing’ right before he does the thing.
Reposted by Emma Butler
wow just woke up from a nap, i guess everyone else on Air Force One realized we aren't going to the right place
January 21, 2026 at 5:11 AM
wow just woke up from a nap, i guess everyone else on Air Force One realized we aren't going to the right place
If you’re looking for a book to escape this winter and all this *waves hand at news* can I recommend Enchanted April - a book from the 1920s where four women, strangers to each other, decide to escape a rainy London April and go to Italy together. It really is beautiful and breathtaking
January 21, 2026 at 8:01 AM
If you’re looking for a book to escape this winter and all this *waves hand at news* can I recommend Enchanted April - a book from the 1920s where four women, strangers to each other, decide to escape a rainy London April and go to Italy together. It really is beautiful and breathtaking
Anyone want a pretty picture? This is from the garden at Hampton Court Palace (that’s a man built from wicker, he’s not a gardener that was turned to wicker by a witch or anything)
January 20, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Anyone want a pretty picture? This is from the garden at Hampton Court Palace (that’s a man built from wicker, he’s not a gardener that was turned to wicker by a witch or anything)
All the adverts in the gay hockey show are for gambling or sport and I think they may have misunderstood the audience for this show
January 19, 2026 at 9:47 PM
All the adverts in the gay hockey show are for gambling or sport and I think they may have misunderstood the audience for this show
Gosh, this is such a FUN timeline to be living in! (Imagine a very fixed grin as I say this. Teeth clenched so hard they’re crumbling)
January 19, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Gosh, this is such a FUN timeline to be living in! (Imagine a very fixed grin as I say this. Teeth clenched so hard they’re crumbling)
So my food intolerance test came back with soya, sodding soya that I have been drinking gallons of lately! (And also almond and cows milk so it’s rice milk for my smoothies now)
January 19, 2026 at 1:02 PM
So my food intolerance test came back with soya, sodding soya that I have been drinking gallons of lately! (And also almond and cows milk so it’s rice milk for my smoothies now)
Anyway, random thought it I’d like to recommend a book The Fortnight in September by RC Sheriff. It’s about a very ordinary suburban family, in the 30s, taking their animal seaside holiday. Which doesn’t make it sound compelling but it’s. A book to disappear into it and to get caught up in
January 19, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Anyway, random thought it I’d like to recommend a book The Fortnight in September by RC Sheriff. It’s about a very ordinary suburban family, in the 30s, taking their animal seaside holiday. Which doesn’t make it sound compelling but it’s. A book to disappear into it and to get caught up in
Well I have often wondered what living in UK during 1939 felt like…
January 19, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Well I have often wondered what living in UK during 1939 felt like…
I knew it! I knew that was what was wrong #CallTheMidwife
January 18, 2026 at 8:47 PM
I knew it! I knew that was what was wrong #CallTheMidwife
#CallTheMidwife doing its very best to make everyone very sure they never ever want to give birth there
January 18, 2026 at 8:28 PM
#CallTheMidwife doing its very best to make everyone very sure they never ever want to give birth there