The Ghost Monk
@theghostmonk.bsky.social
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 #PhantomsFriday
November 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Y Gop in #Flintshire, the second-largest prehistoric mound in Europe. Like its much bigger cousin Silbury Hill, it contains no burials but unlike Silbury it may mark their location: in a cave below the mound #Neolithic and Bronze Age skeletons were found, showing 1000s of years of use.
#TombTuesday
#TombTuesday
November 11, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Y Gop in #Flintshire, the second-largest prehistoric mound in Europe. Like its much bigger cousin Silbury Hill, it contains no burials but unlike Silbury it may mark their location: in a cave below the mound #Neolithic and Bronze Age skeletons were found, showing 1000s of years of use.
#TombTuesday
#TombTuesday
A headless ghost. Where? you ask yourself. There - right in the background way behind the people having a nice chat. This 18th engraver had no idea of drama, did he?
#ghost #ghosts #haunting #18thCentury #engravings
#ghost #ghosts #haunting #18thCentury #engravings
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A headless ghost. Where? you ask yourself. There - right in the background way behind the people having a nice chat. This 18th engraver had no idea of drama, did he?
#ghost #ghosts #haunting #18thCentury #engravings
#ghost #ghosts #haunting #18thCentury #engravings
And since my last post was about a white stag, here is a stunning image called 'The Deer Of King Solomon' by Agostino Arrivabene.
#fantasyart #ItalianArt #ModernArt #contemporary #artsky #stag #symbolism #cosmic
#fantasyart #ItalianArt #ModernArt #contemporary #artsky #stag #symbolism #cosmic
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
And since my last post was about a white stag, here is a stunning image called 'The Deer Of King Solomon' by Agostino Arrivabene.
#fantasyart #ItalianArt #ModernArt #contemporary #artsky #stag #symbolism #cosmic
#fantasyart #ItalianArt #ModernArt #contemporary #artsky #stag #symbolism #cosmic
The Church Of The Stag - Llangar - stands in an isolated spot at the confluence of the rivers Dee and Alwen in North #Wales. #Legend has it that the site was chosen by a dream shared by the founders to build it where they saw a white stag. A medieval mural of the animal can be seen within.
#folklore
#folklore
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
My copy of the 1938 Penguin Books edition of 'The Centaur' by Algernon Blackwood. I'm rather pleased to own a 1930s Penguin, especially one by a favourite author.
#BookChatWeekly #PenguinBooks #AlgernonBlackwood #paperbacks #fantasyfiction
#BookChatWeekly #PenguinBooks #AlgernonBlackwood #paperbacks #fantasyfiction
November 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
My copy of the 1938 Penguin Books edition of 'The Centaur' by Algernon Blackwood. I'm rather pleased to own a 1930s Penguin, especially one by a favourite author.
#BookChatWeekly #PenguinBooks #AlgernonBlackwood #paperbacks #fantasyfiction
#BookChatWeekly #PenguinBooks #AlgernonBlackwood #paperbacks #fantasyfiction
Avebury just after dawn, September 2006.
#StandingStoneSunday #standingstone #Neolithic #Avebury #Wiltshire
#StandingStoneSunday #standingstone #Neolithic #Avebury #Wiltshire
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Avebury just after dawn, September 2006.
#StandingStoneSunday #standingstone #Neolithic #Avebury #Wiltshire
#StandingStoneSunday #standingstone #Neolithic #Avebury #Wiltshire
These striking First World War commemorative windows can be found in the #Victorian Christ Church, Rossett, on the #Wrexham and #Cheshire border. The glass was designed by A J Davies in 1925. I like the fact that they pay tribute to the healers as well as to the fighters.
#StainedGlassSunday
#StainedGlassSunday
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
These striking First World War commemorative windows can be found in the #Victorian Christ Church, Rossett, on the #Wrexham and #Cheshire border. The glass was designed by A J Davies in 1925. I like the fact that they pay tribute to the healers as well as to the fighters.
#StainedGlassSunday
#StainedGlassSunday
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#writingcommunity #humorsky #writinghumor #raven #poe #readingcommunity #jokes #funny #humor #writesky #passiveaggressive #art #artists #life #lifehumor
November 3, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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The Green Man misericord at Cartmel Priory
November 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The Green Man misericord at Cartmel Priory
"Even as Vikings of old their slaughtered leader
Upon their shoulders, now bear they on
All that remains of Boy, my friend, their leader
An officer who died for them under the dawn."
- Robert Nichols, 'The Burial At Flanders', 1916
#BookWormSat #Remembrance
Upon their shoulders, now bear they on
All that remains of Boy, my friend, their leader
An officer who died for them under the dawn."
- Robert Nichols, 'The Burial At Flanders', 1916
#BookWormSat #Remembrance
November 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
"Even as Vikings of old their slaughtered leader
Upon their shoulders, now bear they on
All that remains of Boy, my friend, their leader
An officer who died for them under the dawn."
- Robert Nichols, 'The Burial At Flanders', 1916
#BookWormSat #Remembrance
Upon their shoulders, now bear they on
All that remains of Boy, my friend, their leader
An officer who died for them under the dawn."
- Robert Nichols, 'The Burial At Flanders', 1916
#BookWormSat #Remembrance
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'But sorrow and silence,
Are the wood's threnody,
The silence for you
and the sorrow for me.'
-Francis Ledwidge
🎨Léon Spilliaert
#BookWormSat
Are the wood's threnody,
The silence for you
and the sorrow for me.'
-Francis Ledwidge
🎨Léon Spilliaert
#BookWormSat
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
'But sorrow and silence,
Are the wood's threnody,
The silence for you
and the sorrow for me.'
-Francis Ledwidge
🎨Léon Spilliaert
#BookWormSat
Are the wood's threnody,
The silence for you
and the sorrow for me.'
-Francis Ledwidge
🎨Léon Spilliaert
#BookWormSat
The ghosts are carousing delightedly at another rich and varied #PhantomsFriday. Thank you to everyone for your contributions. It's goodnight from me. And it's goodnight from him (the one sitting beside me that you cannot see).
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The ghosts are carousing delightedly at another rich and varied #PhantomsFriday. Thank you to everyone for your contributions. It's goodnight from me. And it's goodnight from him (the one sitting beside me that you cannot see).
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#PhantomsFriday Fact of the Day
It’s the ghostly part of the year… 16% of people in England today say that they have had an extraordinary experience of some kind, including witnessing the presence of a ghost. Fascinatingly, almost one in five of those people have not shared that experience with anyone, not even family or friends.
November 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
#PhantomsFriday Fact of the Day
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One of my favourite ghost story books, including tales of headless phantoms, ghostly footsteps and screaming skulls. It also has a wonderfully creepy illustration in the introduction 👻 : Ghosts of Derbyshire, published in the 1970s. #phantomsfriday
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
One of my favourite ghost story books, including tales of headless phantoms, ghostly footsteps and screaming skulls. It also has a wonderfully creepy illustration in the introduction 👻 : Ghosts of Derbyshire, published in the 1970s. #phantomsfriday
I have to say, the Wordsworth imprint is to be congratulated for the series of single author (mainly) weird fiction anthologies they published. Introduced me to a lot of good stuff. Am I missing any?
#PhantomsFriday #BookChatWeekly
#PhantomsFriday #BookChatWeekly
November 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I have to say, the Wordsworth imprint is to be congratulated for the series of single author (mainly) weird fiction anthologies they published. Introduced me to a lot of good stuff. Am I missing any?
#PhantomsFriday #BookChatWeekly
#PhantomsFriday #BookChatWeekly
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""Mr. Stainton pursued as fast as he could follow. Up the easy steps he ran at the top of his speed; but, fast as he went, the child went faster."
Illustration To Mrs. Riddell's Ghost Story, "Walnut-Tree House.""
The Illustrated London News 28.12.1878. #PhantomsFriday #Ghost #GhostStory #1870s
Illustration To Mrs. Riddell's Ghost Story, "Walnut-Tree House.""
The Illustrated London News 28.12.1878. #PhantomsFriday #Ghost #GhostStory #1870s
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
""Mr. Stainton pursued as fast as he could follow. Up the easy steps he ran at the top of his speed; but, fast as he went, the child went faster."
Illustration To Mrs. Riddell's Ghost Story, "Walnut-Tree House.""
The Illustrated London News 28.12.1878. #PhantomsFriday #Ghost #GhostStory #1870s
Illustration To Mrs. Riddell's Ghost Story, "Walnut-Tree House.""
The Illustrated London News 28.12.1878. #PhantomsFriday #Ghost #GhostStory #1870s
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According to some Flemish folktales, ghosts live in trees. In one story, nobody dared to go near a pile of rotten tree trunks because it was said to bite and chew. In another, you could only pass a particular tree if you made the sign of the cross first.
#PhantomsFriday
#PhantomsFriday
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
According to some Flemish folktales, ghosts live in trees. In one story, nobody dared to go near a pile of rotten tree trunks because it was said to bite and chew. In another, you could only pass a particular tree if you made the sign of the cross first.
#PhantomsFriday
#PhantomsFriday
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Before becoming the Reina Sofía National Museum of Contemporary Art in 1990, this building and its location were steeped in legends and gruesome stories. The museum shows all the signs of a haunted building. (1/3)
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday #folklore #horror #ghosts #ParanormalSky #HorrorWriter
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday #folklore #horror #ghosts #ParanormalSky #HorrorWriter
November 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Before becoming the Reina Sofía National Museum of Contemporary Art in 1990, this building and its location were steeped in legends and gruesome stories. The museum shows all the signs of a haunted building. (1/3)
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday #folklore #horror #ghosts #ParanormalSky #HorrorWriter
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday #folklore #horror #ghosts #ParanormalSky #HorrorWriter
There are many examples of prehistoric barrows and tombs being haunted by men without their heads (see list below). Could they be #ghosts or folk memories of sacrifices linked to some ancient head cult? (It's a doubtful theory but all I could think of for #FolkyFriday !)
#PhantomsFriday #FolkHorror
#PhantomsFriday #FolkHorror
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
There are many examples of prehistoric barrows and tombs being haunted by men without their heads (see list below). Could they be #ghosts or folk memories of sacrifices linked to some ancient head cult? (It's a doubtful theory but all I could think of for #FolkyFriday !)
#PhantomsFriday #FolkHorror
#PhantomsFriday #FolkHorror
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#WyrdWednesday The wicked Lady Howard is cursed to ride nightly over Dartmoor from Okehampton Castle to Launceston Castle in a black coach driven by headless coachman & preceded by a fire-breathing black hound. When the coach stops at a house it's a sign that someone living there will soon die.
November 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
#PhantomsFriday repost
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Nottingham's Newstead Abbey is best known as the ancestral home of Lord Byron, but romantic poetry isn’t the only legacy the famous author left behind. It's said the ghost of Byron’s beloved dog, Boatswain, still roams the estate, searching endlessly for his master...
#PhantomsFriday
#PhantomsFriday
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Nottingham's Newstead Abbey is best known as the ancestral home of Lord Byron, but romantic poetry isn’t the only legacy the famous author left behind. It's said the ghost of Byron’s beloved dog, Boatswain, still roams the estate, searching endlessly for his master...
#PhantomsFriday
#PhantomsFriday
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#PhantomsFriday The Thing in the Cemetery
The awful Thing in this story from Van Wert, Ohio suggests Augustus Hare’s unearthly Croglin Grange vampire. "The apparition seemed in the distance like a huge cadaver clothed in a robe of sack-cloth."
thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/2023/10/31/t...
The awful Thing in this story from Van Wert, Ohio suggests Augustus Hare’s unearthly Croglin Grange vampire. "The apparition seemed in the distance like a huge cadaver clothed in a robe of sack-cloth."
thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/2023/10/31/t...
November 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#PhantomsFriday The Thing in the Cemetery
The awful Thing in this story from Van Wert, Ohio suggests Augustus Hare’s unearthly Croglin Grange vampire. "The apparition seemed in the distance like a huge cadaver clothed in a robe of sack-cloth."
thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/2023/10/31/t...
The awful Thing in this story from Van Wert, Ohio suggests Augustus Hare’s unearthly Croglin Grange vampire. "The apparition seemed in the distance like a huge cadaver clothed in a robe of sack-cloth."
thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/2023/10/31/t...
In 1909 The Strand Magazine ran an article, 'Crime And The Crystal', seriously stated that apparitions conjured up in crystal balls could solve crimes. This vision allegedly proved that the death of a Miss Mooney was not suicide but that she had been deliberately thrown off a train.
#PhantomsFriday
#PhantomsFriday
November 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
In 1909 The Strand Magazine ran an article, 'Crime And The Crystal', seriously stated that apparitions conjured up in crystal balls could solve crimes. This vision allegedly proved that the death of a Miss Mooney was not suicide but that she had been deliberately thrown off a train.
#PhantomsFriday
#PhantomsFriday