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C.W. Reeve
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Author of weird tales & folk horror, co-host of #WyrdWednesday. Killing me won't bring back your apples (He/Him) 👻

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A drabble from me for Halloween, on the theme of '13'! This is my first swing at one of these & I'm really happy with how it came out. Thanks to @ratbaglit.bsky.social for publishing it. Them rats are good folk!

#Horror #Drabble #Horrorwriting
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Minos was a king of Crete, and the son of Zeus and Europa. Every nine years, he made his defeated rival, King Aegeus, pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to his labyrinth, to be eaten by the fearsome Minotaur.

#WyrdWednesday
🎨 by William Blake, circa 1824
A bearded king sits upon a throne, while various subjects cower before him.
November 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Minos was a king of Crete, and the son of Zeus and Europa. Every nine years, he made his defeated rival, King Aegeus, pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to his labyrinth, to be eaten by the fearsome Minotaur.

#WyrdWednesday
🎨 by William Blake, circa 1824
A bearded king sits upon a throne, while various subjects cower before him.
November 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Good morning, Wyrdlings!

@cwreeve.bsky.social here, kicking off this week's delightfully regal #WyrdWednesday! The theme - “Once and Future Kings & Queens – from Drag to Domesday Book.”

Show me your wyrd! 👑👻
a man with a crown on his head is standing next to a skeleton
ALT: a man with a crown on his head is standing next to a skeleton
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November 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Wyrdlings! With the birthday of certain royal personages upcoming, we give you:

“Once and Future Kings & Queens – from Drag to Domesday Book”

for our #WyrdWednesday topic! Indulge the court of the wyrd & wynderful with your tales of monstrous apes, overlarge beds & legendary leaders! 👑
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Time to stock up on snowy, dark reads! 🩷

What happened to Jade Hunter?

When Jade goes missing in the Alaskan wilderness, everyone is shocked. She was scheduled to speak at an academic symposium but never turned up. What was Jade really doing in Alaska? 🐻🐾

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November 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Today's story is "The Paw Does Not Hesitate" by "Patrick G. Roland.
#ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #drabble #drabbles #triskaidekaphobia

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November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world." Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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So, the blood candles are back...
A white candle in a bottle. The candle is dripping red wax.
November 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Some pics from Nottingham Justice Museum's Dead Man Walking night (which was much fun but absolutely terrifying, btw)

#photography #justicemuseum #Nottingham
A brick archway over a gated entrance. A staircase lit by candlelight
November 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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I dunno about you but I'm pretty fucking excited for Osgood Perkins' latest dark trip...

#Horrorsky #Filmsky #MutantFam

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KEEPER (2025) Official Trailer #3 (HD) Osgood Perkins, Tatiana Maslany, Rossif Sutherland
YouTube video by UHM - Upcoming Horror Movies
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November 9, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Nottingham students fight 'insane' cull of courses
Traitors composer Sam Watts is among those against plans to cut University of Nottingham courses.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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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
Newstead Abbey, a ground old house set in the middle of a country park, photographed in 1975. Lord Byron's dog, a black and white chap in portrait form.
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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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
Newstead Abbey, a ground old house set in the middle of a country park, photographed in 1975. Lord Byron's dog, a black and white chap in portrait form.
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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"Ten minutes more of suspense. Then, again, loud, sudden, violent, the bell rang! We burst into the room. There he was, standing in the middle of the floor, rigid, petrified. He groaned in in a terrible, husky voice, 'Oh my God, I have seen it!' and fell down dead."
- Rhoda Broughton
#PhantomsFriday
A sketch of the tall Georgian terraced house at 50 Berkeley Square, London.
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Few new brown mushrooms in the park this morning.

#FungiFriday 🍄
four small spherical mushrooms growing on a log. cream / brown with spiky surface small orangey brown mushrooms growing amongst woodchips single white mushroom growing against a wall. shaggy parasol mush still with a rounded head. large. dramatic. good find!
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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The famous 'Girl in The Flames' photo from 1995, showing Wem Town Hall on fire and a mysterious little girl stood in the blaze, seemingly unbothered.

The girl in question was actually lifted from a postcard from 1922.

#WyrdWednesday
A black and white photograph showing a little girl stood in a burning building, completely unfazed by the flames.
November 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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"Taking the fear out", an old Cypriot ritual:

* A pan face-down over a fire.
* Think of what you fear, the ritualist's hand on your head.
* Two caged birds close by.
* Water poured onto the pan so it hisses.
* Leap over that and the fire.
* The birds will absorb your fear.

#WyrdWednesday
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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'Darkness' by Lord Byron depicts the world ending as the Sun dies out. The humankind burns fires in desperate fight against the dark, only to accelerate the destruction.

Assumably written in Villa Diodati during 'The Year Without a Summer' 1816.

#WyrdWednesday #poetry #books #booksky #gothic
The first half of Byron’s poem 'Darkness'. I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; Morn came and went—and came, and brought no day, And men forgot their passions in the dread Of this their desolation; and all hearts Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light: And they did live by watchfires—and the thrones, The palaces of crowned kings—the huts, The habitations of all things which dwell, Were burnt for beacons; cities were consum'd, And men were gather'd round their blazing homes To look once more into each other's face; Happy were those who dwelt within the eye Of the volcanos, and their mountain-torch: A fearful hope was all the world contain'd; Forests were set on fire—but hour by hour They fell and faded—and the crackling trunks Extinguish'd with a crash—and all was black.
November 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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The famous 'Girl in The Flames' photo from 1995, showing Wem Town Hall on fire and a mysterious little girl stood in the blaze, seemingly unbothered.

The girl in question was actually lifted from a postcard from 1922.

#WyrdWednesday
A black and white photograph showing a little girl stood in a burning building, completely unfazed by the flames.
November 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Happy November 5th - a.k.a. Bonfire Night! 🖤

Marked with fires and fireworks for over 400 years, on this day in 1605 Guido Fawkes was arrested attempting to blow up the Houses of Parliament - though he was but one member of the broader Catholic conspiracy...

#WyrdWednesday
November 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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In the 16th and 17th centuries (and perhaps the 18th C) a weird 'Fiery Exhalation' would sometimes rise from the sea at Harlech. In 1692, it 'set Fire to the Ricks of Hay, Corn & Barns [...] & to infect the Grass, but it was not mischievous to Men though they were in the midst of it".
#WyrdWednesday
Harlech Castle, on the North Wales coast, painted by John parker in 1823. Scanned from an old post card.
November 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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'Gigantis the Fire Monster' (Warner Bros., 1959), also known as 'Godzilla Raids Again'. After the great success of 'Gojira' (1954), released in the United States as 'Godzilla, King of the Monsters', Toho Studios immediately set about producing this sequel.
#WyrdWednesday #Film
It's going to be a hot month, Gigantis the Fire Monster arrives in town.
November 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Good morning, wyrdlings 👻

@cwreeve.bsky.social here, ready to get the fire started for this week's #WyrdWednesday topic - “Burn, Baby, Burn!”

BRING ON THE WYRD!! 🔥🔥
a cartoon character holding a torch with the letter o on its face
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November 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Creepy Hotel Corridors, Part 7 in an occasional series.

This one is from a hostel in New York that I stayed at for a week or so, which was run by nuns. I didn't see a single nun while I was there.
November 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM