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Joe Phelan
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All about art, music and gothic literature. Things that go bump in the night.
Rambles around Dublin and beyond.
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There is no ghosting hour. Every segment of the clock holds phantoms and every segment may leak them. Sunlight is no charm against them, nor does twilight guarantee their loosing. The shades of a place may walk beside us at any time. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Orban sick as a parrott. What a few days it's been for Irish football. Red cards, tears and a penalty. Wow. From being well and truly buried after three games to being in the World Cup playoffs.
November 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Elon Musk gets roasted on his own platform by Joyce Carol Oates.
Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk, wh…
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November 11, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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"He didn’t tell me about the cemetery. Three-bedroom, two baths, Craftsman-style, yes. Quarter acre."
Good Bones by Rachel Harrison
##horrorwriting

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Good Bones
I was unpacking dishes when it came back to me. It was so vivid in my mind and it stunned me so much that I lost my grip and dropped a plate.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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The illustrations of French artist André Maire.
November 8, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Today on the blog-- Becky's Nightstand Reads via @spl.org Blog and my appearance there tonight with @sadiehartmann.bsky.social:

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Becky's Nightstand Reads via the Seattle Public Library Blog
Tomorrow I am appearing at the Seattle Public Library in conversations with Sadie Hartmann, and in conjunction with the Seattle Chapter of H...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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All Souls' Day - Jakub Schikaneder
November 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Here's a tv programme featuring Eddie tell frightening strories concerning Halloween. From 1986.
#Halloween #OicheShamhna
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Oíche Shamhna (November Eve / Halloween) Irish Story - Eddie Lenihan, 1986
YouTube video by CR's Video Vaults
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October 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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For the night thats in it. Storyteller Eddie Lenihan talks about the customs and beliefs surrounding Halloween.
#Halloween #OicheShamhna

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Episode 1 : Halloween
YouTube video by Tell Me A Story Podcast with Eddie Lenihan
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October 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Ghost Town here performed by Lankum.
A wonderful interpretation of The Specials classic.
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Lankum - Ghost Town (Official Video)
YouTube video by LankumDublin
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October 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Thanks to @talkscaredpod.bsky.social and @swanriverpress.bsky.social I'm set up for the season.
#horrorwriting
October 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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‘It’s insanely sinister’: horror writers on the scariest stories they’ve ever read
‘It’s insanely sinister’: horror writers on the scariest stories they’ve ever read
Bloodthirsty ghosts, sadistic supercomputers, creepy childhood games ... Mariana Enríquez, Paul Tremblay, Daisy Johnson and others on the tales that kept them up at night
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October 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Marina Warner exhibition. The Shelter of Stories. Ways of Telling.

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That’s all folk: Marina Warner, the curator and mythographer creating a space for stories
Shadow puppets, otherworldly masks, taxidermy dioramas, from Greek epics to the Brothers Grimm: a new exhibition celebrates the fantastical tales that have passed through countries and cultures
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October 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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This has been sitting on my bookstore for years. But it's been worth the wait. A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
October 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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A couple embraces after the fall of the Czech government near the Jewish cemetery, Prague, 1989. Brian Harris.
#photography
October 19, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Mestiza Blood by V. Castro. A stunning collection of short stories.
#horrorwriting
October 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Catherine Connolly says she knows how Jacobs get the figs into the fig rolls.
#SmearTheBejaysus
October 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Catherine Connolly once made a phone call in the quiet compartment of the Galway train.
#SmearTheBejaysus
October 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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There's a great interview with @michaelwehunt.bsky.social on @talkscaredpod.bsky.social . Michael discusses his new novel The October Film Hunt. I read Michaels first collection of short stories Green Pastures and can highly recommend it.
#horrorwriting
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255 – Michael Wehunt & What If A Horror Film Broke Into Your House?
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October 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Film Ireland’s 31 Days of Halloween.
Every day Conor Bryce recommends a movie to countdown to October 31st. The focus will be on hidden gems – under-seen or under-appreciated movies that deserve to be seen.
#horror
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Film Ireland’s 31 Days of Halloween
Horror expert Conor Bryce is curating a very special list for Film Ireland this October.
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October 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Vincent Price recites the poem The Harlot's House by Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde - The Harlot's House (Vincent Price)
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October 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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"I am a camera with its shutters open, quite passive, recording, not thinking....Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed."
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood.
First published in 1939, reading this in our current political climate is frightening.
September 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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More on road bowling in Ireland.
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‘Same magic’: ancient Irish road bowling has been revived by TikTok, drones and Bill Murray
Once in decline, the King and Queen of the Roads – the sport’s ‘Wimbledon’ – draws competitors and crowds from across Europe
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September 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Give me the ghost of the glass. Give me the phantom locked in fused silicon dioxide. The spectre who whispers to vandals about stones and freedom. The temporal shade who peers through windows is a friend of mine. – #CJosiffe 1982 #Ghosts
September 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita
September 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM