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
Illustration by Jeffrey Alan for 'The Sword In The Stone'.
#WyrdWednesday #KingArthur #Arthurian #legend
#WyrdWednesday #KingArthur #Arthurian #legend
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Illustration by Jeffrey Alan for 'The Sword In The Stone'.
#WyrdWednesday #KingArthur #Arthurian #legend
#WyrdWednesday #KingArthur #Arthurian #legend
"In those horrible regions in the vicinity of the Thames, where, amid the dark, narrow and filthy lanes and alleys, the Demon of Disease was supposed to have had his territory, Awe, Terror, and Superstition were alone to be found stalking abroad."
Poe - 'King Pest' (illo Harry Clarke)
#WyrdWednesday
Poe - 'King Pest' (illo Harry Clarke)
#WyrdWednesday
November 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
"In those horrible regions in the vicinity of the Thames, where, amid the dark, narrow and filthy lanes and alleys, the Demon of Disease was supposed to have had his territory, Awe, Terror, and Superstition were alone to be found stalking abroad."
Poe - 'King Pest' (illo Harry Clarke)
#WyrdWednesday
Poe - 'King Pest' (illo Harry Clarke)
#WyrdWednesday
November 12, 2025 at 8:57 AM
M P Shiel, of 'The Purple Cloud' fame, was raised in the Caribbean and claimed his father had established the uninhabited island of Redonda as his own nation. This made Shiel 'The King of Redonda'. At his death he willed the title to author John Galsworthy who in his turn... and so on
#WyrdWednesday
#WyrdWednesday
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
M P Shiel, of 'The Purple Cloud' fame, was raised in the Caribbean and claimed his father had established the uninhabited island of Redonda as his own nation. This made Shiel 'The King of Redonda'. At his death he willed the title to author John Galsworthy who in his turn... and so on
#WyrdWednesday
#WyrdWednesday
Eight months ago when I was barely a twinkle in BlueSky's eye, I posted this exquisite painting but it garnered just one 'Like'. Just one (and that was probably my mum). Yet look at all those hashtags! I feel the poor neglected beauty deserves a repost.
#FairyTaleTuesday #fairy #fairies #faerie
#FairyTaleTuesday #fairy #fairies #faerie
'Dancing Fairies' by August Malstrom, a #Swedish artist of the 19th C.
#FairyTaleTuesday #fairies #fairy #Victorian #folklore #artsky #weirdart #FolkloreFolks #MythAndFolklore #SwedishArt
#FairyTaleTuesday #fairies #fairy #Victorian #folklore #artsky #weirdart #FolkloreFolks #MythAndFolklore #SwedishArt
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Eight months ago when I was barely a twinkle in BlueSky's eye, I posted this exquisite painting but it garnered just one 'Like'. Just one (and that was probably my mum). Yet look at all those hashtags! I feel the poor neglected beauty deserves a repost.
#FairyTaleTuesday #fairy #fairies #faerie
#FairyTaleTuesday #fairy #fairies #faerie
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Ventured I to Wistman's Wood
Where grim Odin doth ride out
And drive his devil hounds across
River and the Tors
Seeking willing party for the Hunt
And chase across the moors.
Where grim Odin doth ride out
And drive his devil hounds across
River and the Tors
Seeking willing party for the Hunt
And chase across the moors.
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Ventured I to Wistman's Wood
Where grim Odin doth ride out
And drive his devil hounds across
River and the Tors
Seeking willing party for the Hunt
And chase across the moors.
Where grim Odin doth ride out
And drive his devil hounds across
River and the Tors
Seeking willing party for the Hunt
And chase across the moors.
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