Spooky Von Strange
@vonsvs.bsky.social
Sometime artist, sea witch, cat minion
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My new book, Bring Me Love, is out today! It explores how love magic and love divination appear in mostly European folklore, including a few things you can try for yourself!
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/brin...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/brin...
January 20, 2026 at 11:42 AM
My new book, Bring Me Love, is out today! It explores how love magic and love divination appear in mostly European folklore, including a few things you can try for yourself!
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/brin...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/brin...
It must be terrifying for a lot of people in America at the moment. Unfortunately it is becoming less surprising by the day.
January 8, 2026 at 1:39 PM
It must be terrifying for a lot of people in America at the moment. Unfortunately it is becoming less surprising by the day.
Some new ones to add to my usual watch list 🥰
In the bleak Midwinter: @andy-paciorek.bsky.social's selection of films from around the world to watch in the dark nights that are very long, when you sit by your great log fires and wish to see a tale...
folkhorrorrevival.com/2020/12/16/i...
folkhorrorrevival.com/2020/12/16/i...
In the bleak Midwinter: Films for Winter Nights
Want to avoid Mrs Brown’s Boys, The Queen’s Speech and whatever else TV throws at us this Christmastide? Of course there’s the great Ghost Stories for Christmas drama series and r…
folkhorrorrevival.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Some new ones to add to my usual watch list 🥰
In case you missed this last year take a look at the glorious but often dangerous Victorian christmas decorations www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DAy...
How to Decorate for a Victorian Christmas - Fire, Glitter, and Goblins
YouTube video by Nicole Rudolph
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November 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
In case you missed this last year take a look at the glorious but often dangerous Victorian christmas decorations www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DAy...
Looking forward to this on Friday www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
Late at Tate Britain | Tate Britain
A free after hours event produced by young people on the first Friday of the month with music, workshops, performances, food and drink, and talks.
www.tate.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Looking forward to this on Friday www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
Excited to be going to Nottingham in a few weeks, mostly because I will be going to see the Kate MccGwire exhibition www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibition/k...
Kate MccGwire
Explore the captivating Kate MccGwire Quiver Exhibition in Nottingham and discover these unique sculptures created from feathers.
www.lakesidearts.org.uk
October 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Excited to be going to Nottingham in a few weeks, mostly because I will be going to see the Kate MccGwire exhibition www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibition/k...
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Buy ANY book from Bookshop.org today, September 24, and you could win a £250 digital gift card! Every sale supports independent bookshops and if you buy from the Fabulous Folklore Bookshop, you help support the Fabulous Folklore podcast too uk.bookshop.org/shop/fabulou...
September 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Buy ANY book from Bookshop.org today, September 24, and you could win a £250 digital gift card! Every sale supports independent bookshops and if you buy from the Fabulous Folklore Bookshop, you help support the Fabulous Folklore podcast too uk.bookshop.org/shop/fabulou...
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It's a mast year for oak trees.
September 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It's a mast year for oak trees.
September 19, 2025 at 5:08 AM
If you like alternative photography and are in London in the next 2 weeks I really recommend going to see Nadezda Nikolova’s work at HackleBury Fine Art (joint show). Mix of wet collodion process and photograms to explore landscape. It needs to be seen in real life to really be appreciated
September 13, 2025 at 6:05 AM
If you like alternative photography and are in London in the next 2 weeks I really recommend going to see Nadezda Nikolova’s work at HackleBury Fine Art (joint show). Mix of wet collodion process and photograms to explore landscape. It needs to be seen in real life to really be appreciated
Loving this book but it’s going to take me a vey long time to read as I look up all the songs as I go 😊 #murderballads www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Murder...
Murder Ballads
In this unique, illustrated collection, Literary Witches co-creator Katy Horan unearths the true and fictional stories behind twenty traditional mu...
www.simonandschuster.co.uk
August 25, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Loving this book but it’s going to take me a vey long time to read as I look up all the songs as I go 😊 #murderballads www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Murder...
Nadezda Nikolova vimeo.com/633606751?fl...
Nadezda Nikolova-Kratzer & Sacha Craddock - In Conversation
In conversation hosted by The Center for Photographic Art, Carmel between Nadezda Nikolova-Kratzer and the independent art critic, writer & curator, Sacha Craddock. The…
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August 21, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Nadezda Nikolova vimeo.com/633606751?fl...
Discovering inspirational artists is a wonderful activity www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4H1...
Alison Rossiter gives new life to old photographic paper
YouTube video by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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August 21, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Discovering inspirational artists is a wonderful activity www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4H1...
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I love being a mentor for this. If you are a #disabled or #ChronicallyIll writer then please do apply.
#adci #publishing #writing
#adci #publishing #writing
Our Breakthrough Mentoring Programme for Disabled Writers is open for applications!
Four talented writers will be awarded nine months of mentoring from a published author-mentor and a tutorial with a literary agent.
Apply by 2 Nov: www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/break...
Four talented writers will be awarded nine months of mentoring from a published author-mentor and a tutorial with a literary agent.
Apply by 2 Nov: www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/break...
Breakthrough Mentoring Programme for Disabled Writers
Four talented disabled writers will receive nine months of mentoring from a published author, plus a tutorial with a literary agent.
www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk
August 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I love being a mentor for this. If you are a #disabled or #ChronicallyIll writer then please do apply.
#adci #publishing #writing
#adci #publishing #writing
Love being able to have access to creative workshops online (prefer in person ones but they often aren’t possible to attend). Really excited to begin this one www.fibreartstaketwo.com/courses/debb...
Sensing Place - a material response with Debbie Lyddon
Sensing Place - a material response with Debbie Lyddon. See, hear and feel your mixed media art in a whole new way. | Fibre Arts Take Two online art course
www.fibreartstaketwo.com
August 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Love being able to have access to creative workshops online (prefer in person ones but they often aren’t possible to attend). Really excited to begin this one www.fibreartstaketwo.com/courses/debb...
This looks beautiful and OST by Danny Elfman #dracula youtu.be/sEGIBj8p27g?...
DRACULA Official Trailer (2025) Christoph Waltz
YouTube video by FilmSelect
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August 1, 2025 at 10:52 AM
This looks beautiful and OST by Danny Elfman #dracula youtu.be/sEGIBj8p27g?...
This is going to be good www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibition/k...
Kate MccGwire
Explore the captivating Kate MccGwire Quiver Exhibition in Nottingham and discover these unique sculptures created from feathers.
www.lakesidearts.org.uk
July 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is going to be good www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibition/k...
Reading last months #forteantimes led me to watching this wonderful #cryptozoology series with a young David Attenborough youtu.be/CU7ZZ_nHxg4
Fabulous Animals - S01E01 - Here Be Monsters (Nov 14th, 1975) - Presented by David Attenborough
YouTube video by SkinnyV The Basement Archivist
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June 13, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Reading last months #forteantimes led me to watching this wonderful #cryptozoology series with a young David Attenborough youtu.be/CU7ZZ_nHxg4
I’m not enjoying getting old. Just discovered I have frozen shoulder/adhesive capsulitis and it will take months to recover so no paddle boarding for the foreseeable. I need a waaahmbulance 🚑 😢
May 29, 2025 at 5:56 AM
I’m not enjoying getting old. Just discovered I have frozen shoulder/adhesive capsulitis and it will take months to recover so no paddle boarding for the foreseeable. I need a waaahmbulance 🚑 😢
My senile elderly cat has now decided that 3-4am is the time I need to be up so she can sleep on the sofa.
a cat is petting a woman while she sleeps on a bed and the cat is saying wakey wakey .
ALT: a cat is petting a woman while she sleeps on a bed and the cat is saying wakey wakey .
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May 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
My senile elderly cat has now decided that 3-4am is the time I need to be up so she can sleep on the sofa.
The swifts have returned 😍
May 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The swifts have returned 😍
So teeny 😍
The first posy in a thimble I made, to lift my mood during the pandemic. The flowers are all real.
When humans look at plants (even on a screen as here) we recover from stress 60% more quickly & the relaxation response is triggered in our brains.
Zoom in if you're strung out🌿
When humans look at plants (even on a screen as here) we recover from stress 60% more quickly & the relaxation response is triggered in our brains.
Zoom in if you're strung out🌿
April 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
So teeny 😍
Taking a cheeky afternoon off for some culture. Followed by a screening of Quay Bros latest film at BFI IMAX later www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/quayb...
DORMITORIUM | THE FILM DÉCORS OF THE QUAY BROTHERS
DORMITORIUM | THE FILM DÉCORS OF THE QUAY BROTHERS
www.swedenborg.org.uk
March 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Taking a cheeky afternoon off for some culture. Followed by a screening of Quay Bros latest film at BFI IMAX later www.swedenborg.org.uk/events/quayb...