Some ghostly trees in Basingwerk Abbey this morning.

Ep-11 Winter Ghosts - journeys with Haunted States (@repeaterbooks.bsky.social, 2024 ) across America’s landscapes and delves into some recent #ghost story anthologies for the long winter nights. Ghosts of #Christmas Past and The #Haunting Season.
Have a listen; it’s free. 😃
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Two landmarks near me: Basingwerk Abbey, founded c.1132, and Garreg Pharos, a Roman navigation marker restored in 1897 for Queen Victoria's Jubilee. I’ve explored these places since childhood. Consciously and subconsciously, such places shape my stories and themes. Which places shape yours?

Ghostly Chickens

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In this festive episode of Just Ghosts, we uncover the quirky and chilling tradition of Christmas Ghost Stories: from Royal Hauntings to Phantom Chickens, and a deep dive into Ramsey Campbell's excellent haunting tale: 'The Christmas Present'
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currently reading Haunted States - An American Gothic Guidebook by Miranda Corcoran - and I'm thoroughly enjoying it, so much so, that it'll be one of the featured books on the December episode of the Bird's EyeView of Books podcast
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Sun's shining across the border sands.

The latest episode of the Just GHOSTs podcast looks at November's, haunted, fog-laden Roads - although gazing through the window last night it was hard to see any fog amid all the snow.
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The Dee Estuary is only a stone's throw away. In Ep -5 of the Bird's EyeView of Books podcast, I looked at how it has influenced local writers: Border Tales: Flintshire's Literary Mosaic mathbird.co.uk#podcast

a few ghostly clouds on the Welsh horizon today... which reminds me the latest episode of the Just Ghosts podcast is available: November's Phantom Roads - looking at some of the UK's most haunted roads justghosts.co.uk

The Bird's EyeView of Books podcast celebrates and discusses books, stories, writing and writers. Happy to consider books and story collections for review/feature on the podcast. Forthcoming episodes
- noir /crime story collections
- Winter ghosts (ghosts, supernatural novels or story collections)

Do you enjoy the ghost stories of M R James? In Ep 3 of the Bird's Eyeview of Books podcast, I delved into what made a ghost story, Jamesian, and explored some modern proponents of the Jamesian tale.

I love reading ghost story collections as the winter nights approach, and will delve into these delights up to and beyond the Winter Solstice and feature a few of the stories in forthcoming podcast episodes.

Back in March Ep- 6 of the Bird's Eyeview of Books podcast looked at two of Flintshire's finest literary sons, Emlyn Williams and Emyr Humphreys, exploring the themes that define their literary legacy and how Flintshire's influenced their storytelling mathbird.co.uk#podcast

Noir Britannia: Unravelling the 70s through UK Crime Fiction parts 1 - 3 available on the Bird's EyeView of Books podcast wherever you get your podcasts mathbird.co.uk#podcast