#Ghost Stories

[urlocalshroomdealer]

School Ghosts

With all the school shootings happening (America *cough* *cough*) I’d like to think about teenager ghosts. Nerds that whisper answers to hard questions in algebra and ranting about where their DND campaign left off, ex popular girls giving you relationship and beauty advice and talking abt tea from a year ago. Jock ghosts that terrorize the locker rooms and cheer on their living buddies during games. Ex Delinquents pantsing the living jerks and teaching you self defense. Having your own personal ghost buddy bc you got the same locker they had. Ghosts of teachers who refuse to let down their students again and are hyper vigilant guardians of school grounds.

Just…..school ghosts.

[headedfawn]

what’s done is done

[weirdlookindog]

The Haunted Looking Glass

ghost stories chosen and illustrated by Edward Gorey

Random House, 1959

[longreads]

In today's new Longreads essay, Elizabeth Friend examines the vanishing hitchhiker tale, and one spooky North Carolina story in particular: the tale of a young woman named Lydia. 

There are countless variations on Lydia’s story. Sometimes her dress is a specific color. Sometimes a different family member opens the door. Sometimes the young man drapes his jacket over the girl’s shoulders, only to find it later on her grave.

Elizabeth explores how folklore passed down over generations reveals our anxieties during times of change. The ghost story of Lydia reflects the shifting expectations of American women in the first half of the 20th century. 

Read “The Lessons of Lore” on Longreads.

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

Tales of the Plague (1868/etching) - Juliusz Kossak

[bet-on-me-13]

After moving to Gotham and having to deal with a stressful job, Danny has started taking walks around the city as a way to destress.

Since he knows that he could get mugged, he just becomes intangible and invisible while listening to some loud music on his phone.

Unfortunately for him, his control on his Invisibility keeps slipping when he gets lost in his music, and the people of Gotham keep seeing a semi-translucent ghost man walking around at night aimlessly.

Some thugs think it’s just a meta with invisibility and try to mug him, but pass right through and he disappears completely. This convinces them that he is a ghost, since having both invisibility, and intangibility would be too big a coincidence. Not to mention he never reacts to them whatsoever.

The Bat’s get word that a Ghost has been stalking the streets of Gotham, and he looks scarily like Bruce Wayne from the little they have been able to see from him. Now Batman thinks his dad may have come back as a ghost.

Danny is oblivious to all of this. He just likes his nightly strolls.

[a3kim3a]

[jstor]

It's October 1st, and that means it's officially ghost story season! 👻 ✨

There's nothing better than curling up with a spine-tingling tale while the autumn winds howl outside. If you're like us and love a good eerie read, you're in for a treat—we've found some of the best ghostly legends and creepy folklore just in time for Halloween.

Check out JSTOR Daily’s Halloween Editor's Picks and prepare to get spooked.

Image: R.W. Buss, The Ghost Story! n.d. Chromolithograph. U.S. National Library of Medicine.

[theworldofetgoma-blog]

[lackadaisycats]

Lackadaisy HalloStream! - Saturday

With the help of Lackadaisy voice cast - including Jason Marnocha (Viktor) and Ashe Wagner (Mitzi) - we'll be celebrating the season and featuring haunted art and stories produced by the Lackadaisy Community this year! Join us, won't you?

Saturday, November 2nd

Starts 4pm PT / 7pm ET

Catch it here on YouTube!

[miskatonicaquarium]

Covers from the British Library Tales of the Weird collection

This whole collection (there are lots more than the ones i've shared here) is great for anyone looking for a huge range of weird fiction ranging from the 19th century right up to the present day.

[weirdlookindog]

Steve Crisp (b. 1955) - Ghost Stories

[gt-zel]

Wow it’s been a minute since I drew these guys, they are Pazu and Theo, both of whom belong to @afraidparade if you see this Cas, you’re my idol ^^//

[blintzestein]

[pepsimansthickjuicymeatyschlong]

headcanon: every piece of media with an english localization that tries to pass a very obviously japanese setting off as american all takes place in the same universe and the same country. ace attorney, yokai watch, and ghost stories are all happening a few miles from eachother.