#Great Ghost Stories
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Joseph Lewis French, (editor) - Great Ghost Stories (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1926).
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R. Chetwynd-Hayes (selector) - The Ninth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories - Fontana - 1975
#witches#ghosts#occult#vintage#the ninth fontana book#great ghost stories#fontana books#r. chetwynd-hayes#1975#from beyond the veil
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What I'm reading this spooky season.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Mysteries and Secrets of Magic by C. J. S. Thompson
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Great Ghost Stories - a collection of 43 spooky stories by various authors.
#Books#personal#beforehappiness#Bookblr#halloween#Scary#Spooky#Autumn#Ghost stories#Magic#Great Ghost Stories#Frankenstein#mary shelley#Mysteries and Secrets of Magic#C. J. S. Thompson#Second hand books#Reading inspo#Booklr
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City of Tears. But Mini.
I wanted to make an atmospheric art piece with Dewi. And the City of Tears is one of the most sorrowing, beautiful, and grand places to do that. This is a lot of firsts for me regarding the architecture and lighting. The shadows cover a lot, and it may have been too much. I'm happy with how it turned out tho.
No idea how Dewi found his way into the City. Probably magic. Probably plot too :) But oh boy, he is experiencing childlike wonder in his raincoat!
This is a better show of the line detail I needlessly covered up in the final lol
#I love the idea that Ghost's resting spot is always on Dewi's hat. It's a great vantage point for spotting potential threats!#Quirrel doesnt mind the rain. But he'd rather not be walking around with Dewi 20 stories above him#Hornet is on the look out so that Dewi doesnt mess up anything#And Hollow is just enjoying the rain#dewi's adventures in hollow knight#hk fanart#Im really happy with it turned out#hollow knight#pure vessel#city of tears#dewi#hk#urg I still need to figure out human noses and I was getting really anxious about showing this just for that one fact alone.#trying my best. I have to keep my head up even with my imposter feelings. Otherwise i wont post
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When a non-horror game has a horror section, I often find it a little more effective or memorable than a full-on horror title's horror, in a way. I think that's because, for characters in fiction, they usually don't know they're about to experience a horror story, so they aren't mentally prepared at all. As the audience, we know that when we boot up Silent Hill, we're gonna see some scary stuff and can mentally prepare accordingly. But when some innocuous children's platformer or RPG or whatever suddenly throws genuine horror elements at me, I'm taken out of my comfort zone much more roughly since I don't expect it at all. I think that's neat :>
#Fallout has some great examples of this#A Hat in Time and Rayman as well#the Zelda series of course#One of the most fun uses of this trope to me is in games with sidequests#Where you're send to some location that might be kinda suspicious#maybe sent to get an item or look for someone who got lost#and Oops! The places is Haunted by Actual Ghosts!#An until now unknown element of this world!#That's so fun#you get to feel just like some investigative journalist or whatever from a horror story#who has no idea what they're about to get into
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Fall of the House of Usher has everything, tbh. Seven Deadly Sins family. Everyone’s queer. No one has a moral compass. Nightmare goblin energy everywhere. The most grotesque deaths you’ve ever seen. Hilarious snark. The hottest women in the world. Carla Gugino in fifteen different wigs. Violent lesbians. Cats coming out on top. Cool tattoos. Orgiastic vibes. Katie Parker being Just A Lady, for once. Terrific hair. A granddaughter who takes no shit. Intimacy issues galore. Storytime. Storytime. Storytime.
#the fall of the house of usher#the fall of the house of usher spoilers#tfothou spoilers#it somehow manages to be the least and most Flanagan thing at the same time#everyone’s awful but what are ghosts? guilt. grief. a wish. a dream. penance.#everyone sucks ass but what is the most important thing we can do for each other? listen. tell stories. immortalize through words.#the seven deadly sins of it all is so great#the denouncing of capitalism and greed is so great#it won’t live in my chest for two years like the haunting anthology but it was super fun and I’ll be thinking about it for a while
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Hello! I loved the ghost girls from the comic you drew... a while ago and finally decided that if I don't draw them now, I'll never have time to do it. So. Here they are
Also thank you for your continuous propaganda of tiger tiger!!! I finally sat down to read it yesterday (the tab has been open for weeks? months???) and this was the best way to procrastinate uni homework, I don't even feel guilty. You have great taste
GHOULS NIGHT!!! They look amazing!
#fanart#ghost girls#I'm giving them a tag now. They deserve it!#I will make propaganda for more mdzs ghost girls content if I must. They are probably one of the most underrated parts of the story.#They have so much potential to be (fandom adopted) characters.#We can do this. If we all pitch in one (1) headcannon they will be fully formed characters by the end of the week.#Thank you so much for the super cool fanart! Your style is great! And I am so touched you liked them enough to draw them!#Like waough...that ribcage...extremely good stuff right there.#And THANK YOU FOR CHECKING OUT TIGERS! It is a series that has been around for ages and is so deserving of all the hype.#Tis also a good way to procrastinate uni work (as long as you get to the work eventually - no harm in a break or two!)
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If pokemon wont give me bea and allister siblingisms ill just make it MYSELF
#siblignsf…… real#art tag#pokemon#pokemon swsh#gym leader bea#gym leader allister#started thinking abt leon/sonia/nessa/raihan/piers friend group while drawing this theyre all great#or polycule. either or#i think all the version exclusive gym leaders has their own found family going on#besides the literal family#melony definitely spoils bea and allister and i think gordie babysits and acts like a cool older brother to them both#raihan babysat allister once and got him addicted to subway surfers and mr beast and bea hasnt let him near allister since#all of the swsh gym leaders are just one big family when u think abt it#bea reads allister bedtime stories but the stories allister suggests are infinitely more horrifying than bea can handle#in allisters concept art theres a part that maybe suggests beas scared of ghosts. i like that i think its funny. have u seen ur brother#i could make a whole post abt these two i bet anyway. i need to wak eup at 6am tmrw. gootnighth :>
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I’ve been getting really into magical stuff recently and also DC so I’m just gonna drop this here:
Fae Dick Grayson
F A E
okay so fae stories are special to me because I grew up on hearing pagan folklore and fairytales about fae and fae adjacent creatures as good night stories so hooo boy yes I adore that trope! (I mean, I made Dick a Banshee in my fic Shuck so… hehe)
Anyway, Fae Dick Grayson! There’s just so many things you can do with it ✨
Robin appears from one day to the next, following in Batman’s shadow like a mischievous sprite, so honestly rumors have been going wild about him since day one. Robin actually being something non-human doesn’t really come as a surprise!
The fae folk are known for being awfully good at blending in with regular humans when they put their mind to it, the only thing that puts them apart (in most stories) is their otherworldly beauty, and Dick Grayson? Well, he’s definitely got that in abundance.
Just sometimes, when the light reflects off a surface in just the right way, when someone pours a glass of water and you happen to look right through the spray, or when you think you catch a glimpse of something out of the corner of your eye and you spin around— but there’s only Dick Grayson, even if a second ago you could have sworn you saw eyes where there weren’t supposed to be any; colors that aren’t supposed to exist; feathers where only skin has any right to be.
And, gods, all the talking. Dick is terrifyingly good at talking to people without actually saying anything, to the point where you walk away from the conversation feeling utterly drained after spilling your entire life story but when you think back on it— you can’t remember him ever telling you anything about himself. You know there were the usual pleasantries of “hi” and “nice to meet you” and “how are you doing?” but anything beyond that just kinda… seemed to spill out of you? It’s very strange. It’s very unnerving. By the end of the evening you other convince yourself you’re overreacting or you simply push the incident out of your mind altogether.
And there’s another thing about Dick. His name.
He only ever introduces himself as Dick Grayson/Robin. Never Richard. Never. Especially not Richard John. Names are sacred for the fae folk, names have power, so while Richard John Grayson may not be Dick’s true name, he treats it as such to honor his parents. None are allowed to use it. None except Bruce or Alfred on special occasion.
Of course, Dick’s “true” name isn’t exactly a secret so when someone does happen to use it… well, Dick may be… other… but he’s still intrinsically good in a way many of his kind don’t have the patience to be. Dick judges on a case by case basis, just like his parents and Bruce taught him. And usually people do not mean it maliciously when they use his name so he kindly corrects them and that’s that. But oh man, if they still insist on calling him “Richard”? Well..
“Oh no, it seems your credit card is being declined, sir!”
“Sheesh, you tripped over a root? In Gotham?!”
“What do you mean ten birds flew into your window last night? You live on floor level!”
“Dude I’m telling you that rash doesn’t look normal.”
“I… don’t think crows are supposed to follow you like that.”
It’s little things (most of the time, unless you really pissed Dick off) but they keep piling up, slowly driving you insane. You feel like you’re being watched, but it’s just a bird sitting on the window sill again. You feel like someone moved all your furniture just slightly to the right even tho you checked all the cameras.
The fae are kind, but they are also vindictive when crossed.
(Thanks to Bruce, however, I think Dick’s bouts of “vengeance” rarely go much farther than that though.)
Dang ok that ended up being an entire rant… wow. Anyway, yeah. Fae.
#look growing up in the middle of the woods just does something to you#my entire family told us tales about the creatures in the woods#looking back on it now a lot of them were fairly creepy#but my cousin and I always went looking for the one who ‘swayed the trees’#there’s not a good translation for it but it sounds pretty cool in my language#and also slightly gruesome#double meaning and all that#then again our idea of fun was traipsing into the moors and finding ways through it without getting stuck so idk#wow ok that reads like a bit of a horror story but I swear it was great#anyway#ghost talks#fae dick Grayson#dick grayson#nightwing#Robin
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If you liked the poll, and you like musicals, why not give Ghost Quartet a listen?
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#ghost quartet#Youtube#polls#it's got Rose Red#and her sister#who has a white-themed name#who go through fairy-tale retellings and the like#it is a circular story#also written by the guy who did Great Comet I think?
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My one hope for Cinderella’s Castle is that the proshot isn’t so over produced like npmd. The npmd proshot is gorgeous visually but completely loses so much of the choreography and staging due to its amount of close ups and cuts. I just want a good view of the staging in each scene that lets me see the choreography well.
#again the npmd pro shot is STUNNING and I really love and respect the effort that went into it#but in my opinion it fell short of being clear about what each scene actually looked like on stage.#like at that point make a movie.#the digital ticket footage of Hatchet Town for example gives a much more clear idea of how each piece of the song fits together#it’s just a simply view of the stage.#close ups are great and are something you can do in a recording that you can’t do live#but it needs to be more balanced. how the actual physical space is used onstage is also important visual info that is part of the story.#cinderella’s castle#nerdy prudes must die#team starkid#the lands that are#hatchetfield#ghost posts from their box
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Freddie Fox as Edward Bellingham in Lot No. 249 [A Ghost Story for Christmas, d: Mark Gatiss, 2023]
#freddie fox#lot no. 249#mark gatiss#ok so I know freddie is like the obvious choice whenever you need someone louche or weasely or twinky or ambiguous or sly#but it doesn't mean he isn't great anyway#also he is now getting old enough that he's growing into having a more interesting face I mean he looks TREMENDOUS here#how has mark gatiss not done dorian gray with freddie yet? I mean yes OBVIOUS but also it would be GREAT before he's too old#anyway yeah this is the best of the gatiss ghost stories#and I think a lot of that is because m r james is so hard to translate to the screen#my wee gifs
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Thinking about Charles and Edwin again. Like they met and Charles decided “he’s the one I want to spend my afterlife with” and he did. And everyone believes that Charles died alone and cold and scared but he didn’t. He died cold but he wasn’t scared. How could he be? Because there was a boy and he was dead and he was reading to Charles because Charles can’t seem to talk to him. He couldn’t be alone.
and his mother! She believes it. Do u ever think she lays awake and thinks about it? About how if she was just a little stronger, just a bit better, she could have protected him from his father and maybe then he wouldn’t have died. How she doesn’t know who killed him, probably. The boys most likely got away. Do h think she regrets staying with Charles’ father after their only child died?
she believes he died alone and cold and scared but Charles didn’t and it’s that simple.
#If anyone finds a story about her seeing Charles as a ghost that would be great!!#Because I just feel like. There’s so much potential#Dead boy detectives#dbda#charles rowland#charles rowlands mother
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One delightful thing about being a writer is when you get to make references to your own stuff.
The new space shanty sung by one character turns out to be based on something that happened to the other recently. And the same song will probably be years-ago history in the thing I'm going to write next week.
I always loved that sort of thing in the books I grew up reading. "OMG the ghost in this one scene is the main character from that other trilogy! And these other characters are reading a history about the stuff that happened in the first books! I am going to read this very carefully."
It's pretty awesome to be able to do bits of that same thing in my own writing. Even if I'm the only one who ever gets some of the more obscure references, I'm having a great time with them.
#writer life#amwriting#The Token Human#I'm planning the next story early#while also planning what to add to the draft of the sequel novel#writing in two timelines at once is a challenging dance#but fun#especially when I get to immortalize bits of it all in space shanties#love those#also I'll never get over the ghost thing#that was a great scene#Mercedes Lackey does this kind of callback well#easter eggs for the readers#I've always wanted to do the same thing#it's very fun#even in small doses
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you know shit's good when you gotta stare at your screen like this
#rexdrewsomething#drink printer ink#i needed to draw this or I might not sleep tonight gang honestly#ghost story musical#people should watch this#I had a great time 10/10 musical#I was staring at my screen like that for like the whole thing but#the ballad of jimmy july hit so fucking hard I can't
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the freaky ghost shit being a sideplot to character development and study (or even a tool to further it!) in no home is so hilarious because the average reading experience after 50 chapters of no real spooky stuff is like
"lmao eunyung and haejoon only talk to each other select days. damn bro, I wonder how they're gonna resolve this arc... it is pretty inter- OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT" as they pan to this:
#im sorry girl. WHAT#you really go into the story thinking that the ghosts will be a fairly focal point of focus#but no.#i do wonder if haejoon will start seeing creepy ghosts again. that's always fun.#anyways. i miss miyung-ie </3#no home is geniunely a great read tho. go read it immediately.#no home#no home manhwa
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