#edward parnell

[contremineur]

Always the ghosts.

Edward Parnell, opening and final line to Ghostland (William Collins 2019)

image from here

[lizardgoats]

In folklore, ghosts had long been linked with Christmas Eve–a night, like Halloween, in which the boundary between this world and the Otherworld, the realm of the spirits, is said to be thinned. And though the festive telling of ghostly stories clearly took place before Dickens–dark winter nights lend themselves to it–the Victorian writer had brought the practice into the mainstream through A Christmas Carol and the tales he published in his own weekly magazine, Household Words.

Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country, by Edward Parnell

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1886 – Home Rule Bill introduced in English Parliament by William Gladstone.

The Acts of Union 1800, united the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland (previously in personal union) to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. At various intervals during this time, attempts were made to destabilise Anglo-Irish relations. Rebellions were launched in 1803, 1848, 1867, and 1916 to try to end British rule over Ireland. Daniel O’Connell in the…

[gameofthunder66]

-watched 4/9/2023- 5 stars- on Paramount+

Glen Powell as Jake “Hangman” Seresin Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

[ghoulfuckersincorporated]

Do you think you’ll ever write for other ghouls like Hancock or Charon? I would love to see how you write them!!

110%. I've got quite the backlog of requests and already-extant ideas, currently (obviously most of them Fallout TV show based, since it seems like a lot of people are currently watching/finishing it), so I've been sort of planning to approach things in waves.

I've been making my way through some drabble and headcanon-type stuff, since it's easier to get out, and I've got a couple long-form pieces after that, but I've got multiple requests for other ghouls (Which I am stoked to see! Welcome, fans of the games!) and will definitely be getting to them ASAP. For several, I have half-cocked pieces of various lengths that I've had gathering dust on my computer for a while, but since I wrote them just for my own funsies, they need finishing/redressing before they go up.

After my current batch of fics is done (which should include pieces for Prewar!Cooper Howard and Norm Maclean), I'm planning to have pieces out for:

Gob (headcanons/eventual long-form, request)

Charon (long-form, request)

Hancock (long-form, request)

Edward Deegan (headcanons/eventual long-form...no request, but *I* love that big, underutilized motherfucker)

Raul Tejada (headcanons, request)

Nick Valentine (headcanons were requested, so I'll post some, but I also have a secret long-form piece I wrote about Nick ages ago that I feel like unleashing onto the world because I want to Fuck the old robot man as well)

Also, as weird as it feels to say it...upon rewatching season one of the Prime show...why is Chris Parnell's Overseer Benjamin weirdly fuckable??? Do I have a TBI?

Thanks for reading, and thank you SO much for 500 followers! I can't wait to get more stuff out for you guys!

[spiralhouseshop]

Hellebore Yuletide Hauntings 2023 issue! Now in stock at the Spiral House!

A Christmas Cauldron of Folklore and Fiction - Yuletide Hauntings Brews Spellbinding Tales

As winter nights grow long and crackling fires ignite, delve into the spectral heart of Britain with Yuletide Hauntings. This A5 magazine, bathed in the tradition of Christmas ghost stories, unveils 96 silk-coated pages overflowing with chilling delights.

Join renowned authors as they conjure tales of phantom Roman armies on modern motorways, mournful grey ladies in ancient halls, and headless coachmen galloping through moonlight. Luxuriate in evocative artwork and bask in the essence of folklore, history, and the very spirit of Britain itself.

Embrace the Yuletide Hauntings. Order your copy now and let it whisper forgotten secrets on a winter's breath.

Words by Verity Holloway, Edward Parnell, Maria J. Pérez Cuervo, John A. Riley, Julia Round, Katy Soar, and Alice Vernon. Cover by Courtney Brooke. Art direction by Nathaniel Hébert. Edited by Maria J. Pérez Cuervo.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2020

‘A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature’ Philip Hoare

‘An exciting new voice’ Mark Cocker, author of Crow Country

In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family tragedy. For comfort, he turned to his bookshelves, back to the ghost stories that obsessed him as a boy, and to the writers through the ages who have attempted to confront what comes after death.

In Ghostland, Parnell goes in search of the ‘sequestered places’ of the British Isles, our lonely moors, our moss-covered cemeteries, our stark shores and our folkloric woodlands. He explores how these landscapes conjured and shaped a kaleidoscopic spectrum of literature and cinema, from the ghost stories and weird fiction of M. R. James, Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood to the children’s fantasy novels of Alan Garner and Susan Cooper; from W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn and Graham Swift’s Waterland to the archetypal ‘folk horror’ film The Wicker Man…

Ghostland is Parnell’s moving exploration of what has haunted our writers and artists – and what is haunting him. It is a unique and elegiac meditation on grief, memory and longing, and of the redemptive power of stories and nature.

https://amzn.to/3EZk2of

[todaysdocument]

Letter from Ordway Hilton to Robert Stripling Regarding Alger Hiss

Record Group 233: Records of the U.S. House of RepresentativesSeries: Investigative Name Files

[letterhead] Elbridge W. Stein Examiner of Questioned Documents - Handwriting and Typewriting 2301 Park Row Building, 15 Park Row New York 7 5 December 1948 Robert E. Strping, Esquire Chief Investigator House Committee on Un-American Activities Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Stripling: I have made a careful examination of three specimens of typewriting submitted to me by Mr. C.E. Owens and compared them with the typewriting on various copies of government records which had been previously submitted to this office. The three specimens of typewriting are: 1. A photographic copy of a letter to Mr. Edward W. Case, 211 E. Main St., Westminster, Md., dated May 28 1936 and bearing the signature Alger Hiss. 2. Letter to Mr. J. Parnell Thomas dated August 18, 1948 and bearing the signature Alger Hiss. 3. A sheet of mimeographed questions, ten in all, without further identification. The typewriter used to prepare letter 1. is a machine equipped with elite type, i.e. it writes 12 letters to the inch. From the design of the typefaces it appears to be either a Remington standard, Remington Noiseless or Underwood Noiseless typewriter. In any event the design of letters eliminates the possibility of this typewriter having been used to write any of the material which had been previously submitted. The typewriter used to write letter 2. is also an elite type machine, but from the design of the letters it is clearly a typewriter built by the Remington Noiseless factory since 1946. Some of these machine are sold as Underwood Noiseless typewriters. This typeface design eliminates the machine as having been used to write any of the 1938 material. The machine used to prepared the third specimen of typewriting is equipped with pica type, the large size type which spaces 10 letters per inch. From the design of the typefaces I am able to eliminate this machine from any further consideration as it is equipped with a style of type used on Noiseless typewriters, either Remington Robert E. Stripling, Esq. 5 December 1948 2. Remington or Underwood, which was first put into use around 1946. From the design of the typefaces and their size I am able to state positively that all three specimens of typewriting, letters 1, 2, and 3, were written on different typewriters. Very truly yours, [handwritten signature] Ordway Hilton [typed signature] Ordway Hilton OH:3

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producer/songwriter/writer by Pamela Edwards McClafferty Via Flickr: Sounds of Black and White Rapper CLASH Songwriter/producer. Pamela Edwards McClafferty Sound Engineer. Michael Parnell. https://open.spotify.com/track/0SVdjoSn0ZqVgBkprxOqSW shadeshttps://open.spotify.com/track/5mbHVpup3QtnGNuxHuT0jB reflections

[leanstooneside]

(Edward) the Black Prince

FLESH

UNDISCOVERED

CHILD OF NATURE

TIMES

EPES

CALIBAN

CONN

EAR

PRAED

VILLAGE

PRODUCE

IMPUDENCE

GAIT

EVENING

BROOKSIDE

CONSOLATION

YE

AFFECTIONS

PERSISTING

VOICES

CORRUPTION

BARD

ENGLAND

INJURED

STONE

WILLIAM

CIRCA

SIR JOHN

HENRY

THY SPIRIT

FOOTPRINTS

MONSTER

GREECE

COMPASS

LOWELL

APPARITIONS

DUNGEON

HOPE'S

INCESSANT BATTERY

ISLE

RESORT OF LOVE

LOVER

APPEARANCES

PARNELL

MEN'S SOULS

CHARM

OPENING CHAMBERS OF

EAR OF DEATH

FOLLY

NETTLE

MILTON

HERE

ANGELS

INDUSTRY

JURIES

VERDICT

CREATION'S

ARTIST

EMBATTLED

ILLUSED

DELIGHTS

D. CLIFTON

ADOPTION

HOUSE

TARA'S HALLS

JEST

BOURN

TENNYSON

B. SURREY

B. YORK

AGES

COMMANDMENTS

CARAVANSERAI

CROWNED

BISHOP THOMAS

LOVERS

D. LEASOWES

SALTFISH

PRAYER

CINCINNATUS HINER

BEAMS

OFFENDING

HAND

CONSTANCY

ROMAN

VA

CITIES

HIGHLAND MARY

RICHARD BRINSLEY BUTLER

HEIGHT

BOSTON

EXPECTATION

ASTERS

SCOT

DEEDS

FROST

CONTEST

CLOUD

HAMSTRING

[lbeth1950]

Bumps in the Road Part 12

“Is he tired of me already? What did I do wrong?  Is he going to leave me.  Do I want a man who drinks and gambles?  Decent men don’t act like this!  What have I gotten myself into?  …and his brothers?  They’re awful!  I wouldn’t trust that Edward as far as I could throw him.  Parnell isn’t even ashamed he’s running around on his wife and blowing his pay on a trashy woman while his mama’s taking…

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1881 �� Irish Land League organiser, Michael Davitt, is arrested again for his outspoken speeches when he had accused chief secretary of Ireland W. E. Forster of ‘infamous lying’.

Davitt’s ticket of leave was revoked and he was sent to Portland jail. Parnell protested loudly in the House of Commons and the Irish members protested so strongly that they were ejected from the House. The government passed the Irish Coercion Bill. On Gladstone’s return to office in 1880, William Edward Forster was made Chief Secretary for Ireland. He carried the Compensation for Disturbance…

[loscerritoscommunitynews]

1st CEB Honors Meritorious Marine

SUPPORT: 1st CEB members and family with Corporal Jarod Crisman from (l-r) Chris Tierheimer, Barbara Winkler, Councilman Vo, Connie Edwards (1st CEB Treasurer), George Ray, Kammie Ngo, Diane Searer (Pres. of the 1st CEB), Laurie Forward (VP), Elizabeth Kelley, Janet Beach, Mayor Pro-Tem Solanki, L/Cpl Crisman, Scott and Bev Demoray-releatives of Cpl Crisman, SSgt Gianmarco Parnell and his wife…

[folkhorrorrevival]

Ghostland: Review and Interview with Edward Parnell

Ghostland: Review and Interview with Edward Parnell

Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country by Edward Parnell is a beautifully strange and important book. That someone had not previously wrote of a pilgrimage to the wandering grounds of some of Britain’s most significant authors of the supernatural (least not to my knowledge) seems unusual – it would seem a logical step that writers who have previously written about writers who have haunted the…

[emilyccannings]

13 Days of Halloween Recommendations: Top Ten Halloween Non-Fiction Books

13 Days of Halloween Recommendations: Top Ten Halloween Non-Fiction Books Day 8 want to the facts of the spooky world these books might reveal some!

1. Cursed Objects by J.W. Ocker

Info: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50526540-cursed-objects?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=mrKRIUZlcF&rank=1

My Pitch To You: Ever wondered about the history behind those creepy objects like Annabelle the doll from The Conjuring films then this book is for you.

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2. Women Make Horror Ed by…

[tom-killingbeck]

GHOSTLAND: In Search of a Haunted Country

Edward Parnell

In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family tragedy. For comfort, he turned to his bookshelves, back to the ghost stories that obsessed him as a boy, and to the writers through the ages who have attempted to confront what comes after death.

In Ghostland, Parnell goes in search of the ‘sequestered places’ of the British Isles, our lonely moors, our moss-covered cemeteries, our stark shores and our folkloric woodlands. He explores how these landscapes conjured and shaped a kaleidoscopic spectrum of literature and cinema, from the ghost stories and weird fiction of M. R. James, Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood to the children’s fantasy novels of Alan Garner and Susan Cooper; from W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn and Graham Swift’s Waterland to the archetypal ‘folk horror’ film The Wicker Man…

Ghostland is Parnell’s moving exploration of what has haunted our writers and artists – and what is haunting him. It is a unique and elegiac meditation on grief, memory and longing, and of the redemptive power of stories and nature.

‘Ghostland is a delicious, creepy, gothic gazetteer to a British landscape filled with folkloric, literary and filmic spirits, avian auguries, and natural history and a deeply touching personal grief that speaks to the hauntedness of childhood memory and teenage dreams. Obsessive, possessive, nostalgic, an act of vivid retrieval – this is a uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature’ Philip Hoare

‘Psychogeography at is finest, Ghostland is a personal meditation on the primal power of the British landscape to shape literature, film and television that tunes into the core collective experience of the Haunted Generation’ Cathi Unsworth, author of Weirdo

‘Part memoir of family to two parts brilliant excursion into folk-horror darkness and literary nooks and crannies’ Roger Clarke, author of A Natural History of Ghosts

‘A marvellous blend of travel writing, history and grief memoir, Ghostland provides not only a seance with the author’s lost family, but also a premonition of his dazzling literary future’ Paul Willetts, author of Members Only, filmed as The Look of Love

‘A skilful and intriguing weaving together, less of haunted houses as of haunted people, including MR James, Alan Garner, W G Sebald and the author himself, in places where the past has left its mark’ George Szirtes, author of The Photographer at Sixteen