#ghost story

[theveryworstthing]

The 3rd Headless Haunting: Selkie and Kelpie

She'd have been way less angry if he'd done more than the bare minimum to get away with it.

He was always a good storyteller, maybe one of the best. But she had no idea how, after tossing her beheaded corpse off the cliff by the sea and forcing her horse to follow, he had stumbled into town covered in blood with strands of her hair still wrapped around his fists and got people believing that she was a selkie who'd taken her skin in a fit of jealousy and left poor ol' him alone and broken hearted (and able to marry that poor stupid girl he's been in a badly hidden affair with).

Maybe people just didn't like her? A secret lifelong resentment is the only way she could explain how readily they believed that shifty, silver tongued, sack of cow shit. Fakest crying she'd ever seen. No snot. Unbelievable.

They didn't believe any of the other fae bullshit that's been happening around here for generations but selkies? Well of coooooourse those are real. This time. They weren't when her poor granddad was telling stories about how his mother took saltwater baths sometimes and searched the farm like a woman possessed in between chores any time his father was gone for more than a day. They weren't when poor little Mary said the "seal man" made sure that they had a nice fish dinner every night when her father got too deep in the bottle to feed his children. But now, OOOOOOH now, everyone's big on selkies! Selkies everywhere! rich local history, proud seaside folktales, respect for blah blah blah.

Lying bastard couldn't have possibly known that her blood in the water would call to those who shared it.

Time to ride into town and try out her new teeth.

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: paranormal

[enchantedbook]

'The Ghost Story' by Louis Wain, (1860 - 1939).

[valdevia]

This picture is known as the Class of 48 photo.

According to the story, the teacher of a small Dutch school took a group photo before heading out for a class trip. When they left the classroom, all 24 children and their teacher vanished without a trace. Despite a large-scale search, nobody from the group was ever heard from again.

When their final photograph was developed, this is what appeared.

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Horace Vernet (1789-1863) "The Ballad of Lenore, or The Dead Travel Fast" Oil on canvas The painting is inspired by the ballad Lenore (1774) written by German author Gottfried August Bürger. In the poem, it is the end of the Seven Years' War, and Lenore is waiting for her fiancé; he appears in the night on a black horse, promising to marry her before dawn. But upon arriving at the cemetery, the horse rider is revealed to be a skeleton wearing armor.

[weirdlookindog]

“I thought you'd be dying to see me”

Ghost Story (1981)

[kambriel]

Dracula author Bram Stoker's long lost ghost story Gibbet Hill has been found in an 1890 Christmas supplement of a Dublin newspaper!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9119l64qo

~Kambriel

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[countesschocula]

Art by Emily Xu

[yesterdaysprint]

The Decatur Daily Review, Illinois, October 29, 1933  

[classichorrorblog]

10 Overlooked 1980s Horror Movies To Consider For October/Halloween

[detroitlib]

View of an advertising card for F.E. Smallidge, depicting a young woman reading a ghost story by candelight. Printed on back [in part]: "The ghost story! The moral of this, the sixteenth card of our series, is that, if young ladies would avoid creating a scene, similar to the one the artist, Mr. R.W. Buss, gives us in this admirable picture, they had better forego reading ghost stories at bed-time. Presented by F.E. Smallidge, 701 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich. The Major & Knapp Lith. Co., N.Y." Includes description of Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge and Dr. Jayne's Sanative Pills.

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[theveryworstthing]

The 6th Headless Haunting: Dryad

It was easier to take the land with her out of the way. Money and threats didn't work, and poisoning the dog just made her louder and more annoying than ever about the plan that they were passing off to any local official who asked as a "conspiracy theory". So it was time to escalate. Send a few boys over one evening pretending to be lost hunters. Do it in the woods. Make it brutal enough that the rest of family FINALLY gives up, but give the cops they paid off leeway to lie and call it a bear attack.

1 stubborn 50 something year old woman living out in the boondocks alone. Light work.

The bodies started piling up before they even found her.

The trail cameras were mostly destroyed, but the ones that survived recorded lenticels shifting on tree trunks like bulging veins, and far off human screams playing in short strange bursts, like the sound itself was being chopped to pieces. By the time her ashes were scattered on the forest floor, the whole operation was in chaos.

If you love the woods like she does and you're willing to share space with everything living and dead inside it, you're welcome there. If not?

Get off her fucking property.

[fanofspooky]

Scream Queen - Jodie Foster

[enchantedbook]

illustration by paul Hardy for Edward Bulwer Lytton's ghost story 'The Haunted'

[ladamarossa]

Supernatural (1981)

[marisashorror]

The Whistling Ghost

2023