As there seems to have been another uptick in participation here, a quick summary #introduction (fuller one is pinned). I'm a UK-based (Londoner now living on #isleofwight) folklorist. Started off interested in #folksong, spread to wider interest in #folk #folklore.

Did an MA, liked it, so did a PhD on Contemporary Belief in #Ghosts - https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/handle/2299/7184.

Currently on the Council of the Folklore Society, Associate Editor of its journal Folklore, & on the editorial board of #FolkMusic Journal. Until end of year I'm Research Fellow on #FolkloreWithoutBorders research network on EDI in British folkloristics.

I've written on #ghostlore, folklore about #rats, #cannibalism at sea, tongue twisters, popular representation of folkloristics. Increasingly working on folklore's history. Shiny research profile here: https://researchprofiles.herts.ac.uk/en/persons/paul-cowdell

Ghostlore Vol. 3 Available October 1

#horror – #horrorcomics – #comicbooks – #Ghostlore – #CullenBunn – @boomstudios – @cullenbunn – Author: Cullen Bunn The final volume of the frightening and mystifying story from The Empty Man writer Cullen Bunn, for fans of The Sixth Sense and The Stand. Two survivors. Two prophets. Two quests. Countless stories. Do the dead tell ghost […] …

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https://horrornerdonline.com/2024/08/ghostlore-vol-3-available-october-1/

Ghostlore #12 Available July 31

#horror – #horrorcomics – #comicbooks – #Ghostlore – #CullenBunn – @boomstudios – @cullenbunn – Author: Cullen Bunn In the final showdown between Harmony, Lucas, and Shane, victory will come at a great price. In the end comes the hereafter, but will anyone be left to guide lost spirits? …

#horror #ad #Releases #Comics #CullenBunn #Ghostlore

https://horrornerdonline.com/2024/07/ghostlore-12-available-july-31/

Slightly updated #introduction: I'm UK-based (a Londoner, now living on #isleofwight)

I did a first degree in #Classics, then worked/didn't work as an actor for a while, during which time I got really interested in #folk #folksong.

Started to do #fieldwork, realised I needed to think harder about it so did an MA in #folklore. Liked it. A lot.

Did a PhD on Contemporary Belief in #Ghosts - https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/handle/2299/7184.

Currently on the Council of the Folklore Society, Associate Editor of its journal Folklore, & on the editorial board of #FolkMusic Journal.

I've written on #ghostlore, folklore about #rats, #cannibalism at sea, tongue twisters (inter alia), and (increasingly) folklore's history. Was doing this through folkloresque representation in #folkhorror, crime novels & (most recently) #DrWho, then finally just got on with doing it as historical research.

NEW POST

My latest post discusses the folklore surrounding the mysterious Dairy Pit. Explore its ghost riddled waters by following the link below-

https://nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2024/06/dismal-dairy-pit.html?m=1

*NEW POST*

My latest post explores the ghosts of Benthall Edge and the influence of the Industrial Revolution on their stories. These tragic hauntings make for difficult but necessary reading.

https://nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2024/04/scarred-by-industry-ghosts-of-benthall.html

Your First Look at Cullen Bunn & Leomacs’ GHOSTLORE #8
BOOM! Studios today revealed a first look at GHOSTLORE #8, the next issue of a brand new horror series by acclaimed author of The Empty Man and Harrow County, Cullen Bunn, superstar artist Leomacs (Basketful of Heads), colorist Jason Wordie (Abbott, Wasted Space), and letterer Ed Dukeshire (Once & Future), along with guest artist Martín...
https://comiccrusaders.com/your-first-look-at-cullen-bunn-leomacs-ghostlore-8/
#boom #comics #ghostlore

#Booktober / #Spooktober Day 22: a little Joan Forman. Lovely 1970s cover - another must-have for any #ghostlore collector.
#31DaysOfHalloween

#Booktober / #Spooktober Day 17: another new arrival, and another Sheila St Clair, this time from 1994. Much more restrained cover than the other two; reading her take on Malahide Castle’s ghosts as we’re doing their spooky trail during the school break.

#Booktober / #Spooktober Day 7: a stone-cold classic from Jennifer Westwood and Jacqueline Simpson. We’ll get to The Lore of the Land separately, but it’s hard to beat this dust jacket and those endpapers. Such a great book to dip in and out of, all the year round.

#Booktober / #Spooktober Day 6: a delightful little pamphlet of the sort you could buy in every regional UK library in the 1990s for about £1. Many of the tales here are of ghostly Cavaliers, and there’s even a ghost train and a haunted library. Excellent collection of local Lancaster #ghostlore.

I'm trying to play #ghostlore because it's on the #xbox game pass and the idea of Eastern monsters for once is cool, but this console port is godawful... You can't pick up items at all of you try to change the attack button, and there's no way to leave a menu option null, so you HAVE to set the quick set items to a button but there are only so many buttons on a console controller! Good thing it was "free"*
* part of the game pass, which I pay a pretty penny for every year but I get access to a ton of games so it's worth it

It’s that time again!

It's National Marine Week with The Wildlife Trusts, so I thought I'd share some marine-related folklore!

This is Inner Farne, in the Farne Islands.

St Cuthbert is said to have driven the evil spirits from the island when he settled there, though they occasionally return. When they do, they scream and ride black goats before disappearing.

It's National Marine Week with The Wildlife Trusts, so I thought I'd share some marine-related folklore!

This is one of the many rocky islands among the Farne Islands - I took this photo back in 2019 on a trip to see the puffins. Some say the islands are haunted by the many shipwrecked sailors who died in the area.

Just reading back one of those phantom hitchhiker stories from 70s Britain that seem to always begin ‘Roy wasn’t drunk when he left the pub, he’d only had 4-5 pints that night and could hold his liquor.’ They often seem to be driving a huge articulated lorry in that state, too, just prior to picking up the ghost.

Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India has just gone for its third printing in #India and a US/UK edition is due out soon from Watkins.

It's an illustrated encyclopaedia of 300+ folkloric fiends from every corner of the country and all eras of history, from Vedic necromancers to the Devchars of Portugeuse Goa to Saamri from the Ramsey Brothers films.

Pre-order your copy now!

https://watkinspublishing.com/books/ghosts-monsters-and-demons-of-india/

It’s all kicking off…

Finally home and trying to hold off jetlag with a new #SpookyBook.

Just a few of the spooky books I’ll be ringing in 2023 with (and carting back to Dublin on the plane tomorrow night).

#BrowseaboutBooks in Rehoboth Beach is the best.