Haunted Trails #31DaysOfHaunting 👻

Thank you for making this year's #31DaysofHaunting our biggest yet! Halloween season is always better with you! This is more than a hashtag to me, it's a community! I appreciate the effort you put into your contributions and enjoyed chatting with you about them! 1/2

The Smurl Haunting of 1970s Pennsylvania blended poltergeist and possession, growls in pipes, sulfur smells, levitations. A priest performed exorcisms. The family moved. The noises didn’t stop. #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting

I saw the grave-worms crawling..😱 ✍️ Mary Shelley: #Frankenstein #31DaysOfHalloween #31daysofhaunting #Halloween #WyrdWednesday

Many possession accounts begin with sleep paralysis or the sense of a presence on the chest. Science calls it REM disorder. Folklore calls it the Old Hag. Both explanations leave the room cold. #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting Art: Henry Fuseli

When death comes knocking I can hide I can run, but the beast Smells my blood in the wind  Hear the gasp  Hear it roar This is my primal fear from within..🎵 #Halloween #31daysofhaunting #31daysofhalloween 🖼️The Univited Guest, 1844: Adolph Menzel(1815-1905)

Wishing you all a Spooky 👻 Wednesday with ~ Bobby “ Boris” Pickett _ Monster Mash 🧌 youtu.be/C6UI8TTIhwE?si… #Samhain 👻 #Halloween 🎃 #31DaysofHaunting #WyrdWednesday

The 1949 case that inspired The Exorcist involved a 14-year-old boy in Maryland. Witnesses said the words hell and evil appeared scratched into his skin, furniture moved on its own, and priests performed more than 20 rites. #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting

The harmless phantoms on their errands glide, With feet that make no sound upon the floors. We meet them at the doorway, on the stair, Along the passages.. "Haunted Houses" #HenryWadsworthLongfellow #Halloween 🎃 #31daysofhaunting #31DaysOfHalloween 🎨Dean Gioia

Many ghost sightings happen at the edge of vision - a shadow in the doorway, a reflection that moves on its own. Folklore calls it second sight: not imagination, but the moment the unseen looks back. #31DaysofHaunting #31DaysofHalloween Art: Sir Alfred Munnings

Welcome October 🍂🎃🧡 The thing with October is, I think, it somehow gets in your very blood. Unapologetically. Almost ruthlessly. ~ Anne Sexton #SeasonOfTheWitch #31DaysOfHaunting 🎃 #WitchWednesday 🖤

"Ridley was inspired after becoming stranded overnight at Mangotsfield railway station (a now abandoned station) on the defunct Midland Railway Company's Bristol and Gloucester railway line." "The Ghost Train" (play) #BookWormSat #31DaysofHaunting 🖼️ Spögelsestoget (1976)

By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes. Macbeth A4Sc1 #ShakespeareSunday #31DaysofHaunting art: Horseman by Zdzisław Beksiński

NEw ArT Hunger of the Spiral Mixed Media Collage 11x14 "A Monster Book of Monsters" Been dealing with some serious burnout after drawing everyday for 13 years ! Great to have some new art to show and working on a New Book ! 📖 #31daysofhaunting #darkart #art

#BookologyThursday #31DaysOfHaunting They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us, death would be relief. Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Image: Natali- Hall

"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul"- Emily Dickinson Those feathers and souls burn bright in the darkest times. Those are the stories we are looking for. Interesting Times: a Hopepunk anthology, click the link for submission details endoftheworldpublishing.com/current

Subs for our next anthology Interneting Times are open, and we have a website! (Still under construction) click the link for details endoftheworldpublishing.com

#BookologyThursday In "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," alien life-forms silently, subtly, and almost imperceptibly invade Earth, taking over the bodies and minds of people. The book has been adapted into four different movies, one of which features Donald Sutherland. 📚👽💖

“The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.” - Bram Stoker, Dracula #BookologyThursday