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**Rob Christopher** @randomcha@mstdn.social · Apr 7 *

Rob Christopher @randomcha@mstdn.social

3 things about Masahiro Shinoda’s DEMON POND [1979]

1. Peeling a pear. “Well chilled,” he tells her approvingly.
2. They protest–their daughter isn’t beautiful, then add grudgingly that she’s no longer a virgin.
3. Batting away at the desperate villagers with his cane.

The image depicts a scene with a central focus on a woman dressed in traditional Japanese attire. She wears a vibrant, floral-patterned kimono featuring shades of red, gold, and white. Her face is painted white with bold red lips and dark, elongated eyebrows, and she has long black hair cascading down her back. A delicate, gold floral headpiece adorns her head. In the background, standing on either side of her, are two figures clad in traditional samurai armor. The armor is detailed and adorned with various decorative patterns; one holds a vertically striped staff. The setting has a mystical ambiance, with silvery, misty trees and a soft light illuminating the scene.

#3things #movies #japan

**Nearlyknowledgeable** @Amynearlyknowledgeable@mastodon.social · Mar 30

Mar 30

Nearlyknowledgeable @Amynearlyknowledgeable@mastodon.social

Over on Patreon you can hear me discussing ghostly Monks, including a lesser known story in Shropshire

https://www.patreon.com/posts/ghostly-monks-125427593?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

#Shropshire #Folklore #Ghosts

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**lisawilliams** @lisawilliams@toot.lgbt · Mar 30

Mar 30

lisawilliams @lisawilliams@toot.lgbt

Peer-reviewed papers on the academic legacy of...ghosts and ghost stories: https://toot.lgbt/@lisawilliams/114226201683071850 #spooky #ghosts #halloween #ghoststory #ghoststories

Ghosts, appearing as translucent, sheet draped figures, float through a graveyard.

**Ann K.** @piquant00@mastodon.online · Mar 24

Mar 24

Ann K. @piquant00@mastodon.online

Free audiobook from hplhs.org

https://store.hplhs.org/products/the-upper-berth-audiobook

The Upper Berth (by F. Marion Crawford) Audiobook

store.hplhs.orgThe Upper Berth Audiobook

#GhostStories #horror

**Shantell Powell** @Shanmonster@c.im · Mar 24

Mar 24

Shantell Powell @Shanmonster@c.im

I enjoyed this hybrid piece about ghosts. It's a short and fascinating read. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/09/16/all-you-have-to-do-is-die/ #GhostStories #ShortStory #PersonalEssay #HybridWriting #ghosts

**Shantell Powell** @Shanmonster@c.im · Mar 23

Mar 23

Shantell Powell @Shanmonster@c.im

I wrote a prose poem tonight as part of my homework for a course I'm taking on ghost stories. My piece is called "My Ghost Penis," and I like it. I'll betcha someone will want to publish it. It was inspired by "Your Ghost Boyfriend Wants What's Best for You." https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/your-ghost-boyfriend-wants-whats-best-for-you #Writing #AmWriting #GhostStories #Poetry #SpeculativeFiction #SpeculativePoetry

McSweeney's Internet TendencyYour Ghost Boyfriend Wants What’s Best for YouYour ghost boyfriend always leaves the seat up because he’s noncorporeal. Your ghost boyfriend drifts through the back door, down the dark alley to...

**Hypnogoria** @hypnogoria@ohai.social · Mar 19

Mar 19

Hypnogoria @hypnogoria@ohai.social

The strange true tale of how a toy Punch and Judy theatre haunted MR James ! https://www.hypnogoria.com/scribblings_punch.html

#WyrdWednesday #MRJames #GhostStories

**damian** @dorkboycomics@kitty.social · Mar 9

Mar 9

damian @dorkboycomics@kitty.social

“Ghost Stories”
Comics > planning

(Pilot Elabo x Hobonichi)
#comic #mastoart #fountainpen #sketchbook #ghosts #ghoststories #webcomic

A Hobonichi planner with a three panel cartoon featuring two cartoon ghosts.
Panel one: ghost on right(not Larry) says "hey Larry! What's wrong?"
Panel two: not Larry continues "you look like you've just seen a ghost!" - ghost on left (Larry) sighs
Panel three: Larry replies "I never thought of be counting down the minutes in eternity"
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**Emma LH: Ghost Catcher Isles** @emmainotherland@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 3

Mar 3

Emma LH: Ghost Catcher Isles @emmainotherland@mastodonapp.uk

Well, this has lifted my spirits today. Hot off the press and signed by the author, my pal Eerie Edinburgh no less!

He presents my retelling of my mum's eerie experience in a Norfolk care home in this. Please pick up a copy from Amazon.

#hiddenhauntsengland #ghoststories

**Graham Downs** @GrahamDowns@mastodon.africa · Mar 2

Mar 2

Graham Downs @GrahamDowns@mastodon.africa

LOL #ghoststories

A black, square image with a double white border contains white text centered within the frame. The text reads, "wonder how many times we tell ghost stories and the ghosts around us are like I NEVER SAID THAT SHIT. HE'S NOT EVEN TELLING IT RIGHT." Provided by @altbot@fuzzies.wtf, generated using Gemini

**Andi Brooks** @AndiBrooks@toot.community · Mar 2

Mar 2

Andi Brooks @AndiBrooks@toot.community

M. R. James: The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral.
#MRJames: #TheStallsofBarchesterCathedral #GhostStories #EnglishGhostStories

**TalkTeaV** @TalkTeaV@mastodon.social · Feb 13

Feb 13

TalkTeaV @TalkTeaV@mastodon.social

Two families, one haunted rental, and a 400-year-old poltergeist—The Parenting is set to bring laughs with an all-star cast in Max’s new horror-comedy. Are you ready for this spooky showdown?
#Movies #ghoststories
https://www.talkteav.com/max-the-parenting-horror-comedy-movie

TalkTeaV · Feb 13Max’s The Parenting: A Haunted Getaway with an All-Star CastA haunted rental, a 400-year-old poltergeist, and two clashing families—The Parenting delivers horror and laughs in a must-watch film streaming soon on Max.

**Lydia Conwell** @lydiaconwell@todon.nl · Feb 7

Feb 7

Lydia Conwell @lydiaconwell@todon.nl

It's #Uncanny on the telly again.

You can see the presenter absolutely knows it's all bullshit as he say 'listen to this case! Could it be a real ghost?'

I kinda like me a ghost story though. They fun. And I like the scary thoughts.

#Ghost #TV #GhostStories

**Grump_Horror** @Grump_Horror · Feb 2

Feb 2

Grump_Horror @Grump_Horror

New post on the Blog, thoughts on the one man show, Night Terrors, a telling of three ghost stories by EF Benson.

#GhostStories #Theatre #EFBenson

https://thegrumpofhorror.wordpress.com/2025/02/02/theatre-review-night-terrors/

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**Stan Carey** @stancarey@mastodon.ie · Jan 29

Jan 29

Stan Carey @stancarey@mastodon.ie

and absolutely this:

Large paperback book: 'The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories', edited by Robert Phillips. The cover, designed by Roy Colmer, has a detail from Stanley Spencer's religious painting 'The Resurrection, Cookham', showing assorted figures rising from graves amidst flowers and tombstones on the day of judgement, looking honestly disconcerted.
There's a blurb from the Times ('The combination of high literary talent and chilling subject matters is irresistible') and a partial list of contributing authors: Graham Greene, Shirley Jackson, John Updike, Muriel Spark, Truman Capote, Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, Joyce Carol Oates, Tennessee Williams.

Contents page 1 of 2:
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Robert Phillips
1. The Demon Lover – Elizabeth Bowen
2. A Little Place off the Edgware Road – Graham Greene
3. The Others – Joyce Carol Oates
4. The Followers – Dylan Thomas
5. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
6. The Prison Window – Louis Auchincloss
7. Seaton’s Aunt – Walter de la Mare
8. Andrina – George Mackay Brown
9. Away – Barry N. Malzberg
10. The Portobello Road – Muriel Spark
11. The Indian – John Updike
12. Full Circle – Denton Welch
13. Sound is Second Sight – Lynne Sharon Schwartz
14. I Used to Live Here Once – Jean Rhys
15. The Jolly Corner – Henry James
16. First Dark – Elizabeth Spencer
17. Missing Person – Peter Taylor
18. The Bell in the Fog – Gertrude Atherton

Contents page 2 of 2
The Wedding Cake Couple – Howard Lewis Russell
20. The Daemon Lover – Shirley Jackson
21. A Haunted House – Virginia Woolf
22. Up North – Mavis Gallant
23. The Mysteries of the Joy Rio – Tennessee Williams
24. Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt – William Goyen
25. The Celestial Omnibus – E. M. Forster
26. Afterward – Edith Wharton
27. Miriam – Truman Capote
Notes on the authors.

#books #reading #GhostStories

**hugo.** @grammaticus@nerdculture.de · Jan 15 *

Jan 15 *

hugo. @grammaticus@nerdculture.de

Edward Parnell's “Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country” is an excellent, genre-blending book, that brings together nature and travel writing, literary and cultural history, exploration of the supernatural, plus the added element of memoir. It’s filled with the sense of love, wonder, and appreciation for England’s landscapes and the ghostly tales that quietly echo through its forests, hills and moors.

Read the full version of my latest blog post by visiting https://grammaticus.blog/2025/01/15/book-review-ghostland/

#books #bookreview #ghostland