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**Shantell Powell** @Shanmonster@c.im · 1d

I just wrote a flash fiction about the Dungarvon Whooper, a maritime cryptid/ghost. I wrote it in a mix of Chiac and Maritime vernacular. Here's hoping the publisher will like that. #AmWriting #GhostStory #cryptid #maritimes

**Jürgen Hubert** @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Apr 19

Apr 19

Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

Before proposing marriage to strange, pale women in abandoned castles, you should really do a proper background check.

#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/dead-brides-48659085

Part 1 of German folk tale "The Dead Bride". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

Part 2 of German folk tale "The Dead Bride". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

**Jürgen Hubert** @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Apr 14

Apr 14

Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

As German exorcists were usually unable to banish ghosts to the afterlife directly, they always sought new places to imprison them in this world - and trees were a popular choice.

#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
https://www.patreon.com/posts/out-of-sight-out-45786804

German folk tale "The Old Linden Tree near Gebhardshagen". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

Continued thread

**Assoc for Scottish Literature** @scotlit@mastodon.scot · Apr 4

Apr 4

Assoc for Scottish Literature @scotlit@mastodon.scot

“THE OPEN DOOR… explores the borders between the natural physical world and the spiritual one. Like many of Oliphant’s ghost stories, it is about a past which refuses to be silent and a modernity which refuses to listen to it.”

—Prof Rosemary Mitchell on Margaret Oliphant’s THE OPEN DOOR

6/7

https://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/blog/blog-posts/margaret-oliphants-the-open-door-looking-back-to-move-forward.php

Leeds Trinity UniversityMargaret Oliphant’s ‘The Open Door’: Looking Back to Move Forward

#Scottish #literature #19thCentury

**Ben Royce** @benroyce@mastodon.social · Mar 26 *

Mar 26 *

Ben Royce @benroyce@mastodon.social

#womensHistoryMonth

What do many consider the 1st #scienceFiction?

One of the first works of #horror (certainly #bodyHorror)?

#MaryShelley's "#Frankenstein"

Written as a *teenager*

A teenager who had recently lost a baby

I think that's key

Horror not from taking life

But creating life

She went to Switzerland with her lover Percy Shelley who was fleeing creditors in Britain

The summer was cold and rainy so #LordByron (yes him) proposed a #ghostStory #writingContest

I think she won

1/x

**Jürgen Hubert** @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Mar 25

Mar 25

Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

A room in an inn in Flensburg was once haunted by an entire royal court.

#Germany #Flensburg #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/abodes-of-ghosts-43497027

Part 1 of German folk tale "The Ghosts’ Meal". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

Part 2 of German folk tale "The Ghosts’ Meal". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

**Jürgen Hubert** @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Mar 24

Mar 24

Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

A terrible storm once sank a ship with all hands just when it had reached its home port of Emden!

#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
https://www.patreon.com/posts/terror-of-sea-50181475

German folk tale "The Ghost Ship (Emden)". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

**Jürgen Hubert** @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Mar 24

Mar 24

Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

Once, the ghost of a scorned woman summoned a storm against her unfaithful lover on his wedding day.

#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ghost-stories-of-31962669

German folk tale "The Uglei". Drop me a line if you want a machine-readable transcript!

**Jürgen Hubert** @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Mar 19

Mar 19

Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

Some ships are lost at sea.

But "lost" does not always mean "gone".

#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/terror-of-sea-50181475

The Ghost Ship (Pellworm):

It was at a time of the year when all ships berthed and all sailors traveled home, but the betrothed of one young woman still wouldn’t come. And when everyone else was already home, he had not arrived. Her heart did not want to accept this, and in the nights she stood at the waters and wailed and cried for her beloved. Then one night the ship arrived which had been lost at sea with her groom. It took her on board, and nobody ever saw her again.

(From Pellworm or Föhr, narrated by Herr Storm.)

Source: Müllenhoff, K; Mensing, O. Sagen, Märchen und Lieder der Herzogthümer Schleswig, Holstein und Lauenburg. 1845, p. 163f.

**Andrew Kuchling** @akuchling@dmv.community · Mar 18

Mar 18

Andrew Kuchling @akuchling@dmv.community

Spending a quiet evening jigsaw puzzling, while listening to Robert Lloyd Parry's reading of two short ghost stories by M.R. James, "Rats" and "An Evening's Entertainment".

https://www.youtube.com/live/IcqeN79Dd0E

YouTubeAn M R James double-bill: 'Rats' and 'An Evening's Entertainment.'By Nunkie Films

#Ghosts #GhostStory #WeirdFiction

**Jürgen Hubert** @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social · Mar 17

Mar 17

Jürgen Hubert @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social

The ghosts of the old Noricans fled into the depths of the mountains when they longer wanted to witness the shame of their descendants losing to the forces of Napoleon.

#Austria #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @austria @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ghosts-within-50179425