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The Dread Isle of R'lyeh
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Today, 36 Blythe Road is home to George's Cafe, a quintessential British greasy spoon. However, in 1900, this exact address served as the secret, international headquarters for the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn—a famous fin-de-siècle occult society whose members included WB Yeats, Bram Stoker, and Aleister Crowley.
On April 19, 1900, the infamous "Battle of Blythe Road" took place here. Sent by the society's eccentric founder, Aleister Crowley arrived to seize control of the temple room.
Crowley stormed the building wearing a kilt, a black Osiris mask, a tartan plaid wrap, and a large golden crucifix around his neck. He was brandishing a ceremonial dagger and casting curses as he climbed the stairs.
Poet W.B. Yeats and other London members physically stood their ground at the top of the stairs, refusing Crowley entry.
Instead of a magical duel, the dispute was ultimately settled when the landlords called the real-world London police to escort Crowley off the premises.
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The Westness brooch-pin formed part of a Viking-Age grave disturbed by a farmer at Westness, Rousay, Orkney, #OTD in 1963. It is silver decorated with gold, amber and glass. The grave contained the remains of a young woman and newborn child. 📸National Museums Scotland
ALT The Westness brooch-pin.
ALT Close-up of the Westness brooch-pin.
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A selection of horror paperbacks from the genre’s golden age.
Eye candy for Halloween.
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American comic book artist Budd Root is best known for creating Cavewoman, the cult-favorite independent comic series 🐅
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Roggenmuhme is the Rye-mother, a demon from folklore used as a cautionary tale to discourage children from trampling crops
from "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin" by Stephen G. Rae
folklorepress.co.uk
#demons #folklore #booklovers
art: Igor Krstic
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No, that’s not a ghost haunting the deep — it’s a rhinochimaera!👻🦈
Also called a ghost shark or spookfish, it is believed that the long snout of this eerie deep-sea dweller may help increase sensory input to further gain information about its environment.
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In 1923, an Omaha children's page said a bad goblin called Samhanach roams Scotland on Halloween, so children dress as bogies to scare it off and carry turnips hollowed into lanterns. Weird Tales got there in April 1926 with H. P. Lovecraft's "The Outsider." #weirdtober
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#31DaysOfHorror 'Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust' (2001). Visually-stunning #anime #Western pastiche with #fantasy and #horror elements. The English dub has superb voice talent; I could listen to Pamela Adlon and John Rafter Lee all day long. 8 out of 10.
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THE HAUNTED HOUSE (1929) is nearly a century old and still delivers pure Halloween vibes. 💀
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I found this treasure recently, published in 1930. Thompson was quite an interesting author. He wrote a number of similar books, always beginning with ‘The Mystery and Lore of…’ about magic, monsters, astrology and alchemy. I have most of them. Although meant for a general public, they are high in information value. Back then, publishers still did that: aim at a general public but didn’t dumb the contents of these books down. And occasionally you actually find a true, forgotten fortean gem inside, because these authors did their research.
He also wrote an early book on transgenderism as this bio states. His bibliography in this entry is incomplete though: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charle…
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“The Hastur Cycle,” edited by Robert M. Price, published by Chaosium in 1993.
The first volume in Price’s lengthy "Cycle" series of Lovecraftian anthologies. It collects the stories that shaped the modern conception of the cosmic entity known as Hastur.
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