Hookland @HooklandGuide

Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by @cultauthor #Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography Re-enchantment Is Resistance paypal.me/Hookland Hookland Joined August 2014

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9 hours ago

Goodnight from The Winged Cat pub, where folk are discussing whether John Midwood might be a spy now his cleaning lady has told everyone he owns a Cyrillic typewriter. Goodnight from Ivy Weaver, making a Lucky-in-Love charm bag for her granddaughter. Goodnight from Hookland.

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13 hours ago

The Long Neolithic provides an ongoing infrastructure of wonder. Its portal tombs become gates to mystery. Its mounds barrows and circles infect our imaginations, demand we riddle them. Our archaeology is an amplifier of awe, not an eraser. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

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a day ago

Goodnight from Nell Hopper, crying mascara tears as she waves her Embassy Number 1 cigarette as a wand to undo the spell of doomed love. Goodnight from Matt Dent, terrified to have travelled to a dimension where there’s only static on the radio's FM band. Goodnight from Hookland.

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2 days ago

Goodnight from passengers on the Dracula Bus, journeying from Coreham’s censoring council to Ashcourt so they can see the banned film ‘Satan’s Shore’. Goodnight from Holly Webber, feeling omen-shadowed since reading the Black Library’s Book of St. Urian. Goodnight from Hookland.

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2 days ago

An entry from the #HooklandEncyclopædia, this time on Dracula Buses and the censorship of #horror films. Also, context for later tonight.

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3 days ago

It was one of those pub arguments where everyone tries to remember the name of that late 1960s/early 1970s TV show that: ‘Was a bit like The Avengers with an alien who had defected to fight his invading fellow aliens, but it wasn’t UFO and starred Jane Merrow …’ - #MattAdams

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3 days ago

Goodnight from Jennie Hoar, feeling the swell of nausea every time she contemplates her secret dealings with the Grinning Man being exposed. Goodnight from Georgie Ash, learning the divinatory language of thrown bones instead of doing her French homework. Goodnight from Hookland.

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4 days ago

Hookland is a county of window altars, sill shrines. Transparent declarations for the folkloric forces. This house for the King-Under-the-Sea, this house for the Empress Eel. Those panes roosted by crows proclaim for the cunning and a belief in folk faith magics. – Dr. M. Benn

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4 days ago

The witch knows the power of naming, knows language lenses reality. Her words have weight. Spelling is a part of her sorcery. If a tree whispers its secret name she listens – not because she seeks to dominate it, but to be better acquainted. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #Witchcraft

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4 days ago

Goodnight from Robert Lister, befuddled by sudden waking and unable to fathom what’s beyond the curtained windows illuminating his bedroom as if it were day. Goodnight from Eleanor Ashfield, making her final harvest of nightshade roots for the year, Goodnight from Hookland.

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5 days ago

Folklore has it then when harvesting hips from the hedge, you should always leave some for the birds and some for the Faeries. A wise witch never wants to anger either group and so I'm happy to obey the lore of the land. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #Witchcraft

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5 days ago

The witch walking is a witch having a conversation with the land. A chart of the paths she takes is telling of genii locorum, places where the ghost soil speaks loudest. Her feet scuff up stories, her feet scuff up spirits. Each navigation is sorcery. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982

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5 days ago

Rumours of an Iron-toothed Vampire plagued Ashcourt Necropolis during the early 1970s. Amateur undead hunting led to vandalism, desecration and even a riot. While I've empathy for the cemetery workers, my sympathy is reserved for the stone guardians who suffered. – Dr. M. Benn

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5 days ago

Goodnight from Sgt. Dalton, still shaking from opening the canvas bag of withered fingers left on the doorstep of Charwood Police Station. Goodnight from MelTarby, interpretingthe cold clankingof her home’s pipes as Morse code tapped out by the long dead. Goodnight from Hookland.

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6 days ago

Mudlarking around Ashcourt's docks has an extra peril. For these are ghost-crowded territories. All the pirate dead, all smuggler and mutinous dead executed at the low-tide mark haunt their wet ground. The flood holds memory, holds malice. – George Kindred, 'Haunted Hookland'

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6 days ago

As the year begins its slow walk towards ice, most of us cling to its final days of solar generosity. However, some want to rush from summer's last embrace. Children in my class can't wait for winter, not least because the Stay Belows will go to mud. – Joanna Vickers #VOH

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6 days ago

Yet another of Hookland's infamous knockers. This one at 14 Pope Joan Street in Ashcourt is apparently possessed by a mind or a spirit of its own. In the summer of 1976, BBC Nationwide's cameras caught it briefly rapping on the door without any obvious human interaction.

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6 days ago

Goodnight from the Chapelwood Working Men’s Club committee, imposing a ban on booking any further mediums after last week’s unfortunate events. Goodnight from Neville Muleward, wondering if there’s an effective charm against the tight hold of melancholy. Goodnight from Hookland.

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a week ago

Goodnight from Bob Neck, holding offshore in his skiff till he’s sure he’s got permission from the King-Under-the-Sea to submerge his latest cargo. Goodnight from Tom Horn, too ale-addled to realise he’s being watched by eyes that blaze like burning coals. Goodnight from Hookland

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a week ago

Give me the ghost of the glass. Give me the phantom locked in fused silicon dioxide. The spectre who whispers to vandals about stones and freedom. The temporal shade who peers through windows is a friend of mine. – #CJosiffe 1982 #Ghosts