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Ellie Blow@ellesappelle.bsky.social |
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Frequent reader and occasional writer of spooky stories. Copy-editor by daylight. Whatever walks here, walks alone.
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I seem to have gone from outright disliking The Fall to listening to them daily within the space of about a fortnight. Not sure what this says about my mental health. Dont have time to think about that; too busy listening to Eat Y’self Fitter for the fourth time today
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Oh goddamn I’d missed this one 😟
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Why are they keeping Jeremy Vine in a pit under the BBC studio?
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Taking a quick break from politics to share this, Day 4 of my July deep dive into the best #horror stories of all time. Tonight's is The Grey House by Basil Copper. Do come have a look!
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#horrorsky #horrorreaders #horrorfiction #horrorstories
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On Day 3 of my deep dive into the best #horror stories ever written, we visit a lonely newspaper office for HF Arnold's terrifying The Night Wire. Come join in the fun! frightfulfiends.wordpress.com/2024/07/03/d...
#horrorsky #horrorfiction #horrorstories
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Really interesting way to think about it though! (I’ll be trying to test this rule all week in my head haha!)
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Jack of all trades, master of puns 🫡
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Oh such an interesting point! I’m racking my brains trying to think of a counter example and I can’t. Especially re: fighting back changes the mood somewhat
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Day 2 of my deep dive into the stories that made me who I am today. Today it's the turn of Edward Bulwer Lytton's 'The Haunted and the Haunters' - a hugely underrated story IMO! Come agree (or disagree) with me here: frightfulfiends.wordpress.com/2024/07/02/d...
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Just bought, thank you for the heads up! Wonderful name for a story.
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I'm spending July talking about my favourite #horror stories on my blog! Starting out with a true classic, MR James' 'Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'. Come join in the fun! frightfulfiends.wordpress.com/2024/07/01/d... #horrorsky #horrorwriters #horrorreaders
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(Although this year I’m watching Fontaines DC’s set and thinking: maybe it’s time Glastonbury started paying their sound engineers lol)
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Every year I spend #Glastonbury weekend watching it endlessly on iPlayer and thinking: next year! Maybe next year!
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Tonight’s read is the latest Tales of the Weird collection. Creepy dolls terrify me, so I’m looking forward to and dreading this one in equal measure…lights on tonight! 🫣
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What beautiful copies!
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I love a summer horror! It’s fun to creep yourself out while the nights are drawing in but if a book can frighten me while the sun is blazing down it’s a real keeper
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(Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House)
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“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against the hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.”
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AC Benson tonight! The Grey Cat is deliciously creepy (all the more so because this weather makes the pull of the evil pool extremely understandable!)
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Spending my summer evenings reading classic ghost stories is the best choice I’ve made all year
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