“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
Frenchville by Jordan Elizabeth
”Elizabeth sets her novella in the liminal zone between psychological thriller and ghost story, drawing on the emotional force of gothic tales without the baroque complexities.”
More thoughts: https://davidjhiggins.wordpress.com/2025/04/04/frenchville-by-jordan-elizabeth/
Strange lights can sometimes be spotted in the German countryside at night.
Some of them are friendly, and some of them are... not.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/lighting-way-to-47458631
The Black Monk of the Danube was a terrifying specter of doom.
#Austria #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @austria @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/dreadful-52009109
Many lost souls appear as "fiery men" - humanoid apparitions of living flames.
#Austria #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @austria @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/blessings-upon-47613599
The high alpine meadows are not good places to linger in the dark.
#Austria #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @austria @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/dreadful-52009109
Do not build new facilities on the ruins of an old, haunted monastery - unless you are okay with inheriting their ghosts.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ghosts-in-mill-52008960
Peer-reviewed papers on the academic legacy of...ghosts and ghost stories: https://toot.lgbt/@lisawilliams/114226201683071850 #spooky #ghosts #halloween #ghoststory #ghoststories
Seeing the invisible world might be tempting, but this is not without its risks.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/send-in-monks-45254337
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
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
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
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
Brautlachenberg Mountain is haunted by a wedding party cursed for their blasphemy.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ghost-stories-27398144
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
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".
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
Just released on our YouTube channel!!
The Midnight Toe 
A Chilling Encounter with the Unknown. #HorrorStory #GhostStory #Supernatural #Paranormal #ScaryStories #CreepyTales #HauntedRoom #MysteriousEncounters #NightmareFuel #MidnightHorror #HorrorNarration #ClassicHorror #UnsolvedMystery
If ghosts are not willing or able to go in Heaven's light, then they can always be forced to go in the Devil's name.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/out-of-sight-out-45786804
