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Illustration from ‘The Barrowcross Angler’. An early tale in the city-idiot-comes-to-the-country #folkhorror genre.
It should be noted that some familiars are more trouble than they are worth. - #CLNolan
A ghost is a likely appear in broad daylight in a suburban street as some moon-soaked ruin. - Dr. M. Benn, 1976
A #Hookland child does not grow up with the lie that all Faery or Other Folk are ‘fair of face’.
The legendary Mermen sometimes recorded in the Islands of the Marsh have an ill reputation. #FolkloreThursday
A 16th century depiction of the Bone Harrower, one of the more fearsome folklore beasts of Hookland.
Folklore is where we gift our children monsters. A present so wonderful they give it in turn. - #FolkloreThursday
The Wandle family who disappeared from Barrowcross Moor in 1963. These two photos were recovered from their camera.
"Totems come in many forms. Some hold to the tree, we the pylon."
- Dee-Dee, Child of the Hum, HOHP-I
Beyond locked gates and short tunnel, lies the closed physic garden of Hook, where so many have felt 'dislocated'.