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In 1949 Venice suffered renewed bombardment by necroplasmic particle-waves from the Martian Warpmind’s interplanetary phoboscopic terrorsaucers.
Many believed the attacks were to ensure Martian canals could not be counterinvaded by mercenary Venetian-Venusian Gondolier Grenadiers
Dearest Darkest Readers,
Curious Forgotten Lore is likely to be a little quiet today as I will be at a family funeral & wake.
Abnormal service will resume shortly as we head to toward the delightful horrors of Unhalloween.
You have been forewarned…
Traditions merge & mingle, crossing cultural boundaries to plant new roots in the soil of other lands.
An exemplary case can be found in Liverpool, where in the Mexican quarter of the Baltic Triangle revellers celebrate
‘Diddy Dias de los Doddy’
or in Scouse,
“De Day of de Dodd”
@michelechollow Thank you! Lots more macabre oddities to come :) Have a happy October!
@MarthaTilghman That’s fair enough :)
Most of my @LoreCurious stuff is a mix of horror/fantasy/sci-fi/folklore/occult/comedy with an lot of bad jokes, awful puns extremely obscure references, satire & gallows humour. Not to everyone’s taste by any means. But if you like the decidedly weird… ;)
@AProdigiosus Yes, since (I think) late July. A few new tweets spaced through the day + some retweets from the archive. Still bringing you the news that was, wisely, erased from history…