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Autumn comes to the cottages with carpets of apple rot that sour the air with vinegar tang. Comes in a dressing of the year not in green gowns, but wounded rags of brown. It comes as a fear of early darkness. A terror of hungry spirits that rush the path. – #DAKilory, 1982
Fresh on the Haunted Generation site... my previous @forteantimes.bsky.social column, so hello @willmac23.bsky.social @waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com @goldensamphireband.bsky.social @heartwood9.bsky.social @famishedforblonds.bsky.social... hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2026/10/05/t...
The Haunted Generation In The Fortean Times (Issue 472)
Bob Fischer rounds up the latest news from the parallel worlds of popular hauntology
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The end is here. We reach the grim, apocalyptic conclusion to the big screen incarnation of Nigel Kneale’s Quatermass in The Quatermass Conclusion We break down the theatrical cut, human harvesting, and the ultimate fate of Professor Bernard Quatermass Listen, subscribe, share: tinyurl.com/qMass4
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Today's answer to the question what is Hookland?
Atop a legendary hollow hill you may see a historic patchwork of fields, a green and pleasant. You would not be wrong seeing this. However, you could look out an enchanted landscape of ghost soil, a place rich with the promise of strange adventures. – The Phoenix Guide to Strange England
If you like Heartwood, chances are this folk horror doc is way up your street : youtu.be/kiehzGvYjHo?...
Why Folk Horror Keeps Coming Back
YouTube video by videoliberto
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"The code that the computer understands is normally put onto cards or paper tape" (1971) Artist: BH Robinson ‘How it Works: The Computer’
Old corpse roads, old wraith ways – where bodies were carried from distant communities to churches and cemeteries – are now rarely used for their earlier purpose. This doesn't stop hikers following lych paths, dead lines. This doesn't stop them being spectral highways. – Dr. M. Benn, 1982
We went into this place, its a high place, has all sorts of things there & up stairs there is an inside Tea Room very big, & the floor on the very Top is a Tea Room & gardens, its the only one in the world as high up as this; a roof garden, its so pretty, its hard to believe that its a roof garden.
The Pylon People – AKA the Children of The Hum – were labelled as everything from 'a very English apocalypse cult' to 'filthy hippies unable to keep still'. Few understood their continuous pilgrimage, their strange navigations directed by the humming lines above. – Dr. M. Benn
The “top left-hand corner of Wales” - will forever be the land of Ivor the Engine
‘Swifts, swallows and Canada geese’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe What to Look for in Summer, 1960
‘Great Inventions, 1961’ Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Artist: Robert Ayton
I never visited #Hookland at the same time the Children of the Hum were walking the lines - I was too busy being born in the year of the last free festival - but it's nice to follow their footsteps from the common down to the coast in the hope of catching an echo of the magic they heard.
The white bone horse of summer is starting to become mere memory of its Midsummer dancing. Some villages will welcome it again as Mummer steed, plague play cameo. One last dance and clip-clopping of the ways before the brutal heat ends, before we stoop and walk towards winter.
Selling on my Behringer System15 with some extra modules, includes case and power. Would prefer not to post as it's a bulky item. £450.00 ono
Thank you @fennerpearson.bsky.social for including no less than three tracks from The Silent Harvest in the latest Electronic Ears 🙏❤️🙏
Fenner Pearson@fennerpearson.bsky.social · 3mo agoGood morning! Last night's #electronicears is now up on Mixcloud. www.mixcloud.com/fennerpearso...
Absolutely wonderful review of The Silent Harvest Vol 1 by Mat Smith in the latest @electronicsound.bsky.social - he totally gets what we were trying to do. Thank you! 🙏 ❤️🙏
Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘Scarecrow’ (Look and Learn Magazine) Artist: Ronald Lampitt
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Bob Fischer@bobfischer.bsky.social · 3mo agoGrab the new @forteantimes.bsky.social! It has my latest Haunted Generation column, with thoughts on work by @willmac23.bsky.social @waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com @goldensamphireband.bsky.social @heartwood9.bsky.social @famishedforblonds.bsky.social @gidouille.bsky.social and more...
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 252
Based on the track “a_beat” by “Jawhinge” from the release “WeirdWired”.Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 12 track virtual tape with a met…
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Thanks for including @heartwood9.bsky.social’s Lass of Lochroyan from The Silent Harvest, @trevlad.bsky.social! ❤️🙏❤️
Trevlad@trevlad.bsky.social · 3mo agoBased on the track “a_beat” by “Jawhinge” from the release “WeirdWired”. If you make music, or are a label, and would like to be featured, send your file links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I’d love to hear what you’re working on.
#MusicSky #NowListening The Silent Harvest Vol.1 @folkpolice.com @heartwood9.bsky.social @hawksmoormusic.bsky.social Uncanny heat haze, humid vibrations, the land shifting uneasy, the air humming... Beautiful & ominous... Folks, this is a singularly phenomenal collection 😎👍🖤
To celebrate the Solstice and Cumbria's counter cultural past.... theheartwoodinstitute.bandcamp.com/album/the-mo...
The Moon Festivals, by The Heartwood Institute
4 track album
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Today is full of magics. You don’t need to read about others experiences, you don’t need to capture your own to share. Today, just bathe in it all. Harvest your own omens, revel in whatever blessings the day offers. Refuse to be part of the mediated spectacle. Find your own primal wonder. #Solstice