Hookland 2/3/19 5:33:45

@concretism_mus @soullessparty @Bob_Fischer @hambert @ScarredForLife2 @richard_littler We are haunted as much by the future as the past. All the what-if sci-fi tomorrows that haven‰Ûªt happened yet as much as our yesterday cicatrix.

Hookland 2/3/19 6:56:47

I took lunch at Dead Boy Barrel Inn and heard all its tales of knocks and ill-omen. A good ghost story does make ale taste better. – #CLNolan in letter to Arthur Machen

Hookland 2/3/19 8:48:11

The folklore of Lady Sarah of Lumbwell, murdered by her step-mother and fed to her father in pastries, has at least given us the March tradition of eating Sweet Sarah cakes in her memory. – George Kindred, 1953

Hookland 2/3/19 9:49:23

Sergeant Nokes had come to regard the Hollyford Estate as odd even by Hookland standards. Nowhere in Yorkshire had he had to endure constant reports of ‰Û÷floating balls of witch fire‰Ûª, ‰Û÷dream smoke‰Ûª and ‰Û÷vandalism by faeries‰Ûª. – #DICallaghan

Hookland 2/3/19 10:13:23

@allanwin No-one could call any Yorkshireman sheltered, but not even at Todmorden nick would you expect an unrelenting stream of calls blaming faeries rather than little Herbert‰Ûªs.