Month: February 2020

The gallow ghosts walk their death routes – cell to dule tree, cell to gibbet. There is no straying from their path, no escape from the rope. An eternal certainty of destination. If this does not pull pity from us, we are poor specimens indeed. – C. Josiffe, 1934

The gallow ghosts walk their death routes – cell to dule tree, cell to gibbet. There is no straying from their path, no escape from the rope. An eternal certainty of destination. If this does not pull pity from us, we are poor specimens indeed. – C. Josiffe, 1934

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) August 1, 2020

@NuitsdeY @Markgatiss @MattRCrofts @Janine_Hatter @DrJaninaRamirez @MartinB_Archaeo https://t.co/RCXUZdrmxP

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— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) August 1, 2020

Living out in Marshbone, we were served by the library van. As a kid it was frustrating. All the Doctor Who Target novels, the copy of The World of the Unknown and the Book of Hookland Horrors always went earlier on the round. We had to wait years for them. – Tom Fychfield #VOH

Living out in Marshbone, we were served by the library van. As a kid it was frustrating. All the Doctor Who Target novels, the copy of The World of the Unknown and the Book of Hookland Horrors always went earlier on the round. We had to wait years for them. – Tom Fychfield #VOH

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) August 1, 2020

@andypaciorekart It was such a big shock moving from somehere with a well-stocked library to the territory of the van. You’d end up reading a Doris Stokes’ book just for something that wasn’t big print or from the 1900s.

It was such a big shock moving from somehere with a well-stocked library to the territory of the van. You'd end up reading a Doris Stokes' book just for something that wasn't big print or from the 1900s.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) August 1, 2020

@GehegeDrei @andypaciorekart When you are 10 and on the wrong end of the library van round, you get desperate.

When you are 10 and on the wrong end of the library van round, you get desperate.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) August 1, 2020

@GehegeDrei @andypaciorekart https://t.co/16ae8jvXdw

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— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) August 1, 2020

@soundkiosk @andypaciorekart Libraries made me. https://t.co/Nez29AcnP8

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— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) August 1, 2020

@skullsnsheets As someone who endured domestic abuse for nine years, I empathise and I will celebrate your decision.

As someone who endured domestic abuse for nine years, I empathise and I will celebrate your decision.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) August 1, 2020

@skullsnsheets You lose yourself, you lose all semblance of normal. Abuse colonises your mind. The ‘just leave’ is never a simple, easily achievable or selectable option.

You lose yourself, you lose all semblance of normal. Abuse colonises your mind. The 'just leave' is never a simple, easily achievable or selectable option.

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) August 1, 2020

I came across an intriguing late 18th pamphlet in the archive which gave directions for commanding ghosts to speak. Most interesting was a section on using ‰Û÷Galvanic energy‰Ûª to force ghosts to appear from the blood of not only the dead, but the living – #MattAdams, 1980

I came across an intriguing late 18th pamphlet in the archive which gave directions for commanding ghosts to speak. Most interesting was a section on using ‘Galvanic energy’ to force ghosts to appear from the blood of not only the dead, but the living – #MattAdams, 1980

— Hookland (@HooklandGuide) August 2, 2020