Month: September 2020

Hookland 9/8/20 3:14:30

Due to the common superstition that if a named is erased or eroded from a gravestone, the spirit of the dead below is free to walk again, many Hooklanders have morbid fear of the boneyard’s oldest recorders of history. – George Kindred, ‘Hookland Hauntings’, 1970 https://t.co/eR8BUpMLiY

Hookland 9/8/20 3:29:51

@MariaStrutz The language of stones is slow, deliberate and meticulous. A conversation may take decades, but no word is wasted. They speak in graceful economy.

Hookland 9/8/20 4:45:58

@HauntedHaworth @tae_riley Aye. Sometimes people work to be experts in pisspuffinry with the sort of zeal that suggests that they think it is a learning akin to rocket science.

Hookland 9/8/20 5:49:37

There are ghosts in those Negretti & Grasso motion picture machines. Not all are what the butler saw. Some contain lives stolen from time. Flip-book spirit traps. Penny loops of dead summers. Caution is advised when viewing. https://t.co/Q9fyVAAjQ3

Hookland 9/8/20 5:59:20

@buchanan_br It is from a Negretti & Grasso Rotopicta machine. The butler usually saw a tepid striptease. The butler usually did it because he was best placed to manipulate the setting for murder and had more than most to hate his masters.