Joseph
@joecam79
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Music, old and new. Literature, book blogs and reviews. History and folklore. Sacred and profane. Some Gothic stuff. Occasionally dabbling in words.
Malta
Joined February 2011
Today is Twelfth Night, the eve of the Epiphany. It's a time for festivities marking the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas, and the transition from midwinter into the new year: parties, king-cakes, fire rituals, and wassailing to waken the trees from their winter sleep.
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The Witching Hour: Ghostly Tales for the Darkest Nights #bookreview #ChristmasGothic
https://t.co/GwmDXeFx96
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Vytautas Miškinis: Seven O Antiphons: I. O Sapientia · The Choir of Royal Holloway · Rupert Gough #Advent #OAntiphons
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This is the time of year for a favourite Old English word: the leaves are 'fallowing', from the verb fealwian, 'to turn yellow-gold'. In Anglo-Saxon poetry fealo (fallow) is the pale golden shade of fire, linden shields, sword hilts and autumn leaves. They fallow, then they fall.
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Today's $2.99 spooky deal on Kindle is Luigi Musolino's A DIFFERENT DARKNESS, a brilliant collection of folk horror from Italy. The follow-up volume is coming soon, so in the meantime, grab this one cheap! https://t.co/MDIawLOUTc
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Peteris Vasks: Castillo Interior #StTheresaofAvila
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Funeral For a Postponed Death: On Burying Argentina’s Disappeared https://t.co/MUA6o5gBEN via @lithub
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Translation by Megan McDowell In the middle of August 2011, I received an email from my colleague and friend Marta Dillon. It was an invitation to the burial of Marta Taboada, her mother, who had b…
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Beyond Frankenstein: the #Gothic short stories of Mary Shelley #botd in 1797 #MaryShelley
https://t.co/vwDdY31NsO
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TERRA (2001) by Giovanni Sollima - choreographed by Francesca Abela Tranter: Malta International Arts Festival 2025 https://t.co/g3fZiRAgRb
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Michelle Paver returns to historical "explorer horror" with her forthcoming novel "Rainforest" https://t.co/zSphUMGY5J
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Saltwash by Andrew Michael Hurley, philosophical folk-horror with a riff on Shirley Jackson. https://t.co/YHNhWIoNQH
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#nightmusic Born-again Romantic...US composer George Rochberg (1918-2005) was #botd. Here are his lyrical "Variations (on Pachelbel)" from String Quartet 6 https://t.co/d0oxOMNYPN
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