The Twelve Days : Day Seven
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On the seventh day of Christmas, Old Halob gave to me Seven mordant herons, Six hideous bat-gods, Ectoplasm! Four dead chaffinches, Three poptarts, Two cardboard pigs, And a viper, a shrew, and a bee.
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The Twelve Days : Day Six
On the sixth day of Christmas, Old Halob gave to me Six hideous bat-gods, Ectoplasm! Four dead chaffinches, Three poptarts, Two cardboard pigs, And a viper, a shrew, and a bee.
The Twelve Days : Day Five
On the fifth day of Christmas, Old Halob gave to me Ectoplasm! Four dead chaffinches, Three poptarts, Two cardboard pigs, And a viper, a shrew, and a bee.
Overdue Boxing Day Project
Astute readers, with their wits about them, will have noticed that the Hooting Yard Boxing Day Project failed to appear yesterday. I do apologise. What wit one thing and anutter, as my Belgian mother used to say, I simply didn’t … Continue reading
Hooting Yard Advent Calendar (xxi)
A ghostly paranormal substance that could be doughy, sticky, airy, smoky, or thick and syrupy so far neglected by the Hooting Yard Advent Calendar is… ectoplasm! Today we put that right with this tremendously thrilling photograph of Mina Stinson Crandon, … Continue reading
Weep, Pontius, For Thou Art Become Noddy
Today marks the sixtieth anniversary of the publication of Weep, Pontius, For Thou Art Become Noddy, a dirge of excruciating length by Mavis Goosebeak. It is a curious work, based on the conceit that Pontius Pilate was reincarnated as Enid … Continue reading
In Heaven
My ascent into heaven was, I am sorry to say, something of a disappointment. To begin with, the angels who bore me aloft, away from mortal clay, were a shabby bunch. Their wings were threadbare and caked in dust, their … Continue reading
A Week Late
I ought to have posted this waxen image last week, to mark the changing of the year, but back then, in the past, I had never seen it. It’s a detail from “Time And Death” by Caterina de Julianis (1695-1742), … Continue reading
Inaccurate Almanacke
This week over at The Dabbler I am afraid I have had to issue a set of corrections and clarifications to Old Key’s Almanacke for 2011. As I point out, the errors in the original were probably due to the … Continue reading
C
Our alphabet continues with C for canker worm. Sorely perplexed was I, that I was waking each morning, and had been for months on end, engulfed in a miasma of unutterable spiritual desolation. I sought advice from a quack I … Continue reading
Poultry Yards Of The Grand Archdukes
Within minutes of beginning my research into the poultry yards of archdukes, I struck gold. I suppose I should not have been surprised to learn that it was a topic to which Dobson had turned his attention, in his pamphlet … Continue reading
Monkey Divertisements
We have already learned how one can guarantee a tea party free of monkey divertisements by the simple expedient of dangling, on the end of a length of string suspended from the ceiling over the centre of the tea table, … Continue reading
The Terrible Fate Of Mrs Sludge, The Medium
Mrs Sludge had a green ray spasm, and extruded a gush of ectoplasm. It was eerie and pale. Then there came a fierce gale, and she toppled down into a chasm. NOTE : “The verses written by the unseen power … Continue reading
Ectoteleideoplasm
“The word ‘ectoplasm’ was not known to the Victorians, and after it was coined by the French spiritualist Charles Richet it vied in favour with ‘teleplasm’ and ‘ideoplasm’. Richet had thought up the term after a seance in 1903. “There … Continue reading
When Ghouls Attack!
Picture courtesy of The Victorian Era When ghouls attack, there are certain precautions the sensible householder can take to avoid permanent disarrangement of the senses. Ghouls will oft times take you into their chill embrace and drip ghastly ectoplasm from … Continue reading