#the uncanny

[funeral]

Rosemary Jackson, Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion

[briarrosefromthedead]

The Uncanny (1977) dir. Denis Héroux

[goldengirlssaywhat]

📺 The Golden Girls (1991)

[briarfall]

April 30, Just Before Beltane

There’s a certain kind of stillness today. Not empty, just the sense of something being out there. Of hearing the magic of the world and nature better. There are glimmering and sunshiny presences, beings made of fairy dust and light. 🧚🏻

Beltane hasn’t arrived yet. It’s waiting. And something in the world feels loosened, like the edges aren’t holding as tightly as they usually do. The air is softer, but sharper too. As if it’s paying attention back.

They say this is when the veil thins. Not tomorrow: now. In this in-between.

You don’t suddenly see anything. It’s quieter than that. A flicker where there shouldn’t be one. The sense that something moved just outside your focus.

The old stories call them the Fae. Not gentle, not kind, just there. Drawn to sweetness, to gardens, to edges. To places where things are just beginning to grow wild.

I was reading about willow today. How it bends, how it belongs to water and the moon. There’s that idea that if you shape a small circle from it and look through, you might catch a glimpse of something you usually miss. Not because it appears, but because you finally notice! This is called a Willow Faerie Eye.

Days and nights like this change the way you see.

If you step outside at dusk, to the edge of something—garden, forest, water—and just stand there for a moment… the world feels slightly off-balance. Alive in a way that doesn’t belong entirely to us. That is... the presence of the Fae.

I was inspired in part by Anjou Kiernan’s beautiful book, The Ultimate Guide to the Witch’s Wheel of the Year

Burn your Beltane fires high! Even if it's a candle, like for me it will be this year.

Blessed Beltane! 🌸🧚🏻✨🔥

[endomentendo]

The Stranger my beloved fear of concealed identity.

[chaosagent23]

October 2025 Horror Movies Watched

October 25: The Uncanny - 1977

[dark-ethereal-visions]

It's a sad day for 80s horror fans - Samantha Eggar (March 5, 1939-October 15, 2025) has passed away at age 86.