Day: 14 February 2024

#18 – “Whispers”

Posted on 14th February 2024 by PJH

Children know that ghosts are real. That faeries dance in waste-ground scrub. Playground whispers re-tell centuried tales. The untenanted house remains haunted. Clowns should never be trusted. He said, she said, they said. From ancestors’ lips into babes’ ears.  
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#17 – “Okiku”

Posted on 14th February 2024 by PJH

In the Japanese city of Himeji stands a hilltop castle. In its grounds is a well. A haunted well. Okiku was the beautiful servant of a Samurai. Murdered by her master for rejecting his advances, Okiku’s ghost is said to
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#15 “Nuckelvee”

Posted on 14th February 2024 by PJH

The Nuckelavee is a being much dreaded in the Orkney Isles. A sea demon whose breath blights crops, yet even more terrifying on land. Skinless, veins pulsing with black blood, muscles writhing, some say it rides a horse. Others that
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#14 “Pig”

Posted on 14th February 2024 by PJH

  Long ago a pregnant sow escaped butchery in Hampstead, fleeing into the sewers below. Nourished on refuse, her hoglets interbred, each generation growing more monstrous and ferocious. Only the constant flow of the subterranean river Fleet prevents their escape.
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#13 “Chronos”

Posted on 14th February 2024 by PJH

Chronos was the Ancient Greek word for time, Cronos their sickle carrying God of Agriculture. Romans related Cronos to their own Saturn, and made him an old man. His sickle became a scythe, and Cronos became Old Father Time who,
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