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These giveaways are supposed to be a vehicle to promote my book but I have to admit that I am most excited that this one includes GENUINE VICTORIAN COFFIN NAILS
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Join me and these amazing writers for the third installment of DARKNESS IN THE FIELDS, a festival of folk horror, next Saturday! I will be talking about The Bleeding Tree followed by an audience Q&A.
Get your tickets here! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/darkness-in-the-fields-3-tickets-660382520897
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Due to natural erosion the geoglyph is now far more faint, though restoration efforts were undertaken in 2016.
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(P.S. Your first audiobook on Audible is free - why not make it this one? 
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https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Bleeding-Tree-Audiobook/B0BPTNRC52
Audible.co.ukThe Bleeding TreeCheck out this great listen on Audible.com. Brought to you by Penguin. It was the last of the ebbing days, the brink of the new season. It was the murky hours, the clove between sunset and sunrise. It was a tall tree with deep roots and it had been bleeding for a long while. As summer falls into a...
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Their presence, however performative, was a visual symbol of status, that this man’s death was a true tragedy.
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This sad tale is one of a noble rescue but also what time at sea can do to a man; its power to grant riches and take away just as easily.
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Images are from short film The Curse of Micah Rood (dir. Alec Asten, 2008) which you can find on youtube and vimeo.
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Plus their display is pretty unimaginative, next to Mickey Easterling, a New Orleans socialite known for her extravagant parties, who didn’t want to miss out on her final one. At her own funeral she was seated centre-stage with her signature feather boa, a cigarette in one hand and a champagne flute in the other.
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The idea that true heroics require silence - how deep does this run? And to what extent does trope in folklore inform masculinity today?
#folkhorror #folkhorrormagpie #10daysofbleedingtree #thebleedingtree #folklore #deathlore #threefolddeath #merlin #virgil #fianna
Images: Jean-Baptiste Peytavin 1808, Mary Evans c1910, Gustave Doré 1832-33, 'Merlin's Prophecy,' National Library of France 1290-1300
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It gives quite an insight into the relative gravity of each of these ‘transgressions’ within cultural mores at the time. Watson still lies in his crossroads grave just outside of Holbeach.
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Illustration: Pedler Russell
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You can also follow me over on Twitter for the time being @holliestarling for updates.
And thankyou, as ever, for the inspiration.
Hollie x