on 09Oct202309Oct2023

Halloween Celebration (Scotland’s Most Haunted Poems) : ‘Halloween & Tam O’ Shanter’ by Robert Burns

#witch #tamoshanter #horrorstories #witchesofinstagram #scotland #witches #witchcraft #horrorstories #horrorstory #booktube #halloween #authortube #robertburns #horrorauthor ‘Among the bonny winding banks, Where Doon rins, wimplin’ clear, Where Bruce ance ruled the martial ranks, And shook his Carrick spear, Some merry, friendly, country-folks, Together did convene, To burn their nits, and pou their stocks, And haud their Halloween […]

on 09Oct202309Oct2023

HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION 2023: Halloween 2020 Collection

by Jeffrey LeBlanc

#halloween #halloween2020 #booktube #halloweenpoetry #books #lovecraft #horrorstories #horrorstory #horrorauthor ‘Thro’ the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber, Past the wan-moon’d abysses of night, I have liv’d o’er my lives without number, I have sounded all things with my sight; And I struggle and shriek ere the daybreak, being driven to madness with fright.–H.P. Lovecraft (Nemesis) https://youtube.com/@dwellerofthedark?sub_confirmation=1 https://youtube.com/shorts/gaZAcayE96s?feature=share […]

on 22Sep202322Sep2023

BEST VAMPIRE HORROR: ‘Ligeia’ by Edgar Allan Poe

by Jeffrey LeBlanc

And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigour? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.–Joseph Glanvill

on 18Apr2023April 18, 2023

BAT JUNGLE HORROR: ‘The Pool of the Stone God’ by Abraham Merrit

by Jeffrey LeBlanc

‘We started back through the forest. We walked some distance and then night fell. We lost the brook. After a half hour’s wandering we heard it again. We started for it. The trees began to thin out and we thought we were approaching the beach. Then Waters clutched my arm. I stopped. Directly in front of us was the open space with the stone god leering under the moon and the green water shining at his feet!’ —Abraham Merrit (The Pool of the Stone God)

on 14Apr2023April 14, 2023

SEA HORROR: ‘The Symbol’ by Robert E. Howard

by Jeffrey LeBlanc

But deep in the seaweed-haunted halls in the green unlighted deep,

Inhuman kings await the day that shall break their chains of sleep.

And far in a grim untrodden land on a jungle-girded hill,

A pillar stands like a sign of Fate, in subtle warning still.

—Robert E. Howard (The Symbol)

on 14Apr2023May 4, 2023

SWAMP HORROR: ‘Island of the Giant Snail’ by Jeffrey LeBlanc

by Jeffrey LeBlanc

‘Deaf, as he would be for the rest of his days, Stewart Baker slowly glanced back. Sweat poured from his brow and mixed with the blood caked on his shirt. He half expected the colossus of the snails to roar down the trenasse in pursuit, crushing everything in its wake. He almost welcomed the death by such a terrifying beast.’
—Jeffrey LeBlanc (Island of the Giant Snail)

on 02Nov202202Nov2022

Halloween Celebration–The Most Haunted Scottish Poem “Tam O’ Shanter”

by Jeffrey LeBlanc

“Ah! little ken’d thy reverend grannie,

That sark she coft for her wee Nannie,

Wi’ twa pund Scots (’twas a’ her riches),

Wad ever grac’d a dance of witches!”

— Robert Burns (Tam O’ Shanter)

on 01Nov2022November 1, 2022

Best Halloween Horror–Episode 30: Lord Byron & Adelaide Crapsey

by Jeffrey LeBlanc

“Start not—nor deem my spirit fled:

In me behold the only skull

From which, unlike a living head,

Whatever flows is never dull.

I lived, I loved, I quaff’d, like thee:

I died: let earth my bones resign;

Fill up—thou canst not injure me;

The worm hath fouler lips than thine.”–Lord Byron (Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed from a Skull)

on 01Nov202201Nov2022

Best Halloween Horror–Episode 29: “Haunted Houses” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

by Jeffrey LeBlanc

“All houses wherein men have lived and died

Are haunted houses. Through the open doors

The harmless phantoms on their errands glide,

With feet that make no sound upon the floors.”

–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Haunted Houses)

on 01Nov202201Nov2022

Best Halloween Horror–Episode 28: “Stragella”, “Ice in the Veins”, & “Ligeia”

by Jeffrey LeBlanc

And human heads, many of them, scattered about like an assembly of mocking, dead-alive faces, leering at him, watching him with hellish anticipation. The place was a morgue—a charnel house!”–Hugh B. Cave (Stragella)

on 01Nov2022November 1, 2022