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Freelance journalist specialising in the gothic, weird history, the literary, dark & strange. Amazon #1 best-seller of non-fic (Shire/Bloomsbury). Novelist, winner of the Go Gothic Short Fiction Prize. Likes Victorian oddness, folklore, graveyards, mythology, psychogeography, mad Romantic poets, etc. Website & blog: https://www. davidcastleton.net/serpents_pe n_blog/

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David Castleton (Author)

@david_castleton@universeodon.com

Freelance journalist specialising in the gothic, weird history, the literary, dark & strange. Amazon #1 best-seller of non-fic (Shire/Bloomsbury). Novelist, winner of the Go Gothic Short Fiction Prize. Likes Victorian oddness, folklore, graveyards, mythology, psychogeography, mad Romantic poets, etc. Website & blog: https://www. davidcastleton.net/serpents_pe n_blog/

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@david_castleton@universeodon.com · Mar 09, 2026

Real attempts to deal with 'dangerous corpses' persisted in England long after vampires had been made into literary and theatrical spectacles. Four years after the publication of 'Dracula', a Devon farmer is recorded as saying the coffin of a "troublesome" woman would be buried upside-down so "her can on'y diggy downwards." During World War I, English soldiers are recorded as having buried a "huge, scowling" German facedown for the same reason. #gothic #folklore #mythology #vampire #vampires #death #history #paranormal #weird

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David Castleton (Author)

@david_castleton@universeodon.com

Freelance journalist specialising in the gothic, weird history, the literary, dark & strange. Amazon #1 best-seller of non-fic (Shire/Bloomsbury). Novelist, winner of the Go Gothic Short Fiction Prize. Likes Victorian oddness, folklore, graveyards, mythology, psychogeography, mad Romantic poets, etc. Website & blog: https://www. davidcastleton.net/serpents_pe n_blog/

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David Castleton (Author)

@david_castleton@universeodon.com

Freelance journalist specialising in the gothic, weird history, the literary, dark & strange. Amazon #1 best-seller of non-fic (Shire/Bloomsbury). Novelist, winner of the Go Gothic Short Fiction Prize. Likes Victorian oddness, folklore, graveyards, mythology, psychogeography, mad Romantic poets, etc. Website & blog: https://www. davidcastleton.net/serpents_pe n_blog/

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@david_castleton@universeodon.com · Mar 07, 2026

Painting of the Last Judgement from Haukipudas Church, Finland, by Mikael Toppelius (1770s). Notice the 'biting corpse' in the lower left-hand corner. Toppelius was known for incorporating folkloric material into his Baroque style and the biting corpse may represent local beliefs in what might be termed 'the restless dead', more commonly known as 'vampires'. This area of Finland may have been influenced by Scandinavian ideas about such revenants. #art #churches #folklore #gothic #weird #vampire #vampires #death #history #Finland #paranormal

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Erin Ptah

@ErinPtah@universeodon.com

Artist, humanist, fangirl. LGBTQ fantasy comics with language jokes, trauma/recovery, time travel, & cats.

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Erin Ptah

@ErinPtah@universeodon.com

Artist, humanist, fangirl. LGBTQ fantasy comics with language jokes, trauma/recovery, time travel, & cats.

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@ErinPtah@universeodon.com · Mar 06, 2026

If I had better brand synergy, I'd schedule this behind-the-scenes bonus #LeifAndThorn post to release alongside "the next public #Vampire Hunter AU update." But I don't know when that's going to be! So you're getting it now: https://www.patreon.com/posts/deleted-and-in-147411150

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MTHart

@mthart@mastodon.world

Horror and Erotica author. # nobubblegumvampiresallowed # horror # vampire # author

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MTHart

@mthart@mastodon.world

Horror and Erotica author. # nobubblegumvampiresallowed # horror # vampire # author

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@mthart@mastodon.world · Feb 21, 2026

What do leprechauns really do at the end of the rainbow? They read the books of MT Hart! And you should too! #nobubblegumvampiresallowed The Mortal Series and other MT Hart Books! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08P7LXHFZ Libros de espanol! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTWBQSFH #ホラー #吸血鬼 #horror #vampire

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