Theo Paijmans

One small blessing in this life is that so far I have encountered no evidence that Lovecraft was at all familiar with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

I want to write something about how major twentieth century antisemites from Hitler and Goebbels to conspiracist grand dame Nesta Webster regarded the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in a similar way as techofacists understand Golden Age scifi--as prophetic fiction.

"As she kept walking she noticed classrooms filled with strange things; one contained a dust storm, another a dying landscape lit by a large, red sun. One classroom appeared to be a storeroom of a shop. Bundles wrapped in brown paper lay silently on the shelves besides piles of sparkling geodes..."

These two beauties rolled in last week. I am trying to complete my set of the ‘Myths and Legends’ series published by Harrap, from 1907 to 1929.

Tuesday shelfie. The Victorians took a deep dive into the mysteries of life and death. It was the only time that the entire scientific world investigated the paranormal. It was bigger than 20th century UFO research. We may not be nearer to the answers we seek, but it is not because they didn't try.

The great James Machin on Machen, Buchen, and Conan Doyle. That's this morning's listen all sorted. (Pro tip: pick up James's book "Weird Fiction in Britain 1880-1939".) alexmonk.substack.com/p/arthur-mac...

A nook of my library. 19th c. ‘Journals’ and ‘Proceedings’ of Society of Psychical Research. 19th c. German spiritist magazine ‘Sphinx’. 19th c. Dutch spiritist magazine ‘Op de Grenzen van Twee Werelden’. Years of research. We may not be nearer to the answers, but it isn’t because of lack of trying.

I found this treasure recently, published in 1930. Thompson was quite an interesting author. He wrote a number of similar books, always beginning with ‘The Mystery and Lore of…’ about magic, monsters, astrology and alchemy. I have most of them.

incredibly humbling to have been first through the breach on this. no trans woman had ever had a horror novel at a big five publisher before MANHUNT, which is not to slap myself on the back but to comment on how lonely and scary it was. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

This classic study arrived the other day. I find these cases fascinating when cross referenced with physical effects on ufo close encounters experiencers, spoon benders, fire starters and poltergeist reports. Is there a common denominator?

That's nice! The mighty @forteantimes.bsky.social has republished my 'Phone Calls from the Dead' article in their 'More Ghosts and Hauntings' anthology. I am honoured! For those of you who missed it the first time around, now's your ghostly chance!

Published in 1933, this book by William Kirk lists several supernatural and second-sight tales which originally appeared in ‘Cabar Feidh’, the regimental journal of the Seaforth Highlanders. The book collects folklore and paranormal accounts.

😂Brilliant

Some interior magazine art from various 1890's magazines: 1-3 from The English Illustrated Magazine (1896-1899), the 4th from Cosmopolitan 1895:

This beauty arrived today. I wondered if its magnificent production standards degraded its contents but not so. Lisa Perrin did the research, there’s a bibliography and index, and she illustrated it wonderfully. For connaisseurs nothing new, but a beautiful production and an honest subject approach.

It’s time for… (published in 1906);

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - The Rosedale Landing Trace Case September 30, 1980 — Rosedale, Victoria, Australia 1/1:00 a.m. George Blackwell, a farmer near Rosedale, Victoria, Australia, is awakened by a noise and his disturbed livestock.

26 September is National Ghost Hunting Day: nationaldaycalendar.com/celebrations...

The Monday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! Pentagon releases another instalment of 'UFO files', could Nefertiti be hiding in King Tut's tomb, what the public need to know about the cult of AI, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2026/09/news...

Today this gem arrived. Now I have my run complete. I was published in later issues as well. Sadly it no longer exists.

This arrived awhile ago. Published in 1932 by Dion Fortune's order 'The Fraternity Of The Inner Light'. It’s a study of death and dying, time and manner of death, process and ritual of dying and communication with the dead, from the perspective of her unique blend of psychology and the esoteric.

I found this today:

Sorting out my mags, chronologically placing 32 issues of The Inner Light from 1933 to 1940 in a cassette. It was the publication for members of Dion Fortune’s magical order. Only available to members it had a small print run, and copies are now rare. More about it here: iapsop.com/archive/mate...

Australia's Indigenous population was up to seven times larger before colonisation than previously estimated, but was devastated following the arrival of Europeans, new research reveals.

The Tuesday news briefs are LIVE at the Daily Grail! AI leaders suddenly want to hit the brakes on development, scientific journal retracts controversial paper on the Great Pyramid, how 9/11 conspiracy theories are still shaping our world, and much more: www.dailygrail.com/2026/09/news...

Brilliant women writers of the supernatural: Twilight (1916) by Julia Frankau (pen name Danby); The Thing from the Lake (1921) by Eleanor Ingram; The Undying Monster (1922) by Jessie Douglas Kerruish; Avernus by Mary Bligh Bond (1924); Oldham (1927) by Catherine M. Verschoyle.

Good Question.

A glimpse of decades of my collecting Elliott O'Donnell, the famous ghost hunter. And it's not even all.

What I wrote ten years ago. How time flies.

There were so many ufo zines back in the fifties and sixties: here are a few titles from my library.

The 1920s trilogy of brilliant women horror writers: ‘The Thing From The Lake’ by Eleanor M. Ingram (1921); ‘The Undying Monster’ by Jessie Douglas Kerruish (1922); ‘Oldham’, by Catherine Verschoyle (1927).

We spotted ‘The Undying Monster’ by Jessie Douglas Kerruish (1922). But let’s not forget what came before: ‘The Thing From The Lake’ by Eleanor M. Ingram. She died young (in her thirties) and her novel, lauded by Lovecraft, was published posthumously the year before: in 1921.

The 'Carrington Event' happened on this day in 1859. Learn more about how a similar event in the present day could pose a threat to human civilization: www.dailygrail.com/2012/03/deat...

Near-Death Experiences Follow the Same Pattern Worldwide, Landmark Study Finds: easternherald.com/2026/08/29/n...

I'm going to do a very brief synopsis of each story. One a night, because they're short and sweet and we have time enough left in the year.

Louise featured in the March, 1928, Northwest Poultry Journal (right under the “Clucks and Cacklings” feature). Note the copy detailing the “hot” new phraseology from 1928: “...Make your answer snappy, Big Boy, Leap Year only lasts a year. You will? Zowie, let’s go!”

Just a reminder that this coming Monday's episode of Weird in the Wade is about haunted hospitals, specifically ones abandoned, disused or repurposed. Do ghosts still linger when these hospitals are empty? Listen wherever you get podcasts or on BBCSounds in the UK www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

"Fuck ICE" Mural in Los Angeles by Mister Alek

I got many questions about this book from my library. Here’s the explanatory title page, its advertisement and info from an antiquarian bookseller. Ghosts, cross-dressing, necromantic magic, etc. Famous bibliographer of the fantastic Stuart Teitler called it ‘a work of genius’.

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

Feels like the only sensible thing to do today is sit and read from 9 to 5… - Michael

#Pollinators I found this wet carpenter bee (Xylocopa sp.) at dawn sleeping on the underside of a leaf. You may think what you do in your yard is insignificant, but it's the whole universe to many pollinators. Support the pollinators by planting more natives & using no landscape-wide poisons.