EdKarshner ☕ 🫈 @EdKarshner

Appalachian in exile. A stranger in a strange land. Weird and dark folklore aficionado. Professor of English & Department Head @RMUArtsHuma Off Joined July 2017

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The Folk Horror Consortium @folkhorrorforum

4 days ago

TOEING THE LINE-

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Maria Tatar @mariamtatar

18 hours ago

"Does no one think Peter Pan’s a little strange and a little scary?" chireviewofbooks.com/2026/06/17/it-…

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EdKarshner ☕ 🫈 @EdKarshner

4 days ago

@SMcKibben70 Congratulations! (And just a wee bit jealous! But! Goals!!!) I'm thrilled for you! Read all the books!

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5 days ago

@HooklandGuide @MijiMijiyoon38 It's 80 proof Hookland. It's got a kick!

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David, it was my pleasure. I'm feeling rejuvenated after spending the last few weeks in the county. I've been waiting on Hookland in print for a while and this is a beautiful guide to Hookland. Congratulations! Thank you for Hookland (and Nolan!) Wishing you good health!

Hookland @HooklandGuide

2 weeks ago

Today's MRI scan and other malarkey made much more bearable by waking up to @EdKarshner’s foreword to the first Hookland Fragments volume. Hookland as an invitation to be a character in your own ghost story indeed. Thank you Ed.

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Wylfċen @wylfcen

2 weeks ago

Everyone needs to know the origin of the word “rune.” When ancient Germanics formed their own alphabet, they called the letters *rūnōz or “whispers,” because as your eyes followed them, they spoke to you, silently. Reading is magic to a people at the dawn of literacy, who haven’t yet learned to take the miracle for granted.

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EdKarshner ☕ 🫈 @EdKarshner

3 weeks ago

@HooklandGuide Good night, Hookland, from Appalachia Ohio's Salt Creek Valley that shared ghost soil with the county until the Mesozoic Era...and remembers still.

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Ireland's Trees & Mythology @Tree_Folklore

3 weeks ago

Across Europe, Nettles have long been believed to possess the power to ward off lightning strikes ⚡ In Germany they were known as Donnernessel "Thunder Nettle", while in Scandinavia they were considered sacred to Thor, the God of Thunder. And when storm clouds gathered and the skies rumbled, people would cast nettles into the fire in an attempt to soothe his anger 🔥 Yet while people looked to the humble nettle for protection from lightning, it was quietly performing another kind of magic...supporting dozens of species of wildlife, its leaves feed the caterpillars of many butterflies and moths, while its often-overlooked seeds provide an important source of nourishment for birds throughout much of the year 🪶🌿 Feared for its sting, treasured in folklore, and indispensable to nature...nettles are awesome.

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Meagan Lucas @mgnlcs

3 weeks ago

I wrote 'What You Lost' to process my grief & anger over Hurricane Helene, particularly the response from our Fed Gov't & my Congressman Chuck Edwards. It's one of my more hopeful stories, because it's less about what I lost, (all my fucks) & more about what I found.

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EdKarshner ☕ 🫈 @EdKarshner

3 weeks ago

@Bulkington___ @DrFrancisYoung He needs to slow down! I can't keep up!

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze

4 weeks ago

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

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EdKarshner ☕ 🫈 @EdKarshner

4 weeks ago

@BethanJones9 #FOMO 😫

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@mgnlcs

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EdKarshner ☕ 🫈 @EdKarshner

a month ago

You have to treat yourself to this story that's like sitting on a porch with a master storyteller I dare you to read a paragraph like this and not nod like you're listening. reckonreview.com/the-exact-mome…

Reckon Review @ReckonReview

a month ago

New Fiction today from Peter Robbins. Peter Robbins’ work has appeared in The Great Smokies Review, Mountain Xpress and other venues. His latest story is forthcoming in Rock and a Hard Place.

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Associate Deans @ass_deans

a month ago

Funny thing, English department faculty now earn less than the tutors hired by the athletic department to make sure our star athletes get through ENG 101!

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Reckon Review @ReckonReview

2 months ago

reckonreview.com/submissions/

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Psychojographer @psychojography

2 months ago

David Southwell who gifted us @HooklandGuide has ( unsurprisingly) just given the most incredible talk about the county and the forteana in its dna for @ForteanLondon

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Hookland @HooklandGuide

2 months ago

Hookland talk sold out. Ten thousand words written, slides done. There are times when it feels real and that the work matters. Thank you.

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EdKarshner ☕ 🫈 @EdKarshner

2 months ago

@HooklandGuide Congratulations! I love to hear this, David.

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@edithmayhall @edithmayhall

2 months ago

Thrilled by cover design of forthcoming book from the research project. aristotlebeyond.co.uk. It will be published open access in November or December.