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"The dark and tattered draperies...rustled uneasily about the decorations of the bed...An irrepressible tremor gradually pervaded my frame; and, at length, there sat upon my very heart an incubus of utterly causeless alarm."

—Edgar Allan Poe, died #OTD 1849

#31DaysOfHalloween

There are many images that illustrate Wollstonecraft’s quote above quite beautifully, but I decided to go with Moonlight on the Blackwater in Ireland (not an exact title), a drawing by Paul Sandby (1730–1809). Another one of Sandby’s I almost used is Music by Moonlight.

"Is not this the witching time of night? The waters murmur, and fall with more than mortal music, and spirits of peace walk abroad to calm the agitated breast. Eternity is in these moments."

—Mary Wollstonecraft, died #OTD 1797

#MaryWollstonecraft

“The moon’s ray, decked with one glittering streak of light the whole breadth of the wide lake—it seemed the path of hope.”

—Dr. Polidori, from Ernestus Berchtold; or, The Modern Oedipus (1819)

The painting is Moon Path by Ivan Aivazovsky

#Polidori

“He shut his eyes, hoping that it was but a vision arising from his disturbed imagination … upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein…”

—Polidori, from The Vampyre (1819)

Image from Varney the Vampire (1845-47)

Today is #InternationalFairyDay, so here are a few illustrations by the inimitable Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Tomorrow, the 25th of June, just so happens to be the 61st anniversary of her death.

#GothicFairies #FolkloreThursday

Étienne-Gaspard Robert was born #OTD 1763. He was instrumental in developing Phantasmagoria horror theatre, summoning ghosts with magic lanterns (or his Fantoscope). The illustration below is an interpretation of his #Phantasmagoria from F. Marion’s L’Optique (1867).

#Gothic

Here are a few favorites by the brilliant Romantic painter Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky who died #OTD in 1900:

Azure Grotto, Naples
Moon Path
Icebergs

#Romanticism

"One recess, particularly grand and solemn amongst the towering cliffs…might have served for a Druid’s haunt...where light-footed elves would gladly have danced their airy rounds."

—Mary Wollstonecraft, born #OTD 1759

#MaryWollstonecraft #Wollstonecraft

“She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed, her head hanging down and her pale and distorted features half covered by her hair."

—from Mary Shelley’s #Frankenstein

Some believe The Nightmare by Henri Fuseli, who died #OTD in 1825, inspired Mary’s line above.