WunderKammer さんのイラストまとめ

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter” (Keats)

🎨 Sidney Sime

#ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly

"... reveries revolving around history and fairy tales never stopped haunting me..."

Viktor Vasnetsov died #OTD 1926

🎨"Three Princesses of the Underground Kingdom" (1884)

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@LifeIsAmazingUK I know :-) - was on the fence to use it as visual for the tweet, actually... (unfortunately the photo below is not mine...)

"So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.
But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk" (Baudelaire)

🎨 H. Privat-Livemont (1896)

#wyrdwednesday #ofdarkandmacabre

“… some watery hell, where the air grew stagnant, and no sound disturbed the slumbers of the kraken.” (Poe)

#FairyTaleTuesday #bookchatweekly #ofdarkandmacabre

A charmingly written contemporary American article about the sea-serpent sighting, including the good captain's report to the British admiralty, can be found here:

https://t.co/TWNnXYylHR

"The flesh is sad, alas! – and I’ve read all the books.
Let’s go! Far off. Let’s go! I sense
That the birds, intoxicated, fly
Deep into unknown spume and sky!" (Stéphane Mallarmé "Sea Breeze")

🎨 Tissot (c 1878)

#bookwormsat #ofdarkandmacabre

“So mickle was this storm that the men said it was the work of enchantment” (Heimskringla V)

Scottish weather wizards raise a storm off the Hebrides and send King Hákon Hákonarson (d. 1263) and fleet on his way back to Norway

🎨 Waterhouse

#folklorethursday #ofdarkandmacabre

"Out yonder, under the shining vault,
among men the saying goes: "Man, be thyself!"
At home here with us, 'mid the tribe of the trolls,
the saying goes: "Troll, to thyself be-enough!" (Ibsen)

🎨 Kittelsen

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@bjorn_stjerne @swampsunday Sounds a bit like Jacobite glaistic émigrées who gave their left eye for a new fount to haunt after the '45 :-)