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"If I must die,
I will encounter darkness as a bride,
And hug it in mine arms." (Shakespeare)

🎨 Harry Clarke

#BookWormSat #ofdarkandmacabre

"Orphne ... not the least known of the nymphs of Avernus" (Ovid)

The nymphs of the Underworld, Lampades, companions of Hecate on her wicked forays, carrying torches that could drive a mortal mad.

#Faustianfriday

"I have a feeling only for shadows"

Odilon Redon was born #OTD 1840

🎨 "Caliban" (1881)

#ofdarkandmacabre

"I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.”

"First Cubist" El Greco died #OTD 1614

🎨 "Laocoön" (c 1610)

#ofdarkandmacabre

@folk_horror Just so...

🎨 Jakub Rozalski "Rudolph Uprising"

"... the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs” (O. Wilde)

Poisonous they are, though, and a symbol of dark beauty

#GothicSpring #ofdarkandmacabre

“I rose from marsh mud
algae, equisetum, willows,
sweet green, noisy
birds and frogs.” (Lorine Niedecker)

🎨 Irenhorrors "Swamp Thing" (2018)

#swampsunday #ofdarkandmacabre

"Three coffins, in which lay three beautiful maidens, glided from the thickest part of the forest across the lake. The fire-flies flew lightly over them, like little floating torches." (Andersen "Snow Queen")

🎨 Maximilian Pirner (1888)

#BookWormSat #dontgointothewoods

“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”

Mythomaniac Joseph Campbell was born #OTD 1904

🎨 Ulpiano Checa "El Rapto de Proserpina" (1888)

#ofdarkandmacabre

"One night... I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul. ... The music which I at this time composed is indeed the best that I ever wrote, and I still call it the "Devil's Trill" (G. Tartini)

🎨 J Marshall "Tartini's Dream" (1862)

#WyrdWednesday #ofdarkandmacabre