WunderKammer さんのイラストまとめ

"Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city." (Dickens)

🎨 Schindler (1886)

#bookchatweekly #ofdarkandmacabre

"These Tuatha were great necromancers, skilled in all magic, and excellent in all the arts as builders, poets, and musicians."
(Lady Jane Wilde "Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland)

🎨 Stephen Reid

#bookwormsat with a bow to #superstitionsat

"It can scarcely be owing to chance that three of the masterpieces of the literature of all time, the 'Oedipus Rex' of Sophocles, Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and Dostoevsky's 'The Brothers Karamazov' should all deal with the same subject, parricide"
(Sigmund Freud)

#faustianfriday

"Once in my life, once only, my mind wanted something. And behold the miracle! — It was to die!"

Decadent naturalist Stanisław Przybyszewski died #OTD 1927

🎨 Edvard Munch (1894)

"For with my singing I can make
A refuge for my spirit's sake,
A house of shining words, to be
My fragile immortality.” (Sara Teasdale)

🎨 Pauhami

"The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows." (Schiller)

🎨 Aivazovsky

#bookwormsat #ofdarkandmacabre

"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."
(Joseph Conrad)

🎨 Thomas Moran

#FaustianFriday #BookChatWeekly

“They were making a riotous noise, but it was much more like music" (C.S. Lewis)

🎨 Tiffany Bozic

#ofdarkandmacabre #BookChatWeekly

"Just indistinct enough to make the eye
Dream of surpassing beauty"

Irish Romantic painter Francis Danby was born #OTD 1793

🎨 "The Tombs of Molière and La Fontaine" (1831)

“There is a mortal amongst us,” they said. “Let us drown him.” (Lady Jane Wilde)

Ireland's fae folk has a downright malevolent streak and it often needs more than one supernatural agent to save a stricken human from their mischief

🎨 Bauer

#superstitionsat #ofdarkandmacabre