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“The first thing I heard after not hearing anything was the sound of her crawling up the stairs." (Toni Morrison)
... and Beloved turns out to be a parasitic, food-devouring ghost, literally starving her mother
🎨 Joe Morse
#ofdarkandmacabre #bookologythursday #bookwormghost
"Ich fürcht' den Tag" (I fear daylight)
🎨 Hans Wechtlin (c 1500)
#owlishmonday #ofdarkandmacabre #Gothtober #31daysofhaunting
“From time to time strange cries as of lost and despairing wanderers sounded from across the mere. They might be the notes of owls or water-birds, yet they did not quite resemble either sound” (MR James)
🎨Grottger
#swampsunday #ofdarkandmacabre #gothtober #31DaysOfHaunting
"Poor autumn
Dies in the whiteness and richness
Of snow and ripe fruit
Deep in the sky
The sparrow hawks glide
Above the tiny gentle green-haired water nymphs
Who have never loved" (Apollinaire)
🎨 Malmström
#swampsunday #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly
@hitanvisingh Ladies and Gentlemen, give a warm welcome to the Great Teodorico and his Singing Goats!
"... we shall mount on the altan on the roof of the house beside the weather-cock, who will sing us a merry bridal-song, because the owl to-night holds his wedding-feast" (Hoffmann)
🎨 Teagan White
#owlishmonday #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly #Gothtober #31daysofhaunting
@avalonbalcony @oliviasstories @swampsunday Admittedly, I put a few from my workstation to the phone just yesterday:-)
“Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul....I listened to her as she spoke in her beautiful voice, spoke of things which even now I would dare not whisper in the blackest night, though I stood in the midst of a wilderness” (Machen)
#BookologyThursday