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"Out of silent mountains and storms of affliction, rusheth my soul into the valleys" (Nietzsche)
Richard Strauss's "An Alpine Symphony" premiered #OTD 1915 in Berlin
🎨 Loutherbourg "An Avalanche in the Alps" (1803)
#FaustianFriday
“We go by the will of the black rabbit. When he calls you, you have to go” (Richard Adams)
🎨 ShanaPatry
#ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly #31daysofhaunting
“... go stand by the gate of heaven till the Judgment Day..." (Lady Wilde)
Cursed the girl her dead lover, haunting her thrice, regretted it immediately, prayed she might be reunited with him, died within the year and found him waiting there
#superstitionsat #ofdarkandmacabre
“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
"...and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die" (Mark Twain)
🎨 Forest Rogers
#owlishmonday #ofdarkandmacabre #Gothtober
"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