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@Corvuscorax81 @PrairieBones @yung_magus I expect nothing less! :-)

@PrairieBones @Corvuscorax81 @yung_magus The poor things, eh? Regardless… :-)

“There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe”

Castellan of Otranto and father of the Gothic novel Horace Walpole was born #OTD 1717

🎨 Susanna Duncombe (c1800)

#ofdarkandmacabre #bookwormsat

"My mother, what is happiness?
My mother, what is Hell?
With William is my happiness, -
Without him is my Hell!" (Bürger "Lenore")

Ups Lenore's fallen groom and takes his bride to the cold grave. Double quick, "die Todten reiten schnell".

#faustianfriday #bookchatweekly

"...for you do not know how soon something may happen to oblige us to be in the forest after nightfall.” (George MacDonald)

🎨 Emmi-Riikka

#ofdarkandmacabre #dontgointothewoods

"Still as the night was, the mysterious population of the distant moon-lit woods was not yet lulled to rest" (MR James)

🎨 Magdalena Korzeniewska

#dontgointothewoods #ofdarkandmacabre

"A second snake crept out of the hole... with three green leaves in its mouth. Then it took the three pieces of the snake, laid them together, as they ought to go, and placed one of the leaves on each wound" (Grimm)

🎨 theartful-dodge

#fairytaletuesday #ofdarkandmacabre

“There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.”

Michel de Montaigne died #OTD 1592

🎨 Rubens (1604)

#boochatweekly

@kazerin @bthomasa @MaeneSigne That's the spirit! (pun intended...)

"Everywhere in Fairy Land forests are the places where one may most certainly expect adventures" (George MacDonald)

🎨 Vasily Ermolaev

#dontgointothewoods #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly