WunderKammer さんのイラストまとめ

"Make no reply, but listen; I am not dead, nor yet am I alive. I hover between this world and the world of Spirits. Mark me."

(Frederick Marryat "The Phantom Ship")

🎨 Howard Pyle "Flying Dutchman"

#bookwormsat #ofdarkandmacabre

“What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.”

Thomas Mann died #OTD 1955

🎨 Rembrandt "Dr Faustus in His Study" (1652)

#bookchatweekly

“Reality is very stupid sometimes, and we ought to help it out a little.”

Novelist Alfred Döblin was born #OTD 1878

🎨 George Grosz "Metropolis" (1917)

@bjorn_stjerne So? (Ha!)

@bjorn_stjerne Go, Swampgoat!

"The spirit thou lamentest is not gone;
Ye caverns and ye forests, cease to moan!" (Shelley)

🎨 San'Ok (2021)

#folklorethursday #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly #dontgointothewoods ⁠

"There is no lack of ditches in the forest to bury fools in, and the stones and the trees have no tongues to tell what they see." (George Sand)

🎨Francois Cachoud (1914)

#bookwormsat #ofdarkandmacabre #dontgointothewoods

"When again in heaven dawned the day,
They bore three dead from the tower away
And the dance goes so quickly through the forest" (Heine)

Old Danish folk ballad about Sir Olof who danced himself to death with the fae in the woods

#dontgointothewoods #ofdarkandmacabre

"... reveries revolving around history and fairy tales never stopped haunting me..."

Viktor Vasnetsov died #OTD 1926

🎨"Three Princesses of the Underground Kingdom" (1884)

#ofdarkandmacabre

@LifeIsAmazingUK I know :-) - was on the fence to use it as visual for the tweet, actually... (unfortunately the photo below is not mine...)