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ROGUE'S GALLERY OF FUNGUS or what not to put in your basket (leave to the fairies). I love how gothic their names are: Destroying Angel (white fungi); Death Cap; Jack 'o' Lantern (orange with gills that glow in the dark); Satan's Bolete #GothicSpring🎨Froud

GOREY BATS characteristic pen-and-ink sketches from Edward Gorey (1925–2000) showing his dark humour including Dracula as bat 1977; bat doodle and Doubleday's 1987 bat cover for Two Centuries of Great Vampire Stories ed. Alan Ryan #GothicSpring

GOTHIC MUSHROOMS
We shall by morning
Inherit the earth
Our foot's in the door
(Sylvia Plath 'Mushrooms' )
#EarthDay #GothicSpring
Images: Froud, Fitzgerald

FAIRY ENCHANTMENT the fae cast an enchantment over woodland animals and birds; bird-riding fae are commonplace in folklore as seen in the fantastical world of French author and illustrator Jean-Baptiste Monge and his delightful #fairy transport #FolkloreSunday #GothicSpring

VICTORIAN EASTER CARDS After all, nothing quite says Easter like a creepy egg family on an egg hunt, babies hammering chicks-in-shells, multiple babies born from an egg or rabbits disguised as pace eggs. #ofdarkandmacabre #GothicSpring

5. HOBGOBLINS are well disposed towards humankind, if sometimes mischievous & tricksy, like Puck in Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. Based on Robin Goodfellow, of folk tradition, he’s a shapeshifter; he also performs labours for humans, much like the Brownie 🎨Rackham

4. GOBLIN MARKET This Victorian poem is an early example of goblins behaving badly; they stand in for predatory corrupting males, using forbidden faerie fruits to lure female victims to their doom. Image Rackham

FAIRIES RIDE WHITE RABBITS
Landseer's Titania and Bottom from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', painted in 1847. You will see a diminutive Puck & fairy-riding white rabbits, an enchanting Fairy Transport image for #GothicSpring with Easter approaching #ShakespeareSunday

PIED PIPER An uncanny stranger leads the children of Hamelin through a mountainous cavern in response to the city's unfair treatment of him. In Transylvania, folk with German-sounding names are said to believe they are the descendants of the lost children #FairyTaleTuesday

LOVE YOUR ZOMBIE intense memory of loving and wanting Julie (Juliet)as experienced by Zombie R (Romeo) after eating Perry's brains in Isaac Marion's Warm Bodies, 2010, Film, dir. Levine, 2013 GOTHIC #VALENTINES