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7) Here we have another classic: bats 🦇 there are some gorgeous variations on this one. Love the cape-wings, love the hats, love the poses - I love EVERYTHING about these outfits #Halloween

1) First up is a classic and probably one of the oldest spooky costumes about: the Witch 🧹 Here we have basic witches, white witches and a 'Sorceress' to boot. Love the little owl popping out the first one's broom - it's all about those little details 🦉 #Halloween

"Is that all true, Mère Pinquèle?" he said.
"Oh, quite true, and not only that, the best part is yet to come; for they take a child and—" Here Mère Pinquèle showed her fang-like teeth.
"Oh! Mère Pinquèle, are you a witch too?"
— 'The Other Side' (1893) #FaustianFriday 3/3

#FaustianFriday In 'The Were-Wolf' (Clemence Housman, 1896), a family living in the woods waits for one of the eldest sons to come home in a snow storm. As they huddle together, they're haunted by a quiet voice at the door calling "Open, open; let me in!" #DontGoIntoTheWoods 1/5

A minor correction: the story was first published in 1856, not 1861. Apologies, it's my first time tweeting after my holiday - my brain is still trying to kick into gear.

Illustrations from Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Parasite' (1894). In this tale, a man is the test subject in a study of mesmerism conducted by woman w. strange abilities. This becomes disastrous for him when the woman begins to abuse her powers #OfDarkAndMacabre #SummerForGoths

"No longer will good men be able with easy conscience to join that indignant “Hush!” by which the evil-doers have hitherto silenced every attempt to make articulate the smothered wail that rises unceasingly from the woeful under-world." #FaustianFriday 6/6

"he spoke one word…He was the Evil One; the name seemed to be taken up by the echoes and repeated from rock to rock and crag to crag; the whole air seemed full of that one word; and then a great horror of darkness came about us"
— 'Sandy the Tinker' (1882) #FaustianFriday 5/5

Allegedly, some believed the text was genuinely Dickens's, written before his death then stolen posthumously & falsely presented as (literally) ghost-written. Others supposedly said it was narrated to James by the devil, who was seen flying in & out of his chimney each night 2/2

As credited in the text, this chilling line is borrowed from Gottfried August Bürger's 'Lenore', in which a lady mounts a horse with someone who resembles her missing lover, only for him to reveal himself as Death #WyrdWednesday #OfDarkAndMacabre #GothicSpring 1/3 https://t.co/cPp510wFUk