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'Balance of the Zodiac', Luis Ricardo Falero (19th c.)
'Moon Nymph', , Luis Ricardo Falero (1883)
#FairytaleTuesday

No sound, not the faintest, could be heard. Could the old tale be true of the midnight change? What was on the other side of the door, a woman or a beast?
– 'The Were-Wolf', Clemence Housman (1896) #MonstrousMayChallenge

@baconetti Just had a quick gander and this sounds amazing - thank you so much for introducing me to him! I will never see Radcliffe the same way again having seen some of this fan art. All I can think of are Buffy posters https://t.co/1AX8UiYLxy

@excaliburedpan @drdjohnston Not weird at all! Will have to have a look as it's a branch of horror I've always approached with scepticism, and unfairly so. Love 'The Woman in Black', and saw the 'Women of Whitechapel' opera (but that's more tragic than horror, although has moments trying to elicit fear)

#MonstrousMayChallenge Communication. In H G Wells's 'War of the Worlds' (1898), the Martians' appear to be telepathic, working together in silence. However, they do make sounds in two instances: hooting when draining the blood of humans, and shrieking "ulla ulla ulla" when dying

@PlaybillMT @FaustianFriday The bat cape one has a companion piece for children! 🦇 From Jenny Taylor Wandle's Masquerade & Carnival (1892)

In 'Dracula's Guest', the narrator becomes lost in the German wilderness on Walpurgisnacht, which he describes as the night that “the devil was abroad - when the graves were opened & the dead came forth & walked. When all evil things of earth & air & water held revel.” 4/4

The celebrations are also referred to as 'Hexenbrennen', meaning "witch burning". It's a Christian day commemorating Saint Walpurga bringing Christianity to German villages, thereby banishing the witches & illness. It is usually celebrated with bonfires to ward off witchcraft 2/4

The original Peter Pan stories are often much darker than Disney's take. In 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens' (1906), the 7-month old Peter lives alone in the London park, making graves for infants and children who perish after being lost/abandoned there #FairyTaleTuesday 1/3

In Macleod's 'The Sin-Eater', a man returns to his family's hamlet after a long absence, & volunteers as Sin-Eater for a recently dead local. The man harbours a dark secret regarding the deceased & hides his sinister, ulterior motives. However, nothing is as simple as it seems..