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#FaustianFriday The Bloofer Lady: in Dracula, after becoming a vampire, Lucy is seen wandering around Hampstead Heath, luring children. Her name hints at her two natures: ‘light’ in her human form, but also Lucifer as a vampire, a female figure drawing on Milton’s Paradise Lost.

#FaustianFriday Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Squire Toby’s Will’: the Squire haunts his son (who has cheated his other son out of his inheritance) with the help of a familiar animal: a grotesque, ghostly dog, circling the squire’s grave, its chilling howls deathly and foreboding.

Entr’acte caricature from 1882, depicting Irving addressing a dripping wet Stoker. It follows an incident when Stoker, on board a ferry, unhesitatingly plunged into the Thames to rescue a drowning man.

#FaustianFriday The area around Manchester Cathedral is said to be haunted by the demon-dog Black Shuck, whose appearance is an omen of death or portends a deathly curse. The legend exists elsewhere in the U.K., but usually in the countryside: its survival in the city is striking

#FaustianFriday In Ancient Greek mythology, Tiresias was a blind prophet: Pliny the Elder believed Tiresias invented augury, a form of divination which read the omens of birds. In a necromantic ceremony, Odysseus summons Tiresias, offering him blood, and seeking his prophecy.

Isabella Mazzanti’s illustrations to ‘Carmilla’ are absolute perfection. I wish there was an English edition with them: I’d probably end up quoting that one all the time.

@Corvuscorax81 Happy New Year my dear friend! Wishing you a fabulous and Gothic 2022!

#WyrdWednesday In William Gilbert’s ‘The Last Lords of Gardonal’, Conrad meets his end at the hands of his vampire-wife, whom he married without realising she was undead. He cannot drink from a goblet of blood to join her, so he is found as ‘a corpse on the floor’ in the morning.

#WyrdWednesday ETA Hoffmann, ‘The Sand-Man’: Olimpia is an automaton, a ‘life’ uncannily created through clockwork machinery. Nathaniel falls in love with her, but he is driven to madness by seeing her eyes on the ground, and it ends tragically.

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In Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer, at a feast, Father Olavida sees a mysterious stranger: an Englishman, none other than Melmoth, the novel’s Faustian antihero. He reels away in terror and collapses to his death, in recognition of Melmoth’s devilish presence.