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“Then he saw them. The gulls." (du Maurier)
Darklings,
Tell your tales and share your images of
"Fiendish Fowl – Feathered Omens and Devilish Birds"
for #FaustianFriday
RTs Friday between 10 am - 10pm CET
🎨 Segatini
“God! Whose hand was I holding?” (Shirley Jackson)
🎨 Ben Stahl
#bookwormsat #31daysofhaunting
"‘Adieu! Thou wilt yet regret me!’ She vanished in air as smoke, and I never saw her more." (Théophile Gautier)
🎨 Eugène Decisy (1904)
#BookWormSat #31DaysOfHaunting
"I dared not—I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!" (Poe)
... the sister returns shrieking, though, scaring her brother to death before she ultimately expires and the House of Usher vanishes in the lake
🎨 Clarke
#wyrdwednesday #gothtober #bookchatweekly
"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk." (Hegel)
🎨 IrenHorrors
#owlishmonday #bookchatweekly #Gothtober
In the Norman Bessin, sorcerers are known to transform people into black dogs and send them to the city of Bayeux as Rongeur d'Os, bone gnawers.
Seeing one means certain death.
🎨 Kastelkreuz
#superstitionsat #31daysofhaunting #gothtober
"And it is said, that since that time, the spirit of this unfortunate creature wanders on earth in every possible shape; particularly in that of lovely females, to render their lovers inconstant" (Schulze)
The Tale of the Death-Bride
#fairytaletuesday #31daysofhaunting
"Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer!" (Marlowe)
Dearest Darklings,
#FaustianFriday's topic tomorrow is
Hell to Pay – Stories of those Dragged to the Down Below
RTs from 10am-10pm CET
“You must suffer me to go my own dark way.” (R.L. Stevenson "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"
🎨 Jeremy Wilson
#wyrdwednesday #bookchatweekly
While most of the green-haired, red-capped and musically gifted merrows, the mermaids populating the waters around Ireland, appear benevolent, there are some in the English Channel that are anything but.
Those lure men to the water with their songs and eat them
#swampsunday