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@folk_horror It is indeed. And we decided not to use *the* draugr if his as key visual for the tweet, Here is the full version :-)
"Tell him, silvery moon, that I am embracing him. For at least momentarily let him recall of dreaming of me” (Dvořák, "Rusalka")
Darklings! Celebrate #DarkGreenWeek with tales of water spirits, uncanny things that haunt midsummer nights & a few #GothicBugs - we'll RT daily! https://t.co/fi71qWZwA5
"It was hard by the dim lake of Auber,
In the misty mid region of Weir—
It was down by the dank tarn of Auber,
In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir" (E.A. Poe)
Join us tomorrow for #FaustianFriday with your tales and images of
"Gothic Landscapes"
We RT after 2 pm GMT
"Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name."
—Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
The Scholar Queen, @INeveenBadr
will be with you for the next two hours of #FaustianFriday.
“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.” (T.S. Eliot)
Join us tomorrow on #FaustianFriday with your tales and images of
"Merfolk & Siren Songs"
We RT after 2 pm GMT
“Blood was flowing – in Bluebeard’s house, in the abattoirs, in the circuses where God had set his seal to whiten the windows. Blood and Milk flowed together”
Join the Dark Queens tomorrow for #FaustianFriday with your tales & images of
"Milk and blood!"
We RT after 2 pm GMT
“A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not”
Join the Dark Queens tomorrow for #FaustianFriday with your tales & images of
"Mythic & Mysterious Bipeds!"
We RT after 2 pm GMT
“… many men both saw and heard a great number of huntsmen hunting" (Peterborough Chronicle)
Dear Darklings - until Epiphany we'll share a daily eerie tidbit of Wild Hunt lore from across the North
And bring your own: Tweet dark Twelvetide lore with #Gothic12tide & we'll RT
“Without the door let sorrow lie,
And if for cold it hap to die,
We'll bury 't in a Christmas pie,
And evermore be merry”
Welcome to our 27th #FaustianFriday
@bjorn_stjerne
is celebrating with you for the next 2 hours.
“Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each other ghost stories” (Jerome K. Jerome)
Dickens is the last survivor of the once popular tradition of telling Christmas ghost stories.
#FairyTaleTuesday #GothicAdvent