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Want more Selki? Why not check the following:
1. Sarah Webb's 'One Spared to the Sea' ()
2. Bear Pettigrew's () 'On the Rocks'
3. 's 'The Girl from the Sea'
4. 's 'The Blue Salt Road'

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2022-09-11

“I had been passing alone,on horseback,through a singularly dreary tract of country,& at length found myself,as the shades of evening drew on,within view of the melancholy House of Usher”
― Edgar Allan Poe,The Fall of the House of Usher,published in September 1839

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2022-09-10

"Everywhere in Fairy Land forests are the places where one may most certainly expect adventures" (George MacDonald)

🎨 Vasily Ermolaev

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2022-09-10

There is a blessing in the air,
Which seems a sense of joy to yield
To the bare trees, and mountains bare,
And grass in the green field.

~ William Wordsworth

🎨 Finelia Grace


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2022-09-03

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water"

~ Rabindranath Tagore

🎨 Rembrandt

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2022-09-03

The Enchanted Lake by Sinéad de Valera has always been a favourite! Parents in Ireland will recall their own childhood where they read such stories as 'The Jewel of Truth' and 'The Mountain Wolf'. A new edition has illustrations by Alexis Sierra.

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2022-09-01

"Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow!
Think how thou stabb'dst me in my prime of youth
At Tewksbury: despair, therefore, and die!" (Shakespeare)

The ghosts of his victims come to haunt Richard III on the eve of his last battle.

🎨 Darley

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2022-08-31

A7 I'm reading the amazingly fun adult book, PORTRAIT OF A THIEF by , and my most recent MG reads (both excellent) were DAD'S GIRLFRIEND AND OTHER ANXIETIES by (out in Oct!) and EVERYTHING SAD IS UNTRUE by

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2022-08-30

Books may well be the only true magic.

— Alice Hoffman

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2022-08-27

Undines, essence & spirit manifestation of waves in water were said to dwell in streams, waterfalls, ponds, marshes, rivers, lakes & the ocean. Most lived as water nymphs but some acquired souls, married & birthed children.

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2022-08-26

'She haunted him like his shadow, gliding from tree to tree, nestling down amongst thick fern and undergrowth, motionless as one who stalks a wild thing...'
-Jean Lang, Book of Myths, Echo and Narcissus.

🎨Helen Stratton

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2022-08-26

"But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness."


~Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia.🎨Gleb Goloubetski.

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2022-08-24

Everyone is excited about fall and spooky season, but mentally, I am here.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep...

Robert Frost /

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2022-08-23

A4
I loved 's creation of unlikely friendship (and family) in Coo. So great to have friends who aren't human and who are. To learn to trust.

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2022-08-23

“Beware the autumn people”

Ray Bradbury was born 1920

🎨 Joseph Mugnaini

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2022-08-22

In Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, the narrator's friend known as Danforth completes his descent into insanity in Antarctica by repeatedly chanting the station names of Boston's Red Line.

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2022-08-21

“The Folk doubtlessly learned this lesson long ago. They do not need to deceive humans. Humans will deceive themselves.”


~Holly Black, The Wicked King.

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2022-08-20

“What townsfolk say we do & what we truly do are very different things. I have cast no spells. I’ve never plucked out gizzards or howled at moons. I’ve never turned into a bird, skimmed a night-time loch, or settled on ships to make them drown."
Susan Fletcher

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2022-08-18

A1 I'm forgetting a ton right now, but here are some of my favorite spooky books.

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2022-08-16