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"... we shall mount on the altan on the roof of the house beside the weather-cock, who will sing us a merry bridal-song, because the owl to-night holds his wedding-feast" (Hoffmann)

🎨 Teagan White

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2022-10-03

"The ship and all in it are imbued with the spirit of Eld... I feel as I have never felt before, although I have been all my life a dealer in antiquities, and have imbibed the shadows... until my very soul has become a ruin" (Poe)

🎨 Clarke

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2022-09-26

"My mother, what is happiness?
My mother, what is Hell?
With William is my happiness, -
Without him is my Hell!" (Bürger "Lenore")

Ups Lenore's fallen groom and takes his bride to the cold grave. Double quick, "die Todten reiten schnell".

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2022-09-24

“You must suffer me to go my own dark way.” (R.L. Stevenson "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"

🎨 Jeremy Wilson

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2022-09-22

On this Thursday, on this particular walk to school, there was an old frog croaking in the stream behind the hedge as we went by.
'Can you hear him, Danny?'
'Yes,' I said

Danny, Champion of the World



🎨 Jill Bennett

4 19
2022-09-15

Darklings!

While sends you off to sea, arrr, it's back to school with topic for tomorrow - Looking forward to read your book reports! https://t.co/dWwfvTb5ai

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2022-09-15

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'

4 8
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


8 32
2022-09-03

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

~ Rabindranath Tagore

🎨 Rembrandt

17 69
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.

3 11
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