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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

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

“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

- “Under the root of the Ash Yggdrasil that goes to the frost giants is the Well of Mimir.
Wisdom and Intelligence are hidden there, and Mimir is the name of the well's owner.”

~ Snorri Sturluson, The Prose Edda
📚💖

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2022-08-14

Reading for me, is spending time with a friend.

—Gary Paulsen

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2022-08-14

“What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.”

Thomas Mann died 1955

🎨 Rembrandt "Dr Faustus in His Study" (1652)

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2022-08-12

- "I looked from that highest of all gable windows… I saw no city spread below, and no friendly lights gleaming from remembered streets, but only the blackness of space...
The Music of Erich Zann - H. P. Lovecraft

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2022-08-12

‘But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.’
—Toni Morrison
‘Beloved’

🎨 Joe Morse

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2022-08-12

“Whoever desires to be merry, let him; For tomorrow is never certain…”

(Lorenzo de' Medici in Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s “The Palace”)


🌙Giorgio Vasari

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2022-08-11

'After the dark, and before the light,
One lay sleeping; and one sat weeping,
Who had watched and wept the weary night.'
-Christina Rossetti

🎨Kinuko Y. Craft

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2022-08-10

“I enjoy the pleasure of weighing the rays of dead stars…” ✨

— Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Tomorrow's Eve




🌙 Zansot

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2022-08-10

'It was easy enough
to bend them to my wish,
it was easy enough
to alter them with a touch,
but you
adrift on the great sea,
how shall I call you back?'
-Circe, H.D.

🎨Frederick Stuart Church

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2022-08-09