# dontgointothewoods winteriscoming otd ofdarkandmacabre bookwormsat fairytaletuesday folklorethursday

'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

'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

'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

- 👻👻👻"It is absurd asking me to behave myself. I must rattle my chains, and groan through keyholes, and walk about at night if that is what you mean. It is my only reason for existing." the ghost says...

"The Canterville Ghost" - Oscar Wilde 📚😱😱😱

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2022-08-08

"The spirit thou lamentest is not gone;
Ye caverns and ye forests, cease to moan!" (Shelley)

🎨 San'Ok (2021)

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2022-08-04

I deck myself with silks and jewelry,
         I plume myself like any mated dove:
They praise my rustling show, and never see
         My heart is breaking for a little love.

L.E.L., Christina Rossetti



Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838) 🎨 by Maclise

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2022-08-04

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories... And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”

~ H.G. Wells - New Worlds For Old
📚💖

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2022-08-03


You have probably observed that your baby-sister wants to do all sorts of things that your mother want[s] her not to do. […] It simply means that she is doing as she has seen the fairies do; […] and it takes about two years to get her into human ways.

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2022-08-02

The Forest is dark, dearie, The Forest is dark;
The moment you think that you’re lost in the woods, then you are.

—Emory R. Frie, Wonderland
art by Tom Krieger

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2022-07-29