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Delightfully wicked fairy tale witches by Arthur Rackham.

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2022-10-26

“We go by the will of the black rabbit. When he calls you, you have to go” (Richard Adams)

🎨 ShanaPatry

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2022-10-25

“... go stand by the gate of heaven till the Judgment Day..." (Lady Wilde)

Cursed the girl her dead lover, haunting her thrice, regretted it immediately, prayed she might be reunited with him, died within the year and found him waiting there

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2022-10-23

“The first thing I heard after not hearing anything was the sound of her crawling up the stairs." (Toni Morrison)

... and Beloved turns out to be a parasitic, food-devouring ghost, literally starving her mother

🎨 Joe Morse

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2022-10-20

Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale!

— Moby Dick, H. Melville
(Ahab drowns by his own harpoon line.)

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2022-10-19

The Dance of the Baobhan Sith

art/Erin Claire

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2022-10-18

"Ich fürcht' den Tag" (I fear daylight)

🎨 Hans Wechtlin (c 1500)

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2022-10-17

“From time to time strange cries as of lost and despairing wanderers sounded from across the mere. They might be the notes of owls or water-birds, yet they did not quite resemble either sound” (MR James)

🎨Grottger

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2022-10-16

In England and Scotland, once a corpse was laid out, a person would have to touch it to prevent dreaming of it or death...

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2022-10-11

"...and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die" (Mark Twain)

🎨 Forest Rogers

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2022-10-10

"Poor autumn
Dies in the whiteness and richness
Of snow and ripe fruit
Deep in the sky
The sparrow hawks glide
Above the tiny gentle green-haired water nymphs
Who have never loved" (Apollinaire)

🎨 Malmström

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2022-10-09

'Thousands of faces rise and vanish before me.
Thousands of voices weave in the rain.'
-Conrad Aiken

🖼️Hengki Lee

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2022-10-07

Anne Boleyn’s spectral carriage has been seen racing past Blickling Hall and each Christmas, Anne’s ghost manifests at Hever Castle, under an oak tree where she and Henry VIII once courted.


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2022-10-04

"... 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

To be haunted by the Banshee one must belong to the old Irish families like the MacCarthys, O’Neills, O’Rileys, O’Sullivans, O’Reardons, O’Flahertys.. She never leaves nor forgets them till the last member has been gathered to his fathers in the churchyard.

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2022-09-27

"Here I am lying down to sleep;
No night-mare shall plague me
until they have swum through all the waters
that flow upon the earth,
and counted all stars
that appear in the firmament"

Westphalian charm to ward off a nightmare

🎨 Fuseli

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2022-09-26

Night is my sister, and how deep in love,
How drowned in love and weedily washed ashore,
There to be fretted by the drag and shove
At the tide's edge, I lie —

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay


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2022-09-26

"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

“There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe”

Castellan of Otranto and father of the Gothic novel Horace Walpole was born 1717

🎨 Susanna Duncombe (c1800)

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2022-09-24