"People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not."
–J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye

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‘Not hear it?—yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long—long—long—many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it—yet I dared not….I dared not—I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!’ 😱
—Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher

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".. I gathered that what he chiefly remembers is a horrible, an intensely horrible, face of crumpled linen."

Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad–M R James
🎨James McBryde (1904)

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“God! Whose hand was I holding?” (Shirley Jackson)

🎨 Ben Stahl

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'Terror made me cruel...'
-Emily Brontë

Dear bookworms, tomorrow's theme is novels and poetry that really, really scare you. is still going as well and we are loving the ghosts! Thank you! 👻🖤

🎨Cipriano Mannucci

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"...Though Aubrey was near the object of his curiosity, he obtained no greater gratification from it than... wishing to break that mystery, which to his exalted imagination began to assume the appearance of something supernatural."

John William Polidori
The Vampyre

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… and his eyes sparkled with more fire than that of the cat
whilst dallying with the half dead mouse.

The Vampyre
John Polidori

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'How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.'
~'Dracula' by Bram Stoker. 1897


[🎨John Anster Fitzgerald]

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"‘Adieu! Thou wilt yet regret me!’ She vanished in air as smoke, and I never saw her more." (Théophile Gautier)

🎨 Eugène Decisy (1904)

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The Dream Walker
The silence of the street seemed to close in around him whilst his own thoughts were riddled with disquiet.
link: https://t.co/Jzj9fW9Ew2
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"A witch ought never be frightened in the darkest forest because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her."

🖌️Terry Pratchett, 'Wintersmith'

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Asked me a super cute OC and while I was drawing him it gave me so many Saito Soma vibes. I guess that's because they are both bookworms....and a little sly hehe~

Say HI to Milo Thompson!

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There Came a Day ~ Ted Hughes.

There came a day that caught the summer
Wrung its neck
Plucked it
And ate it.

Now what shall I do with the trees?
The day said, the day said.
Strip them bare, strip them bare.
Let´s see what is really there. 1/4

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"I can run as fast as a car and then climb up a tree. Can you?"
https://t.co/5WFqFOfAkW

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“All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this..."”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
🎨Laura Frisk

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