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When the fishermen of Port-Blanc Brittany, left at night, they often reported seeing the hands of corpses clinging on to the sides of their boats...

🎨Alfred Kubin - The Horror

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2022-09-06

"You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company."

Caspar David Friedrich was born 1774

🎨 "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" (c 1817)

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2022-09-05

The tried and true way of killing a terrible monster that terrorizes Spear-Danes is to rip off its arm during glorious hand-to-hand combat in a splendid meadhall in the darkest depths of the night. 🖼John Howe

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2022-09-02

Rán and Ægir have nine daughters who live in the ocean and tend to be a bit homicidal (particularly where ancient Scandinavian sailors are concerned). 🖼️Rim Bitik for https://t.co/fUg9l6yfmk

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2022-08-27

“Beware the autumn people”

Ray Bradbury was born 1920

🎨 Joseph Mugnaini

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2022-08-22

Illustrations by Alméry Lobel-Riche for Charles Baudelaire’s 'Les Fleurs du Mal' (c.1923) https://t.co/ebdsQLOEfS

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2022-08-21

"In the tunnels of that twisted wood, whose low prodigious oaks twine groping boughs and shine dim with the phosphorescence of strange fungi, dwell the furtive and secretive zoogs" (Lovecraft)

🎨 V. Ermolaev "Zoogs" (2016)

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2022-08-20

Darklings!

Today's ends now. And while it's all things over here again, share lore of haunted mines and the crafting of cursed gems with Sam and celebrate dark, weird literature with

🖼️ J. Panuška https://t.co/RTY3Y6demH

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2022-08-20

"Make no reply, but listen; I am not dead, nor yet am I alive. I hover between this world and the world of Spirits. Mark me."

(Frederick Marryat "The Phantom Ship")

🎨 Howard Pyle "Flying Dutchman"

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2022-08-14

'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

"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

"There is no lack of ditches in the forest to bury fools in, and the stones and the trees have no tongues to tell what they see." (George Sand)

🎨Francois Cachoud (1914)

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2022-07-31

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

"When again in heaven dawned the day,
They bore three dead from the tower away
And the dance goes so quickly through the forest" (Heine)

Old Danish folk ballad about Sir Olof who danced himself to death with the fae in the woods

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2022-07-29

The amazing Night on Bald Mountain sequence from Walt Disney’s Fantasia (1940) was directed by Wilfred Jackson. Chernabog was animated by Ukrainian artist Vladimir Tytla...

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2022-07-27

Illustrations from Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Parasite' (1894). In this tale, a man is the test subject in a study of mesmerism conducted by woman w. strange abilities. This becomes disastrous for him when the woman begins to abuse her powers

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2022-07-25

"... reveries revolving around history and fairy tales never stopped haunting me..."

Viktor Vasnetsov died 1926

🎨"Three Princesses of the Underground Kingdom" (1884)

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2022-07-23