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Illustrations by contemporary Irish artist PJ Lynch for “The Snow Queen” (1844) by Hans Christian Andersen: the icy Queen of the snow bees and the troll mirror which makes one see only ugliness in the world

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2019-12-03

In Inuit mythology an ijiraq is a sort of shape shifter who kidnaps children and hides them away and abandons them. The inuksugaq (or inukshuk) of stone allow these children to find their way back if they can convince the ijiraq to let them go.#GothicAdvent

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2019-12-02

Day 24 of
For Christmas Eve we end on an earlier incarnation of Dickens' Christmas Carol with illustrations and slides of his short story "The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton" (1836) - originally a tale within the novel Pickwick Papers.

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2018-12-24

Day 21 of the
Stephen Gammell's disturbing illustrations for "Scary Stories to Tell on the Dark" (1981) the first of three collections of folklore and urban legend retold for children by Alvin Schwartz.

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2018-12-21

My animal Day 10: "The Rime of Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Within the shadow of the ship
I watched their rich attire:
Blue, glossy green, and velvet black,
They coiled and swam; and every track
Was a flash of golden fire.

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2018-12-17

Quite an ominous show for the children at Christmas

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2018-12-17

LITTLE JACK FROST. Charles Sangster (1875)

Little Jack Frost walked through the trees
“Ah” said the flowers “we freeze we freeze”
“Ah” said the grasses “we die we die”
Said little Jack Frost “good bye, good bye”

ills. Tomic; Herford; Ravencroft

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2018-12-16

Day 12!

Brian Coldrick's "Behind You: One-Shot Horror Stories" (2017) is an illustration series, a comic with no panels, where each piece is essentially a separate story.
There are also some very cool gif versions! https://t.co/eyMG50l675

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2018-12-12

"Ghost of Christmas" for orchestra by Dai Fujikura (Illustration by P. J. Lynch for "A Christmas Carol") https://t.co/hEnN8kwpYu

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2018-12-11

VINTAGE CHRISTMAS CARDS 2. Afterall nothing says Christmas quite like a row of deceased ice-skating frogs, a sadistic root vegetable, and a creepy clown stealing sausages...ooh!

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2018-12-08

Peering behind door 8 of the we spy Kate Baylay's ghoulishly enchanting illustrations for the new Folio edition of Seven Gothic Tales (1934) by Danish author Isak Dinesen's (aka Karen Blixen).

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2018-12-08

Day 4 of the is the cover inspired by the ghastly gastrapods in Patricia Highsmith's utterly disturbing titular short story "The Snail-Watcher".
🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌☠☠☠🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌

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2018-12-04

4. VINTAGE CHRISTMAS CARDS. It's darkling Xmas season. After all nothing says Christmas quite like a procession of pyromaniac sparrows, an overly amorous root vegetable and an angelic child baked in a pie!!

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2018-12-03

The strange Victorian dead bird Christmas card tradition, the cards were “bound to elicit Victorian sympathy and may reference common stories of poor children freezing to death at Christmas.”

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Lussinatta, was marked in Sweden 13 December. Then Lussi, a female demon or witch, was said to ride through the air with her followers. This itself might be an echo of the Wild Hunt, found across Northern, Western and Central Europe.

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2018-12-01