"O, curlew, cry no more in the air,
Or only to the waters in the West;
Because your crying brings to my mind
Passion-dimmed eyes and long heavy hair
That was shaken out over my breast:
There is enough evil in the crying of wind." (Yeats)

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“Sometimes his genius goes dark and sinks down into the bitter well of his heart. But mostly his apocalyptic star glitters wondrously”

... on Friedrich Hölderlin, arch-Romanticist poet & philosopher, who died 1843

🎨 Ehsan-safavie

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“Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.”
― Haruki Murakami

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"... an owl, that grim bird which Atropus takes for her interpreter..." (Jean de la Fontaine)

🎨 Richey Beckett (2012)

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“The great live squid, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld, and returned to their ports to tell of it.” (Melville)

Once upon a time, in the waters near Bikini at new moon.

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In Flanders it's said that a woman who was cursed flew in the wind. She only appeared during the summer months and destroyed cornfields. She also threw everything that was in her way into the wind.

🎨Henri Fantin-Latour

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"The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses."

Walter Sickert was born 1860

🎨 "The Camden Town Murder" (1908)

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"Though as a ghost,
I shall lightly tread,
the summer fields."
(Hokusai)

Yūrei are Japan's restless spirits, mostly women, who haunt the night still dressed in their white burial kimonos

🎨 "Female Ghost in the Moonlight" (c 1850)

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As credited in the text, this chilling line is borrowed from Gottfried August Bürger's 'Lenore', in which a lady mounts a horse with someone who resembles her missing lover, only for him to reveal himself as Death 1/3 https://t.co/cPp510wFUk

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Before a sea burial, the sailmaker sewed the corpse into the canvas shroud, the last stitch through the nose, to ensure the ghost would not escape and walk the ship...

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Once a Selkie finds its skin again, neither chains of steel nor chains of love can keep her from the sea.

—The Secret of Roan Inish

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Happy Friday the 13th! 🖤🐈‍⬛✨

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Illustrations from Emma Frances Dawson's collection of supernatural tales ‘An Itinerant House and Other Stories’ (1896), drawn by Ernest C. Peixotto. You can read this collection in the Victorian Gothic Library here: https://t.co/swY79vwvo9

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"I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery."

~Adelbert Von Chamisso,#OfDarkAndMacabre.

🎨Sebastian Pether (1790–1844).

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"Life has not ceased to be a riddle, nor has death lost its sting, and again man sighs amid moans of torment: "Wherefore?"" (Stanisław Przybyszewski, 1868)

🎨 Jacek Maleczewski "Thanatos II" (1899)

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"Here is coldness, impetuousness, dying, and despair" (Goethe)

Caspar David Friedrich died 1840

🎨 "The Abbey in the Oak Forest" (c 1810, the painting Goethe is referring to above)

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Hyman Bloom [1913-2009] called the “first abstract expressionist” by Willem de Kooning, was a master of the macabre, known as a reclusive artist w/esoteric interests.

“How Hyman Bloom Became a Master of Life and Death”https://t.co/TPKy4DzOmr

“Cadaver”

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'I will vanish in the morning light; I was only an invention of darkness.'
-Angela Carter

🎨Cipriano Mannucci

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“Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.” (Frank Herbert "Dune")

🎨 John Schoenherr

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takes place on the night of 30 April, Eve, when witches meet on the Brocken mountain in Germany, & hold revels with the devil. This year it coincides with the rising Img: Joseph Tomanek, c.1920

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