Darklings!

Sam, one's other favourite cat, chose Frank Dean's "Irish Coast" (c 1890) for Conrad the Crow's background in this week's wallpaper to fly over while we collect tales from the insular Celts together with & this week!

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"There's my little dog! I always thought he was real. Fancy him being here, when I've looked all over the sands and called and whistled every day for him!"

On Roverandom, a story wrote in 1925 to console his son who lost his toy dog on the beach.

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A about my palace guard, soon to be awake and on duty, so watch out. Illustration by Complete poem, "Three at link: https://t.co/QZkHPKVWVD

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"Fear and flee the wolf; for, worst of all, the wolf may be more than he seems.” (Angela Carter)

🎨 Mori Raito

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‘There is a vast melancholy in the canticles of the wolves, melancholy infinite as the forest, endless as these long nights of winter and yet that ghastly sadness, that mourning for their own…’
—Angela Carter

🎨 Susan Seddon Boulet

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Salutations, dear Bibliophiles✨

Saturday is BookCat’s catnap day. You can find today’s hashtag fun with our pals at and

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you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.

Ken Follett
World Without End


🎨C.F. Tunnicliffe

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World Book Day today! Make reading a habit!
Grandmother reading a book to her grandchild Pastel drawing
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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.
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"As for Inchanters and Charmers...some of them
doe take in hand to bind the divell himselfe by their
Inchantments."

- Anatomie of Sorcerie by James Mason, MA

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‘The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.’ ~
Charles Baudelaire

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Alice's cat was Dinah, whom she remembered often during her adventures in Wonderland.

“Dinah’ll miss me very much tonight, I should think! I hope they’ll remember her saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah my dear! I wish you were down here with me!"

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The Pied Piper of Hamelin was hired to rid a town of their rat problem using his magic flute- however he was refused payment so he waited till the adults were at church and returned dressed in green to lure all the children away.
🖼️Kate Greenaway

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