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EVIL EYE LAND- is near the N. Pole & inhabited by a tribe of nomadic hunters. Certain of their women possess the evil eye & are powerful in magical arts, used for protection. Visitors are warned they may be bewitched or killed w/their stare.
Art by Una Woodruff

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2022-01-26

Ken Barr's stunning cover art for "Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life" by Philip José Farmer (1975).

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2022-01-26

"One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture — a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees — very gradually — I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever."

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2022-01-20

In addition to his now famed career as a writer of macabre and gothic tales and poems, Edgar Allan Poe was a literary critic, journalist, and reviewer for magazines and prospecti from Boston to Charleston and sometimes beyond, earning quite a reputation.

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2022-01-20

"I kept quite still and said nothing. For a full hour I did not move a muscle, and in the meantime I did not hear him lay down. He was still sitting up in the bed listening;-- just as I have done, night after night..."

Thank you for the nightmares, Mr. Poe.

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2022-01-20

In John Kendrick Bang's comedy 'The Ghost Club' (1894), a man meets the spectres of many famous people at a ghost party, including Edgar Allen Poe. Whilst there, he hears Gottschalk play Poe's weird tales on the piano as Mozart tries his hand at the banjo

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MAGICKAL LIBRARIES contain arcane books & artifacts [explicitly mystical or infused w/ magickal properties] w/spells, potions & instructions on divinations, charms & talismans for protections from or invoking of supernatural entities.
“To The Flame” by

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No thread from me for this week, so I'm just going to pop this here and spend the rest of the day a-lurking and a-liking...

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Arthur Rackham: Poe's Tales of Mystery & Imagination (1935) [cover & frontis]

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I found this treasure in a second hand bookshop recently. I'll include some (unfortunately not very good) photos of the illustrations as a thread. Hope it's not overkill but thought it may be of interest. Sorry about the quality, I'm a bit time poor tonight.

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Poe inspired not only writers but artists of all kinds. Edouard Manet, Aubrey Beardsley, Gustave Doré, & Arthur Rackham all tried their hand at illustrating his work; the tales of the strange & mysterious tapping into deep veins of the imagination & subconscious.

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"All that we see or seem
Is but a dream
within a dream."

Edgar Allan was born 1809 in Boston

🎨 Gustave Doré (1884)

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“Oh, that woman! She is hideous…her monstrous eyes seem to have been merely laid on her face, but, mystery of mysteries, this is the woman you must marry, sire, for she will be the mother of him who will make the name of Mali immortal for ever.”
🎨:N/A

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2022-01-13

While not the wyrdest story we've covered, the Frog Prince and Iron Henry is still one of the strangest! The Princess throws the frog against a wall which surprisingly doesn't kill him. Instead it transforms him into a Prince who... proposes.
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2022-01-12

As a man drifts off, a strange woman appears, begging him to come to her home to help her mother. Both are charming, wealthy, and hungry for his attention. And more: for they are Jorogumo, hungry spider women. He escapes by waking: it was a dream!

🖼: IrenHorrors

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If you are interested in Japanese folktales, I have a little collection on my website, including tales of talking kettles, turtle ghosts and magical journeys under the sea.
https://t.co/hd64Qn1YUB

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With fairy tales fashionable among Parisian aristocrats, Mother Goose Tales (1697) supported Perrault's view that nobility was superior to peasantry. Many stories also reflected Catholic beliefs, eg purification from sin & repentance before re-entering society.

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Perrault used images familiar to him, eg the Chateau Ussé for The Sleeping Beauty, & the Marquis of the Château d'Oiron as the Marquis de Carabas in Puss in Boots. He also ornamented his folktales with details, asides & subtext drawn from the world of fashion.

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Petrosinella (1634) a Neopolitan tale - an ogress takes Petrosinella by her hair and locks her in a tower deep in the woods with only a single window; the ogress relies on Petrosinella's extremely long hair to enter the tower.

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