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'Terror made me cruel...'
-Emily Brontë

Dear bookworms, tomorrow's theme is novels and poetry that really, really scare you. is still going as well and we are loving the ghosts! Thank you! 👻🖤

🎨Cipriano Mannucci

38 199
2022-10-29

"...Though Aubrey was near the object of his curiosity, he obtained no greater gratification from it than... wishing to break that mystery, which to his exalted imagination began to assume the appearance of something supernatural."

John William Polidori
The Vampyre

4 14
2022-10-23

… and his eyes sparkled with more fire than that of the cat
whilst dallying with the half dead mouse.

The Vampyre
John Polidori

16 57
2022-10-23

'How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.'
~'Dracula' by Bram Stoker. 1897


[🎨John Anster Fitzgerald]

14 64
2022-10-22

"‘Adieu! Thou wilt yet regret me!’ She vanished in air as smoke, and I never saw her more." (Théophile Gautier)

🎨 Eugène Decisy (1904)

33 112
2022-10-22



"A witch ought never be frightened in the darkest forest because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her."

🖌️Terry Pratchett, 'Wintersmith'

78 278
2022-10-15

There Came a Day ~ Ted Hughes.

There came a day that caught the summer
Wrung its neck
Plucked it
And ate it.

Now what shall I do with the trees?
The day said, the day said.
Strip them bare, strip them bare.
Let´s see what is really there. 1/4

15 42
2022-10-08

"I can run as fast as a car and then climb up a tree. Can you?"
https://t.co/5WFqFOfAkW

4 6
2022-10-02

“All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this..."”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
🎨Laura Frisk

14 65
2022-10-01

"I understand what you are saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm going to ignore your advice"

Roald Dahl
The Fantastic Mr Fox



🎨 Quentin Blake (postage stamp)

13 47
2022-10-01

"Come away, O, human child!
To the woods and waters wild
With a fairy hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping
Than you can understand."
- William Butler Yeats

33 171
2022-09-25

‘Her lips began to scorch,
That juice was wormwood to her tongue,
She loath’d the feast:
Writhing as one possess’d she leap’d and sung,
Rent all her robe, and wrung’ Goblin Market,
Christina Rossetti.

here for the darkening hours of a horror

9 57
2022-09-24

“It is said that in Ulthar,..., no man may kill a cat; and this I can verily believe as I gaze upon him who sitteth purring before the fire. For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cats of Ulthar

15 69
2022-09-24

‘Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.’
Montaigne, The Complete Essays.
🖼️ Hebe, Carolus-Duran.

10 68
2022-09-18

‘There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near.’
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, The Haunted Baronet and Others: Ghost Stories 1861-70.

36 116
2022-09-18

It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.

'The Song of Wandering Aengus'


🖼️'Boreas',1903

31 104
2022-09-18

"So they journeyed together, following the fleeing darkness into a wind that tasted like nails. The rind of the country cracked, and the flesh of it peeled back into gullies and ravines or shriveled into scabby hills."

- Peter S. Beagle
🎨 by Tore Billing

6 44
2022-09-11

“The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed & rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth. These protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

19 88
2022-09-10

‘He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest…things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.’ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings.

38 165
2022-09-10