Love these Victorian illustrations of fairy tales by Arthur Rackham.


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Gawain's journey through the snowy landscape

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Fasolt suddenly seizes Freia and drags her to one side with Fafner

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Alberich drives in a band of Niblungs laden with gold and silver treasure

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Many's the beating he had from the broomstick or the ladle

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Brünnhilde with her horse, at the mouth of the cave

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Merlin is lured by the evil fairy Vivien in her home

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Eye candy book illustrations featuring Sleeping Beauty:

Edward Frederick Brewtnall, 1880
Edmund Dulac, 1909
Arthur Rackham, 1920
Kinuko Y. Craft, 1984

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The lady with the balloons, who sits just outside https://t.co/71VJZLz0nM

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“Goblin Market” (1862) by Christina Rossetti is a narrative poem telling the story of Laura and Lizzie, two sisters tempted with fruit by goblin merchants.
Check out full poem here: https://t.co/rcMn2Raoxa
(Illustration by Arthur Rackham 1933)

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Shook his bald head and murmured, 'Cold, quite cold.'

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Type "Once upon a time" and let the predictive text finish the sentence.
(art by Arthur Rackham)

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"prophet still, if bird or devil!—" Poe writes of the titular Raven. Ravens, as carrion birds, are often depicted as psychopomps, connecting our world and the next.


Art: Arthur Rackham

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For on here are some of Arthur Rackham’s illustrations from The Ingoldsby Legends (1898 & 1907) which contain ghost stories, tales of strange myths & legends, and poetry.

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Hunding discovers the likeness between Siegmund and Sieglinde

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