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"Here I am lying down to sleep;
No night-mare shall plague me
until they have swum through all the waters
that flow upon the earth,
and counted all stars
that appear in the firmament"
Westphalian charm to ward off a nightmare
🎨 Fuseli
#mythologymonday #ofdarkandmacabre
Night is my sister, and how deep in love,
How drowned in love and weedily washed ashore,
There to be fretted by the drag and shove
At the tide's edge, I lie —
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
#SwampSunday
#ofdarkandmacabre #poetry
"The ship and all in it are imbued with the spirit of Eld... I feel as I have never felt before, although I have been all my life a dealer in antiquities, and have imbibed the shadows... until my very soul has become a ruin" (Poe)
🎨 Clarke
#ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly
Covey
Here's some artwork of Quietus (oc) monitoring the seven angels of the Elder One.
#OC #ArtistOnTwitter #Horror #macabre
“There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe”
Castellan of Otranto and father of the Gothic novel Horace Walpole was born #OTD 1717
🎨 Susanna Duncombe (c1800)
#ofdarkandmacabre #bookwormsat
"The Havoc Tree" is a composition of #hedonistic, macabre and #sexually explicit abstracts. Each element in this surreal book is cryptically poetic and the writing is uncompromising in its rampage through violence, sexual depravity & madness. More here
https://t.co/Z2VCp3QkJW