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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

—W. Somerset Maugham
Illustration by Chris Dunn

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2022-11-02

"Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums" (Maurice Maeterlinck)

🎨 Pauhami

39 135
2022-11-02

"Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."

Shakespeare's "Tempest" premiered 1611

🎨 Dulac

13 40
2022-11-01

🖤🖤🖤

"The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. ..."

The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold

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2022-10-31

Best book club ever ❤️
(Art by Astrid Sheckels)

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2022-10-27

“We go by the will of the black rabbit. When he calls you, you have to go” (Richard Adams)

🎨 ShanaPatry

36 144
2022-10-25

"I dared not—I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!" (Poe)

... the sister returns shrieking, though, scaring her brother to death before she ultimately expires and the House of Usher vanishes in the lake

🎨 Clarke

12 42
2022-10-19

"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk." (Hegel)

🎨 IrenHorrors

27 107
2022-10-17

“And the sun poured in like butterscotch”

Indeed, a sunshiny & magical cat it is ☀️

🎨 Joni Mitchell, Brian Froud


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2022-10-13

"Poor autumn
Dies in the whiteness and richness
Of snow and ripe fruit
Deep in the sky
The sparrow hawks glide
Above the tiny gentle green-haired water nymphs
Who have never loved" (Apollinaire)

🎨 Malmström

17 54
2022-10-09

'Thousands of faces rise and vanish before me.
Thousands of voices weave in the rain.'
-Conrad Aiken

🖼️Hengki Lee

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2022-10-07

"... we shall mount on the altan on the roof of the house beside the weather-cock, who will sing us a merry bridal-song, because the owl to-night holds his wedding-feast" (Hoffmann)

🎨 Teagan White

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2022-10-03

"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

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2022-09-26

"My mother, what is happiness?
My mother, what is Hell?
With William is my happiness, -
Without him is my Hell!" (Bürger "Lenore")

Ups Lenore's fallen groom and takes his bride to the cold grave. Double quick, "die Todten reiten schnell".

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2022-09-24

“You must suffer me to go my own dark way.” (R.L. Stevenson "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"

🎨 Jeremy Wilson

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2022-09-22

On this Thursday, on this particular walk to school, there was an old frog croaking in the stream behind the hedge as we went by.
'Can you hear him, Danny?'
'Yes,' I said

Danny, Champion of the World



🎨 Jill Bennett

4 19
2022-09-15

Darklings!

While sends you off to sea, arrr, it's back to school with topic for tomorrow - Looking forward to read your book reports! https://t.co/dWwfvTb5ai

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2022-09-15

Want more Selki? Why not check the following:
1. Sarah Webb's 'One Spared to the Sea' ()
2. Bear Pettigrew's () 'On the Rocks'
3. 's 'The Girl from the Sea'
4. 's 'The Blue Salt Road'

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2022-09-11

“I had been passing alone,on horseback,through a singularly dreary tract of country,& at length found myself,as the shades of evening drew on,within view of the melancholy House of Usher”
― Edgar Allan Poe,The Fall of the House of Usher,published in September 1839

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2022-09-10