'And those that slept, they dreamed of ill
And dreadful things:
Of skies grown red with rending flames
And shuddering hills that cracked their frames;
Of twilights foul with wings.'
-Conrad Aiken

🎨Fitzgerald

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“There exists close to me an invisible being that lives on milk and on water, which can touch objects, take them and change their places...
...and which lives as I do, under my roof”
(“Le Horla” by Guy de Maupassant)
🎨 Anna&Elena Balbusso

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A tense story written as part of my 52 Crows project by David J Wing to get us all in the mood for https://t.co/PRJ8Aw3xkh

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Some of the beautiful background art for Disney’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949). Mary Blair’s gifted, artistic mind inspired many key scenes 🎃😱

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In Japan, if your child starts acting strange quite suddenly, there's a good chance they're dead and a goblin is wearing their skin! Called an Amanojaku, these spirits resemble changeling tales of Europe.

🖼: M. Meyer

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"I saw pale kings, and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
Who cry'd—'La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!'" (Keats)

🖼️ Frank Dicksee "La Belle Dame sans Merci" (1901)

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"Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."

The Stolen Child - W. B Yeats

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The dark faeries are almost here! Brilliant art by Thomas Maybank. 🖤🖤🖤

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Fantasmagoriana, a French anthology of German ghost stories, plays a key rol in the genesis of Frankenstein and The Vampyre during the "wet, ungenial summer" of 1816 https://t.co/tRW6ju3e9I

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“The Fairies come and go with noiseless steps, and their thefts or abductions are done silently and unawares to men”

Darklings! Join the Dark Queens tomorrow for & with your tales of

"Supernatural Abductions"

We'll RT after 2 pm BST

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🧙‍♀️#Witch for the stars⭐️
How’s your Mine is still chasing for the stars🌟

ハロウィンはどうですか?
私はまだいつものように星を追いかけています。

Catch⭐️ now
https://t.co/AzJEsJXrY1


https://t.co/nC288QoOyS

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time! Keeping with the theme, we are giving away by Mark McCoy. This was from in 2019. RT and Like THIS tweet and you are entered! Winners picked on Sunday, October 31st!

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Can’t believe Halloween and spooky season is almost over!

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Pumpkins not eaten after 10 days, left out in the light of the full moon or after Christmas can turn into vampires that drain your physical energy and leave you weak. Some even turn to physical attacks, according to Romani lore from the Balkans

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Everyone deserves a little Halloween magic✨

🌟Annya Marttinen

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