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"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

21 104
2022-10-31

Best book club ever ❤️
(Art by Astrid Sheckels)

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2022-10-27

"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


6 16
2022-10-13

“There must be ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sands of the sea.
And then we are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light…”

— Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts


38 122
2022-10-10

"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

19 68
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

34 124
2022-10-03

“Vanity Fair” by William Makepeace Thackeray - Becky Sharp knows what she wants and is ruthless about going for it. Appeals to my inner sociopath.


7 9
2022-09-29

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

🎨 Jeremy Wilson

13 34
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

8 18
2022-09-15

“FAIRY, n. A creature that formerly inhabited the meadows and forests. It was nocturnal in its habits...

The fairies are now believed by naturalist to be extinct”

— A. Bierce, The Devil’s dictionary





🌙 Lysander H.

16 66
2022-09-13

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'

4 8
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

"Everywhere in Fairy Land forests are the places where one may most certainly expect adventures" (George MacDonald)

🎨 Vasily Ermolaev

42 164
2022-09-10

There is a blessing in the air,
Which seems a sense of joy to yield
To the bare trees, and mountains bare,
And grass in the green field.

~ William Wordsworth

🎨 Finelia Grace


8 32
2022-09-03