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"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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'Terror made me cruel...'
-Emily Brontë

Dear bookworms, tomorrow's theme is novels and poetry that really, really scare you. is still going as well and we are loving the ghosts! Thank you! 👻🖤

🎨Cipriano Mannucci

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Today's New Moon bathes & heals by shedding its skin in Scorpio:

'Mother, the moon is dancing
in the courtyard of the dead.'
-Federico Garcia Lorca-

🎨Christian Schloe

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Isildur cursed them, trapping them without rest until their oath is fulfilled to his heirs. In LotR, Aragorn finds and summons the Dead Men for the Battle of the Pelennor Field & frees them afterwards.

🖼️ Hugo Carneiro, Vitor Zago & Murilo Miranda

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“The first thing I heard after not hearing anything was the sound of her crawling up the stairs." (Toni Morrison)

... and Beloved turns out to be a parasitic, food-devouring ghost, literally starving her mother

🎨 Joe Morse

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'Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there...'
-Joan Lowery Nixon

Welcome to day two of our ghostly countdown to Halloween with

🎨Dean Gioia

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‘Oh whence do you come, my dear friend, to me
With your golden hair all fallen below your knee
And your face as white as snowdrops on the lea
And your voice as hollow as the hollow sea?’ The Poor Ghost, Christina Rossetti. 🖼️ Aksel Johannessen, c.1920.

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