“Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.” (Edna St. Vincent Millay)

🎨 Rafał Borcz

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#art by Svetlin Vassilev

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And suddenly he saw that the Ghost rises in the stirrups, swings the arm and throws him head. Ichabod tried to Dodge this terrible throwing projectile, but it was too late.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
🎨Arthur Keller’s 1906
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He came with the mist. In autumn. Creeping, slouching, staggering with it, in it, from the river up to the spot where they had waylaid him one morning in the fog. Beat him to death. For his crime. And he came back. Every year. And stared. Through the mist.

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Francesco Balsamo, Corteo (Procession), 2006
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'Pale Woman' by Wladyslaw T Benda, 1922

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“How now, spirit! Whither wander you?” (Shakespeare)

🎨 Christopher Gaultier

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“Oh save me—succour me—rescue me from the monster that scattereth death and desolation around her.”

“I am acquainted with all,” returned the sorcerer; “thou now perceivest how wholesome was the advice—‘wake not the dead.’”
-Ernst Raupach

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“... an immense dog sprang up on deck from below... Making straight for the steep cliff, where the churchyard hangs over the laneway...' (Stoker)

🎨PE-Travers

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Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

~Stephen King
🎨Nude Vampire With Gloves
by Tanja Jeremić

Autumn gothic.

In The Golden Hour (1870)
By John Atkinson Grimshaw

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'Left to herself, the serpent now began
To change; her elfin blood in madness ran' (Keats)

🎨 Johan Egerkrans

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A Flemish tale says a servant always went out at night and left his clothes behind. One day someone threw those clothes away. The servant never returned. He was a werewolf and because he had lost his clothes he had to stay a wolf forever.

🎨Lily Seika Jones
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How pleased I was to see I struck The Beast to the heart.

~Angela Carter
art by Irina Lesik #faustianfriday

'In East Friesland, it is believed, when seven girls succeed each other in one family, that among them one is of necessity a were-wolf, so that youths are slow in seeking one of seven sisters in marriage.'
(Baring-Gould)

🎨 James Jean

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“And there was wonder on them while they were looking at her, for in the one moment she would be a wide-eyed most beautiful queen, and in another she would be a sharp-beaked, grey-white crow.“
(Augusta Gregory)

🎨Linda Kemp

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Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?

~John Milton
art by Willy Pogány
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'Don’t be too sure of that,’ replied the toad; ‘tell me your trouble and we’ll see.' (Lang)

🎨 thedancingemu

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'On most evenings there was unspeakable company.'

Caption from a rare vintage ghost illustration.

Source Frank Zumbach
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'What do you want, dark ghost! Where are you going?'
-Guido Gezelle (translated)

🎨The Phantom Painter
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