“How now, spirit! Whither wander you?” (Shakespeare) 🎨 Christopher Gaultier #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly #ShakespeareSunday #31daysofhaunting #31daysofhalloween

“The Reaper of Death, the Angel of Life. They walk together in day and night.” ~ Jessica Sorensen 🤍🖤 #OfDarkAndMacabre #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting

Those who practice evil become evil - women who indulge in black magic are believed to turn into witches, known as Jatu, disguised as humans. In Brahui folklore, the Jatu preys on the liver of children. #FolkloreSunday #31DaysofHaunting #ofdarkandmacabre #Halloween

By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Then can the substance of ten thousand soldiers Armed in proof and led by shallow Richmond. ′Tis not yet near day. ~ Shakespeare #ofdarkandmacabre William Blake, Richard III and the Ghosts

Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs. ~ Le Corbusier #ofdarkandmacabre Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, by Irish photographer James Stack Lauder ("James Lafayette")

If charnel houses and our graves must send Those that we bury back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites. ~ Shakespeare #ofdarkandmacabre

Just a dead guy, squirming in his grave in front of his daughter, asking her to leave him alone. #31DaysOfHaunting #ofdarkandmacabre 🖼️ Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein Stub

Visitors find the chaotic layout of twisting passageways and secret doors that comprise the Manor deeply unsettling. They swear that even if you walk the same path twice, you rarely end at the same destination. 🎨H. Railton. #31DaysOfHaunting #31DaysOfHalloween #OfDarkAndMacabre

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. #picturewantsastory

At Hallowtide in Ireland, children would be sprinkled with oats and salt to protect them from the fairies... #OfDarkAndMacabre #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting

Bats in a Tree, Johannes Gerardus Keulemans, after François P.L. Pollen, 1868 _ #bookplate #bookillustration #bookstagram #witchaesthetic #monsterdesign #witchcraft #alchemy #ofdarkandmacabre #superstitiology #GothicSummerVibes #weirdcartwitter #tatooidea #villageofstrange

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"What may this mean? That thou, dead corpse, again, in complete steel, Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon. Making night hideous." (Hamlet 1:4) #ShakespeareSunday #OfDarkAndMacabre

"The night has been unruly: where we lay, Lamentings heard in the air; strange screams of death, and prophesying with accents terrible Of dire combustion and confused events New hatch'd to the woeful time." ~ Macbeth, 2:3 #ShakespeareSunday #31DaysofHalloween #OfDarkAndMacabre

"We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith." Stephen King #ofdarkandmacabre

He slumped with a metallic click, clink and the glow above died. As I moved into the yellow circle of the neighbouring light the man looked up. Or 'it' looked up. With another clink, clink it detached from the lamppost, stepped towards me. It's eyes gleamed. #picturewantsastory

Rodney had drank in the pub till the wee hours, as was his usual custom, but this time it was different. He passed out and awoke wrapped around a lamppost, dressed in Victorian garb. When he asked a passerby the year, the incredible answer came: "1862." #picturewantsastory

💀 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 #ofdarkandmacabre

"A groan right beside his ear - an owl perhaps. Or was it, maybe, the groan of a lost soul" (Andrei Bely) 🎨 Jackie Morris #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly #31daysofhaunting #31DaysofHalloween #owlishmonday