The baby bat screamed out in fright, ‘Turn on the dark, I’m afraid of the light.’

~Shell Silverstein
#ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly

'A child's imaginary playmate just might actually be there.'
~ Doug Dillon
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#31DaysofHaunting

'Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.'
~Remy de Gourmont
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#31DaysofHaunting
🎨Jana Heidersdorf

I like thy self-complacent air,
I like thy ways so free from care.

~John Burroughs, The Crow
art by Maja Lindberg
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Silence ~ Harry Clarke (for Edgar A Poe)
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#31DaysofHorror

Numerous folk tales tell of men led astray by hares who are really witches in disguise, or of charming women revealed as witches when they are wounded in their animal shape 🐇🔮

#FolkloreSunday #OfDarkandMacabre #31DaysofHaunting 🌕🖤

Dear Bibliophiles and Bookworms, #BookologyThursday will be on a break tomorrow as we're working on an exciting project but we will be back next week!

Do go on a journey with #OfDarkAndMacabre while we're away as our crow loves your literary tweets just as much as we do!

“The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language.... But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins.”

― Heinrich Heine

Image: Ruins of Ballycarberry Castle (County Kerry, Ireland) by Ljudmila Schalimova

#FaustianFriday #ofdarkandmacabre

Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.

~Oscar Wilde
The Fall of Icarus, René Milot
#wyrdwednesday #ofdarkandmacabre

A book born of my iconographic wanderings
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#Knights #Dürer #Devil #ofdarkandmacabre

Morana, Slavic goddess of winter’s death, rebirth and dreams.

art by IrenHorrors
#folkloresunday #ofdarkandmacabre

Many a deadly poison ☠️ is concealed under sweet honey 🍯

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#narcissism

Walpurgis Night approaches and my head is amok with witches!
Goethe’s poem has many inspiring lines #Folklore #Folklore Thursday #Walpurgisnacht #ofdarkandmacabre #witch es #witch #Superstitiology
#gothicspring

'Let me in!'
📖 Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte
🎨 Fritz Eichenberg
#thingsthatcrossover
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#FaustianFriday

'Fire' by John Collier

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After his voyage to the Land of the Houyhnhnms, Lemuel Gulliver became a recluse. Such was his disgust with humanity—those civilised Yahoos—that he avoided his family, spending his days conversing with his horses.

🎨J. J. Grandville
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#BookWormSat

Baitaal is a vampiric spirit which feeds on human flesh in Punjabi folklore. It has the ability to possess the dead. Those who do not receive a proper burial, and die unnatural deaths, at a young age, may turn into one. #FairyTaleTuesday #ofdarkandmacabre #31DaysOfHaunting

#vampires #Folklore #ofdarkandmacabre
Though the notion of vampires was greatly exaggerated and adapted by the European writers through Carmilla, Dracula, Nosferatu to name a few, the concept of vampires predates everything that we’ve seen portrayed in the last century or so.🧵

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'For we all have our own twilights and mists and abysses to return to.'

Sanober Khan