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

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

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

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

Silence ~ Harry Clarke (for Edgar A Poe)
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#31DaysofHorror

'Fire' by John Collier

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Many a deadly poison ☠️ is concealed under sweet honey 🍯

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#narcissism

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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'The Six Swans'
Illustration by Kay Nielsen

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#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.🧵

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

All is not as it seems

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#Halloween

🎨Klaudia Bezak

“When witches go riding and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers, ‘Tis near Halloween!’”
(Author unknown)
#Art : Jane Newland jane newland
#BookChatWeekly #ofdarkandmacabre #FaustianFriday #Caturday #Samhain #Halloween

Summon your wolf when you need to protect yourself, your boundaries & those you love. #FaustianFriday #ofdarkandmacabre #Gothic
Image: Freyja Schimkus

“The Reaper of Death, the Angel of Life.

They walk together in day and night.”

~ Jessica Sorensen 🤍🖤

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#31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting

#FairyTaleTuesday Reports of Spring Heeled Jack began in London in the 1830s.The Times told of women attacked by a tall taloned creature with blazing eyes, breathing fire & leaping walls.'The Terror of London' became a staple of Penny Dreadfuls #ofdarkandmacabre #31Daysofhaunting

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 🌕🖤

'We know what we are, but know not what we may be.'

William Shakespeare

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🎨 Annie Stegg

La Befana is a kind Christmas witch who delivers presents to Italian children on Epiphany Eve. I hope she is good to them tonight. #Befana #ofdarkandmacabre #winterfolklore

'A groan right beside his ear - an owl perhaps. Or was it, maybe, the groan of a lost soul'
(Andrei Bely)

🎨 Jackie Morris

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