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

'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

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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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

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

art by IrenHorrors
#folkloresunday #ofdarkandmacabre

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

Many a deadly poison ☠️ is concealed under sweet honey 🍯

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#narcissism

'Fire' by John Collier

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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 🌕🖤

“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

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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!

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

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

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

Sanober Khan

Guido Reni St Michael Defeats Satan
#gothicspring #GothicBeauty #superstitiology #bookwalker #bookworms #Ofdarkandmacabre #BookChatWeekly #DailyFolklore

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

DESERTED GOTHIC CASTLES Ireland & Spain; 'No sooner had he approached the woods than all those great trees & brambles & thorns opened on their own accord & allowed him to pass through. Then he began walking towards the castle' Perrault, Sleeping Beauty (Doré) #ofdarkandmacabre