‘This is the place of my song-dream, the place the music played to me,’ whispered the Rat, as if in a trance. ‘Here, in this holy place, here if anywhere, surely we shall find Him!’
— Kenneth Grahame, ‘The Wind in the Willows’ (1908) #BookWormSat

🎨E.H. Shepherd

DIFFERENT BUT SAME Origin Unknown series https://belooleb.blogspot.com/2023/06/origin-unknown.html… #romcombooks #currentlyreading #reading #readerscommunity #readingcommunity #romance #bookstagrammers #bookcommunity #goodmorning #BookWormSat #SaturdayVibes #saturdayfun #ebook #ghostwriter2 #readingforpleasure

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RT @DirkPuehl
"For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night." (Shakespeare)

🎨 Takato Yamamoto

#ofdarkandmacabre #bookwormsat #gothicspring

RT @david_castleton
"Heaven did not seem to be my home ... & the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy." #BookWormSat #literature #gothic #books #Brontes

On Knockgrafton, in the Glen of Aherlow at the base of the Galtee Mountains, a hunchback overheard #faeries singing a monotonous song that went, “Monday, Tuesday.” His quickwitted ability to extend the fairy song thrilled them, and they cured his deformity. The story is a common one in Celtic lands.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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RT @NeuKelte
#Celtic #FaustianFriday #StPatricksDay #BookWormSat: The Paps of Danu are associated with the #fairy queen or legendary #Irish heroine #Créd, who…
https://twitter.com/NeuKelte/status/1636717214601453569

4) RHODA BROUGHTON (1840-1920),
Welsh author. Broughton wrote a book of ghost stories called 'Twilight Stories' (1873), and 'Betty's Visions' (1883), which follows a girl who could foresee others' deaths #WomensHistoryMonth #OfDarkAndMacabre #BookWormSat

#gothic #literature #fiction #history #story #victorian #horror #fantasy #histodons #bookstodon

RT @frome_maude@twitter.com

Arthur Rackham’s #illustrations for the 1907 edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, published by William Heinemann when the book first came into the public domain. #LewisCarroll was born on 27th January 1832. #BookChatWeekly #BookWormSat #Victorian

#DownTheRabbitHole 💮

RT @frome_maude@twitter.com

Arthur Rackham’s #illustrations for the 1907 edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, published by William Heinemann when the book first came into the public domain. #LewisCarroll was born on 27th January 1832. #BookChatWeekly #BookWormSat #Victorian

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RT @david_castleton@twitter.com

In #EdgarAllanPoe's The Raven, a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed one, repeated 8 times per line. This rhythm - which gives the poem a hypnotic, bewitching quality - is unusual in English verse, being more common in songs, chants & magic spells. #Bookwormsat #poets

“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Happy #Caturday and happy #BookWormSat!

#TobyStephens #catsofmastodon

RT @david_castleton@twitter.com

"How like a winter hath my absence been from thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old December's bareness everywhere!" #Shakespeare #Bookwormsat #gothic #literature #winter #snow

"If you can support GIVE A BOOK it’s the most brilliant present for someone you'll never know. But you'll have shared something special with them anyway… a love for books!”
#TobyStephens is supporting www.giveabook.org as a Christmas charity via Daily Express 😍📚
#BookWormSat

"If you can support GIVE A BOOK it’s the most brilliant present for someone you'll never know. But you'll have shared something special with them anyway… a love for books!”
#TobyStephens is supporting www.giveabook.org as a Christmas charity via Daily Express 😍📚
#BookWormSat

If you had your time all over again....? She was keen to know.

You can't rewrite history. I have no idea what I'd do.

Maeve Binchy, Tara Road

#BookWormSat

“Bilbo had never seen or imagined anything of the kind… When he peeped out in the lightning-flashes, he saw that across the valley the stone-giants were out, and were hurling rocks at one another for a game, and catching them, and tossing them down into the darkness where they smashed among the trees far below, or splintered into little bits with a bang.”

~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

#BookWormSat #TheHobbit #Tolkien

“I’ve gone by other names, but I do prefer Poseidon.”

"Like the god of the sea.”

"Very much like that, yes.”

– Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)

#BookWormSat #PercyJackson #PJO #BlackSails #TobyStephens

#BookWormSat #Witches

A Woggle of Witches, written and illustrated by Adrienne Adams, 1971.

The cait sith is a #Scottish mythological animal. Although its name (“fairy cat”) suggests that it was of the #fairy race, it was also reported to be a shapeshifting witch or her familiar. In the Scottish Highlands, this black spectral creature of ambiguous species (probably feline) was so large that it was sometimes mistaken for a black dog.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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RT @frome_maude@twitter.com
“By day she made herself into a cat.” Arthur Rackham’s 1909 illustration for Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. The cat is a shape-shifting witch. #BookWormSat #Caturday

RT @kazerin@twitter.com

"She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world."

The Awakening | Kate Chopin

#BookWormSat
🖼️Twilight Roost detail by Brian Shields

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RT @kazerin@twitter.com

"She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world."

The Awakening | Kate Chopin

#BookWormSat
🖼️Twilight Roost detail by Brian Shields

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/kazerin/status/1545738162474975232