RT @Kerria
The 16th century Ripley Scroll is an alchemical manuscript that describes the production of the Philosopher’s Stone.

Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Digital Images
#faustianfriday #bookchatweekly

RT @cosmiccorner18
"I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.." 📚💖🦉
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
#BookTwitter #BookChatWeekly

"he spoke one word…He was the Evil One; the name seemed to be taken up by the echoes and repeated from rock to rock and crag to crag; the whole air seemed full of that one word; and then a great horror of darkness came about us"
— 'Sandy the Tinker' (1882) #BookChatWeekly 5/5

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

"he spoke one word…He was the Evil One; the name seemed to be taken up by the echoes and repeated from rock to rock and crag to crag; the whole air seemed full of that one word; and then a great horror of darkness came about us"
— 'Sandy the Tinker' (1882) #BookChatWeekly 5/5

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

#FaustianFriday In 'Gabriel-Ernest' (Hector Hugh Munro, aka Saki, 1909) a man takes in a teenager he finds lounging by a pool in the woods after learning the boy lives outdoors, feeding on wildlife and - so the boy claims - children who stray into his path at night #BookChatWeekly 1/2

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

So here’s some Keats @EllenEnders@twitter.com @cincity631@twitter.com @HCandler@twitter.com !!

RT @AndreaCheetham@twitter.com

... St Agnes? Ah it is St Agnes Eve -
Yet men will murder upon holy days:
Thou must hold water in a witches sieve,
And be liege-lord of all the Elves and Fays ...

~ Keats, Eve of St Agnes

#EveOfStAgnes #Keats
#OfDarkAndMacabre
#BookChatWeekly
🎨 J E Millais https://t.co/bIHg7jgA8A

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#Bechstein s Märchen schon etwas düster und voller Natur-Folklore

RT @DirkPuehl@twitter.com

"There dwell dark powers
Deep in the mountain’s womb
And during the Twelve Nights
Hell lets them all loose" (Bechstein)

🎨 Alfred Kubin "Rauhnächte" (Twelve Nights, c 1925)

#ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly

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#WyrdWednesday “What do you think that is?” she asked me, again pointing with her stick; “that, where those cobwebs are?”
“I can’t guess what it is, ma’am.”
“It’s a great cake. A bride-cake. Mine!”
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
🎞️Great Expectations, 1946 #BookChatWeekly

RT @DirkPuehl@twitter.com

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
...
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity." (Yeats)

🎨
Yaroslav Gerzhedovich

#ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly

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