ethereal spirits · @etherealspirits
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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

#GothicSpring #BookWormSat #ofdarkandmacabre

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Valerie Burkhart · @ValBHart
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RT @DirkPuehl
"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colours, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."
(Rainer Maria Rilke)

🎨 Otto Marseus van Schrieck

#GothicSpring #BookChatWeekly #ofdarkandmacabre

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🌙Gothic Girl · @VictorianGothik
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7) GERTRUDE ATHERTON (1857-1948),
American author. Best remembered for her tales of the supernatural, her most famous is arguably ‘The Striding Place’, which follows a man's weird and disturbing encounter with a drowning being

#womenshistorymonth #ofdarkandmacabre #readmorewomen #gothic #literature #fiction #history #story #victorian #horror #fantasy #histodons #bookstodon

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🌙Gothic Girl · @VictorianGothik
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6) EMMA FRANCES DAWSON (1839-1926),
American poet and author. Her tales of the supernatural are collected in a ‘An Itinerant House & Other Stories’, which includes ‘Singed Moths’, ‘The Sworn Statement’ and ‘Are the Dead Dead?’

#womenshistorymonth #ofdarkandmacabre #readmorewomen #gothic #literature #fiction #history #story #victorian #horror #fantasy #histodons #bookstodon

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🌙Gothic Girl · @VictorianGothik
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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

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Wu Yuansheng · @admin
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RT Banquozghost: “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

The Tempest A1Sc2

@MercurialNight

art: Santiago Caruso

#shakespearesunday #witches #witchcraft #ofdarkandmacabre

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Gothic Girl · @VictorianGothik
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"I don't sleep at night; that's my busiest time." Van Cheele began to have an irritated feeling…"What do you feed on?" he asked. "Flesh," said the boy…he pronounced the word with slow relish, as though he were tasting it
– 'Gabriel-Ernest' (1909) 2/2

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

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Gothic Girl · @VictorianGothik
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Clare Leighton's illustrations for a 1931 edition of Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights', which supposedly inspired the set designer for the 1939 film adaptation. You can see all 12 of Leighton's illustrations here: bl.uk/collection-items/illustr

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

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Gothic Girl · @VictorianGothik
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Daniel Dunglas Home was a famous Scottish medium renowned for his séances & ability to levitate. Supposedly descended from a long line of seers, Home grew up having visions of the deaths of loved ones & became a internationally-known psychic 1/4

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

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Gothic Girl · @VictorianGothik
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The first theatre adaptation of the Sweeny Todd story debuted in 1847, written by actor/playwright George Dibdin Pitt. The play is based on the original penny blood, 'A String of Pearls' (1846-1847), by James Malcom Rymer

#otd #ofdarkandmacabre #WyrdWednesday #gothic #literature #fiction #history #story #victorian #horror #fantasy #histodons #bookstodon

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Ana Morales · @Anaisni
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Ipuin bikaina, eta "Coraline"-ren aurrekaria⏬

mastodon.world/@VictorianGothi
VictorianGothik@mastodon.world - Lucy Clifford's twisted fantasy 'The New Mother' (1882) centres on sisters Blue-Eyes & the Turkey, named after events in their infant years. The story follows their descent into chaos & tragedy as they strive to impress a stranger in the woods

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

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Gothic Girl · @VictorianGothik
416 followers · 105 posts · Server mastodon.world

Lucy Clifford's twisted fantasy 'The New Mother' (1882) centres on sisters Blue-Eyes & the Turkey, named after events in their infant years. The story follows their descent into chaos & tragedy as they strive to impress a stranger in the woods

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

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ethereal spirits · @etherealspirits
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RT @frome_maude
In the late C19th daring & extravagant masked balls were the talk of the Parisian season for the 6 weeks before Lent. Masked ladies of the demi-monde flirted with men of power & influence, while secrets & intrigue swirled all around.

#ofdarkandmacabre #FaustianFriday

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Wu Yuansheng · @admin
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RT DirkPuehl: “Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask?" (Kierkegaard)

🎨 Eri Nakagawa

#owlishmonday #ofdarkandmacabre #31daysofhaunting

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JakiChantler · @jakichantler49
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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




🎨 J E Millais t.co/bIHg7jgA8A

🐦🔗: twitter.com/AndreaCheetham/sta

#eveofstagnes #Keats #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly

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ddouglas · @dd9000
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RT @Kerria@twitter.com

Friedrich Sertürner named the opiate drug morphine after Morpheus, the Greek god associated with sleep and dreams.



art by BohemianWeasel

🐦🔗: twitter.com/Kerria/status/1609

#ofdarkandmacabre #mythologymonday

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Meertext - Bettina Wurche · @Meertext
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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)

🐦🔗: twitter.com/DirkPuehl/status/1

#bechstein #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly

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Liana Brooks · @LianaBrooks
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RT @emjanerothwell@twitter.com

Edward Gorey’s (1925-2000) Yuletide scenes were always unique, gothic, & beautifully his own 🖤🎄

🐦🔗: twitter.com/emjanerothwell/sta

#ofdarkandmacabre

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Mary Madden · @feministgothic
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Balaklavas at the ready ...
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RT @SheerZed
Christmas comes and is sometimes feared. When it does it can be very . Image: Geoffrey Hudson
twitter.com/SheerZed/status/16

#ofdarkandmacabre #wyrd #GothicAdvent

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Kallisti777 · @Kallisti777
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The next very weird Victorian Christmas card is this one. The birds are cute, but they look like they will burn my house down. I feel this Christmas card has a passive-aggressive edge to it 🤣

#GothicAdvent #ofdarkandmacabre #history #christmas

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