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The elegant dust jacket of the first American edition of 'In Ghostly Japan' by Lafcadio Hearn, 1899.
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Image is from Disney's "The Sword in the Stone."
#BookChatWeekly #AncientSky #BookSky #Mythology #MythologySky #WelshMythology #CelticMythology #Folklore #FolkloreSky #WelshFolklore #CelticFolklore #Wales #WalesSky #Celtic #CelticSky #KingArthur #KingArthurSky #Arthurian #ArthurianSky #Arthuriana -
Image is from the "Jeeves and Wooster" TV show.
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"It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so."
- Jerome K Jerome, 'Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow'
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I've posted it before but I'll post it again for #WyrdWednesday. Paul Hardy illustration for 'The Story Hunters' by E R Suffling, 1896. 'Skellington' is a much better word than 'skeleton' I've always thought.
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I've posted it before but I'll post it again for #WyrdWednesday. Paul Hardy illustration for 'The Story Hunters' by E R Suffling, 1896. 'Skellington' is a much better word than 'skeleton' I've always thought.
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I've posted it before but I'll post it again for #WyrdWednesday. Paul Hardy illustration for 'The Story Hunters' by E R Suffling, 1896. 'Skellington' is a much better word than 'skeleton' I've always thought.
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#WyrdWednesday "Davy Jones is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is often seen perching among the rigging on the eve of hurricanes, shipwrecks, and other disasters warning of death and woe."
'The adventures of Peregrine Pickle' by Tobias Smollett 1751 #BookChatWeekly -
An illustration of a ghost by Edmund Dulac from 'Green Willow And Other Japanese Fairy Tales', 1910.
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Yep, please join us for #PhantomsFriday tomorrow over on @[email protected] As usual, I have no idea what I'll be posting myself - but everyone else's posts are so good, it hardly matters!
#ghosts #folklore #art #BookChatWeekly
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“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
🎨Gustave Dore
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Flowers in a Landscape, Summer... -
“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
🎨Gustave Dore
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3536... #BookwormSat #art #fineart #giftidea #literature #bookchatweekly #wallart
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Image is from Disney's "Sword in the Stone."
#BookChatWeekly #BookologyThursday #AncientSky #FolkloreSky #MythologySky #WelshSky #CelticSky #KingArthurSky #Folklore #WelshFolklore #CelticFolklore #Mythology #WelshMythology #CelticMythology #Wales #Celts #KingArthur #Arthuriana #Arthurian #Disney -
Image is a medieval illustration for the "Alexander Romance." #BookChatWeekly #BookSky #Mythology #MythologySky #Folklore #FolkloreSky #Monster #MonsterSky #FabulousBeast #Griffin #GriffinSky #Gryphon #GryphonSky #Unicorn #UnicornSky #AlexandertheGreat
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Drawing of gay playwright Joe Orton by gay artist Patrick Procktor, 1967. #GayPrideMonth #GayPride #LGBTQ #gaywriters #gayartists #artsky #BookChatWeekly
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Drawing of gay playwright Joe Orton by gay artist Patrick Procktor, 1967. #GayPrideMonth #GayPride #LGBTQ #gaywriters #gayartists #artsky #BookChatWeekly
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A rather splendid title page, I feel. #BookChatWeekly #booksy #poetry #poetrysky #WilliamBlake
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A rather splendid title page, I feel. #BookChatWeekly #booksy #poetry #poetrysky #WilliamBlake
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A rather splendid title page, I feel. #BookChatWeekly #booksy #poetry #poetrysky #WilliamBlake
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A rather splendid title page, I feel. #BookChatWeekly #booksy #poetry #poetrysky #WilliamBlake
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Now this has confused me. The only Doyle vampire story I can think of is 'The Parasite', and that's about a psychic vampire. What, I wonder, are the others? #ConanDoyle #vampire #BookChatWeekly
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"Book of Ballads" - Sharyn McCrumb (script) and Charles Vess (art). #GothicSpring #BookChatWeekly #AncientSky #Mythology #MythologySky #Folklore #FolkloreSky #Comics #ComicsSky #GraphicNovel #BookSky #Literature #LiteratureSky #Celtic #CelticSky #Scotland #Fairy #FairySky #Faerie #CharlesVess
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I forgot to post this on David Attenborough's 100th: my copy of 'Fabulous Animals', which I demanded for my 11th birthday. Seminal inspiration for my devotion to #Forteana. The hardback is surprisingly rare, too. Sir David was already nearly 50 when this came out! #DavidAttenborough #BookChatWeekly
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Description of a pond: "...earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature" Henry David Thoreau 'Walden' 📸 mine, taken yesterday evening #BookChatWeekly #nature #EastCoastKin
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Description of a pond: "...earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature" Henry David Thoreau 'Walden' 📸 mine, taken yesterday evening #BookChatWeekly #nature #EastCoastKin
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John Calcott Horsley, 'Woman Reading To a Child', 1856. #BookChatWeekly #booksy