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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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"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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#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
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3536... #BookwormSat #art #fineart #giftidea #literature #bookchatweekly #wallart
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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
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3536... #BookwormSat #art #fineart #giftidea #literature #bookchatweekly #wallart
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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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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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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
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The titular 'Tetherstones' in a story by Ethel M Dell, published in The Strand Magazine, June 1923. Needless to say, the Tetherstones are weird and creepy with an uncanny reputation. The name refers to the human sacrifices who were tethered to them (of course)! #StandingStoneSunday #BookChatWeekly
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In 1902 'The Strand Magazine' serialized 'The Psammead' by Edith Nesbit. On book publication it was renamed 'Five Children and It' (not to be confused with killer clown). Here the youngest of the five tries to make friends with the bad-tempered hobgoblin. #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #fairystories
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"The baby lay wide awake in its crib, staring with deep, sharp blue eyes. 'It's not nice being afraid of the thing you birthed.' Her whisper lowered. 'He lies there, listens to us talking, waiting for you to go away so he can try to kill me again!' #WyrdWednesday #RayBradbury #BookChatWeekly
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Try and get hold of a copy of 'House Mother Normal' by B S Johnson (1971) if you can. Set in an old people's home, it's one of the most original, gruesome, hilarious black comedies I've read - and with an ending so shocking and disgusting even I didn't see it coming. #WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly
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A little light reading for Punch. #BookChatWeekly #booksky #Victorian
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A little light reading for Punch. #BookChatWeekly #booksky #Victorian
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An illustration by Anton Van De Valk of the Old Man Of The Sea riding on Sinbad's back, 1913. #Sinbad #ArabianNights #legend #folktale #illustration #BookChatWeekly
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Now, that's my sort of bookshop. #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #booksky #Victorian
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Now, that's my sort of bookshop. #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #booksky #Victorian
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1970s spooky anthologies published by William Kimber, such as these two I have, are becoming quite collectible, especially those with 'wraparound' dust jackets by Ionicus. And no wonder - they look great. #PhantomsFriday #BookChatWeekly #booksky #illustrators
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Final post of the goodies to be found in the June 1940 edition of the Strand Magazine. This one is Michael Arlen's yarn 'Gay Falcon'. Only one story was written featuring this character but it spawned a couple of films starring George Sanders. The illustration is by R M Chandler. #BookChatWeekly
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"This was #Walpurgis Night! Walpurgis Night, when, according to the belief of millions of people, the devil was abroad—when the graves were opened & the dead came forth & walked. When evil things of earth & air & water held revel." Bram Stoker "Dracula's Guest" #WyrdWednesday #bookchatweekly
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"As to being in a fright, Allow me to remark That ghosts have just as good a right, In every way, to fear the light As men to fear the dark." "No plea," said I, "can well excuse Such cowardice in you...." - Lewis Carroll, "Phantasmagoria" 🎨Arthur B. Frost #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly
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'The Dunwich Horror' as imagined by Tatsuya Morino. #weird #weirdart #BookIllustration #illustration #BookChatWeekly #artsky #Lovecraft #HPLovecraft #horror
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'The Dunwich Horror' as imagined by Tatsuya Morino. #weird #weirdart #BookIllustration #illustration #BookChatWeekly #artsky #Lovecraft #HPLovecraft #horror
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I love these 'Dandy's Perambulations' cartoons from 1819. No idea who drew them but they make me chortle. #dandies #Regency #cartoons #artsky #BookChatWeekly
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I love these 'Dandy's Perambulations' cartoons from 1819. No idea who drew them but they make me chortle. #dandies #Regency #cartoons #artsky #BookChatWeekly
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Title page of Clemence Housman's 1896 novel 'The Were-Wolf', described by Mike Ashley as 'the greatest story of lycanthropy ever written'. Clemence was the sister of 'Shropshire Lad' poet A E Housman. #BookChatWeekly #booksky #werewolf #fantasyfiction #Shropshire
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Title page of Clemence Housman's 1896 novel 'The Were-Wolf', described by Mike Ashley as 'the greatest story of lycanthropy ever written'. Clemence was the sister of 'Shropshire Lad' poet A E Housman. #BookChatWeekly #booksky #werewolf #fantasyfiction #Shropshire
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Marc Alexander was one of the top collectors of #ghost accounts in the 1970s. These two beauties date from 1973 and 1975 respectively. I'm pretty sure the inn pictured is The Bird Cage in Thame, #Oxfordshire, which was supposedly haunted by a leper. #PhantomsFriday #haunting #BookChatWeekly #pubs
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Marc Alexander was one of the top collectors of #ghost accounts in the 1970s. These two beauties date from 1973 and 1975 respectively. I'm pretty sure the inn pictured is The Bird Cage in Thame, #Oxfordshire, which was supposedly haunted by a leper. #PhantomsFriday #haunting #BookChatWeekly #pubs
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Weird pictures of the day are a couple of vintage Spanish Edgar Rice Burroughs' paperbacks with cover illustrations by Prieto. (Not books I own, btw). #weird #weirdart #artsky #fantasyfiction #BookChatWeekly #booksky #VintagePaperbacks #EdgarRiceBurroughs
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Weird pictures of the day are a couple of vintage Spanish Edgar Rice Burroughs' paperbacks with cover illustrations by Prieto. (Not books I own, btw). #weird #weirdart #artsky #fantasyfiction #BookChatWeekly #booksky #VintagePaperbacks #EdgarRiceBurroughs
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Another sketch from the 15-year-old Richard Doyle's journal of 1841. This shows him as he imagined himself lying in a fever and being surprised by hallucinations of all manner of #fairies and otherworldly little creatures. #BookChatWeekly #booksky #Victorian #illustration #artsky
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"There is only one principle in Hell. Bring back food or be food yourself." - C S Lewis, 'The Screwtape Letters' #BookWormSat #CSLewis #demonology #BookChatWeekly (I had to repost this because a Renaissance painting of Hell was AdultContent-ed. *sigh* So here's 'Calvin In Hell' by Heemskerck)
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Richard Doyle and Charles visit a bookshop to check out the latest publications and to learn whether one of Dick's drawings has been accepted for publication. Just a sketch in the diary of a 15-year-old - but what a characterful and detailed drawing it is. #BookChatWeekly #Victorian #artsky #booksky
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"Footprints?" "Footprints." "A man’s or a woman's?" Dr. Mortimer looked strangely at us, and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered. "Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Hound of the Baskervilles" #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly
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I've finally got see a copy of the Rev F G Lee's rare 'More Glimpses Of The World Unseen' (1876) but it was in a reading room so unfortunately I had to give it back. I like the cute little jack o'lantern on the front cover. #PhantomsFriday #folklore #ghosts #BookChatWeekly #Victorian
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Sherlock Holmes 'on the film', as was the phrase back in 1921 when this article appeared in The Strand - the magazine lucky enough to have launched Holmes's popularity exactly 30 years earlier. Eille Norwood (not 'the Builder') was the first Holmes actor on screen. #SherlockHolmes #BookChatWeekly
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Weird picture of the day: 'Library' by Franz Sedlacek. #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #artsky #MagicalRealism
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🪶🤍🪶"He wore a metal and bone charm, the first talisman he had found and still his favourite. It was a tiny, lodestone-filled skull of a swallow, the fine beak gilded, two polished silver orbs shining from its eye sockets." 📖Deeper Older Darker. #MythologyMonday #BookChatWeekly #BookSky💙📚💙
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Another one by the Danish artist Don Kenn. I'm pretty sure that's a picture of me as a kid reading. And thank you to everyone's spirited contributions to what was another thoroughly enjoyable #PhantomsFriday yesterday. Here's to the next one! #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #DanishArt #ScandinavianArt
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For some reason I felt like scanning and posting one of Edward Ardizzone's expressive illustrations for my old favourite, 'Stig Of The Dump' by Clive King. So I have. #Ardizzone #illustration #artsky #BookChatWeekly #booksky #childrensbooks
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"If you are restricted in your range by poverty, if you cannot buy books and newspapers, for instance, you are but confined to the most significant and vital experiences. Money is not required to buy one necessity for the soul." - Henry David Thoreau, 'Walden' #BookChatweekly #booksky #Thoreau
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1/2 The Poor Ghost - Christina Rossetti "I go home alone to my bed, Dug deep at the foot and deep at the head, Roofed in with a load of lead, Warm enough for the forgotten dead. www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3505... #PhantomsFriday #art #homedecor #literature #bookchatweekly #poetry #fineart
Gone But Not Forgotten - John ... -
🦉📖🐈Oh well, I don't know if these hashtags are trending on here but I'll post anyway...🫶 #ShamelessSelfpromoTuesday #WritingCommunity 😊(and add these!) #BookSky💙📚 #BookChatWeekly