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Spring Garden by
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artist: stevesandersonart on Instagram

Glass sculpture of a cat curled up on its back balancing a flower on its paws, all on a white surface

Glass cat with flower by contemporary US artist Kiki Smith #WomensArt

This edition of "Lords and Ladies" by Terry Pratchett is part of the Discworld Collector's Library, with art by Joe McLaren. In this illustration a woman can be seen in the center of standing stones, surrounded by swirling yellow light. Three witches are riding broomsticks above her in the cloudy, crescent moon-lit sky.

‘Once you start paddlin’ with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you’re believing in gods. And then you’re in trouble.’

-Lords and Ladies
#TerryPratchett
#BookWormSat

Black and white still showing Deborah Kerr with candelabra, the flames reflected in the window behind her… in the 1961 film version, The Innocents

He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.

The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
#BookWormSat
🖼️ Deborah Kerr in The Innocents, 1961

Illustration to 2011 edition by Les Edwards showing a man digging at the base of a hill, watched by a figure above…

‘The truth is that I’ve never been alone since I touched it…’

‘I believe that is the crown which the people mean when they say that one has been dug up…’
A Warning to the Curious
M R James
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Claudie Blakley as Mrs Devine, Mark Williams as Father Brown, and Ruby-May Martinwood as Brenda Palmer.

Wishing you a wonderful Saturday!

#bookwormsat
DRACULA
The creepy Count resided in the hills of the Carpathian mountains, in Romania..his castle being a rabbit warren of rooms and passageways..visitors? Well some left alive and some did not..nicknamed Vlad the Impaler..
Bram Stoker #bookchatweekly #gothicspring

Painting title: The Phantom Hunter. A hunter lies in the snow and encounters a ghostly figure.

'There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.'
-Alexandre Dumas

And this bookworm doesn't see why not. 👻 @signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat!

Painting of a woman who seems to float through the air. Dark brown and yellow colours.

'The spirit-world around this world of sense
Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere
Wafts through these earthly mists and vapoursdense
A vital breath of more ethereal air.'
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

🎨Arnold Böcklin
#BookWormSat

Sleeping grey cat with rat creeping towards him, painting.

Saturday plans:
Sleeping grey cat and a rat, Adolf von Becker, 1864. #Caturday

At hearing’s far edge
A motorbike streets away
Tickles me awake

Early stroll. The bluer-than-blue horizon. A dropped rubber band’s soft imperfect circle. Ok, passing headlights, throw my shadow around! Twin puddles side by side. I walk the valley floor before the hill arrives.

First cup of tea:
Thirst? Cup of tea!

#MorningObservations

Mild. Bright. A pregnant cat begs for food at cafe tables. Cones, a warning sign & 3 parked trucks block a hilltop track. Golden catkins dangle. A blackbird sings an aria from the highest branch of a budding fig. The olive groves long shadows...

Fontana paperback cover

The table began to rock –slowly, rhythmically. So slowly that it was easy to count the letters.

'D-' a pause. 'E-A-D.'

#BookWormSat

A séance in The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie (1931)

A dark black-and-white photograph of Newstead Abbey, part of the West facade with the open arcade.

'Beware! beware! of the Black Friar,
Who sitteth by Norman stone,
For he mutters his prayer in the midnight air,
And his mass of the days that are gone.'

– Lord Byron recounts in 'Don Juan' (1824) his own encounter with the Black Friar of Newstead Abbey, his ancestral home.

#BookWormSat

'The Vampyre' by Cumbrian poet John Stagg is the first stand-alone poem about a vampire: The choir then burst the fun'ral dome Where Sigismund was lately laid, And found him, tho' within the tomb, Still warm as life, and undecay'd more in my: 'Folklore of the Lake District' #bookwormsat Image: Nosferatu 1922

'The Vampyre' by Cumbrian poet John Stagg is the first stand-alone poem about a vampire:

The choir then burst the fun'ral dome
Where Sigismund was lately laid,
And found him, tho' within the tomb,
Still warm as life, and undecay'd

more in my: 'Folklore of the Lake District'

#bookwormsat

Ivy on an oak tree

Hedera helix, common ivy

The nectar, pollen & berries are an essential food for insects & birds, especially during winter, & provides shelter for insects, birds, bats & small mammals

Using trees & walls for support, but it has a separate root system & does not damage trees 1/2

Painting as described, stoat in woodland scene.

Stoat in Winter, Raymond C. Booth.

Illustration of foxes running through woodland.

🖼️ Foxes, Tunnicliffe.

The #vssdaily #prompt for 3/14/26 is #document

Atmospheric black and white photo of trees in the mist.

Misty fields, Whithorn in The Machars of Galloway.
#blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway #SouthernScotland

An atmospheric image of a bare tree surrounded by Victorian era gravestones enveloped in morning mist at Lister Lane Cemetery.

Good day all.
A misty morning at Lister Lane Cemetery earlier this month.

Good morning 👋🪦
An appropriate atmosphere for the sleeping souls.

And this morning the Shed is a forgotten room in a house filled with secrets…

Stone cottages at dusk

Stone cottages

📷 Photo claimed to be of the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, publ 1936 in Country Life magazine. A ghostly figure can be seen walking down a staircase.

‘Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...’ ~ Antigonish - William Hughes Mearns. #BookWormSat

Painting of 11 magpies perched in leafless trees, one perched on a nest, trees are full of nests.

Morning.
🖼️ Annegert Fuchshuber

Some paintings are harder than others.
One of these was, one of these wasn't.

"For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
William Butler Yeats

Both watercolours. #womensart