#BookwormSat

Rachel Deering

@racheldeering.bsky.social

9 hours ago

🖼 Ichabod Crane, Respectfully Dedicated to Washington Irving, William J. Wilgus, c.1856. Painting of Ichabod Crane in a state of panic, urging his white horse, Gunpowder, forward. The Headless Horseman is in pursuit. He is mounted on a black horse. Night scene takes place at night in the countryside with a building in the background.

‘The…cause of the prevalence of supernatural stories in these parts, was…owing to the vicinity of Sleepy Hollow. There was a contagion…that blew from that haunted region; it breathed forth an atmosphere of dreams and fancies infecting all the land.’ ~ Irving, Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
#BookWormSat

Signe Maene

@signemaene.com

12 hours ago

Painting of a Gothic style mansion under a cloudy night sky. Illuminated windows. Gargoyles.

'O’er all there hung the shadow of a fear,
A sense of mystery the spirit daunted,
And said, as plain as whisper in the ear,
The place is haunted'
-Thomas Hood

🎨Wilfred Jenkins
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Joy Parry

@joy13.bsky.social

12 hours ago

#BookWormSat

"... darkness - something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gliding through his mind. It slipped into his lungs, behind his eyes, into his mouth...”

Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere

Joy Parry

@joy13.bsky.social

12 hours ago

#BookWormSat

"'What monstrous place is this?' said Angel.

'It hums,' said she. 'Hearken!'

He listened. The wind, playing upon the edifice, produced a booming tune, like the note of some gigantic one-stringed harp ..."

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
🎨D A Wehrschmidt

Rachel Deering

@racheldeering.bsky.social

12 hours ago

THE MAN WHOM THE TREES LOVED ~ W. Graham Robertson's illustration for the story in Pan's Garden: A Volume of Nature Stories, 1912. Depicts man in communion with trees in forest.

‘Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.’ ~ The Man Whom The Trees Loved, Algernon Blackwood.
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#GothicSpring

Rivka

@theasraidance.bsky.social

13 hours ago

19th century painting depicting delicate, elegant fairies in white placing garlands of flowers on a tomb. The scene is framed by trees and spring flowers and there is a full moon in the background.

'The night is a sorceress, dusk-eyed and dear,
Akin to all eerie and elfin things,
Who weaves about us in meadow and mere
The spell of a hundred vanished Springs.'

🖊️ Lucy Maud Montgomery
🎨 Edmund Thomas Parris
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Tiffany Leigh Rose 🖤🥀

@tlrose.bsky.social

13 hours ago

A painting of a nude, but covered, man embracing a woman who is half in the ocean. They are as blue as the waves and we cannot see her legs which are perhaps really a tail?

He realized how little he knew of this world, but he knew this: If you could love someone, you possessed a soul.

-Alice Hoffman-
📖 The World That We Knew

🖼️Howard Pyle
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Olivia

@oliviaarmstrong.bsky.social

13 hours ago

Dr. Jekyll is strolling through the darkened streets of old London. Fog rolls across the cobblestone walk and shadows creep under the bridge. A gas lamp throws long shadows against the wall....revealing his TRUE nature. The monster inside...Mr. Hyde.

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

🖌️Toadstool Nook Tracy Parsons #BookWormSat

Association for Scottish Literature

@asls.org.uk

13 hours ago

John Buchan and the Supernatural - The Bottle Imp When writing the introduction to the recent collection of John Buchan’s ‘strange stories’ for the British Library, I was hesitant in making my argument that Buchan should rightfully be considered alon...

“Identifying the supernatural as a consistent theme of Buchan’s fiction… reinforces Buchan’s status as a pre-eminent exponent of the supernatural tale”

@jfmachin.bsky.social on John Buchan as a writer of the weird
#BookWormSat #weirdfiction #horror 💙📚
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/john...

Association for Scottish Literature

@asls.org.uk

14 hours ago

Strange Tales Introduction by Jeremy Hodges Scots glossaries by Pauline Cairns Speitel Published in: PDF, ePUB and mobipocket To mark Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2013, the Association for Scottish Literary Studies…

STRANGE TALES
Three eerie stories of witches, warlocks, & demonic pacts, by Robert Louis Stevenson – available on our website to download as a free ebook

📙“Thrawn Janet”
📘“The Tale of Tod Lapraik”
📕“The Bottle Imp”

#BookWormSat #gothic #horror 💙📚
asls.org.uk/publications...

Bevan Thomas

@bevanthomas.bsky.social

14 hours ago

A witch inscribes a magic circle before casting a spell. Painting by John William Waterhouse.

"Speaking of livers," the Unicorn said. "Real magic can never be made by offering up someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back. The true witches know that."
- Peter S. Beagle, "The Last Unicorn"

🎨John William Waterhouse
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Dirk Puehl

@wunderkammertales.bsky.social

14 hours ago

“I dreamed of cats, and soft-moving creatures, and the silence of life in a dim muffled world beyond the senses.”

(Algernon Blackwood “Ancient Sorceries”)

🎨 Sidney Stanley (1932)

#bookwormsat #booksky #bookillustration #catdurday

Lynne S

@ghirlandia.bsky.social

14 hours ago

The eeriness of this lonely island, … an alien world, tenanted by willows only and the souls of willows. And we, in our rashness, had dared to invade it …

Algernon Blackwood
The Willows

Nikolai Astrup #BookWormSat

Save Redland Library

@saveredlandlibr.bsky.social

15 hours ago

“Never order your men to do anything that you are not ready to do yourself.”

📖 “Mr Midshipman Hornblower” ~ C.S. Forester, 1950

#BookwormSat #BookchatWeekly

📺 #Hornblower s1 Ep 1 - “The Even Chance”, 1998
4:15pm TODAY on @ITV4

Era una noche oscura y tormentosa

@manuelabennet.bsky.social

15 hours ago

#BookWormSat

✒️Ambrose Bierce, The Death of Halpin Frayser

🖌️?????

Nifty Buckles Folklore

@niftybuckles.bsky.social

16 hours ago

#BookwormSat #Supernatural
JUST LAUNCHED! 🔥
My New Spring Adult Coloring book, March Madness: Leprechauns, Hares, & Witches Folklore by Nifty Buckles
Relax with 36 wild Spring designs: sneaky leprechauns, moonlit hares, Beltane witches.

Grab it now on Amazon! 🍀🐇🧙‍♀️✨
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Nina Antonia

@ninaantonia13.bsky.social

16 hours ago

#BookWormSat Beautiful cover artwork for Elliott O'Donnell's 'The Sorcery Club'. O'Donnell 1872-1965 an authority on ghosts, hauntings & the supernatural was able to spin a lengthy yarn from the merest smidgen of truth.

Sarah Nour

@sarahnour.bsky.social

16 hours ago

"I looked upon a desolate shell, soulless at last, unhaunted, with no whisper of the past... The house was a sepulchre, our fear and suffering lay buried in the ruins... I should think of it as it might have been, could I have lived there without fear."

—Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

#BookWormSat

Sarah Nour

@sarahnour.bsky.social

16 hours ago

a black and white photo of a wrought iron gate leading to a mansion . ALT: a black and white photo of a wrought iron gate leading to a mansion .

"The house loomed over them like a great, quiet gargoyle. It might have been foreboding, evoking images of ghosts and haunted places, if it had not seemed so tired... the ebony porch groaning as they made their way up the steps.”

—Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

#BookWormSat

Sarah Nour

@sarahnour.bsky.social

16 hours ago

a dark night scene of a house with lights on ALT: a dark night scene of a house with lights on

"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality... Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within... and whatever walked there, walked alone."

—The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

#BookWormSat

Olivia

@oliviaarmstrong.bsky.social

17 hours ago

A large grey mill house seen through the branches of the forest.

"It watches," he added suddenly. "The house. It watches every move you make".

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson #BookWormSat
🎨Atkinson-Grimshaw

Association for Scottish Literature

@asls.org.uk

17 hours ago

The Uncanny Scot - The Bottle Imp Readers of a nervous disposition, turn away! This issue of The Bottle Imp pursues the spectre of the Gothic. Naught but ruined towers, blasted heaths, and cold wastes lie within. Horror seeps in to th...

“Scotland lies on Britain’s edge, a ragged, ancient fringe. The very rocks beneath our feet are primeval: they count their years in billions, and were old past knowing when first things sneaked and scuttled from out the slime”

—The Uncanny Scot
#BookWormSat
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2009/11/edit...

Dirk Puehl

@wunderkammertales.bsky.social

17 hours ago

“… for the Voice, they say, resembles all the minor sounds of the Bush—wind, falling water, cries of the animals, and so forth. And, once the victim hears that—he's off for good, of course!“

(Algernon Blackwood “The Wendigo”)

🎨 Lynd Ward

#bookwormsat #booksky #bookillustration

The Ghost Monk

@theghostmonk.bsky.social

17 hours ago

A skeletal hand stretches round - or possibly out of - a brass-bound book.

Weird picture of the day is by Gerard de Lairesse (1641-1711).
#BookWormSat #Gothic #skeleton #artsky #booksky

Nifty Buckles Folklore

@niftybuckles.bsky.social

17 hours ago

#BookwormSat #Supernatural
"It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils... that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet."
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
#GothicSpring

Suzanne the Slacker

@suzannef.bsky.social

17 hours ago

Movie poster from Horns -photo of Daniel Radcliffe dark background his face stands out with beard and Horns

“He glanced at himself in the mirror…and saw that he had grown horns while he slept…they weren’t much as horns went, each of them about as long as his ring finger, thick at the base but soon narrowing to a point as they hooked upwards.” Joe Hill, Horns

#BookWormSat

🖼️ Poster from movie 🎥

Rosalind Ahmed

@21rosa.bsky.social

17 hours ago

"They say my great-grandmother
The witch Sultana Urošević
Had a she-wolf’s shadow
By moonlight she never
Went out of doors
So no one should tread on her shadow
Take her secret powers"

from 'Wolf Shadow' Vasko Popa
🎨 Susan Seddon Boulet
#BookWormSat

Charlotte Tomson

@charlottetomson.bsky.social

17 hours ago

'Except for the birds - which sang loud and piercingly, with a loony optimism akin to emergency - the street was solitary and still. A sprinkler whirred on an empty lawn; the street lamps, the lighted porches glowed in long, empty perspectives...'

#BookWormSat
#SouthernGothic

Folklore of Scotland

@folklorescotland.bsky.social

17 hours ago

Sleepin’ weans are no for you Ye may turn about An’ tak’ awa’ wee Tam next door I hear him screichin’ oot ~ 'Jenny wi the Airn Teeth' may have been the inspiration for the story of the Gorbals Vampire. more in: "Folklore of Scotland: Faerie Folk and Folk Horror"

Sleepin’ weans are no for you
Ye may turn about
An’ tak’ awa’ wee Tam next door
I hear him screichin’ oot

~ 'Jenny wi the Airn Teeth' may have been the inspiration for the story of the Gorbals Vampire.

more in: "Folklore of Scotland: Faerie Folk and Folk Horror"

#bookwormsat art: Frank Quitely

Rachel Deering

@racheldeering.bsky.social

18 hours ago

Woman in blue gown and nightcap as ghostly figure stood between tree and bench with fence and foliage behind, painting.

‘Oh whence do you come, my dear friend, to me
With your golden hair all fallen below your knee
And your face as white as snowdrops on the lea
And your voice as hollow as the hollow sea?’ The Poor Ghost, Christina Rossetti. #BookWormSat
#GothicSpring
🖼️ Aksel Johannessen, c.1920.