Announcement for #BookologyThursday -BookCat is out for some minor surgery and hopes to return next Thursday. Thank you, and apologies💛

In Norse mythology, valkyries would take vacations from their duties by putting on magic cloaks of swan feathers, and flying around the Earth as swans. They would alight in hidden pools, take on human form to bathe, and punish any mortals who saw them there. 🎨Annie Stegg #FairyTaleTuesday

Charles Keeping's illustration for 'The Foghorn' by Ray Bradbury. #RayBradbury #Bradbury #CharlesKeeping #sci-fi #scifi #sciencefiction #monster #dinosaur

They glide, like phantoms, into the wide hall; Like phantoms, to the iron porch, they glide; … And they are gone: ay, ages long ago These lovers fled away into the storm. John Keats, 'The Eve of St. Agnes' 1819 #booksky #poetry #romanticism

“Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow” (T.S. Eliot) 🎨 Marc Potts

'Snow at Miyajima' - Kawase Hasui, 1928. #ToriiTuesday #shinhanga #JapaneseArt

“St. Agnes' Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was!”, John Keats wrote in 1819 and since today is the day, we take a look at the divinations made by unwed girls on that liminal date and, like the poet, feel the past creep up on us, in our 14th #winterfolklore tale. Quite literally. Read it below! 🎨 Millais

Dear #booksky #poetry people who know about such things, I would like to read Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil, but because I am stupid and only know English I have to read it in translation. Is there a recommended one or are they all much the same? #bookchatweekly

Announcement for #BookologyThursday -BookCat is out for some minor surgery and hopes to return next Thursday. Thank you, and apologies💛

In celebration of today's New Moon A fox curled up and dreaming of the moon 🦊🌑🌿 #NewMoon #FoxMoon #FoxoftheDay

'Hamlet' by Gustave Mossa. Yorick clearly had more than a big personality. #ShakespeareSunday #Shakespeare #booksky #weirdart #artksy

“Here Scylla bellows from the dire abodes, Tremendous pest, abhorr’d by man and gods!” (Homer, “The Odyssey”, trl. Alexander Pope) 🎨 @mgzd42

The Korrigan are the Little People of Brittany. Anger them and you might be in for a very, very long winter stroll. Our 12th #winterfolklore story is another cautionary tale, this time from the famed Forest of Brocéliande – read it below. At your own peril. 🎨 Serge Lassus

An old postcard of one of the gigantic 'resonant' stones of the Menec complex at #Carnac. This looks like a huge recumbent to me, but I'm sure at least one of you will know whether it's actually a fallen menhir. I guess Pierre refers to St Peter 'the Rock'. #StandingStoneSunday #Neolithic

One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. ~C.S. Lewis 🎨 Thomas Cooper Gotch (1904)

Good day, dear Bibliophiles✨ 🎨Franklin Booth (1874-1948)

Good day, dear Bibliophiles✨ 🎨Franklin Booth (1874-1948)

Happy #WinnieThePoohDay 🎈 Time for a delicious smackerel from my vintage Pooh Cook Book to celebrate author A. A. Milne’s birthday #OTD (1882) #BookChatWeekly

"The day she was buried..., I said to myself - 'I'll have her in my arms again! If she be cold, I'll think it is this north wind that chills ME, and if she be motionless, it is sleep.'" - Emily Brontë, "Wuthering Heights" 🎨Fritz Eichenberg #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion. Jane Austen #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly

"I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind? You, my creator, would tear me to pieces and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me? ... Shall I respect man when he condemns me?" - Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein" #BookWormSat

#bookwormsat WUTHERING HEIGHTS💘 Heathcliff: "And I pray one prayer I repent it till my tongue stiffens, Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living, you said I killed you- haunt me then.." Emily Bronte #bookchatweekly #gothic

"It is new, indeed, for I made it last night in a dream of strange cities; and dreams are older than brooding Tyre, or the contemplative Sphinx, or garden-girdled Babylon." HP Lovecraft, 'The Call of Cthulhu' #amreading #shortstories #bookchatweekly

The Bronte Parsonage by Su Blackwell. A paper #sculpture created from an old copy of Jane Eyre. (Via Maude Frome) #BookChatWeekly #BookologyThursday #FolkloreSunday #Yorkshire #Victorian #literature

1/2 The Haunted Palace -#EdgarAllanPoe "And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms that move fantastically To a discordant melody; redbubble.com/shop/ap/3327... #PhantomsFriday #illustration #art #poem #homedecor #bookchatweekly #literature

The Black Lady of Bradley Woods is a ghost which reportedly haunts the woods near the village of Bradley, Lincolnshire. She's dressed in a flowing black cloak and a black hood that covers her hair but reveals her mournful, pale, tear-soaked face. #phantomsfriday

'Meeting With A Spirit' by Jaroslav Panuska. #PhantomsFriday #artsky #ghost

Good day, dear Bibliophiles✨ art by Arantza Sestayo

'The Haunted Armoury' #illustration by Percy Macquoid 1881 #PhantomsFriday

Very proud to see our authors at @starsandsabers.bsky.social getting this recognition! Congrats to @cornellwriter.bsky.social!

My reading list for 2026. My personal library is getting bigger! #books #reading #romance #library

Ghost stories and Phantom Fancies (1858) The British Library #PhantomsFriday

The Owl’s Ghost Story 🎨 Louis Wain (1890)

"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!” (Edgar Allan Poe) 🎨 Gustave Doré #phantomsfriday

A report of strange activity from 1999. Sadly I don't have any more information. #PhantomsFriday

‘The Earl of Surrey was suddenly startled by a blue phosphoric light.’ Chatterbox Illustrated Magazine (1894) #PhantomsFriday

Phantom Funerals are commonly found in ghostly #folklore. Sometimes they are the apparitions of real funerals which will shortly take place in the neighbourhood. But often the phantom cortege serves as an omen of death to the witness rather than to someone else. #PhantomsFriday #ghosts #folktales

'Frozen like a thing of stone I sit in thy shadow – but not alone.' 🖋️‘A Silent Wood’ 🎨'The Haunted Wood' Art and poem by Elizabeth Siddal #PhantomsFriday

#PhantomsFriday #yokai

"This is the chase: I am gone for ever. [Exit, pursued by a bear.]" quoth Antigonus in "A Winter's Tale". Today, we have yet another wintry tale for you, of straw bears and those for-ever bears who can make you weep in our 10th #winterfolklore tale – read it below!

#phantomsfriday Haunted by Regrets by Richard Tennant Cooper (1855-1957) In the mode of Felician Rops, Cooper had a phantasmagorical fascination with macabre themes, including death, disease & sin.

“Therefore, all the spirits and demons have one half from man below, and the other half from the angels of the supernal realm.” (Zohar 3:76b-77a) 🎨 Mike Mignola #phantomsfriday

🖼️ A Parliament of Rooks, Fiona Watson.

Space is infinite, it is dark Space is neutral, it is cold Stars occupy minute areas of space They are clustered a few billion here and a few billion there As if seeking consolation in numbers. -Michael Moorcock The Black Corridor #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly

"The third corridor was dark and secret and depraved. She knew the soiled walls and the warped door at the end... Something had happened there. If she went in it would happen again." May Sinclair, 'Where their fire is not quenched' #amreading #shortstories #bookchatweekly

"It is plain that there are some things a girl is allowed to understand, and these include the whole of algebra, but there are others, such as embracing a side of beef, that must be kept from her until she is old enough to have a carcass of her own." Tom Stoppard, Arcadia #bookchatweekly

Thank you for your illuminating posts, dear Bibliophiles! See you next week on #BookologyThursday ⚜️ Detail from the Sherborne Missal (1400)

Thank you for your illuminating posts, dear Bibliophiles! See you next week on #BookologyThursday ⚜️ Detail from the Sherborne Missal (1400)

#BookologyThursday 📚👻 Bibliomania spotlights 'Little Ghosts Books,' located in Toronto Canada's first (and still premier) indie horror bookstore! ✨Founded in 2022 by Chris & Jason Krawczyk, it's a cozy, welcoming space with dark shelves, killer coffee, (home to a giant skeleton named R.L. Spine!)

#BookologyThursday 📚 The Galdrabók, Iceland's legendary grimoire (c. 1550–1650) Born from Reformation persecution, pagans recorded forbidden spells on parchment to preserve their magic. This "Magic Book" holds 47 spells blending Norse gods, runes, demons, & herbal lore. ✨🌱 #Bookchatweekly #Galdrabók