#MythologyMonday to Wishing Everyone 📚 #HappyDiwali 🪔 #HappyDeepavali 🪔 #FestivalofLights 🪔🪔🪔 epic Victory of Good over Evil, Knowledge over Ignorance, Light over Darkness, told and retold down the ages time after time in #legend and #myth the #Ramayana 📖 silicasun.wordpress.com 📘 #silicasun 🏹📗❤️

Bite or Flight: Ranking Classic Vampire Strengths and Weaknesses Different vampires have different rules — how do your favorites measure up? By Rachel Ayers reactormag.com/bite-or-flig... The Vampyre by Polidori at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6087 #books #literature

Extrasensory Overload and Katabatic Circus (Volume 1) are on sale for the holidays! angrygablepress.com/2025/11/03/h...

we have a weird mobius strip of a story by Brittany Terwilliger @brttnyblm.bsky.social ! a hunter shoots a deer & is instantly reborn as a deer himself. a beautifully written piece -- i love its focus on "the laws of consumption" xraylitmag.com/strange-is-t...

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Digging Toward the Sun” by @andrew-maynard.bsky.social is now up! Art by Franziska Hofhansel flash-frog.com/2025/11/03/d...

Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus (1827) — The earliest English translations of six Sanskrit plays about gods, nymphs, human sacrifice, sorcery, and love: https://buff.ly/3AZgsaX

“ Yah, apparently it’s called sushi… ” - 13th century, Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, 2200, f. 69v

#FridayFocus #RLSDay Happy 175th Birthday Robert Louis Stevenson 📖 '“You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others...” ― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 📘 #silicasun 💐📗❤️

A few quotes for #RLSDay

For Robert Louis Stevenson’s 175th birthday, we are sharing this extract from Storyteller by Leo Damrosch, on the creation of the famed novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. yalebooks.co.uk/jekyll-and-h... #RLSDay #RobertLouisStevenson

#WyrdWednesday #masks 🎃 - 'And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out...' --The Masque of the Red Death, 👹 Edgar Allan Poe 📚 silicasun.wordpress.com 📙 #silicasun 👺⏰📖❤️

1/2 Rated by Ruskin as the 'loveliest engravings ever produced': J.M.W. Turner's illustrations for Samuel Rogers' second attempt at making 'Italy' a success; after the first edition was a flop, he commissioned engravings from leading artists for an expanded edition blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Great to see the recording of @richardjansell.bsky.social 's recent paper on travel journals and servants' lives on the Grand Tour is now avaiable on the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social website. @long18thsem.bsky.social See: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

'London from Greenwich' by John Duffin johnduffin.co.uk

A few years ago, I co-edited an excellent horror-themed issue for @xraylitmag.bsky.social called Boneyard. There are some amazing pieces in this issue by some of my favorite flash writers - please check it out! xraylitmag.com/boneyard-201...

For two years the people of Sweden sacrificed first bulls then men to end the famine that devastated the land. On the third year, they seized their King, Domalde, and sacrificed him to the gods. The next year was prosperous. #WyrdWednesday 🖼️: E. Werenskiold

#WyrdWednesday Cath Palug - a huge, ferocious feline - terrorised Anglesey, devouring warriors & anything else that crossed its path, until it was slain by Arthurian warrior Cai - the wounds from whose sword [forged in The Otherworld] "no physician could heal". 🎨@nlrobinsonart & @snipurrs [IG]

Bumper Issue V of The Storms @eatthestorms.com is out and I'm in it with my short prose THE BIRTH 📗 super thrilled to be part of multiple launches print edition, audio recording, podcast, Youtube 🎤 enjoy the many #poetry #prose #reading 📖 #writing ✍️ eatthestorms.com/the-storms-a... 📚 #silicasun 📙❤️

NEW Imaging of the ancient marble quarry of Apollonas, on the Mediterranean island of Naxos. By combining modern tools with established methods, researchers show how Aegean quarry landscapes were important features of interconnected ancient economies. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

The Quasar Review ⭐ is open to submissions for Issue 6. #CallforSubmissions

Cats preparing a light snack Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 764; Bestiary; 13th century; England; f.51r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Today is the 75th Anniversary of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe! What a magical world and story filled with wonder, truth and beauty!

November is #ManateeAwarenessMonth! This beautiful Manatee #SciArt is from Biologia Centrali-Americana (1879-1882), illustrated by Josef Wolf. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/570882 #ILoveBHL #OpenAccess #SaveTheManatee #SeaCow 🧪 🌎 📖 🌱

Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe A Gand: chez Louis van Houtte, éditeur, 1845-1880. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27764962) #nature #illustration #art

Epulation [EP-yoo-lay-shun] (n.) - A lavish banquet, feasting, or the act of feasting, often with a hint of excess or ritual pomp. Used in a sentence: “The princess, not especially fond of theatrical excess, nevertheless enjoyed a fine birthday epulation worthy of a Renaissance court.”

So wonderful to hear you bring this to life in the reading Rekha 🙏💙

Well done, Rekha 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Bumper Issue V of The Storms @eatthestorms.com is out and I'm in it with my short prose THE BIRTH 📗 super thrilled to be part of multiple launches print edition, audio recording, podcast, Youtube 🎤 enjoy the many #poetry #prose #reading 📖 #writing ✍️ eatthestorms.com/the-storms-a... 📚 #silicasun 📙❤️

minnie stanford peaches, painted by royal charles steadman, 1917

Less than 2 days before IN A NUTSHELL: An Anthology of Micro-poems opens for submissions! oneartpoetry.com/2025/10/06/i...

Happy that these 3 poems have found a home in Prague's BODY journal . . . thank you @sdelbos.bsky.social www.bodyliterature.com/2025/05/27/a...

Dream follows dream: Ceilings by Zuzana Brabcová, tr by Tereza Veverka Novická @twistedspoon.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2025/07/07/d...

So we enter November, aka Anubis month. This image from a calendar mosaic from Thysdrus (El-Jem, Tunisia) depicts a festival commemorating the death of Osiris, which was celebrated all over the Roman Empire (Sousse Archaeological Museum, © Ad Meskens / Wikimedia Commons) 🏺 #AncientBluesky

The imbecile without makeup Albin Grau, Promotional Poster for F.W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu' (Prana Film, 1921)

#FairytaleTuesday #SuperMoon #MourningMoon #BeaverMoon #WhenBeastsSpoke #WyrdWednesday 'The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill...'Frances Hodgson Burnett,The Secret Garden 📖 silicasun.wordpress.com #silicasun 🍂🐦🍁📗❤️

The Guardian | StarWatch #SuperMoon www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

#HappyHalloween 🎃 #writers #poets 📚 'the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel... Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells” Ray Bradbury 📖 silicasun.wordpress.com 🐾 #silicasun 🎃👹📘💚

Join us tomorrow night in your living room for the 3nd launch of The Storms, Issue V ⚡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-storms...

Our Nov 2025 FamPunk issue is now available on our website and via Weightless! Selected by our guest editor Emma Burnett, this issue features spec-fic families of all sorts. Go small and go home! #writingcommunity #flashfiction @slashnburnett.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...

In Japanese stories, yūrei drift like pale breath through misted forests, their forms dissolved into morning fog. Spirits love the hour when shapes are half-made and memory blurs into myth. #MythologyMonday

"Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost." 📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 26 October 1922, #VirginiaWoolf's third novel, "Jacob's Room," was first published by the Hogarth Press in 🇬🇧

hornede, adj: horned. (HORN-eh-duh / ˈhɔr-nɛ-də) Image: A creature called a demma in the Liber de natura rerum; France (Abbaye de Saint-Amand), 13th century; Bibliothèque Municipale de Valenciennes, MS 320, f. 58v. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Georgia O'Keeffe. Evening Star, No. III. 1917 #WomensArt

#HappyHalloween 🎃 #writers #poets 📚 'the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel... Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells” Ray Bradbury 📖 silicasun.wordpress.com 🐾 #silicasun 🎃👹📘💚

Happy Halloween! To celebrate, here's a thread of vaguely seasonal stories by yours truly: "Bells Long Silent" Featuring Spooky Statues, infernal contracts, and drowned sailors! www.castofwonders.org/2025/06/cast...

The new issue of The Storns, the printed journal of poetry, prose & visual art, launches tomorrow in Dublin followed by the audio companion to the journal on Eat the Stoems podcast on Sunday & a zoom launch next Tuesday at 8pm ⚡️ Meet our stars here eatthestorms.com/2025/10/30/t...

A storm makes land & then makes it to the post office! This Saturday we launch in Dublin www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-storms... then Audio Companion on 2nd Nov on Eat the Storms & zoom launch 4th Nov at 8pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-storms... Buy The Storms V eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh...

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1833-1965. 🦇 #Gothtober #31daysofhalloween

Happy Halloween! 🎃 Send your scary stories to @mgliterary.bsky.social #TrickOrTreat #SpookySeason #HappyHalloween #LitMag