What an uplifting #ShakespeareSunday this week. So many wonderful contributions. Thank you @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social for hosting.

"Sometime am I all wound with adders Who with cloven tongues Do hiss me into madness." -- The Tempest (II, 2) #ShakespeareSunday

ROSS And Duncan’s horses (a thing most strange and certain), Beauteous and swift…, Turned wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out, Contending ’gainst obedience,as they would Make war with mankind. OLD MAN ’Tis said they eat each other. Macbeth 2.4 #ShakespeareSunday

“Disorder, that hath spoil'd us, friend us now!” - Henry V #ShakespeareSunday #DoctorWho

“Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.” ~ Macbeth (A1,S3), #ShakespeareSunday #DCcomics

Let senses rule; Henry V II, 3 #ShakespeareSunday

O heavy lightness! serious vanity! Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms! – Romeo & Juliet A1,S1 #ShakespeareSunday 🎭 Theme: Chaos & Order

"Whiles I take order for mine own affairs." Othello A3 S3 #ShakespeareSunday #DoctorWho

" ... to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss." ~ Romeo and Juliet (A1,S5). #ShakespeareSunday #StarTrek

Five panels from the horror manga Uzumaki by Junji Ito 🌀 🌀 🌀 #BookWormSat #bleak #foreboding #gloom

Oh, the great city’s madness when at nightfall The crippled trees gape by the blackened wall, The spirit of evil peers from a silver mask Lights with magnetic scourge drive off the stony night. Oh, the sunken pealing of evening bells ✍️ G. Trakl, To the Silenced 🖼️ L. Feininger #BookWormSat #poetry

The gloomiest nook of the gloomy Castle Dracula: the chapel. 'There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word DRACULA. This then was the Un-Dead home of the King-Vampire, to whom so many more were due.' #BookWormSat

#BookWormSat „And so did I make speed towards the North, having a strong surety in my heart and mind that there were but two ways to my search; for without of the Valley, afar up in the dead lonesomeness of the hidden world, was a cold that was shapen ready to Death,… 1/2

“I know how to get outside the shield. That's easy. After that it's up to you to get us off the surface before we freeze. Can you?” “Possibly" replied Kirk. ~ Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, J.M.Dillard. #BookWormSat #StarTrek

“ ... and for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next, the balance being decidedly in favour of the latter.” ~ Oliver Twist (1838), Charles Dickens. #BookWormSat

"I'd rather die in my bed!" shouted Grandma Josephine. "So would I!" cried Grandma Georgina. "I refuse to go!" announced Grandpa George. ~ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), Roald Dahl. #BookWormSat [🎨Joseph Schindelman.]

“In my house I am helpless I begin to practice superstition I hear footsteps on the stairs Keeps on haunting me (I know there's no one there) ... ” ~ a great northern soul classic from R Dean Taylor (1966), you may have heard the cover version by The Fall (1988). #PhantomsFriday

"we must do good against evil." - All's Well That Ends Well (A2, S5) #Shakespeare

Just because.

Celebrating her Birthday today Shirley Bassey, born on 8th January 1937. #ShirleyBassey #BOTD

Remembering David Bowie, born January 8th, 1947. #BOTD #DavidBowie #BowieForever

“Aren't you a little short for a storm-trooper?” ~ Princess Leia Organa in Star Wars (1977). #WyrdWednesday #StarWars #CarrieFisher

“At sixteen, the elusive stamp of hurt was already marked in her eyes.” - Stephen King, Carrie #WyrdWednesday 🎨 by Laz Marquez - www.lazmarquez.com

#WyrdWednesday 18th century British Naval recruit Hannah Snell only revealed her sex when collecting her severance pay - despite once receiving 12 lashes for disobedience & being hit by 11 musket balls! Hannah later wrote a bestselling book and ran a Pub in Wapping called The Female Warrior.

Something else to repost for #WyrdWednesday, the header from 'The Strand', February 1896, for a story by Elisabeth Braddon. It tells of a horrible old woman who has the blood drained from a series of young companions, then injected into her veins to keep her from dying. #vampires #gothic #Victorian

Bedhaya Tunjung Anom, a court dance of Yogyakarta Sultanate (central region of Java), depicts Queen Suprabawati's estri/warrior maidens from all-female kingdom Galuh in ancient text "Serat Babad Sigaluh." Unlike similar dances, dancers carry guns beside bows, arrows, and spears. 1/4 #WyrdWednesday

The Plunder Island sequence of Thimble Theatre Sundays ran from December 1933 to July 1934. It featured one of E.C. Segar’s most successful villains, the Sea Hag. She really had an eye for Wimpy. #WyrdWednesday #Popeye

Sherlock Holmes was born on this day in 1854. 6th January is traditionally celebrated as the birthday of Sherlock Holmes. #BOTD #SherlockHolmes #DCcomics [🎨 Ernie Chan]

Remembering Aron Eisenberg, January 6th, 1969 – September 21st, 2019. #StarTrekDS9 #StarTrek

Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge started on January 5th, 1933, so here is the bridge on a novelty mug. #GoldenGateBridge #Photography

Remembering the wonderful Diane Keaton, who was born on this day in 1946. #DianeKeaton #BOTD

What a great #ShakespeareSunday this week. So many wonderful contributions. Thank you @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social for hosting.

"For-ever and a day. Say a day without the ever. No, No!" ~ As You Like It (A4,S1). #ShakespeareSunday #DCcomics

"Remember, when I was in France." ~ The Life and Death of King John (A4,S1). #ShakespeareSunday #RikMayall

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me" Richard II #ShakespeareSunday

"My glass shall not persuade me I am old so long as youth, and thou are of one date!" ~ Sonnet XXII. #ShakespeareSunday #ChildhoodMemories

"Two lads that thought there was no more behind, But such a day tomorrow as today, And to be boy eternal." - The Winter's Tale #ShakespeareSunday

"Believe me, love, it was the Nightingale."~ Romeo and Juliet (A3,S5). #ShakespeareSunday #DavidBowie

“Well, well, 'tis done, 'tis past: and yet it is not;” ~ Troilus and Cressida (A5,S2). #ShakespeareSunday #DoctorWho

"The spring, the summer, the childing autumn, angry winter, change their wonted liveries, and the 'mazed World..." ~ A Midsummer Night's Dream (A2,S1). #ShakespeareSunday #FlicksOfMyYears

“ ... your spirits are too bold for your years.” ~ As You Like It (A1,S2). #ShakespeareSunday #TracksOfMyYears #Madness

A flashback to 1993, when the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine made its syndication debut. #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9

Can’t resist sharing my favorite panel from Watchmen Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons for DC Comics #BookWormSat 🖼️ = Dave Gibbons and John Higgins

Remembering Pola Negri on her Birthday, born January 3rd, 1897. #PolaNegri #BOTD

To Conan's ears came a vast torrent of sound, rising and rising in frenzy: "The king is dead! The king is dead! Flee! Flee! The king is dead!" ~ The Hour of the Dragon, also known as Conan the Conqueror (1936), Robert E. Howard. #BookWormSat [🎨Frank Frazetta.]

“A statue with spikes. A stone lady, gazing out over the limitless endless acres of sand ... a long-dead lady of stone eyes, stone ears and stone senses whose only companion for an eon had been the wind.” ~ Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Michael Avallone. #BookWormSat #70s

To fully appreciate the ghosts in this book remember to wear your 3-D glasses. 'The House of Terror 3-D' #1, was printed in 1953 by St John Publishing. #PhantomsFriday #50s

On January 1st 1943, Walt Disney's Bambi was released in the United Kingdom. #FlicksOfMyYears

A family tradition, the New Year's Day concert from Vienna on RTÉ1. #NewYear2026 #StillEuropean

Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léir … and best wishes, good health and happiness to you all for 2026. #HappyNewYear