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Celebrate literature every Saturday with BookWormSat. Hosted by @signemaene.com and @racheldeering.bsky.social Weekly themes: https://signemaene.com/bookwormsaturday/

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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 4d

‘Sometimes I leaned over till my shadow mingled with that of Miss Sophie; then it seemed to me that we two were one.’ ~ Steen Steensen Blicher, The Diary of a Parish Clerk.

This #BookWormSat celebrates the short story for Blicher’s birthday. Do join us.

🖼️ Émile Friant, 1891.

Two lovers; a man and a woman in black, she is standing, he is sitting, she is looking away, he is looking at her, he is holding her hand, they cast shadows onto the wall behind them. Painting.

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Fey Earth @feyearth.bsky.social · 6h

I just backed The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders by @signemaene.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...

The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders

An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders

www.kickstarter.com

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Bramble Heart Games @brambleheartgames.bsky.social · 6h

I just backed The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders by @signemaene.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...

The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders

An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders

www.kickstarter.com

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Chiara C. Rizzarda @crshelidon.bsky.social · 4h

What better way to go through #Spooktober than dreaming of a new witchy book? I just backed "The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders" on @kickstarter.com

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The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders

An illustrated short story collection inspired by witch folklore from Flanders

www.kickstarter.com

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Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 4h

Wyrdlings!
We have a special announcement today. Our dear friend @signemaene.com has collaborated with Wyrd Mother
@prairiebones.bsky.social and launched a Kickstarter campaign for their newest book of short stories! Link posted below⬇️

Our topic for tomorrow's #WyrdWednesday will be:
🖤WITCHES🖤

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Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 6h

The Witches are here! 🖤 We are so excited to announce that The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Flanders is now live on Kickstarter!

The short story collection features thirteen stories inspired by Flemish witch lore with illustrations by @prairiebones.bsky.social.

🌙 kck.st/492NqKt 🌙

Image with the title of the book: The Witch's Child and other Dark Tales from Old Flanders. Also the text: Back us on Kickstarter. Image shows the bookcover in both Ebook and paperback form. Book cover is a dark black and white cover with a witch staring at a field. There is a dog, crow, frog, butterfly and other animals around her. Moon and trees.

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Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 1d

Witchy news tomorrow. So wonderfully witchy that Jean-François Portaels' witch might crawl out of her lovely dark cave. Hihi. 🧹🖤

Art by Jean-François Portaels. Painting of a witch with long black hair, wearing a red dress in what seems like a cave. She looks curious. Black cat sitting beside her.

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 2d

In fairy tales, each short story is a ritual. The repetition of “once upon a time” and “they lived happily ever after” is a spell that teaches endings can exist. #BookWormSat

Art: Nancy Lee Moran

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 3d

"The sun flung a stray beam across the hidden sea, pierced the mist dully, and lit up the receding boat with a gloomy fire. Indistinctly I saw something nodding between the oars. I thought of a sponge—a great, grey nodding sponge."
- William Hope Hodgson, "The Voice in the Night"
#BookWormSat

A humanoid shape appears in a boat on the water. An illustration for William Hope Hodgson's "The Voice in the Night."

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 3d

Modern flash fiction carries the same DNA as ancient myth; brevity sharpened to blade. A story in 500 words can wound, heal, or haunt longer than a novel. #BookWormSat

Art: Natalie Schorr

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 6d

It’s bookshop day on 11th October. A day to celebrate your local bookshop.

You could even go totally bananas and buy my latest, Saltburn, which is about, after all, small businesses being assailed by big business. Well, that’s one thing it’s about…

booksaremybag.com/BookshopDay/...

The bookshop day poster. It asks you to choose bookshops:

Local jobs
Local economy
Local community
Real passion
Real people
Real conversations
Proper service
Perfect gifts
(and taxes paid!)

The cover of Saltburn. Candy stripes coming from a picture of a seal sitting under a beach umbrella.

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Suzanne the Spooky 👻 Slacker @suzannef.bsky.social · 3d

“You were led to expect a road, a river, a boat, a gate, a guardian. All were supplied, though none was what you imagined. The road was indistinguishable from the sidewalks you’d so often trudged along.”

Margaret Atwood - Gateway

#BookWormSat

🖼️ Mouth of Hell from Hours of Catherine of Cleves

Mouth of Hell from Morgan Library - a gaping lion’s mouth opens its bat- like lips. Demons cast dammed souls into its terrifying entrance to hell, above rises castle of death decorated with skulls. Burning towers heat caldrons into which burning souls are thrown

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 3d

Shirley Jackson mastered unease in small doses. “The Lottery” begins like a summer morning and ends with horror. Her brevity is what makes it believable. #BookWormSat

Art: William Hogarth

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 3d

I've just realised #31DaysOfHalloween is intended for book posts. So here's another macabre short story anthology: a 1964 Four-Square paperback edited by August Derleth. It includes a grimly humorous favourite: 'Mr Lupescu' by Anthony Boucher, which boasts an unforgettable last line.
#BookWormSat

A paperback entitled 'The Unquiet Grave: 15 More Uncanny Tales Of Terror, Edited by August Derleth'. The cover artwork is of a weirdly distorted human face, with two others, similar but smaller, in the bottom left-hand corner.

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Julie Shiel @forgottenbeauty.bsky.social · 3d

“The Earth grew dark, and its figures passed by me, like flitting shadows, and among them all I beheld only—Morella”
-Edgar Allan Poe
🎨Harry Clarke
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3687...
#BookwormSat #art #gift #vintage #illustration #bookchatweekly #literature #Spooktober #Halloween

Morella - Harry Clarke for E.A. Poe by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble

Morella - Harry Clarke for E.A. Poe Harry Clarke was a leading Irish stained glass artist and Golden Age illustrator. His line work is very detailed and has a somewhat psychedelic feel to it. Please l...

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 3d

“Murder is to me no special category," [said the Devil.] "All sins are murder, even as all life is war. I behold your race, like starving mariners on a raft, plucking crusts out of the hands of famine and feeding on each other’s lives."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, "Markheim"

🎨Lynd Ward
#BookWormSat

Markheim thinks about death and sin. An illustration by Lynd Ward.

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Julie Shiel @forgottenbeauty.bsky.social · 3d

"In death we have both learned the propensity of man to define the indefinable." -The Colloquy of Monos and Una
-Edgar Allan Poe
🎨Harry Clarke
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3686... #art #BookwormSat #vintage #illustration #giftidea #literature #bookchatweekly #spooktober #Halloween

The Colloquy of Monos and Una - Harry Clarke for E.A. Poe by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble

The Colloquy of Monos and Una - Harry Clarke for E.A. Poe Harry Clarke was a leading Irish stained glass artist and Golden Age illustrator. His line work is very detailed and has a somewhat psychedel...

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Tiffany Leigh Rose from the Dead 🖤🪦🥀 @tlrose.bsky.social · 3d

"... but they said not a word either good or bad, which is the wisest plan for those who are ignorant."

From A Leaf From Heaven by Hans Christian Andersen

🎨Dorothy Lathrop
#BookWormSat

black and white illustration of a young girl and boy facing back to back in a pinwheel pattern of flowers. the moon shows on her side, the sun on his.

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Elmtree @elmtreem.bsky.social · 3d

“All my life," he said, "I have been strangely, vividly conscious of another region—not far removed from our own world in one sense, yet wholly different in kind —where great things go on unceasingly…….”

- The Willows, Algernon Blackwood

#BookWormSat 💙📚

Front cover to The Willows, (technically a novella but at only 70 odd pages thinks an sneak this one in 😁)

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 3d

""My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent"."

'A Case of Identity' in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"
(1892)
🎨 Edward Bawden (1984)
#BookWormSat

B&w linocut of Holmes (looking away from the viewer) and Watson in his bowler hat, staring straight at us

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 3d

OK, come on. How can you resist a book called 'Things With Claws'? 1961 Ballantine paperback anthology with a cover by the incomparable Richard Powers.
#BookWormSat #vintagepaperback #vintagepaperback

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Jussi @finnfolklorist.bsky.social · 3d

Algernon Blackwood is renowned for his compelling short stories. Some of his best include “The Willows,” “The Wendigo,” and “The Listener. ” These stories showcase his mastery of atmosphere and psychological depth,

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 3d

In folklore, the short story was born around the fire. Parables, fairy tales, and legends - each one complete, self-contained, a spark meant to travel by word of mouth. #BookWormSat

Art: Joe Gilronan

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Joy Parry @joy13.bsky.social · 3d

#BookWormSat

"There are always Uncles at Christmas. The same Uncles ...
sat in the front parlours, without their collars, trying their new cigars, holding them out judiciously at arms’ length, returning them to their mouths, coughing ..

Dylan Thomas - A Child's Christmas in Wales
🎨Fritz Eichenberg

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 3d

“The watershed for the modern short story began in 1878 with Stevenson’s ‘A Lodging for the Night’, with Allen going so far as to claim that the change to the specifically modern short story can be precisely dated at that point”
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Short Story Month: 2015--Robert Louis Stevenson, "A Lodging for the Night"

It is no coincidence that Robert Louis Stevenson, the first British writer to be recognized as a specialist in the short story, is also the...

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 3d

Elizabeth Gaskell’s "The Old Nurse's Story," one of the finest Victorian ghost stories ever written, originally appeared in the Extra Christmas Number of Household Words in 1852. #BookWormSat

Black and white portrait of Elizabeth Gaskell.

Front cover to the Penguin edition of Elizabeth Gaskell’s collected Gothic Tales.

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