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Rachel Deering
@racheldeering.bsky.social
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Onemorething on ABCtales, Bath Poet. First collection Crown of Eggshell pub. 2020. @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · Dec 23
Please review my collection on Amazon or Goodreads if you have been lovely enough to buy it. It really helps. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... In the Shadow of Gods amzn.eu/d/gRaCt0j
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Goodnight.
🖼️ Carson Ellis
Painting of winter night scene with a night sky filled with stars. The lower portion of the image is covered in white snow. In the bottom left, a dark, bare tree with red berries is visible. In the bottom right, two figures hold hands and look up at the sky. Rolling grey green hills are the background with trees and a house with a steeple. A large, bright comet with a fiery orange and red tail streaks across the sky.
December 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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🎄#GothicAdvent
Vintage Christmas card, A Merry Christmas, illustration of two prawns sat at a table drinking tea, window behind.
December 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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"East of Eefde, where the forest thins and a village creeps ever closer, there lies De Witte Wieven Slok, a shadowed hollow where the snow never seems to melt. And there, they say, lingers a lone witte wief, bound to her grove and her solitary vigil."

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · O best beloved, in the lowlands of Gelderland, some still tell the old tales of the witte wieven, white women, ancient wise ones, healers, and seers. In time, they faded into lege…
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December 3, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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The Spirit answered not, but pointed downward with its hand. "You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before us," Scrooge pursued. "Is that so, Spirit?"

- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
#WyrdWednesday
A hooded spectre dressed in black points down tot he grave of Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge also points, a horrified look upon his countenance.
December 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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"Her pocket-handkerchief, however, on which was her name, she gave to the huntsman, who went and cut the tongues out of the dragon’s seven heads, wrapped them in the handkerchief, and preserved them carefully."

(Grimm)

🎨 Elenore Abbott

#wyrdwednesday
December 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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They are known as Witte Wieven in the northwest, white women, wise women, spoken, spirits, or Feeën, fairies, who can say?

We meet one in Gelderland in our 4th #yulefolklore tale. She keeps an eternal vigil there. With a friend.

A tale dark enough for today’s #WyrdWednesday prompt

🎨 j. klassen
December 3, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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'Take this piece of carpet, and when the witch has almost overtaken you, throw it on to the ground and it will turn into a wide river...throw down this comb, which will immediately change into a dense forest...a way will open before you between the trees...'

🎨Arthur Rackham
#WyrdWednesday
Illustration of a woman who appears to be frightened in the dark woods.
December 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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2/2 Here is something that's around 15 years old.
El Planeta del Tesoro (Treasure Planet)
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December 3, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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You snooze on sofa all day, I snooze on sofa all day. 🧛‍♂️
Bear rolling into his back on his throw on the sofa with a fang showing. Photo.
December 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Our Christmas and winter anthology advert by dynamic creative @helenlaycock.bsky.social with cover art by Emma Bissonnet!

Book at…

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December 1, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Our hardback Christmas and Winter anthology adorning the Christmas tree.

Packed with festive, poetic gems!

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December 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Snow and Hare, Allen Seaby, c. 1923.
As des, hare in snowy landscape, painting.
December 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Mistletoe, Edith Holden.
Mistletoe (Viscus album) illustration
December 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Robin of the Day:
Japanese Robin
📷 Kai Pflug
Photo of this robin perched on the ground.
December 3, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Book Cover of the Day:
MERRY ELVES Green cover decorated with foliage, gold flower, title in gold and elf leapfrogging a frog in dark circular border.
December 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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🖼️ Gorey
‘Suppluliumas dozes while the family finishes decorating the fireplace.’ Drawing of family decorating a fireplace in Gorey style.
December 3, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Postcard of wrens.
- adult Pacific — - adult Southwest - BEWICK'S WREN Illustration as postcard in pale green border.
December 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Morning.
🖼️ Jay, Olivia Beaumont.
Jay perched in Autumnal foliage wearing yellow waistcoat and hat. Painting.
December 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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"I fell deeply under the spell of dwarfs - those bright-hooded, snowy-bearded dwarfs. I visualised them so intensely that I came to the very frontiers of hallucination. Once, walking in the garden, I was for a second not quite sure that a little man had not run past me in the shrubbery."
- C S Lewis
Illustration by Rien Poortvliet from 'Gnomes', the 1976 book by Poortvliet and Wil Huygen. It shows a gnome standing on a hill, the sun setting behind him. He has a long white beard, is wearing a tall red cap and is gesturing in hello or farewell.
December 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Goodnight moondrops.
🖼️ Sarah Slaughter
Painting of an almost silhouetted stag stood in dark, textured foliage and trees in the foreground. In the background, a large hill is visible and Glastonbury Tor. The painting uses a blue and black colours for a nocturnal scene with a crescent moon above the tor.
December 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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'Die Ruine des Klosters Walkenried im Winter' (The Ruins of Walkenried Abbey in Winter)

Carl Hasenpflug 1843

#art #painting #gothic #winter #snow
Oil painting of the interior of a ruined Gothic cloister in winter, with tall pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and stone columns. Snow covers the floor and drifts in from the open archways. Daylight illuminates the structure through the broken walls. Scattered stones lie across the ground. There's a door to right, with a painting hanging over it. To the left, there's statue of a saint on the wall next to a doorway.
December 2, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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"WHEN SHE CAME TO THE GATE IN THE WALL
SHE KNOCKED UPON IT THREE TIMES"

(From Edric Vredenburg (ed.) “My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales”)

🎨 Jennie Harbour

#booksky #darkaesthetics #illustrationart #fairytale
December 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Swallow the air and mouthfuls of cold mist. Give voice, just
once. O how it echoed from the rock! What a profound, angelic
bell I rang!'
-Giant Toad, Elizabeth Bishop.

🎨Maggie Vandewalle
Illustration of a toad in the rain.
December 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Annunciation to Mary in a wreath of flowers by an unknown artist. 17th century.
Painting. Annunciation of Mary in a wreath of flowers.
December 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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"The Banshee cries every time one of the Sionnacs dies. And when the old Captain died, the crows all left the place within two days, and never came back for a year."

(Lady Augusta Gregory)

🎨 Anna and Varvara Kendel

#darkfolklore #darkaesthetic #darkart #gothicart
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM