Vittorio Matteo Corcos, 'Dreams,' 1896

#FolkyFriday In Basque mythology,Inguma is a malevolent spirit that comes into people's homes once they are asleep.He often enters in the form of fog that squeezes through cracked windows or door locks. He presses on the sleeper’s throat buber.net/Basque/2024/01… Art-Raúl Fernández

Maxfield Parrish, 'The Lantern Bearers,' 1908

Ya soy mecenas de 'Leyendas que cobran vida' verkami.com/locale/es/proj… 🖤🖤

#WorldPenguinDay 🐧In Maori mythology,Tawaki was a god that walked the earth in human form.Legend has it that Tawaki’s fellow humans did not realise he was a god until “he ascended a lofty hill, threw aside his vile garments & clothed himself in lightning” tawaki-project.org/the-penguin/

'Still Life Series: Body of Christ' by Lizz Lopez, 2022

Gustave Doré, 'Death on the Pale Horse', 1865

Durante los 80, un tipo llamado Bill Ellis decidió estudiar los rumores e historias de los campamentos scouts de EE.UU. Aquella investigación le llevaría a descubrir algo sorprendente: que las leyendas urbanas son reales... o, al menos, capaces de modificar nuestra realidad

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Art by Joseph Vargo

'Paradise Lost: A Graphic Novel', Adapted from John Milton by Pablo Auladell

Announcing a call for 'Coastal Imaginaries' article abstracts for a special issue of Coastal Studies & Society. Abstract deadline - 20th May. For more details see port.ac.uk/news-events-an… Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures One for Haunted Shores?

At last it’s out! A HUGE welldone and thankyou to everyone that took part and made this the unparalleled vampire resource it is…truly amazing work John J Johnston #KelseyShawgo #KamilStachowski #Clemensruthner Madeline Potter #MichaelEBell #KevinDodd #ZsoltBojti Kevin Wetmore …

'The Wedding of St George and Princess Sabra' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1857)

#FairyTaleTuesday “My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood.I am eighteen years old,& I live with my sister Constance.I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, ...”
― Shirley Jackson,We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Art- William Teason

#WorldBookDay Vicente Clavel,the head of the Cervantes publishing business in Barcelona,came up with the idea for World Book Day.The initial event was held on October 7 1926 to celebrate Cervantes' birthday cnbctv18.com/world/world-bo…
Art-Illustrations for Don Quixote by Gustave Doré

'Botanica No. 23' by Gail Potocki #GothicSpring

Emily Horton, '21st-Century British Gothic: The Monstrous, Spectral, & Uncanny in Contemporary Fiction'
Reading works of fiction by Helen Oyeyemi, Patrick McGrath,etc., Horton illuminates the way the Gothic has been engaged & reread by contemporary writers bloomsbury.com/uk/21stcentury…

Here's birthday boy Jack Nicholson on the set of The Shining, cranking up the crazy prior to shooting the most iconic scene in horror history. 🚪