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iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 2h

Rabbit rabbit rabbit! White rabbit for October is from nightmares

The White Rabbit from the 1931 film Alice in Wonderland

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 2h

Holy shit that's a haunting image

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

River mist is the ghosts of our ancestors finding their Elysium

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 3h

... They are baptised My fragile little babes, They are baptised Upon the Gospels. On a Vigil eve, Most solemnly kept, On a Vigil eve They must be shattered: And those who resemble My beautiful little babes, Those who resemble them Shall die within the year!

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 3h

For the month of October, the calendar gives a BEWITCHMENT: Fragile little babes – As you see them – Fragile little babes Are born beneath my fingers. A sly spirit, (Swift to bring its Death) A sly spirit Is within their clay. [Continued...]

Envoûtement

Des poupons fragiles
– Comme tu les vois –
Des poupons fragiles
Naissent sous mes doigts.

Un esprit sournois,
(Pour sa Mort, agile)
Un esprit sournois
Est dans leur argile.

Ils sont baptisés,
Mes poupons fragiles,
Ils sont baptisés
Sur les Évangiles.

Un soir de Vigile,
Très solennisé,
Un soir de Vigile
Faudra les briser :

Et ceux qui ressemblent
À mes beaux poupons,
Ceux qui leur ressemblent
Dans l'année mourront !

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 4h

Hanging in a golden chain This pendent world. ~ John Milton, ‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) #Sculpture by Hans Schuler, 1874-1951.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the old cedars beside the medieval ruins of Acton Burnell Castle in #Shropshire. #ThickTrunkTuesday #castle #medieval #tree

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Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A killing moon hanging over Edinburgh Castle, flanked by the cross outside St John’s. A nice view to snap last night on the way back from a gig.

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For the last thirty years, I've regularly got obsessed with that cold open

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

"Le démon des glaces” (The Arctic Marauder) 🎨 Jacques Tardi (1974) #nationalcomicbookday

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

AUTUMN MIST I encountered the perfect gothic scene for #AutumnEquinox. Walking through my local Yorkshire churchyard the leaves had begun to fall and it was completely shrouded in mist.

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Era una noche oscura y tormentosa @manuelabennet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"An ancient horror settled on the street, (...) To choke the summer's final breath complete In a dark sepulchre of winter's cold. And well I knew in that dead hour of night That autumn brought no simple change of year, But an old ice-god rising in his might To claim the world in desolation drear."

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The Great Detective @greatdetective.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

DEATH OF A GHOST Margery Allingham (1934) #SpookySunday #illustration Frontispiece for the US edition by Boris Artzybasheff

Doubleday Doran 1st ed.
DEATH OF A GHOST BY MARGERY ALLINGHAM
PUBLISHED FOR THE CRIME CLUB, INC. BY DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & CO. INC GARDEN CITY, N. Y. 1934

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 19/09/2026

‘Death’ Hannes Bok, 1947

DEATH
By Clarence E. Flynn
WHY do you fear me?
I am your friend. I but guide trav'lers
Rounding the bend-
Lead them to freedom
From time and age,
Help them start writing
On a new page.

Seek for me never,
Keep your course true-
When I am needed
I'll come to you,
Then I will show you
Roads without end-
Why do you fear me?
I am your friend.

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

'Then turning the eyes to the ceiling, the wall, the sky, or better still to a white sheet hung on the wall of a darkened room (not totally dark), and looking rather steadily at any one point, the spectre will soon begin to make its appearance' Read or download the book: archive.org/details/3900...

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

'To see the spectres, it is only necessary to look steadily at the dot, or asterisk, which is to be found on each of the plates, for about a quarter of a minute, or while counting about twenty, the plate being well illuminated by either artificial or day light.'

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Spectropia: or, Surprising Spectral Illusions, Showing Ghosts Everywhere, and of any Colour, by J. H. Brown (1865) #SpookySunday See comments for instructions on seeing ghosts everywhere.

FOURTH EDITION.
SPECTROPIA
OR
SURPRISING SPECTRAL ILLUSIONS.
SHOWING GHOSTS EVERYWHERE
AND OF ANY COLOUR.
BY J. H. BROWN.
LONDON:
GRIFFITH & FARRAN, CORNER OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD.
R. & C. TREACHER, BRIGHTON.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

"Bat, bat, come under my hat, And I’ll give you a slice of bacon;" (Nursery Rhyme) 🎨 Jessie Hall (1892) #BaturDay

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Written on this date 207 years ago. • John Keats •

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye. – Thomas Nashe, 'A Litany in Time of Plague' (A song from Summer's Last Will and Testament, 1600) #BookWormSat

Raffaele Mainella: watercolour illustration for 'Nos Invisibles' by Charles d’Orino (Clotilde Briatte) 1907.

Death walks a tired young woman towards a distant bright mountain through a dark misty valley.

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Valentine @valent6228.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Night - River Landscape with a Ruined Abbey - John Laporte (1761–1839) #romanticism #gothic_nocturne

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This was pretty much the only 'darker' illustration for The Duchess of Malfi that I could find at short notice. Which is odd, given all the child-murdering and lycanthropia!

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

BOSOLA: Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens. FERDINAND: Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle. She died young. – John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi (1623) #BookWormSat

Skull Crowned with Snakes and Flowers (for 'The Duchess of Malfi') by Henry Weston Keen ca. 1930
Black-and-white drawing with pen and black ink, brush and wash.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

This is Leonard Bernstein's score of Schumann’s “Manfred” Overture, Op. 115. He wrote at the top, “Who’s read Byron lately?”

First page of the large conducting score of Schumann's Manfred, with Lenny's annotations

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Cine Antiqua - filmes clássicos @cineantiqua.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Max Schreck durante as filmagens de Nosferatu, 1922.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

"The spirits I have raised abandon me, The spells which I have studied baffle me, The remedy I recked of tortured me I lean no more on superhuman aid;" (Lord Byron "Manfred") 🎨 John Martin "Manfred on the Jungfrau" (1837) #BookwormSat

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The Great Detective @greatdetective.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Bat was turned into several film adaptations and a novel. It pioneered the trope of setting comedic mysteries in old, dark houses which seem to be haunted. #illustration #coverart Unsurprisingly, it also inspired Batman.

Dust jacket cover and spine for Grosset & Dunlap edition of the novel (1926)

THE BAT
A Mystery Story
by MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
and AVERY HOPWOOD
Courtesy of ROLAND WEST Photo Play Productions

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, coming and going in great, whirling circles." Bram Stoker 'Dracula' (1897) 🎨 'The Bat' (see ALT) #BookWormSat

An 18th-19th century b&w print of a bat in flight near a Gothic style ruin with foliage on the dilapidated wall in the foreground. The illustration, titled THE BAT, appears to have been taken from a book: Page 236 is printed on the bottom right corner. The artist is unknown.

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Mary B @beesincampanula.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

There was a full moonlight, and I could see that the noise was made by a great bat, which wheeled around, doubtless attracted by the light... and every now and again struck the window with its wings… Dracula Bram Stoker #BookWormSat 🦇

Edward Gorey poster in sepia tones showing a cloaked figure reading a playbill held up by bats!

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I wonder what they're contemplating!

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#SpookySunday An inventive twist on the headless horseman, Lionel Feininger, 1898, has instead illustrated a headless cyclist using his skull as a lamp. Be seen & be safe! Or in this case, be scared!

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Lord George Byron contemplating the Colosseum in Rome #art Arthur Willmore or James Tibbets Willmore, after the original composition by William Westall

An image in mostly soft brown tones, with the nobel poet in a red-and-blue outfit reclining on a hill by the ruined Colosseum.

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Interesting! Perhaps he thought grey sounded eerier, whereas a green or blue would be more fantastical.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

In the Cloister, Palermo 1840 oil Martinus Rørbye ~ (Danish, 1803–1848) #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

'I have seen,' he said, lowering his voice, 'I have seen the Bodach Glas.' MAC-IVOR WARNED OF HIS FATE BY THE GREY SPIRIT. Grey Old Man serves as a fatal family omen in Walter Scott's Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since (1814) #SpookySunday

WAVERLEY.
MAC-IVOR WARNED OF HIS FATE BY THE GREY SPIRIT.
Illustration to Walter Scott's 'Waverley'
1823-1840
After: Charles Robert Leslie
Print made by: James Mitchell

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Whitby Gothic @whitbygothic.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

+++ On this very evening, the 1st August 1893. From the Log of the Demeter, which is travelling from Varna to Whitby +++ " We seem to be drifting towards some terrible doom " The picture is the Dmitry from Narva, wrecked in 1885 which inspired Bram #BramStoker #Dracula #Whitby #GothicHorror #OTD

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026

“I bear in my shirt a head; the head of Urien, That governed a court with mildness; And on his white bosom the sable raven doth glut.” (Llywarch Hen “Elegy on Urien Rheged”, c 600 CE) 🎨audrey benjaminsen #BookwormSat

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

" - Good God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn." - William Wordsworth #WyrdWednesday #Pagan #poetry

Drawing of Triton by Annibale Caracci, approximately 1600.

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