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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 4h

"I'll live alone with the dead, and keep their secrets, and let them hound me, until the curse is paid out" (Eugene O'Neill "Mourning Becomes Electra") 🎨 Koichi Iyoda #WyrdWednesday

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 9h

"whosoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together" Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" was published #otd 1726

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 27/10/2026

"Not for the proud man apart From the raging moon I write On these spindrift pages Nor for the towering dead With their nightingales and psalms" Dylan Thomas was born #otd 1914 🎨 Ceri Richards (1941)

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 26/10/2026

"Spanish Witch flies to the Sabbat on the back of a horned, cloven-footed demon" 🎨 Carlos Luis de Ribera (c 1875) #Spooktober

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 26/10/2026

"Beyond the Wild Wood comes the wild world," said the Rat" (Kenneth Grahame) 🎨 Tuesday Riddell #owlishmonday

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 26/10/2026

"Thought defines the universe in geometrical figures." Hilma af Klint was born #otd 1862 🎨 "Group IX/SUW, The Swan, No. 1" (1915)

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

“Ghost with a Severed Head“ 🎨 Kawanabe Kyōsai (c 1870) #Spooktober

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

“’Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.” (“Hamlet” 3.2) 🎨 Pedro Américo (1893) #ShakespeareSunday

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

“Oh, very gloomy is the house of woe, Where tears are falling while the bell is knelling, With all the dark solemnities that show That Death is in the dwelling!” (Thomas Hood “The Haunted House” 1844) 🎨 Samuel Read (1854) #SpookySunday

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 25/10/2026

"His spirit chaunged hous and wente ther, As I cam nevere, I kan nat tellen wher. Therfore I stynte; I nam no divinistre; Of soules fynde I nat in this registre, Ne me ne list thilke opinions to telle Of hem, though that they writen wher they dwelle" Geoffrey Chaucer died #otd 1400 🎨 Burne-Jones

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 24/10/2026

"Foreboding" 🎨 Mieczyslaw Jakimowicz (1907) #Spooktober

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 24/10/2026

Doing his best Georgy Zhukov impression? Just asking...

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 24/10/2026

"There had stood a great house in the centre of the gardens, where now was left only that fragment of ruin... In the village it was a synonym of all that is unholy and dreadful." (William Hope Hodgson “The House on the Borderland”, 1908) 🎨 Mike Mignola #BookwormSat

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 24/10/2026

“Everyone says its a myth until one day something happens in the streets that brings it back to life.” (Gustav Meyrink “The Golem”, 1915) 🎨 Hugo Steiner-Prag #BookwormSat

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 24/10/2026

No self-respecting wyrd household should be without a drunk pet elk... and an immortal famula - Live Larsdatter (1575 - 1698), who worked with the Brahes for a while 🎨 Pieter van der Hulst (1691)

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 24/10/2026

"Lastly, the star became like Saturn, and there will finally come a time of want, death, imprisonment and all sorts of sad things.“ (Tycho Brahe’s observation of a supernova in 1572) Tycho Brahe died #otd 1601 🎨 Eduard Ender "Rudolph II and Tycho Brahe in Prague" (1855)

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

"Deserted - The Legend of Rabenstein" 🎨 Samuel Read (1872) #Spooktober

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

"Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.“ (Toast of José Rizal to Juan Luna and Felix Hidalgo) Juan Luna was born #otd 1857 🎨 "The Battle of Lepanto of 1571" (1887)

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

"Revenge! Revenge! Revenge!" 🎨 John Trotta (1973) #Spooktober

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

"I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic." N. C. Wyeth was born #otd 1882 🎨 "The Storybook" (1922)

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

"And the sight of those cliffs was to me as some chord of music that a master’s hand had launched from the violin, and which carries to Heaven or Faëry the tremulous spirits of men." (Lord Dunsany "Idle Days on the Yann") 🎨 Sidney Sime "The Gate of Yann" (1910) #WyrdWednesday

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

No, I can not, unfortunately... and there are not too many illus for Lovecraft's Dreamlands - but this growth from "invedars games" for a Kadath board game might indeed be one

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

"That night Carter camped in a roadside meadow beneath a great lygath-tree to which he tied his yak, and in the morning resumed his northward pilgrimage." (H.P. Lovecraft "The Dream Quest Of Unknown Kadath") 🎨 "Brehm's", 1891 #WyrdWednesday

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

"Why stares she with unsettled eye? Can she the bodiless dead espy? And why with hollow voice cries she, "Off, woman, off! this hour is mine— Though thou her guardian spirit be, Of, woman, off! 'tis given to me." ("Christabel") Samuel Coleridge was born #otd 1772 🎨 Norah McGuinness

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

“Bruges was his dead wife. And his dead wife was Bruges. The two were united in a like destiny. It was Bruges-la-Morte, the dead town entombed in its stone quais" (Georges Rodenbach “Bruges-La-Morte”) 🎨Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (1930) #Spooktober

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

"One evening, I sat Beauty in my lap. — And I found her bitter. — And I cursed her." ("Une Saison en Enfer", 1873) Arthur Rimbaud was born #otd 1854 🎨 Gustave Moreau

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

"On the Ridge of the Two Spirits of the Air" 🎨 P.J. Lynch #Spooktober

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

"The owl was an enchanted person, and strix… bruxa signify at once the bird and the witch that fly by night… Hence also their name of klag-muhme (wailing aunt), klag-mutter, klage-weib… elsewhere it is called grab-eule [grave-owl], todten-vogel [death-bird]." (Grimm) 🎨 R. Paterson #owlishmonday

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

"If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust; the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse." Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" was first published #otd 1847 🎨 F. Eichenberg

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

“The spirit of the birch is called the One with the White Hand.” (Brian Froud, Alan Lee “Faeries”, 1978) 🎨 Brian Froud #Spooktober

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

"What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!" ("Romeo and Juliet", 1.1) 🎨 Edward John Gregory (detail, 1870) #ShakespeareSunday

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

“A moment more, and the master began to summon the spirit, burning the queen's hair in the lamp…. To ty — to ty! Barbaro!" (It is you — it is you! Barbara!, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski) Pan Twardowski summoning the ghost of Barbara Radziwiłł, † 1551 🎨 Konstanty Górski (1905) #SpookySunday

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

"Accursed the heart that does not know restraint!" ("Penthesilea") Heinrich von Kleist was born #otd 1777 🎨 Maurice Sendak (1998)

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

“Forsaken” 🎨 Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (c 1920)

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

"... and the leaden coffin floated with blood, in which to a depth of seven inches, the body lay immersed." (Sheridan Le Fanu “Carmilla” 1872) 🎨 Caroline Murta #Spooktober

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

"This voice of heaven thrilled us,–we seemed the pioneers of darkness, on the very frontiers of hell.” (Charles Robert Maturin "Melmoth the Wanderer", 1820) 🎨 Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (1828) #Bookwormsat

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

“That which from life is pluck’d, becomes the foe  Of life, and whoso wakes it waketh woe.  Seek not the dead to waken from that sleep  In which from mortal eye they lie enshrouded deep.” (Ernst Raupach “Wake not the Dead”) 🎨 Wilhelm Kotarbiński (1900) #BookwormSat

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

"Peace to the huts! War on the palaces!" (“Der Hessische Landbote”, 1834) Georg Büchner was born #otd 1813

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

"A dream picture: it must produce such a stillness that one would be awed by a knock on the door." Arnold Böcklin was born #otd 1827 🎨 "Isle of the Dead" (1883)

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Hihi... saw those ears and immediately thought of the female lead in "The Lady and the Tramp":-)

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

“Bianca Maria och trollen” (Bianca Maria and the Trolls) 🎨 John Bauer #Spooktober

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

“Our industrial and artistic creations can perish, our morals and our fashions can fall into obscurity, but a picture by M. Tissot will be enough for archaeologists of the future to reconstitute our epoch.” (L’Artiste, 1869) James Tissot was born #otd 1836 🎨 "Autumn" (1877)

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

"Der Marter" (Wayside Shrine) 🎨 Franz Wacik (1908) #Spooktober

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