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Hosted by @dirkpuehl

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Darkest Dearlings!

I can't be online due to an unforeseeable appointment for the rest of the week and #ofdarkandmacabre / #faustianfriady RTs will unfortunately not take place for the time being!

I keep you posted!
Thank you for understanding & kind, dark regards,

Dirk

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"A groan right beside his ear - an owl perhaps. Or was it, maybe, the groan of a lost soul"
(Andrei Bely)

🎨 Jackie Morris

#ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly #31daysofhaunting #31DaysofHalloween #owlishmonday

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@gracierose323 @Natalia00067574 :-)

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@Natalia00067574 *crow peck*

[Christine @ChristineV8]

Rodney had drank in the pub till the wee hours, as was his usual custom, but this time it was different. He passed out and awoke wrapped around a lamppost, dressed in Victorian garb. When he asked a passerby the year, the incredible answer came: "1862."

#picturewantsastory

[Nata.liagentile @Natalia00067574]

💀
And suddenly he saw that the Ghost rises in the stirrups, swings the arm and throws him head. Ichabod tried to Dodge this terrible throwing projectile, but it was too late.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
🎨Arthur Keller’s 1906
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[Elizabeth Cusack @ecusack4]

By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight
Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard
Then can the substance of ten thousand soldiers
Armed in proof and led by shallow Richmond.
′Tis not yet near day.

~ Shakespeare

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William Blake, Richard III and the Ghosts

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@DrCCat1 Fellow deserved that, eh?

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Darklings!

This week's game is inspired by #ofdarkandmacabre's "Cursed Wanderers" theme, but tell your own story!

Write a meme, a twitter story vignette or something longer on Insta or tumblr for the image below!

Tweet with the image & #picturewantsastory for a RT

[Mercy ♣️ @MercurialNight]

"We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith."

Stephen King

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[Olivia Armstrong - Storyteller @oliviasstories]

At Hallowtide in Ireland, children would be sprinkled with oats and salt to protect them from the fairies...

#OfDarkAndMacabre #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting

[WunderKammer  @DirkPuehl]

He came with the mist. In autumn. Creeping, slouching, staggering with it, in it, from the river up to the spot where they had waylaid him one morning in the fog. Beat him to death. For his crime. And he came back. Every year. And stared. Through the mist.

#picturewantsastory

[Christine @ChristineV8]

"The night has been unruly: where we lay,
Lamentings heard in the air; strange screams of death, and prophesying with accents terrible
Of dire combustion and confused events
New hatch'd to the woeful time."
~ Macbeth, 2:3

#ShakespeareSunday #31DaysofHalloween #OfDarkAndMacabre

[Rowdy Geirsson @RGeirsson]

Just a dead guy, squirming in his grave in front of his daughter, asking her to leave him alone. #31DaysOfHaunting #ofdarkandmacabre 🖼️ Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein Stub

[The Keeper of Rooksmoor Manor @Rooksmoor_Manor]

Visitors find the chaotic layout of twisting passageways and secret doors that comprise the Manor deeply unsettling. They swear that even if you walk the same path twice, you rarely end at the same destination.

🎨H. Railton.
#31DaysOfHaunting
#31DaysOfHalloween
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[Elizabeth Cusack @ecusack4]

If charnel houses and our graves must send
Those that we bury back, our monuments
Shall be the maws of kites.

~ Shakespeare

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[Libby Cutts aka LC Winter @LibbyCutts]

He slumped with a metallic click, clink and the glow above died. As I moved into the yellow circle of the neighbouring light the man looked up. Or 'it' looked up. With another clink, clink it detached from the lamppost, stepped towards me. It's eyes gleamed. #picturewantsastory

[Christine @ChristineV8]

"What may this mean?
That thou, dead corpse, again, in complete steel,
Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon.
Making night hideous."
(Hamlet 1:4)

#ShakespeareSunday #OfDarkAndMacabre

[Folkloristan @folkloristan]

Those who practice evil become evil - women who indulge in black magic are believed to turn into witches, known as Jatu, disguised as humans. In Brahui folklore, the Jatu preys on the liver of children.

#FolkloreSunday #31DaysofHaunting #ofdarkandmacabre #Halloween

[WunderKammer  @DirkPuehl]

“How now, spirit! Whither wander you?” (Shakespeare)

🎨 Christopher Gaultier

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