from farms & animals to reaping & sowing

And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns
About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home

~Dylan Thomas

This week #BookologyThursday takes a pastoral jaunt in literature, art & lore with the theme:

🍃🐏IDYLLIC IDYLS🐑🍃

🎨Dora Carrington (1921)

A 1927 first edition of 'Ghost Stories' by Michael Arlen, with an illustration of a man reading at a desk, suddenly aware a shadowy form is peering down at him.

Now THIS is a book I'd love to own. Arlen was a fascinating writer, with many of his stories appearing in the 1930s Strands. Both satirical and fantastical, John Collier-ish but wholly original. Still underrated and needs republishing - especially this gem from 1927!
#PhantomsFriday #BookChatWeekly

Alice confronts the Cheshire Cat in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." Illustration by John Tenniel.

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.

"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat. "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."

"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.

"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

- "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
#BookWormSat

“I was thirteen, nearly fourteen, when I had a very singular adventure, so strange that the day on which it happened is always called the White Day.”

(Arthur Machen, #BOTD 1863, “The White People”)

#booksky #bookillustration

yellowish etching of a shrouded figure of death with a scythe slinking along the corpses of dead soldiers on the battlefield. There is a cannon and towers in the distance. Smoke and birds in the air.

#MementoMoriMonday
The Harvest/De Oogst, Marius Bauer, 1914-1918
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead

Wyrdlings!

Some things are set in stone. Or wood. Or bone. You name it, since this week:

"Carvings, Inscriptions & Writings on the Wall"

is our #WyrdWednesday topic – so, tell us tales of wyrd bas-reliefs, strange runes on artefacts and otherworldy hieroglyphs found in deep dungeons!

Good day, dear Bibliophiles🍃

art by Robin Kaplin ~The Gorgonist

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See you next week on #BookologyThursday

See you next week on #BookologyThursday

Thank you for your deep and dark posts, dear Bibliophiles!

See you next week on #BookologyThursday

🎨Carlo Chiostri (1863–1939)

Art of Godzilla, a giant dinosaur like monster who enjoys smashing up Japan, asleep with the text 'Good night, Godzilla, King of the Monsters. Pleasant dreams.'

#BookologyThursday "Good night, Godzilla, King of the Monsters. Pleasant dreams."

From 'Godzilla Likes to Roar!' by Kerry Milliron, illustrated by Bob Eggleton (1998).

#BookologyThursday

"We shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many-columned Y’ha-nthlei, and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever."

H P Lovecraft - The Shadow Out Of Innsmouth
🎨Alan Moore

#BookologyThursday 'After The Shipwreck' (Dore) the souls of the sailors are gathered. It was believed that drowned sailors returned as seagulls & it was unlucky to kill one. A lone gull flying straight was said to be following a corpse drifting on the sea-bed, so that it might free its spirit.

"Once more she looked at the prince, with her eyes already dimmed by death, then dashed overboard and fell, her body dissolving into foam."

(Hans Christian Andersen "The Mermaid")

🎨 Edmund Dulac (1911)

#bookologythursday #goldenageofillustration #booksky #bookillustration

#BookologyThursday

" ... most repulsive, having a large, ugly head, a fierce-looking mouth, two diabolical eyes; sending forth a demonic glare when angered ... it will fight to the last, doing its best to pull the object of its wrath beneath the surface of the waters."

J O La Gorce
🎨D de Montfort

✍🏻 Jorie Graham, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard 📸 Sineenuch J/Shutterstock. Discarded bottom trawl plastic netting on the sea bed

"no more space on the boat-millions of tons thrown back dead or wounded-the scars on the seabed-& if there is no one there there is still ghostfishing-nets abandoned in the sea they continue through the centuries to catch-mammals fish shellfish–we die". From 'Deep Water Trawling' #BookologyThursday

Aerial view of the ruined keep and walls of Richmond Castle. Some of the town's stone houses can be seen as well as a verdant landscape of fields and trees.

#Folklore claims soldiers discovered a mysterious tunnel in Richmond Castle, Yorkshire. They sent a drummer boy to explore it while they followed from above, but after half-a-mile his beats stopped. He was never seen again but his drumming can still be heard on dark quiet nights. #BookologyThursday

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#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `In their ships and in their galleys the whole province of Ulster, accompanying Fergus mac Leide, now gathered together to Loch Rudraige.
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#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `In their ships and in their galleys the whole province of Ulster, accompanying Fergus mac Leide, now gathered together to Loch Rudraige. They entering the loch gained its center […]

The denizens of the deep and the mysterious Spirit float around the ship's hull. B& w illustration of the 1877 German edition

"The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be! ...
And some in dreams assurèd were
Of the Spirit that plagued us so;
Nine fathom deep he had followed us
From the land of mist and snow".

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1834) 🎨 Gustave Doré (1877)
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Where sunless rivers weep
Their waves into the deep,
She sleeps a charmed sleep:
Awake her not.

Dream Land / Christina Rossetti

Emma Florence Harrison #BookologyThursday

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#BookologyThursday #Celtic: Fergus mac Leide and the sinech (“Stormy One”) of Loch Rudraige `came to the loch’s middle part and so flogged it that the salmon of varied hue leaped and flung themselves out upon the shore because […]

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#BookologyThursday #Celtic: One day, Fergus mac Leide and a young man of his people went bathing into Loch Rudraige; `and the monster that dwelt in the loch—the sinech (“Stormy One”) of Loch Rudraige—was […]

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Dun Scaith, the Castle of warrior queen Scathach, photo credit 1. Neu-Kelte

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: "Tell me, O Ferdia, how Shadow herself crosses the bridge when she comes to teach you feats," said #Cuchulain. "Only by two leaps can that bridge be crossed," they all reply; "that is, one leap into the very centre of the bridge […]

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"No matter what happens, you remember that this world is more than the agony it contains. We can have happiness... Maybe it doesn’t come in a cookie-cutter format, but we will take the fragments and we will rebuild it."

—As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow, Zoulfa Katouh

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#BookologyThursday #Celtic: "Tell me, O Ferdia, how Shadow herself crosses the bridge when she comes to teach you feats," said #Cuchulain. "Only by two leaps can that bridge be crossed," they all reply; "that is, one leap into the very centre of the bridge, and one upon the firm ground beyond;
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#BookologyThursday 📚 #Jaws 🦈
"It was the silence that frightened him most—the sense of something unseen moving beneath him in the dark water.”

— Jaws by Peter Benchley Published in 1974.

#BookChatweekly 📖🫖🐈 #WhatliesBeneath