'Dancers in a Moonlit Garden' Ellison Hoover. #GothicSpring
March 20, 2026 at 12:41 AM
'Dancers in a Moonlit Garden' Ellison Hoover. #GothicSpring
'Tintern Abbey in Moonlight' John Sell Cotman 1802 #GothicSpring
March 20, 2026 at 10:15 PM
'Tintern Abbey in Moonlight' John Sell Cotman 1802 #GothicSpring
Some guys have all the luck. #GothicSpring
March 23, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Some guys have all the luck. #GothicSpring
SNAPDRAGON SKULLS Did you know snapdragon seed heads resemble tiny skulls? Just found the ones I saved in the autumn. Perfect for #gothicspring #botanicalgothic
February 7, 2026 at 12:32 PM
SNAPDRAGON SKULLS Did you know snapdragon seed heads resemble tiny skulls? Just found the ones I saved in the autumn. Perfect for #gothicspring #botanicalgothic
THE GREAT MOON HOAX was published in a New York newspaper, August 25, 1835, it claimed the discovery of life & civilization on the Moon and featured an illustration of lunar bat people #baturday #GothicSpring
February 23, 2026 at 10:42 PM
THE GREAT MOON HOAX was published in a New York newspaper, August 25, 1835, it claimed the discovery of life & civilization on the Moon and featured an illustration of lunar bat people #baturday #GothicSpring
GOTHIC PACE EGGS - fun ideas for #GothicSpring
April 2, 2026 at 5:45 PM
GOTHIC PACE EGGS - fun ideas for #GothicSpring
GWAENARDEL vampiric #fairy from the Isle of Man who is specifically attracted to poets, feeding off their blood; in exchange she gives them inspiration & a magnificent but short life #gothicspring #vampire 🎨Michael Thomas
May 4, 2026 at 11:56 AM
GWAENARDEL vampiric #fairy from the Isle of Man who is specifically attracted to poets, feeding off their blood; in exchange she gives them inspiration & a magnificent but short life #gothicspring #vampire 🎨Michael Thomas
‘The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.’ ~ Peter Straub
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a very supernatural #BookWormSat #GothicSpring
🖼️ Forest Ghost, Ladislav Mednyánszky, 1890.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a very supernatural #BookWormSat #GothicSpring
🖼️ Forest Ghost, Ladislav Mednyánszky, 1890.
March 14, 2026 at 1:07 PM
‘The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.’ ~ Peter Straub
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a very supernatural #BookWormSat #GothicSpring
🖼️ Forest Ghost, Ladislav Mednyánszky, 1890.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a very supernatural #BookWormSat #GothicSpring
🖼️ Forest Ghost, Ladislav Mednyánszky, 1890.
FAIRY BRIDE In 1915 Frances Evering & Dotty Buchanan married in full fairy garb. A decadent nod to the power of the fae #GothicSpring #FairytaleTuesday
March 23, 2026 at 10:33 AM
FAIRY BRIDE In 1915 Frances Evering & Dotty Buchanan married in full fairy garb. A decadent nod to the power of the fae #GothicSpring #FairytaleTuesday
GHOSTLY & VAMPIRIC BRIDES image from La morte amoureuse (The Deathly Lover), 1836; Mihály Zichy - A kísértetek órája (The Ghost Hour), 1880 #GothicSpring
March 25, 2026 at 10:14 AM
GHOSTLY & VAMPIRIC BRIDES image from La morte amoureuse (The Deathly Lover), 1836; Mihály Zichy - A kísértetek órája (The Ghost Hour), 1880 #GothicSpring
I am going to post more about for #GothicSpring 🥰
January 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I am going to post more about for #GothicSpring 🥰
(art is by Rand Burns) #gothicspring #spring
April 9, 2026 at 1:20 AM
(art is by Rand Burns) #gothicspring #spring
MAY DAY marks the Celtic festival of Beltane; half way between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. It is a time when the veil between our world and the shadow world is extremely thin and exactly half way to Halloween🎨Rheam, Fairy woods, 1903 #GothicSpring
May 1, 2026 at 2:13 PM
MAY DAY marks the Celtic festival of Beltane; half way between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. It is a time when the veil between our world and the shadow world is extremely thin and exactly half way to Halloween🎨Rheam, Fairy woods, 1903 #GothicSpring
There was a time when to talk of death directly was considered improper so people used euphemisms, the best of which was 'His (or Her) Destiny Is Closed' (Art: Walter Thornbury 1889) #GothicSpring
April 14, 2026 at 10:32 AM
There was a time when to talk of death directly was considered improper so people used euphemisms, the best of which was 'His (or Her) Destiny Is Closed' (Art: Walter Thornbury 1889) #GothicSpring
‘Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.’ ~ The Man Whom The Trees Loved, Algernon Blackwood.
#BookWormSat
#GothicSpring
#BookWormSat
#GothicSpring
March 14, 2026 at 7:12 PM
‘Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.’ ~ The Man Whom The Trees Loved, Algernon Blackwood.
#BookWormSat
#GothicSpring
#BookWormSat
#GothicSpring
#StainedGlassSunday The window overlooking the haunted garden in the Medieval Moated Manor, Baddesley Clinton Hall, near Warwick. People recall seeing inexplicable shadows, whispering & the sound of men arguing in the walled garden as well as the wild flower meadow. #GothicSpring
April 12, 2026 at 10:26 PM
#StainedGlassSunday The window overlooking the haunted garden in the Medieval Moated Manor, Baddesley Clinton Hall, near Warwick. People recall seeing inexplicable shadows, whispering & the sound of men arguing in the walled garden as well as the wild flower meadow. #GothicSpring
GHOULISH GARDENS Step inside a 500 year old gothic garden via the mouth of a mythical #monster reclaimed by nature. The Garden of Bomarzo, or The Villa of Wonders is in Viterbo, Lazio; created in the 1600s in the valley below the Castle of Orsini #GothicSpring
March 24, 2026 at 10:44 AM
GHOULISH GARDENS Step inside a 500 year old gothic garden via the mouth of a mythical #monster reclaimed by nature. The Garden of Bomarzo, or The Villa of Wonders is in Viterbo, Lazio; created in the 1600s in the valley below the Castle of Orsini #GothicSpring
Image by Angel Dominguez
#BookChatWeekly #GothicSpring #DailySpookLore #NationalReadingMonth #BookSky #Fiction #FIctionSky #ChildrensFiction #FantasyFiction #Literature #LiteratureSky #ChildrensLiterature #FantasyLiterature #Fantasy #FantasySky #KennethGrahame #WindInTheWillows
#BookChatWeekly #GothicSpring #DailySpookLore #NationalReadingMonth #BookSky #Fiction #FIctionSky #ChildrensFiction #FantasyFiction #Literature #LiteratureSky #ChildrensLiterature #FantasyLiterature #Fantasy #FantasySky #KennethGrahame #WindInTheWillows
March 21, 2026 at 7:12 AM
#WyrdWednesday #GothicSpring
Just as people used to inform their bees of a bereavement, the same courtesy was shown to favored plants. A little scrap of black cloth would be fixed to the stem so they could grieve rather than pine away waiting for the person who would not return. art Elizabeth Keyser
Just as people used to inform their bees of a bereavement, the same courtesy was shown to favored plants. A little scrap of black cloth would be fixed to the stem so they could grieve rather than pine away waiting for the person who would not return. art Elizabeth Keyser
March 25, 2026 at 3:15 PM
#WyrdWednesday #GothicSpring
Just as people used to inform their bees of a bereavement, the same courtesy was shown to favored plants. A little scrap of black cloth would be fixed to the stem so they could grieve rather than pine away waiting for the person who would not return. art Elizabeth Keyser
Just as people used to inform their bees of a bereavement, the same courtesy was shown to favored plants. A little scrap of black cloth would be fixed to the stem so they could grieve rather than pine away waiting for the person who would not return. art Elizabeth Keyser
GOTHIC NATURE A small Yorkshire grave is fused with the mossy roots of a living tree. Only the letters E.M. remain visible above ground as I pass by; the tenant of the tomb has been sleeping deep in the earth for over one hundred years #GothicSpring
April 25, 2026 at 8:28 AM
GOTHIC NATURE A small Yorkshire grave is fused with the mossy roots of a living tree. Only the letters E.M. remain visible above ground as I pass by; the tenant of the tomb has been sleeping deep in the earth for over one hundred years #GothicSpring
#FairyTaleTuesday #GothicSpring
'Apple tree, apple tree, hide me,
So the old witch can't find me
If she does she'll break my bones
And bury me under the marble stones'.
(From 'The Old Witch: Joseph Jacobs/art William Wiesner)
'Apple tree, apple tree, hide me,
So the old witch can't find me
If she does she'll break my bones
And bury me under the marble stones'.
(From 'The Old Witch: Joseph Jacobs/art William Wiesner)
March 24, 2026 at 1:40 PM
#FairyTaleTuesday #GothicSpring
'Apple tree, apple tree, hide me,
So the old witch can't find me
If she does she'll break my bones
And bury me under the marble stones'.
(From 'The Old Witch: Joseph Jacobs/art William Wiesner)
'Apple tree, apple tree, hide me,
So the old witch can't find me
If she does she'll break my bones
And bury me under the marble stones'.
(From 'The Old Witch: Joseph Jacobs/art William Wiesner)
‘Oh whence do you come, my dear friend, to me
With your golden hair all fallen below your knee
And your face as white as snowdrops on the lea
And your voice as hollow as the hollow sea?’ The Poor Ghost, Christina Rossetti. #BookWormSat
#GothicSpring
🖼️ Aksel Johannessen, c.1920.
With your golden hair all fallen below your knee
And your face as white as snowdrops on the lea
And your voice as hollow as the hollow sea?’ The Poor Ghost, Christina Rossetti. #BookWormSat
#GothicSpring
🖼️ Aksel Johannessen, c.1920.
March 14, 2026 at 1:25 PM
‘Oh whence do you come, my dear friend, to me
With your golden hair all fallen below your knee
And your face as white as snowdrops on the lea
And your voice as hollow as the hollow sea?’ The Poor Ghost, Christina Rossetti. #BookWormSat
#GothicSpring
🖼️ Aksel Johannessen, c.1920.
With your golden hair all fallen below your knee
And your face as white as snowdrops on the lea
And your voice as hollow as the hollow sea?’ The Poor Ghost, Christina Rossetti. #BookWormSat
#GothicSpring
🖼️ Aksel Johannessen, c.1920.
RENEWAL A Green Man found on church buildings can signify regeneration or renewal; branches or vines may sprout from the mouth. Such carvings are also a powerful reimagining of the eerie or uncanny; a human face dominated by leaves 🎨Bamberg Cathedral #GothicSpring
April 3, 2026 at 1:15 PM
RENEWAL A Green Man found on church buildings can signify regeneration or renewal; branches or vines may sprout from the mouth. Such carvings are also a powerful reimagining of the eerie or uncanny; a human face dominated by leaves 🎨Bamberg Cathedral #GothicSpring