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mightaswelljumpnow.bsky.social
This was such a fantastic read. I got into this series only a few years ago and tore through them.

The Dark Is Rising is a particularly spooky read around Halloween, but they are all compelling reads!

Will dark and evil forces finally take over the world? Read them to find out! 👍🧡

#susancooper
August 27, 2026 at 9:55 AM
iainaire.bsky.social
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper. A wonderful fantasy that absorbed my attention in my youth, still a great read today. Now on radio. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... #TheDarkisRising #SusanCooper #Fantasy #BlueSky #BookSky #Author #WritingCommunity #Writers #WritingAndBooks #YANovel
BBC World Service - The Dark Is Rising - Available now
Available episodes of The Dark Is Rising
www.bbc.co.uk
August 12, 2026 at 7:43 AM
baileygalbreit.bsky.social
Day 27 - Book you read every year

Maybe not every year, but most years, around the time of the winter solstice, I find myself gravitating toward rereading The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper.

#30daybookchallenge #booksky #reading #amreading #books #thedarkisrising #susancooper #wintersolstice
May 18, 2025 at 4:59 AM
rillarevolution.bsky.social
#thedarkisrising
#susancooper
#thedarkisrisingreadalong
A photo of countryside in winter - in the foreground of the photo is snow, with some gorse breaking through. In the distance is a tree covered hill, the trees are spattered with snow. On the sky a quote has been added: “He was crystal-clear awake, in a Midwinter Day that had been waiting for him to wake into it since the day he had been born, and, he somehow knew, for centuries before that.” Midwinter Day, The Dark is Rising
December 22, 2024 at 12:00 AM
freeofthefog.bsky.social
It's that time of year again to cosy up with #susancooper #thedarkisrising Happy reading everyone📚
December 20, 2024 at 7:32 AM
dorotheabredon.bsky.social
Doing a lot of comfort reading lately. Struck yesterday by this passage from #SilverOnTheTree, part of #TheDarkIsRising sequence by #SusanCooper. Sorry for the lack of photo quality 😆
January 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
christina500.bsky.social
#DarkisRising #SusanCooper #1970sBooks
christina500.bsky.social christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · May 27
Probably the reason why I did not borrow this from the library as a child! Love the story as a mature adult now (just read for the first time). #ScaryBookCovers
May 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
sistermagpie.bsky.social
The Walker is Abroad.

Happy Midwinter's Eve!

#thedarkisrising #yearlyread #susancooper
The Six Signs of the Light from The Dark is Rising. Four circles quarted by a cross out of wood, bronze, iron, water, fire, and stone.
December 21, 2024 at 7:45 PM
julieskelleher.bsky.social
Found this note in a copy of Cecire's Re-Enchanted & because I teach from it, was trying to remember who the students Will & Bran had been. Then I realized: it's Will & Bran from #SusanCooper 's #TheGreyKing. I was doing a Sea-Glass Shore rewrite, & trying to work out how children relate to magic.
Sheet of notes on yellow-edged paper: Will--totally ordinary kid discovers extraordinary world where others recognize a side of him nobody else knows. Bran--totally oddball kid who doesn't fit into his place and time discovers who and what he's supposed to be. [W--think book world. B-think college =>and in both? What's the common thread? What is magic? Blake--themes: fear, love, time.
July 2, 2026 at 4:07 PM
lucyjanes.bsky.social
Just managed to squeeze the magic into the last few minutes of Midwinter's Eve...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #TheDarkIsRising #MidWintersEve #MidWinterEve #SusanCooper #RobertMacfarlane #SimonMcBurney #Christmas #OldWays #OldOnes
The Dark Is Rising - 1. Midwinter Eve - BBC Sounds
This night will be bad. Tomorrow will be beyond all imagining
www.bbc.co.uk
December 20, 2024 at 11:57 PM
sjrafloat.bsky.social
Hope so. I've been keeping an eye for it too, but there's a while to go yet. Any plans please @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @thedarkisrising.bsky.social ? #TDIR #SusanCooper
alispencer.bsky.social Dr Alison Daniell @alispencer.bsky.social · Nov 30
Just as an aside, Does anyone know if there will be a read-along of TDIR this year? It was well advertised via the Bird Site in previous years but I haven’t seen anything about it on here yet.
elementaladam.bsky.social Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · Nov 30
Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising is the text we'll be discussing at the next meeting of the York Society of Hauntologists in The Black Swan pub on 18th December, led by Lowen Frampton.

All welcome! Follow 📷yorkhauntologists on Instagram for more info.

#FolkHorror
November 30, 2024 at 10:52 PM
ianmalcolm.bsky.social
Choose 20 books *for young people* that have stayed with you or influenced you.

One per day for 20 days, no particular order.

No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 1
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#SusanCooper
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Cover of the same Puffin edition of Susan Cooper's 'The Dark Is Rising' that I have on one of my bookshelves somewhere... Illustration has a humanoid figure with the face of an owl and antlers of a stag, riding a grey-black horse.
November 27, 2024 at 11:28 AM
cocosse.bsky.social
#christmas
On [:] Whisper | #SusanCooper, 1973 www.cocosse.com/2025/12/on-w...
On [:] Whisper | Susan Cooper, 1973 - C o c o s s e
Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising, 1973
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December 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
elljmoss.bsky.social
Oh! It's The Dark is Rising day... Solstice Greetings
#TheDarkIsRising #Solstice #SusanCooper
Part of the cover of an old edition of The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, showing a person riding a horse through the snow, wearing a horned animal mask.
December 21, 2024 at 1:53 PM
everythingaction.bsky.social
#MelissaMcCarthy became a #Spy 10 years ago when the action comedy opened on June 5th, 2015 #JasonStatham #JudeLaw #RoseByrne #MirandaHart #BobbyCannavale #AllisonJanney #PeterSerafinowicz #MorenaBaccarin #PaulFeig #SusanCooper
June 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
booksandwinegums.bsky.social
26 days until I can start the annual re-read. #thedarkisrising #susancooper #re-reading #thedarkisreading #thewalkerisabroad
November 25, 2024 at 10:09 AM
underremarkable.bsky.social
#OverSeaUnderStone by #SusanCooper is a 1965 childrens mystery that would be categorized as middle grade today. The book has some charm within the children's sense of wonder but has dated stereotypical dialogue and structure.

⚠️Fair warning a hard left from a villian in black face towards the end 📚💙
August 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
pollyrowena.bsky.social
Happy 90th birthday #SusanCooper! One of my favourites since I stumbled across The Dark is Rising box-set in a bookshop [in San Fransisco?] around my 9th birthday. To celebrate we're watching 'Dark Encounter' after @likewinterblue.bsky.social saw this - wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2018/02/dark...
Dark Encounter
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May 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
bevanthomas.bsky.social
#BookChatWeekly #31DaysofHaunting #literature #fantasy #SusanCooper #DarkIsRising
April 3, 2024 at 6:11 PM
bevanthomas.bsky.social
#BookChatWeekly #GothicSpring #31DaysofHaunting #literature #fantasy #SusanCooper #TheDarkIsRising
March 23, 2024 at 2:16 PM
billydee123.bsky.social
💙📚 #BookSky #BucketLists
#SusanCooper 4 of 5 books still awaiting my attention on my bookshelves #BlueSkyBooks Pt 2 of 2
Book cover. Greenwitch by Susan Cooper (Dark is Rising #3 / 1974) Cover is a sea scene with a two masted ship sailing Book cover. Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper (Dark is Rising #5 / 1977) Cover shows the hilt of a silver sword with a tree behind Book cover. The Grey King by Susan Cooper (Dark is Rising #4 / 1975) Cover shows a group of knights in white on horseback escorted by a flock of swans Book cover. The Boggart Fights Back by Susan Cooper (Boggart #3 / 2018) Light blue cover with two children pointing at the sky where a bulldozer is flying. Also a castle on an island and Loch Ness Monster peaking up
February 21, 2026 at 6:01 PM
billydee123.bsky.social
💙📚 #BookSky #BucketLists
Authors I hope to finish before I die. Not sure how many, still making my list.
19. #SusanCooper (1935 ). YA Fantasy, Creator of Dark is Rising, Boggart, etc. (15+ books). Completed 4
#BlueSkyBooks Pt 1 of 2
Book cover. Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper (Dark is Rising #1 / 1965) Cover shows a golden goblet lying in vegetation (4.5 stars) Book cover. The Boggart by Susan Cooper (Boggart #1 / 1993) Cover shows 3 children and a black cat working at a computer with a dark castle on the screen, all looking over their shoulders in surprise (4.0 stars) Book cover. Dawn of Fear by Susan Cooper (Standalone / War / 1970) Shows a young boy leaning on a fence while overhead are German fighters lit by beams of light (4.5 stars) Book cover. The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (Dark is Rising #2 / 1973) Cover shows a man with horns riding a horse across a snowy field (3.5 stars)
February 21, 2026 at 5:52 PM
billydee123.bsky.social
💙📚40 Fantasy Novels
No particular order (40 authors, 40 books)
Day 23 / 40
#Booksky 🪐📚👀
#bookchallenge
#Fantasy
#SusanCooper
Book cover. Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper (The Dark is Rising #1 / 1965) shows a chalice in a field of grass. Photo of Susan Cooiper taken in 2013. Born Burnham, Buckinghamshire 1935. English author of children's fantasy books, including the Dark is Rising series and the Boggart trilogy.
August 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
samtheunlabelled.bsky.social
Who else is excited to start the annual read of #thedarkisrising this weekend? I love @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social 's intro to this 50th anniversary edition.
#booksky #susancooper
Dried orange slices, a candlelit winter house made of tin, and a copy of "The Dark is Rising" by Susan Cooper.
December 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM