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My copy of the 1938 Penguin Books edition of 'The Centaur' by Algernon Blackwood. I'm rather pleased to own a 1930s Penguin, especially one by a favourite author.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I have to say, the Wordsworth imprint is to be congratulated for the series of single author (mainly) weird fiction anthologies they published. Introduced me to a lot of good stuff. Am I missing any?
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November 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
📚 Books of the Month: What to read this November, from Margaret Atwood’s memoir to Jeanette Winterson’s five-star fiction

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What to read this November, from Margaret Atwood to Jeanette Winterson
Martin Chilton shares his November reading highlights
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November 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH
What passing bells for those who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns
Only the stuttering rifles rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orizons
No mockeries now for them
No prayers, nor bells.."

Wilfred Owen 1917
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November 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
1/2
On being asked for a War Poem
-W.B. Yeats

I think it better that in times like these
A poet's mouth be silent, for in truth
We have no gift to set a statesman right;
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The Epic of Volga and Mikula - Ivan Bilibin by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
Volga and Mikula - Ivan Bilibin
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November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
2/2
He has had enough of meddling who can please
A young girl in the indolence of her youth,
Or an old man upon a winter’s night.
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The Field of the Slain - Evelyn De Morgan 1916 by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
The Field of the Slain - Evelyn De Morgan 1916
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November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Penguin Books are always a joy. Here are my 1960 editions of 'Quatermass II' and 'Quatermass And The Pit' teleplays. Both absolute classics, but I don't need to tell anyone that. The cover designs are by Nigel Kneale's brother Bryan. The first had a plain cover.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
#WyrdWednesday #BookChatWeekly

"The soul will breathe hell-fire, and smoke and coal will seem to hang upon its burning lips, yea the face, eyes and ears will seem to be chimneys and vents for the flame ..."

John Bunyan
🎨Caorthannach - Fire-spitting Celtic entity & mother of demons.
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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“‘Isn't love a form of hope?' […]
'No. Love is crushing. Love is something you let yourself feel at your own peril, despite your better sense.‘
[…]
'True. It's all those things […] But where would we be if we didn't feel it? I think it's the only form of hope we have…
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November 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
- Mark Twain

[This is most sensible attitude to death I've ever come across]
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November 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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HAMLET
"..alas poor Yorick, I knew him well, Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.." #shakespeare #bookchatweekly
November 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Beneath this slab

John Brown is stowed

He watched the ads

And not the road

- Ogden Nash

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✍️ James Thurber
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November 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Happy Halloween! 🎃 Here is a little household trick and treat to get you in the mood for some seasonal mischief.... 🔊 #HouseholdLore #Halloween #Samhain #Folklore #Booksky #FolkyFriday #BookChatWeekly 👻 🎃🦇
October 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"Autumn's turned the leaves to rust
The trees have fallen bare
Silver clouds enshroud the moon
A chill is in the air
Shadows of a thousand years
Rise again unseen
Voices whisper in the trees
'Tonight is #Halloween'"

~Dexter Kozen #BookchatWeekly

🎨 'Halloween: Scare and Be Scared' by Charley Harper
October 31, 2025 at 7:41 PM
2/2
Come! let the burial rite be read--the funeral song be sung!--
An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young--
A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
-Lenore, E.A. Poe
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Found Drowned - George Frederick Watts by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
Found Drowned - George Frederick Watts inspired by the Thomas Hood poem "The Bridge of Sighs"
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November 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
My 1956 first edition of Joseph Braddock's classic book on 'Haunted Houses' has this beautiful wraparound jacket design by Felix Kelly. Kelly's black and white illustrations inside the book are really effective, too.
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October 30, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"Now a great fear was on me, that fear which we feel in nightmares, but which is happily strange to our waking hours. I knew that only a thin pane of glass divided me from something not of this world and not of God."
- A M Burrage, 'The House Of Unrest'.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM
4/5
Don’t we all, of long ago
By the ruddy fireplace glow,
In the kitchen and the hall,
Those queer, coof-like pranks recall? www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1733... #illustration #art #poem #Halloween #bookchatweekly #bookologythursday #folklore #folklorethursday #Halloween2025
Victorian Halloween Devils Greetings by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
Victorian Halloween Greetings Vintage pumpkins and devils sharing Halloween treats
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October 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"The cat was on the stairs to-night. I think it sits there always. There is no kitchen cat."

'The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral', M. R. James #BookChatWeekly #Caturday

🎨 Arend Hendriks - 'The Trap' (c. 1930s)
October 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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MISS HAVISHAM
"If that staid old house near the green at Richmond house should ever come to be haunted when I am dead. It will be haunted by my ghost.."

Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
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October 25, 2025 at 6:18 AM
1/3 Witch-Wife -Edna St. Vincent Millay
She is neither pink nor pale,
And she will never be all mine;
She learned her hands in a fairy-tale,
And her mouth on a valentine.

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The Sorceress - John William Waterhouse by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
The Sorceress - John William Waterhouse Painted between 1911 and 1915, this is Waterhouse's third depiction of Circe. The others are Circe Offering The Cup to Ulysses and Circe Indiviosa Please look ...
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October 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
3/3 She loves me all she can,
And her ways to my ways resign;
But she was not made for any man,
And she will never be all mine.

🎨 Evelyn de Morgan redbubble.com/shop/ap/3334... #BookWormSat #poetry #art #wallart #homedecor #interiordesign #witches #Christmasgifts #bookchatweekly #halloween2025
The Love Potion - Evelyn De Morgan by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
The Love Potion by Evelyn de Morgan A powerful sorceress mixes up a potion while her cat sits at her feet. Please look in my shop for more work by Evelyn de Morgan and her contemporaries.
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October 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM