'At last came the golden month of the wild folk-- honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents and songs of the dawning year.' Samuel Scoville Jr., Wild Folk #May1st #bookchatweekly #WednesdayMotivation #Beltane…

My life is of consequence to nobody; I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one. The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole #BookChatWeekly #31DaysOfHaunting

I’ve seen the way he dances; it looks like something you do on St Walpurgis Night. The Waltz Dorothy Parker #MayDay #31DaysofHaunting #FairyTaleFlash #BookChatWeekly art: Dancing with the Devil in the Pale Moon Light by r/midjourney

On Walpurgis night at Rooksmoor, we feast. Windows and doors lay open till dawn, for if ghosts and witches from everywhere are expelled, here they have a nice place to rest for a while. 🎨Unknown. #FairyTaleFlash #FairyTaleFriday #DailySpookLore #BookChatWeekly #31DaysOfHaunting

Image by John William Waterhouse #31DaysofHaunting #BookChatWeekly #GothicSpring #folklore #mythology #CelticMythology #Wales #KingArthur #Arthuriana

"You must wake & call me early, call me early, mother dear; Tomorrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad new-year, Of all the glad new-year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May" Tennyson #MayDay #bookchatweekly

#GothicSpring #31DaysofHaunting #BookChatWeekly #CSLewis #literature #occult #ghost #fantasy

2/4 ...Comrades, quick! your aid afford! All the brood of hell's abroad; See how their enchanted forms Through and through with flames are glowing! Dragon-women, men-wolf swarms, redbubble.com/people/forgott… #FairytaleTuesday #poem #bookchatweekly #WalpurgisNight #illustrationart

“We've spoken of the Knights of the Holy Grail, Percival. Do you know what I was? The Knight of the Unholy Grail. In times like these when everyone is wonderful, what is needed is a quest for evil.“ 🪶Walker Percy, Lancelot 🎨Wassily Kandinsky, In The Forest #bookchatweekly

1/2 In Faust, Mephistopholes takes Faust to visit a witch as part of his corruption. redbubble.com/people/forgott… #FairyTaleTuesday #art #illustrations #witches #literature #bookchatweekly #walpurgisnacht #walpurgis

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. ~W.B. Yeats art by Jorge Mascarenhas #bookchatweekly

“I cannot forget how they pulled their knowledge of the world back into their own hearts and slipped out of my line of vision, more interested suddenly in death or fame or the Arctic.“ 🪶Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter #BookChatWeekly

Penelope was proud of her family motto: Walk softly and carry a big fork. art by Bill Mayers #bookchatweekly

"Spring is the Period Express from God. Among the other seasons Himself abide, But during March and April None stir abroad Without a cordial interview With God." - Emily Dickinson #BookChatWeekly

‘I believe, in a funny way, the job of the #novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.’ Donna Tartt #bookchatweekly #writing

2/ …The deeper currents of the world, when I was lucky enough to stumble upon them, existed, I believed at the time, to be examined by me, then used in my art for my own advancement.“ 🪶Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter 🎨Leidener Meister, Still Life with Books #BookChatWeekly

'I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.' -Emily Dickinson 🎨Andrea Fossati #BookChatWeekly

(Photo by Carl Van Vechten) #bookwormsat @lit_saturday #bookchatweekly #zoranealehurston