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"Yes, mon ami, there is nothing more amazing than the extraordinary sanity of the insane! Unless it is the extraordinary eccentricity of the sane!"~Hercule Poirot Here for #DrWho #AgathaChristie #JaneAusten #BookWormSat #ShakespeareSunday & #Cats of course

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · Jan 6

HERCULE POIROT WAS RIGHT

1) Live in a cosy home
2) Keep a few close friends
3) Have a signature style
4) Sip hot cocoa before bed
5) Attend house parties with fascinating eccentrics
6) Whenever possible, travel by train
7) Holidays should be educational, frequent & luxurious
8) Work from home whenever you can
9) Bring order and truth to every aspect of your life
10) Be observant and use your little grey cells

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 2h

“Murder is to me no special category," [said the Devil.] "All sins are murder, even as all life is war. I behold your race, like starving mariners on a raft, plucking crusts out of the hands of famine and feeding on each other’s lives."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, "Markheim"

🎨Lynd Ward
#BookWormSat

Markheim thinks about death and sin. An illustration by Lynd Ward.

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Suzanne the Spooky 👻 Slacker @suzannef.bsky.social · 2h

“You were led to expect a road, a river, a boat, a gate, a guardian. All were supplied, though none was what you imagined. The road was indistinguishable from the sidewalks you’d so often trudged along.”

Margaret Atwood - Gateway

#BookWormSat

🖼️ Mouth of Hell from Hours of Catherine of Cleves

Mouth of Hell from Morgan Library - a gaping lion’s mouth opens its bat- like lips. Demons cast dammed souls into its terrifying entrance to hell, above rises castle of death decorated with skulls. Burning towers heat caldrons into which burning souls are thrown

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 3h

""My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent"."

'A Case of Identity' in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"
(1892)
🎨 Edward Bawden (1984)
#BookWormSat

B&w linocut of Holmes (looking away from the viewer) and Watson in his bowler hat, staring straight at us

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 22h

Goodnight.
A bat and three fully dressed birds flying by moonlight, Wellcome Collection. 🦇 #Gothtober #31daysofhalloween

Illustration as described, three birds are dressed in suits, one has a top hat.

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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 6h

‘How dare you, I repeat, In disregard of all decency, call me a goose?‘ ~ Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat and Other Short Stories.

@racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a short story #BookWormSat

White goose portrait, head and shoulders, wearing a white shirt, navy blue cravat, turquoise waistcoat and red jacket, against a background of teal wallpaper with olive green drapery at the top, painting.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 6h

‘His soul swooned slowly as he heard the
snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the
living and the dead.’ ~
James Joyce , The Dead. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Winter landscape, Pekka Halonen.

Winter Landscape of snow and trees, painting.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 8h

‘Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!’ ~
Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings. #BookWormSat #Gothtober
🖼️ Rackham

An illustration by Arthur Rackham for Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart". It depicts the climax of the story, showing the narrator's confession to the murder of an old man.
A frantic man, the narrator, is seen in the centre, looking terrified and clutching his head. He is standing on a floor with loose planks.
Three police officers are standing around him. One of them holds a piece of a ladder or a chair.
Beneath the floorboards, a dismembered body is visible.
The narrator's expression and posture convey his distress as he believes he can hear the beating heart of the dead man, which ultimately leads him to confess his crime.

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 10h

"The rain was cold, pitiless & increasing. A damp, keen wind blew down the cross streets leading from the river. The fumes of the gas works seemed to fall with the rain. The roadway was muddy; the pavement greasy; the lamps burned dimly..." Happy #BookWormSat from Charlotte Riddell (1882)
🎨 Nkabuto

📚 'The Old House on Vauxhall Walk' is one of the short stories that form part of the collection of Charlotte Riddell's 56 published books, novels and story collections, all on the theme of the supernatural. Following the untimely death of her father, the young Carrickfergus born Charlotte moved to London with her mother where she became intimately acquainted with its topography 🎨 Nkabuto (Phuoc Quan)
is a Vietnamese digital artist who created this piece in 2011.

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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 10h

'See! Sweet and sound she sleeps in granny's bed, between the paws of the tender wolf.'
-Angela Carter

@signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat 's celebration of the short story! :-)

🎨Lucy Campbell

Artwork of a girl with long black hair embracing a wolf. Trees in the background. Blue, white colours.

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 1d

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
― Terry Pratchett

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 1d

"It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity." ~ Dave Barry

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Beth Death and the Dumb-Belles @shoebillmansion.bsky.social · 11h

'And though he feels unease, he cannot feel terror; so he is like the boy in the fairy-tale, who does not know how to shudder, and not spooks, ghouls, beasties, the Devil himself... could do the trick.'

Angela Carter, The Lady of the House of Love, in: The Bloody Chamber

#BookWormSat
#ShortStories

A boy holds a protest sign on a march, Newcastle, April 2019. It says, 'Blah Blah Blah... Act Now'

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Greg Morosoff @gregmorosoff.bsky.social · 13h

When being spooky, its nice to be spooky with a friend.

#SpookySeason_bsky

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𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑎𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑎 ⋆˙⟡ @darkacademiah.bsky.social · 12d

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𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗲 @tumblrr.bsky.social · 11d

may sarton, from recovering: a journal.

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beatrice ☾ .⁺⋆ @beawiitch.bsky.social · 2d

sweater weather >>>>

a road surrounded by trees and covered in autumn leaves

a hand holding a warm mug in front of a window on a rainy autumn day

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P J Richards @pj-richards.bsky.social · 23h

🪶🌪️🪶"I should at times have perhaps sung more –
Or should perhaps have sung better;
But dark days crowded oft to the fore,
And gales my feathers did scatter."

📖Steen Steensen Blicher
#BookWormSat

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 14h

"Most details are insignificant; one or two are vital. It is the brain, the little grey cells”—he tapped his forehead—“on which one must rely. The senses mislead. One must seek the truth within—not without.”

-The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
#AgathaChristie
#BookWormSat

Dover Mystery Classics cover of "Poirot Investigates," a Hercule Poirot short story collection by Agatha Christie. A black bowler hat is above the title and Poirot's signature mustache is below with a background of blue sky with clouds.

This collection was first published in the UK in March 1924 and included 11 short stories:

The Adventure of the Western Star
The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge
The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan
The Kidnapped Prime Minister
The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
The Case of the Missing Will

The American edition was published a year later and included 3 additional short stories:

The Chocolate Box
The Veiled Lady
The Lost Mine

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 17h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Me. That footstep following. Never passing by. @beckah74.bsky.social · 19h

G’night

May the saints of all the stars and constellations bring you hope as they guide you out of the dark and into the light.

#DoctorWho

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 1d

‘Sometimes I leaned over till my shadow mingled with that of Miss Sophie; then it seemed to me that we two were one.’ ~ Steen Steensen Blicher, The Diary of a Parish Clerk.

This #BookWormSat celebrates the short story for Blicher’s birthday. Do join us.

🖼️ Émile Friant, 1891.

Two lovers; a man and a woman in black, she is standing, he is sitting, she is looking away, he is looking at her, he is holding her hand, they cast shadows onto the wall behind them. Painting.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 4d

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to read books in a cottage during a pouring rain in front of a crackling fire whilst enjoying a plate of emotional support cinnamon rolls?

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Li Chen @exocomics.com · 9d

omg watch out

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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 2d

"Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall"
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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