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Rachel Deering

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Onemorething on ABCtales, Bath Poet. First collection Crown of Eggshell pub. 2020. @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. On Instagram and Threads. 🖤 literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering No AI!

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · Dec 23

Please review my collection on Amazon or Goodreads if you have been lovely enough to buy it. It really helps. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... In the Shadow of Gods amzn.eu/d/gRaCt0j

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 58m

‘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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Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 2d

1/3 According to a Flemish folktale, bokkenrijders or buckriders, who were said to be thieves, ghosts, or sometimes even witches, and rode through the sky on the backs of goats in Flanders and the Netherlands, had stolen the Queen's laundry.

#WyrdWednesday

Art from Affiche: "De Bokkenrijder of het skelet." Opdrachtgever: Het Hollandsch Tooneel. Shows a buckrider riding through the sky. Castle in the far distance. Clouds.

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Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 1d

A Flemish folktale says people never went near the dunes at night because it was haunted. A man decided to risk it anyway and was knocked over by a ghost who appeared as a headless horse. It stomped on him so badly that he was lucky to live to tell the tale.

🎨Jaroslav Panuska
#PhantomsFriday

Artwork of a white headless horse running in the night. Grass, dark cloudy background.

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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 1h

‘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 · 2h

Sounds great! Enjoy! I am having a hair cut and nails done and coffee with books!

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 2h

Indeed.

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 2h

Morning! Happy Saturday to you too! 🖤🫖🕸️

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 2h

‘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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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3h

Saturday plans:

Vintage photo of woman in rocking chair on a porch sewing, she is wearing a witch’s hat.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3h

Bible, France C13th,
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Ms. Codex 724, fol. 272v. #Caturday

Illuminated MS small white cat straddling marginalia

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3h

🖼️ Tunnicliffe

Autumn woodland scene: fox, ferns, toadstools, other bracket fungi, pine marten, woodsmen in distance, jay in tree, pigeons in flight, illustration.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3h

🖼️ Bernhard Anton Funke

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3h

Book Cover of the Day:

Brown cover, gold lettering, black design of hands reaching towards the title from behind a black curtain, a spread of black coming from bottom right corner. Title: The Other World
OR GLIMPSES
OF THE SUPERNATURAL

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3h

🖼️ The Ceryneian Hind, BreeAnn Veenstra.

Hind on grassy hillside looking down beside blossomed tree, painting.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3h

Fieldfare and Redwing, Tunnicliffe, 1947.

As described, both perched in a tree eating berries, illustration

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3h

Morning.
The Song of the Hawthorn, Catherine Hyde.

Yellow green bird in hawthorn, painting.

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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 5h

'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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The FolkLore Press @thefolklorepress.bsky.social · 7h

It's #BookshopDay 📚 Out now, and a perfect Halloween read:

"Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin; an encyclopedia of world folklore" by Stephen G. Rae

featuring some 200+ goblins and goblin-like characters
info: folklorepress.co.uk

#folklore #goblins #bookwormsat

Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin by Stephen G. Rae

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Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 5h

'The front pattern does move—and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it! Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over.'
-Charlotte Perkins Gilman

🎨John White Alexander
#BookWormSat

Painting of a woman in a yellow dress standing in small rays of sunshine.

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Sean McNulty @thispersona.bsky.social · 6h

Delighted to be picked! From The Martlet, my satirical novel about the struggles of a small-town newspaper.

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ABCtales @abctales.bsky.social · 14h

Pick of the Day is this latest instalment of Sean McNulty's wonderful ongoing story, featuring a Christmas card illustrator; it's great, so please do share if you can
www.abctales.com/story/sean-m...

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Sean McNulty @thispersona.bsky.social · 23h

Story: Like A Harbinger

www.abctales.com/story/sean-m...

Legacy, lemonade, and the end of the world.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 16h

That’s ok! Sorry to hear you’re having a difficult day. And yes, she’s possibly the sweetest dog I’ve ever met.

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 17h

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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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 17h

🎃 #Gothtober #31daysofhalloween

Vintage Halloween card, black cat looking at three pumpkin people sat on a marrow, crescent moon, cloudy night sky, little white house in distance. Halloween in red lettering at the top.

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