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Nina Antonia

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Author. Represented by Kevin Pocklington @ The North Literary Agency. 'With a host of Furious Fancies, Whereof I am commander. With a burning spear & a horse of air, To the wilderness I wander.' (Tom O' Bedlam) L.A.M.F

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 1h

#31daysofhalloween Masonic Youth or From Here to Fraternity?

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you. Do you know Khnopff's work? It is very ghostly and misty.

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 18h

'Regret of Other Days': Belgium born Symbolist artist Ferdinand Khnopff (1852-1921) produced some haunting work that are more like visions than paintings. The world he presents us with has already passed into the silent realm of shadows & the half-glimpsed.

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 19h

Takes one to know one

Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 19h

#31DaysofGraves The 'Dead' gravestone of artist Patrick Caulfield (1936-2005) has of recent years become one of the most visited in Highgate Cemetery, London. There's no arguing with this epithet.

Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 1d

Who'd have thought? A mystery revealed.

Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 1d

Not convinced.

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 1d

'A woman drew her long black hair out tight
And fiddled whisper music on those strings
And bats with baby face in the violet light
Whistled and beat their wings'....TS Eliot (art 'Twilight' William J Webbe 1853-1878)

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 2d

Spiraling: (Photo by Fratelli Alinari) He could be an assassin, he might be about to vanish into thin air or is undertaking a Vatican mission........that we'll never know gives the image its mystique.

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 2d

Happy you like it!

Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 3d

Yes it was as he was such a force to be reckoned with in front of the camera. Really unique.

Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 3d

Fairy Hill House is an apartment block now. The Isle of White has some interesting fairy-lore.

Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 3d

It does rather.

Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 3d

Although the film is nothing like the book but Laird Cregar is great in the lead role. Hamilton also wrote the screenplay for 'Rope'.

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 3d

Curious vintage illustration as it is the uncouth fellow that is depicted as having a car, whilst the elegant gentleman recoils from its onslaught. The beautifully cynical alcoholic author, Patrick Hamilton, (1904-1962) having been run over in 1932, decried cars as a plague upon the world.

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 3d

Glumly Greetings: Folk Horror Harvest #Halloween2025

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 3d

I have the top one!

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 3d

There used to be a Fairy Hill on the Isle of White. Is it still there?

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 3d

It's a good guess.....

Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 4d

Its a shame there can't be a revival.

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 4d

(N)Evermore: Remembering the immortal Edgar Allan Poe on the anniversary of his death in 1849. Few authors have had such cultural and literary longevity. (illustration by Charles Addams)

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 4d

'O, wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing....' Shelley/ Art Lucien Levy Dhurmer

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 5d

#Owlishmonday
'Thy note that forth so freely rolls
With shrill command the mouse controls
And sings a dirge for dying souls' Thomas Vautor/art Chris Dunn

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 5d

It's an intense, gritty film though.........

Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 5d

Nothing wrong in a bit of gothicism! Am partial myself Dowson also coined the phrase 'Gone with The Wind.'