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#ClassicLitMonday #TheOffice “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex

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Everyone is welcome in The Midnight Library! Everyone.

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Greetings, dear Bibliophiles🦉 Wishing you a magical day✨ art by Meraylah Allwood

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🕯New Episode 🕯 We are very excited to share our latest episode which features none other than Professor Ronald Hutton. Hutton discusses ghosts, the modern fascination with witchcraft and much more. We hope you enjoy it! media.rss.com/the-shropshi... #Witchcraft #Shropshire #Folklore #Podcast

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Bluebeard gave his wife the keys to his castle but forbade her from entering one room. When she did, she found the bodies of his former wives. She stalled for time, calling for her brothers, and as Bluebeard raised his sword, they arrived to strike him down. #BookologyThursday Art: Arthur Rackham

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In ancient Persia, the clever minister Buzurgmihr played a deadly game of chess with an Indian king. The king demanded he solve the game’s mysteries—or die. Buzurgmihr cracked its strategy, then turned the tables, presenting a game of his own—backgammon. #BookologyThursday

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1/2 “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge." The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe 🎨Arthur Rackham redbubble.com/shop/ap/3566... #Bookologythursday #vintage #art #illustration #literature #gifts #bookchatweekly

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1/2 "It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.” The Tell-tale Heart -Edgar Allan Poe 🎨Arthur Rackham www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3577... #illustration #literature #wallart #BookologyThursday #horror

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#BookologyThursday "If any description of him were out, it would not be forgotten that the dog was missing ... this might lead to his apprehension ... he resolved to drown him, and walked on, looking for a pond; picking up a heavy stone and tying it to his handkerchief ..." Dickens - Oliver Twist

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1/2 You who, like the stab of a knife, Entered my plaintive heart; You who, strong as a herd Of demons, came, ardent and adorned, 🎨Franz von Stuck redbubble.com/shop/ap/3540... #BookologyThursday #art #poetry #gothic #wallart #bookchatweekly #literature

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#BookologyThursday: `It was by treachery Miodac, the son of the King of Lochlann, brought the Fianna into the enchanted House of the Quicken Trees. At the last it was Diarmuid, grandson of Duibhne, that made an end of Miodac that was so treacherous, and of the Three Kings of the Island of the […]

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#BookologyThursday Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" explores guilt, madness, and sin through two cats. #Pluto, a beloved pet, becomes a victim of the narrator's drunken rage 🍷, symbolizing blind conscience. The fiery imprint of Pluto reflects guilt and sin. #TheBlackCat 🐾

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“You have much gold upon your head,” They answer’d all together “Buy from us with a golden curl.” She clipp’d a precious golden lock She dropp’d a tear more rare than pearl Then suck’d their fruit globes fair or red Sweeter than honey from the rock —C. Rossetti #bookologythursday 🎨D.G. Rossetti

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#BookologyThursday: `A fire of jealousy had been kindled in Aoife, and she got to have a dislike and a hatred of her sister's children. She let on to have a sickness, that lasted through nearly the length of a year. At the end of that time she did a deed of […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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The Fox and the Crow is a fable of deception in its simplest form. A fox spies a crow with a piece of cheese and flatters her voice until she caws in pride, dropping her meal. The moral? Vanity is a fool’s weakness, and flattery is a sharper tool than teeth. #BookologyThursday

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#BookologyThursday: Of #Fionn it was told that he had a dark-of-the-moon side and could forgive an injury, laughing, but knew also how to nurse an old hate through the years, to the death of the man he hated. The leader of the Fianna reluctantly had agreed to give up his chase for Grainne and […]

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Versions of Little Red Riding Hood across the Northern Hemisphere hint at an ancient metaphysics beneath their moral lessons on deception. Traditional translations preserve cryptic elements that modern retellings erase—beware the temptation to simplify. #BookologyThursday #pagansky #folklore

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All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and my colored stones ... --Shirley Jackson-- 📖We Have Always Lived in the Castle 🎨William Teason #BookologyThursday

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Cruel Intentions you say? One of my favorites. #BookologyThursday

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In 18th-century France, the Affair of the Diamond Necklace framed Marie Antoinette. Con woman Jeanne de La Motte tricked Cardinal Rohan into believing the queen wanted it. The scandal fueled public hatred and helped ignite the revolution that ended her reign. #BookologyThursday

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#BookologyThursday "Roedd Caswallon ddidostur wedi llofruddio’i elynion, a hynny’n anweledig. Llwfrgi mewn clogyn lledrith oedd e." "Ruthless Caswallon had slain his rivals, unseen, a coward garbed in a mystical cloak." 1/3

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Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain to sell his soul in exchange for eternal youth and beauty. Only Dorian’s picture bears the traces of his decadence. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde #BookologyThursday

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"I practiced detachment. I learned how to look cheerful while under the table I stuck a fork onto the back of my hand. I became a virtuoso of deceit." Les Liasons Dangereuses - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803) #BookologyThursday #BookchatWeekly #BookSky

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#BookologyThursday: `Gebann, a chief Druid in Manannan's country, had a daughter, #Cliodna of the Fair Hair, that had never given her love to any man. But when she saw #Ciabhan of the Curling Hair, the king of Ulster's son, she gave him her love, and she […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under 't. ~Shakespeare Lady Macbeth is the queen of manipulation. John Singer Sargent painted Ellen Terry in 1889 as Lady Macbeth in her exquisite dress made from a thousand iridescent beetle-wing cases. #BookologyThursday

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Sun Tzu’s Art of War is a masterclass in deception. Victory, he wrote, comes not just from strength but from making an enemy believe what is false, striking where they least expect. The greatest battles, he claimed, are won before the first sword is drawn. #BookologyThursday

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Join us today on #BookologyThursday our theme: 🐦‍⬛Cruel Intentions - Sinister Schemes and Dubious Ploys!🐦‍⬛ Tell us about devious minds, masters of manipulation, evil plans and dark desires from fiction, film, myth and history. Your afternoon hosts, @Kerria & BookCat🐈‍⬛

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#BookologyThursday: As compensation for the murder of his father, #Lugh demanded what appeared to be a very small price of honour (éric). He was even prepared to reduce it if it was too high. "It is not too much," said Brian, "or a hundred times of it would not be too much. And we think it […]

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#BookologyThursday - In "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," alien life-forms silently, subtly, and almost imperceptibly invade Earth, taking over the bodies and minds of people. The book has been adapted into four different movies, one of which features Donald Sutherland. 📚👽💖 #BookChatWeekly

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And it was then Cecilia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide note, and a useless one at that, because she was going to live: "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.” ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides #BookologyThursday

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And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people. Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming #BookologyThursday

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“The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.” - Bram Stoker, Dracula #BookologyThursday

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A masked prisoner haunted the reign of Louis XIV. The Man in the Iron Mask, said to be the king’s twin or his disgraced older brother, was hidden away in the Bastille, his identity a secret. Some say he was the victim of a courtly plot, locked away to keep the throne secure. #BookologyThursday

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#BookologyThursday He had pig's bones in a glass. With these 'relics', he made more from a country priest in one day than the poor man could earn in two months! Thus, with fakery, flattery and fraud he made priest and parishioners his dupes. Chaucer's Pardoner The animated 'Canterbury Tales'

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Thank you for another exciting and totally rad #WyrdWednesday! We hope you loved our retro blast from the past! Next week will be a new topic. Until then, join our good friends tomorrow for #BookologyThursday!

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#bookologythursday VIOLA 🎭 "For such disguise as haply shall become The form of my intent.." Twelfth Night 1.2 #shakespeare #judidench ..deception,a notable theme, appearance, language, allowing the characters, to obtain that which they desire, and play humorous pranks .. #bookchatweekly

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This week on #BookologyThursday we want your tales of treachery and masterful plans of deception from fiction, mythology and history for our theme: Cruel Intentions - Sinister Schemes and Dubious Ploys! We look forward to sharing your posts! ~ @kerria.bsky.social and @samanthaslk.bsky.social

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This week on #BookologyThursday we want your tales of treachery and masterful plans of deception from fiction, mythology and history for our theme: Cruel Intentions - Sinister Schemes and Dubious Ploys! We look forward to sharing your posts! ~ @kerria.bsky.social and @samanthaslk.bsky.social

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In Celtic legend, lovers separated by war or tragedy return in another life, drawn together by fate. But sometimes, fate is cruel—one remembers, the other does not. A love reincarnated, but never fulfilled, is the most tragic haunting of all. #BookologyThursday #31DaysofHaunting Art: Freya Anjani

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Salomé "It is thy mouth that I desire, Jokanaan. Thy mouth is like a band of scarlet on a tower of ivory. It is like a pomegranate cut with a knife of ivory... ... I will kiss thy mouth, Jokanaan. I will kiss thy mouth." #BookologyThursday #31DaysofHaunting

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Elizabeth Siddal, the muse of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, was buried with a book of poetry from her husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Years later, he exhumed her grave to retrieve it. Even death could not keep them apart. #BookologyThursday #31DaysofHaunting Art: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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"They had not sailed another league, A league but barely three, When she espied his cloven foot And wept most bitterly. "'Oh, hold your tongue, my love,' he cried. 'Why weep you so mournfully?'" - "The Daemon Lover" (British Ballad) 🎨Charles Vess #BookologyThursday

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In the ruins of Berry Pomeroy Castle, a ghostly woman in white appears, mourning the lover who betrayed her. Some say she leaps from the highest tower over and over, forever falling, forever reliving the moment her heart was shattered. #BookologyThursday #31DaysofHaunting

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"And here he stoop'd And kiss'd her sandall'd foot. With one great cry, One look to heaven, she turn'd to flee from him". 'The Last Meeting of Sir Launcelot & Guinevere' Sallie Bridges 🎨 James Archer. The lovers' first meeting, already subject to prying stares #BookologyThursday #31DaysofHaunting

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At the end of last year, a new exhibition space opened in Reykjavik - telling the fadcinating stories of the manuscripts of the Icelandic Sagas. Ricky, currently doing a Master's in Norse Studies in Iceland, went to have a look. #BookologyThursday 📍 Reykjavik 🇮🇸

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#BookologyThursday #31DaysofHaunting: The chase of #Fionn mac Cumhaill for his eloped bride #Grainne and her lover #Diarmuid „went for years, and many times did the Fianna come close to catching them but never once did they succeed. This is why throughout the […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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I hold myself supremely blest--blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. 😱 #CharlotteBrontë #JaneEyre #BookologyThursday

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