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Matte painting by Matthew Yuricich for Alfred Hitchcock's 'North by Northwest' (1959)

A BEAUTIFUL VAMPIRE Lady Deverish drains the life force of her entire family including her dog to remain young and beautiful. Amazingly this little known #Vampire story was published as early as 1896 by Arabella Kenealy, it predates #Dracula.

#ThickTrunkTuesday A tree encounter on a nature walk recently...

Morning.

BROOMSTICKS AT THE READY It's #WALPURGISNACHT marking the transition from winter to spring & falling on the eve of the 1st of May, the feast day of St Walpurga. Halfway to Halloween. #Witches will gather on the Brocken mountain to perform rituals & indulge in outrageous revelry!

Children call it the 'Pirate's Grave' or the 'Bone Angel's Friend'. This isn't surprising. Conspicuous memorials pull stories from the loam of lore. More interesting are the tokens they leave it, the ritual games where it is treated as a living thing, a playmate . – Dario Tóth

'April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.' ~ T.S. Eliot Art Jeff Sudders

Vila Amalka (Amalka the Fairy) #bookologythursday

First black petunia to bloom. #SamsGardenTime

'My father had always told me that my birthday was the first day of spring. Not a specific day of the year,but the feeling- an undercurrent of warmth waking up the earth.The scent of violets. Green in the air, he called it.' ~Erica Bauermeister The Scent Keeper

#VAMPIRE SLAYING This poetic scene in Anne Crawford's 1886 tale pre-dates Dracula: I looked at that white breast, but only to choose the loveliest spot, the network of azure veins shimmered, with one blow I drove the pointed stake deep down through the breathing snow.

Happy Saturday.

Saturday.

Have a good week.

Rear Window (1954) #Hitchcock

Hitchcock used architectural motifs such as stairs and windows, transforming the house into a place of anxiety or disturbance. Particularly his gothic melodrama Rebecca (1940) present the house as an uncanny labyrinth and a trap.

Hope you find many moments of beauty this week.

“Books are the last great alchemy of our age. They create, transform, and vanquish time, death, and fear. They create invisible realities. They are the silent doors through which we walk to find ourselves.” ~ The Little Village of Book Lovers, Nina George 📚☺️💖 #BookChatWeekly

Wyrdlings! To celebrate the week of the annual Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling (they throw a cheese down a hill, everyone runs after - it's a good time!), this week's #WyrdWednesday theme is: 'Insane Sporting Endeavours!' Bring us mad matches, crazy catches, & bonkers ball games!