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26th May is #DraculaDay ! Commemorating the first publication of Stoker's novel.
Imagine my delight at (rather belatedly) finding out that before he was Sherlock Holmes, Jeremy Brett was The Count! 🦇🧛🏻‍♂️🦇 And even better, in the 1978/79 USA touring production with Edward Gorey designed sets! 🖤❤️🖤
I would definitely have gone to see this had I not been at school and 4000 miles away!

Finished! 😄🧩🧛🏻‍♀️
This is Gorey's illustration of Count Dracula in Dr. Seward's library. It's been a little while since my last reading, but I don't recall Seward being quite so death-obsessed as the furnishings in this picture would suggest. On the other hand, Seward does strike me as being rather brooding and melancholic, so perhaps Gorey had it right 🦇💀
@Ruthiella As you mentioned, it did come down to sorting by shape rather than image 😊

Edward Gorey + Dracula + Jigsaw = 😌

I usually prefer a 1000-piece puzzle, but all that crosshatching looks very difficult to discriminate between! I think this will be an exercise in patience 😄

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

1. Reese's peanut butter cups. Really, anything Reese's 😋

2. Edward Gorey's Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural, which doesn't seem to be in Litsy's database, so I've tagged another one. (Almost any Edward Gorey book works for this prompt.)

Tag @RaeLovesToRead @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @BarbaraBB @CBee @dabbe @Yuki_Onna @eeclayton

My Halloween aesthetic is informed by campy monster movies, gothic vibes, and enjoying fall activities. Basically, if I could live in a Edward Gorey mad scientist house that is also a haunted corn maze with apple trees and the occasional ridiculous pet costume and other assorted silliness, I‘d be a happy lady!

#HHS #HHS23

I finally got it!!! This has been haunting me (pun intended) since last years Barnes and Noble 50% off sale! Last year no one in the store could find a single copy! This year i had to ask for help again but i got it!! And for $20!!

I'm so glad I gave Dracula another chance! I enjoyed the writing the first time around, but got bogged down as the story kept going and going. The second time I did an all-night Dracuthon and there was something about it. Either everyone's excitement infected me or it was better free of expectations, but I loved it! Obvs there are some racist/cultural things of it's time I don't agree with, but I'm so glad my class that made me re-read it! 🧛

Browsing at B&N when I saw this beauty!

Holy 🐄 I wanted this book so bad!!

Its illustrated by Edward Gorey!

The red part was velvety and when the book is closed you it creates bats on the pages.

It was $40 though! 😫

I could have gone in so many directions for “book that reminds me of autumn”, fellow #littensdressedinblood: there‘s classic horror 👻 and academia 🎓 and, for some reason, fairy tales 🧚🏼‍♀️ and fairytale retellings? And then I realized I was just listing all my favorite books 🤦🏻‍♀️ (to go with my favorite season? I guess). Oof.
And honestly, I can‘t think of anything more seasonal than a classic horror illustrated by Gorey. Case closed!

🕯 How can I choose one? “Night of 1,000 Cats” is the best worst horror movie. Favorite series is Penny Dreadful. @TheBookDream
🕯 Reese‘s Pieces.
🕯 Anything grotesque by Edgar Allen Poe. Or Dracula. Or Frankenstein. Or The Lottery... I love horror and weird tales.
🕯 Pumpkins! 🎃
🕯 Give me that supernatural goodness.
🕯 Witches? I guess I‘m okay with myself.
🕯 Bat. 🦇 🖤

Any horror recs!? #makemereadit

@JoScho , I love your prompts!