“‘One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.”

📖 “The Body in the Library” ~ Agatha Christie, 1942

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📺 “Agatha Christie’s Marple”
s1 Ep 1, “The Body in the Library”, 2004
6pm TODAY on #ITV3

“As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.”

📖 “North and South” ~ Elizabeth Gaskell, 1854-55

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📺 “North and South”, Eps 3 & 4
5:40pm TODAY on #Drama

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Richard Osman among authors to publish ‘empty book’ in protest of AI using their work Campaign arrives one week before ministers are due to deliver an update regarding proposed copyright reforms

Richard Osman and Jeanette Winterson among authors to publish ‘empty book’ in protest of AI using their work

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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in February Francis Spufford, Manish Chauhan and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in February

Francis Spufford, Manish Chauhan and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month.

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“I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.”

📖 “Howards End” ~ E.M. Forster, 1910

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📺 “Howards End”, 1992
3:50pm TODAY on @Film4

“Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”

📖 “My Ántonia” ~ Willa Cather, 1918

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📻 “My Ántonia”
3pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4 + @BBCSounds

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“Never order your men to do anything that you are not ready to do yourself.”

📖 “Mr Midshipman Hornblower” ~ C.S. Forester, 1950

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📺 #Hornblower s1 Ep 1 - “The Even Chance”, 1998
4:15pm TODAY on @ITV4

Lucifer - Franz von Stuck Satan, Dante's Inferno by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble Lucifer, Franz von Stuck 1890 I love the intense eyes in this painting. Franz von Stuck was a German painter, sculptor and architect. His work is symbolic and beautifully dark. Please look in my s...

“The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.”
-Algernon Blackwood
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Ophelia (lying in the meadow) - John William Waterhouse 1905 by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble Ophelia (lying in the meadow) - John William Waterhouse 1905 This is probably my favorite of the three painted by Waterhouse. I think this one does the best job of showing her state of mind.

“My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.”
- Algernon Blackwood
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An illustration by F H Townsend scanned from the 1905 first edition of 'They'. It shows a partly transparent little boy in a blue smock running away from a fountain in a grand garden. Behind we can see the approach of an early 20th Century motor car.

"They're very shy still. Very shy. But, oh, lucky you to be able to see them! I only hear them. I daren't think what the place would be without them."

- Rudyard Kipling 'They' (1905), his sentimental story of the ghosts of children haunting a garden.
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After her father loses her to Milord in a game of cards, the heroine transforms into a tigress, and Milord (the Beast) need no longer disguise himself as a human.

🖊️ Based on Beauty and the Beast, Angela Carter's The Tiger's Bride

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🎨Leonora Carrington
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DRACULA
The creepy Count resided in the hills of the Carpathian mountains, in Romania..his castle being a rabbit warren of rooms and passageways..visitors? Well some left alive and some did not..nicknamed Vlad the Impaler..
Bram Stoker #bookchatweekly #gothicspring

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A hideously staring figure approaches...

...a man in a chair, recoiling from it.

In 1914 The Strand published the first English translation of 'The Apparition' by Ivan #Turgenev, accompanied by a dramatic double-page illustration by Ernest Wallcousins. (I've had to scan it in two parts otherwise I'd have damaged the volume's spine)
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#BookologyThursday 📚🍀🧝‍♀️
In Irish mythology, the Tuatha Dé Danann were a powerful supernatural race—masters of magic, poetry, and wisdom—who once ruled Ireland.
After their defeat, legend says they retreated into the ancient fairy mounds, becoming the hidden folk of Irish lore.
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Two Go Together
By Imogen Hermes Gower

There is never just one knock. My father was the coffin-maker before me, so I discovered this truth through the broken nights of my own boyhood: that the dead leave in pairs. Perhaps not two in a night, but always one on the heels of another

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Calamity shaped a life when, long ago, chance was so cruel.

William Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault

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“She burned too bright for this world.”

“Wuthering Heights” ~ Emily Brontë, 1847

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📺🎥 “Wuthering Heights”, 1998
9:10pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

🎨Francisco Goya (1799)
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