Darlings, I just happened across this list by BlackArtFilm of 13 Movies to Watch for Halloween. For those of you out there that watch as many horror films as I do, it was refreshing to see a list that so… Read More ›
Art & Inspiration
Silent Sundays: Gothess Absynth (2010)
Gothess Absynth by Ash Violette via Sighs from the Depths, October 2010 Related Posts: – Sweet as Death: Skull and Bones Sugar – My Robe is the Color of Despair: National Absinthe Day – Silent Sundays: Fox (2012)
“The Haunted Chamber” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Haunted Chamber Each heart has its haunted chamber, Where the silent moonlight falls! On the floor are mysterious footsteps, There are whispers along the walls! And mine at times is haunted By phantoms of the Past As motionless as shadows By the silent moonlight cast. A form sits by the window, That is not seen by day, For as soon as the dawn approaches It vanishes away. It sits there in the moonlight Itself as pale and still, And points with its airy finger Across the window-sill. Without before the window, There stands a gloomy pine, Whose boughs wave upward and downward As wave these thoughts of mine. And underneath its branches Is the grave of a little child, Who died upon life’s threshold, And never wept nor smiled. What are ye, O pallid phantoms! That haunt my troubled brain? That vanish when day approaches, And at night return again? What are ye, O pallid phantoms! But the statues without breath, That stand on the bridge overarching The silent river of death? – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1873 Related… Read More ›