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“I have found my mate,’ she murmured. ‘It is the moor. I am nature’s bride.”

— from “Orlando: A Biography” by Virginia Woolf

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“She was determined to be gracious to them, beautiful rather than delicate,”

— from A Room with a View, by E.M Forster

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“Her again, wild and beautiful, with her feral, dangerous smile, and her eyes like midsummer night.”

— from Winter Rose, by Patricia A McKillip

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“You dream too much. You see too much into things; you get too close to them, make them into something else. Imagination.” He pounced on the word with grim satisfaction. “You have too much of it.”

— from Winter Rose, by Patricia A McKillip

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“How lush the world is, / how full of things that don’t belong to me—“

— from The Wild Iris, by Louise Gluck

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“She has lovely hair, and looks as if she knew a thing or two about dreams.”

— from Anne of Green Gables, by L.M Montgomery

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"Tall and dark she was," he said. "She gave you the feeling of a snake.”

— from Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier

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susann cokal, wounds, ruptures, and sudden space in the fiction of george bataille / george bataille, guilty (tr. bruce boone) / (x) / carl phillips, “cortège” / françoise petrovitch, saint sébastien / carl phillips, "cortège" / emmanuel lévinas, totality and infinity (tr. alphonso lingis) / adonis, selected poems (tr. khaled mattawa) / carl phillips, “would-be everlasting” / hadara bar-nadav, “lullaby (with exit sign)”

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i’ve been going jstor dumpster-diving a lot so here’s a collection of articles: haunted house edition <3 i’ve put them all here, but let me know if anything doesn’t work and i’ll fix it!! 

contents: 

- Emma Liggins, The Haunted House in Women’s Ghost Stories: Gender, Space and Modernity, 1850–1945 - Richard Pascal, Walking Alone Together: Family Monsters in the Haunting of Hill House - Amanda Bingham Solomon, Haunting the Imagination: The Haunted House as Dark Space in American Culture - Roberta Rubenstein, House Mothers and Haunted Daughters: Shirley Jackson and Female Gothic  - Cristiana Pugliese, What Does a House Want? Exploring Sentient Houses in Supernatural Literature  - Elizabeth Jean Hornbeck, Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?: Domestic Violence in The Shining - Emma Zimmerman, “Always the same stairs, always the same room”: The Uncanny Architecture of Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight - Emma Short, ‘One Is Somehow Suspended’: Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Mansfield and the Spaces in Between  - Anthony Vidler, The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely  - Elizabeth Wilson, Haunted Houses - Aspasia Stephanou, Helen Oyeyemi’s White is for Witching and the Discourse of Consumption

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“I shall dream wild dreams.”

— Virginia Woolf, from Orlando: A Biography

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Giuseppe Cassioli (detail)

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Regina Seiden - Nocturne

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Joan Beltran Bofill

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Alexey Savchenko

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Louise Amelie Landre

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Paintings from the Water Lilies (also known as Nymphéas) series, by Claude Monet (1840-1926).

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“Things done in violence have to be done over again.“  From Little Journeys to Homes of Reformers: Bradlaugh by Elbert Hubbard, 1907.

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