#reading marryat

[marryat92]

Today is the 175th anniversary of Captain Marryat's death: 9 August 1848, he was 56 years old.

Unlike his birthday (July 10th), which usually involves a cake and thoughts on how much Marryat's works have enriched my life; his death anniversary is usually when I reflect on Marryat's lost opportunities. He left young children behind who needed their dad, he left many unwritten stories. I used to contemplate what if he had lived longer, would he have turned away from children's books and written a more serious autobiographical work? Or even revise The Naval Officer (Frank Mildmay) like he swore he would do (and never did).

As much as I know all kinds of errata about Marryat's life (and have joked about knowing too much of his family gossip), there is a lot about him still unknowable. Marryat is very Present as a narrator and personality in his books for adults, and he reveals a lot, but sometimes he plays his cards close. You don't hear about Marryat's children outside of marriage (who almost certainly existed); you don't hear about his Black family including his half-sister Ann Marryat, daughter of Joseph Marryat Sr. and an enslaved woman, Fanny, who lived in the West Indies with slaves of her own.

That fact is from Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833, by Daniel Livesay. It's definitely not in Marryat's letters or his biographies—not even his most recent biography, written in 2000. His unsavoury family definitely sheds some light on his attitudes and beliefs. No, I don't think Frederick Marryat was as terrible as his awful father, but he was still connected to his world.

#frederick marryat #captain marryat #biography #btw still haven't read children of uncertain fortune #the library messed up the book loan #i will probably end up buying it #captain marryat once again leading me into new waters #reading marryat

[clove-pinks]

#Eighteen-Forties Friday #1840s #early victorian era #poll #i included options for captain marryat and the crew of the breadalbane in case they're reading this

[somfte]

Okay per the recommendations from @marryat92 I downloaded Frank Mildmay and this note in the preface is so funny??

#shipposting #frederick marryat #frank mildmay #this honestly has me so excited to read the rest of this #what kind of book is he trying to write? what kind of book did he actually write?? #stay tuned i guess

[cadmusfly]

Technically it’s not midshipman monday because I am Australian and live in the future

but I must show my appreciation for the middies

#cadmus rambles #also I started reading frank mildmay by captain marryat and oh my god frank is such a shithead #it’s great #after this maybe I will try to hornblower or read flight of the heron

[taleweaver-ramblings]

Just a PSA for my fellow Dracula Daily fans — I have discovered a host of similar daily-dose-of-classic-literature-in-your-inbox subscriptions, and I thought others might be interested too! We have:

The Penny Dreadful: Starts on October 1, features various gothic tales originally sold as serialized Penny Dreadfuls. Authors include "J. Sheridan Le Fanu, John William Polidori, Lord Byron, James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Puckett Prest, Florence Marryat, Bram Stoker, and many others."

Edgar Allan Poe Daily: A companion to Dracula Daily! This sends out Edgar Allan Poe stories and poems on the weekdays that Dracula Daily does not update.

Letters from Dr. Watson: Dr. John Watson does not actually have a blog, but as of January 1, 2023, he WILL have an email newsletter keeping us all up to date on the cases of his detective roommate.

Frankenstein Weekly: Starts February 2023. What it sounds like.

Whale Weekly: This one's already been going around Tumblr a bit, but I wanted to include it for anyone who missed previous posts. Read Moby Dick in bite-sized portions over the course of four years! Starts December 2022.

#dracula daily #classic literature

[myhauntedsalem]

The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall

In 1936 Captain Hubert C. Provand was taking photos of the picturesque Raynham Hall, a country house in Norfolk, England, when he snapped this picture.

As Provand was setting up the shot, his assistant called out for the photo to be taken ‘now’, as something was descending the staircase. The result is this world famous ghost photo, said to be that of Lady Dorothy Walpole.

September 19, 1936: Photographer, Captain Hubert C Provand and his assistant, Indre Shira were taking pictures of Raynham Hall, Norfolk, England for the December issue of ‘Country Life’ Magazine.

Little did they know that on this day they would capture the ghost that has said to be haunting the old country house since the mid 1800’s.

The ghost is better known as the ‘Brown Lady’, as the spectre has been described as wearing a brown silk brocade dress.

It is believed that the Brown Lady is the spirit of Lady Dorothy Walpole, who died at Raynham Hall in 1726 from Smallpox, after a long incarceration within the houses walls.

Dorothy Walpole was the sister of Sir Robert Walpole, who was considered to be the first Prime Minister of Great Britain (serving 1721 to 1742 which would also make him the longest serving Prime Minister). Dorothy was Charles Townsend’s second wife, Charles having served as the secretary of state for ten years.

It is said that Dorothy had an affair with the 1st Duke of Wharton, Philip Wharton (yes all these upper class families make for quite complex reading and research), and her husband, Sir Walpole did not take too kindly to that, and had Dorothy locked in the upper floor rooms of their home – Raynham Hall.

Another story states that Dorothy was entrapped by the Countess of Wharton, never to leave the house… not even to see her children. It is said she returns to find, and finally be reunited with her children. A sad tale indeed!

Either way Lady Dorothy Walpole died of Smallpox 29th March 1726 aged forty.

The Brown Lady aka (possibly) Lady Dorothy Walpole has been seen on a number of occasions since her death, with the first recorded sighting being in 1835 after a Christmas party. Several guests had seen the ghost as they went up to their bedrooms for the evening, one describing it as having a glowing face but with empty eye sockets.

Captain Marryat (a gentleman who wrote novels set out at sea) retired to his room one night, and had remarked to two others he met on the way that he was carrying a gun as protection against the Brown Lady. It was at this point the apparition appeared and ‘diabolically’ grinned at the captain as she passed by him.

The captain took two shots, both passing straight through the apparition, to embed in the door and door frame beyond.

Many other people have witnessed the Brown Lady on the main staircase and in the bedrooms. Generally these sightings occur when heading to bed, or waking up in the middle of the night to find her standing in their rooms.

The ghost has also been seen right before tragic events and deaths that affect the Townsend Family. One evening, during a dinner party, many guests had seen the apparition, complete with her brown dress, walking through the crowd. The Spectre did not seem to recognize anyone and soon disappeared. The next morning, news of the death of George Walpole reached the group at the estate, George had died at about the same time the Brown Lady has been seen.

On the fateful day the photo was taken, Captain Hubert C Provand and his assistant Indre Shira had set up the camera at the foot of the main staircase, with Provand under the protective cloth at the back of the camera. They had already taken one photo and Provand was re framing for another shot. Shira suddenly called out to Provand to take another shot and at this Provand removed the lens cover and made the exposure.

Shira had seen the figure of a lady descend the staircase when he called for the photo to be taken. Upon development, the image did indeed show a spectral figure on the staircase; The Brown Lady had been captured at last!

The picture was published in Country Life magazine December 16th 1936, along with the accounts of Provand and Shira.

Renowned paranormal investigator Harry Price interviewed the two men and stated he could not find a flaw in their story, as the negative also showed the figure. With the exception of the two men lying, he could not see how the image could be anything but that of the ghost in question.

#The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall #the brown lady #Raynham Hall #Haunted Location #paranormal #ghost photo #ghost #hauntings #spirits #ghost and hauntings #ghost and spirits #haunted salem #myhauntedsalem

[ye-olde-trojan-horse]

Hey, how are you? I wondered what you use as book props in your videos? Are they classics? Notebooks? A novel you personally enjoy(ed) reading a lot?👀

I’m good thanks! consistently tired but hey, what’s new 😂

haha there are 3 books I think I’ve ever used in my vids - a smaller black one called something deeply hidden by sean carroll, a larger red one which is an edition of the feynman lectures on physics and the green one is called children of the new forest by frederick marryat.

the first two are because I am a nerd, the last one is because the book ✨looked pretty✨

#rambles #nathara is active? what. #tired af #i like science #i also like books #cool

[mostshipshape]

A Sailor's Life at Sea (Resources)

It has rather occurred to me that some of our sailors and observers may not be so well versed in the life on board a naval Man o' War, and so I shall reserve this post for the collation of links and resources that may prove useful in the upcoming weeks!

I would also like to... gently is not such the term for it, but to bring your attention to the deadline of the first Action Report's submission to tomorrow at Monday 20th of July GMT 12am / GMT+10 10am. I do promise to be far less bothersome in the following weeks, but as you can imagine, this being our very first report, there is no small amount of worry and excitement on my behalf!

But yes, let us proceed. I shall be citing the works of @ltwilliammowett, a fantastic naval history web log dedicated to charting the unknown waters of history. Reading these are by no means required, but it may enrich your understanding of the world of this game - but of course, you do not need to be entirely accurate, for this is but a game!

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Masterlists

Here is a masterlist of various posts about a sailor's life in general

A masterlist of posts about sailors' superstitions

And a masterlist about medicine in the age of sail

The various crafts and handiworks associated with the sea

Ranks or people on board

Naval slang

Posts

A day aboard a man of war

Weekly duties aboard a man of war

A post about the etiquette in the wardroom, where the commissioned officers and the wardroom warrant officers ate and socialised

Games played on board

Punishments

Combat between Men o' War

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Other Links

Another blog I heartily recommend is @marryat92 for excerpts from the works of Captain Frederick Marryat, a naval captain who fought in the Napoleonic Wars and wrote novels inspired by his experiences! These give quite a good impression of the life and times of the world that Shipshape is set in, as accompanied by quite suitable art

This is a glossary of Age of Sail terminology

This is a fansite for Age of Sail fiction with some information and resources

Living Conditions in the 19th Century U.S. Navy

If one would like to peruse some books, I also recommend:

The wooden world: an anatomy of the Georgian navy by N A M Rodgers

Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Man of War (a very colourful illustration of the setup of a man of war!)

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This post will be edited and updated as your humble ship's clerk organises the captain's library.

#shipshape game

[whatthecrowtold]

#unhallowedarts "Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs / Upon the slimy sea" Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner"

Coleridge's memorable Night Mare Life-in-Death by Sir Noel Paton

"Her lips were red, her looks were free,

Her locks were yellow as gold:

Her skin was as white as leprosy,

The Night-mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she,

Who thicks man's blood with cold."

"'God save thee, ancient Mariner!"

From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—

Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow

I shot the ALBATROSS."

"Water, water, everywhere / But not a drop to drink". Famously misheard. But probably not quite the condition of Coleridge’s, when he opened the gates for British Romantic literature with his famous piece of seaman’s yarn. Opium dissolved in alcohol, laudanum, was the propellant of choice to drive the Lake Poets to bizarre, picturesque landscapes, dreamscapes, when Romanticism dawned upon the Northern hemisphere and Coleridge consumed it quite like a sailor on shore leave. Or a depressed poet with a writer’s block, along with the travelogues of actual mariners and their journeys to the eternal ice of the poles. A heady mixture. And he became a dreamer, Coleridge did, grasped his Homer and set forth on a journey to the icy poles of his own imagination, populated by Gothic ghosties and ghoulies and other things that did go bump in the mindscapes of most of the age’s writers worth their salt.

"The souls did from their bodies fly,—

They fled to bliss or woe!

And every soul, it passed me by,

Like the whizz of my cross-bow!"

(Probably not Coleridge's most sure-footed lines...)

The sea herself, the natural habitat of Ancient Mariners, becomes a backdrop, a scenery for crime, curse and punishment and a low road to bring on the horrors and, at last, redemption for the titular hero. The Ancient Mariner. Who foolishly and famously shot an albatross and brought bad cess galore on himself and the ship’s company. The sea, the sun, stars and the moon, especially the moon, become symbol-charged stage props on the poet’s and his not-so-jolly tar’s Campbellian journey inwards, “white” as a colour of ill omen shimmers through Coleridge’s historising lines, a rare occurrence in Western literature and enthusiastically seized on by Poe and Melville from across the pond, in their maritime tales.

"The spirit who bideth by himself

In the land of mist and snow,

He loved the bird that loved the man

Who shot him with his bow.'"

But like his Bostonian admirer’s naval narratives from more than a generation later, Coleridge’s “Ancient Mariner” is spooled seaman’s yarn and not exactly Marryat or Conrad. But it apparently does not want to be a log at all. Even though Coleridge read at least some of those for inspiration. It is Gothic imagination and its set pieces of angels, demons, death and femmes fatales where Coleridge’s manifest dream content leaves the most lasting impression, even two centuries after its publication.  

"Upon the whirl, where sank the ship,

The boat spun round and round;

And all was still, save that the hill

Was telling of the sound."

Instead of the world-famous take on Coleridge by Gustave Doré from 1866, yours truly chose the less known but still quite evocative ones by Sir Noel Paton's, published three years earlier.

A complete edition with the full set of Sir Noel's artwork for Samuel Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1797) can be found below as facsimile:

#unhallowedarts #dark literature #dark poetry #dark art #dark aesthetic #dark academia #gothicliterature #gothic art #gothic aesthetic #samuel taylor coleridge #noelpaton

[marryat92]

To proceed.

I feel like this is a highly characteristic phrase from Marryat, and I searched an ebook of his collected works for proof.

To proceed. As usual in cases of defeat [...]

But to proceed. The next morning I called upon the old gentleman [...]

— The King’s Own

But to proceed: — The man and boy, who, with Newton, composed the whole crew [...]

To proceed: Captain L — went over the side [...]

To proceed. The merchant ships of the Company are men-of-war [...]

— Newton Forster

I could proceed with more examples, but I think this is enough for now. It's such a Marryat phrase because he's always digressing, and then he announces that he's returning to the main plot.

Marryat's discursive writing style is a feature, not a bug, but he proceeds a lot.

#frederick marryat #captain marryat #language #english literature #british literature #reading marryat

[clove-pinks]

Luckily, I have not witnessed any of the alleged discourse about how you shouldn't read the personal papers of historical figures because it's prying too much into their lives and invasive ("me when I have no idea what historians do and also have never spoken to one ever," as @werewolfetone said).

I don't feel any embarrassment for prying when I'm reading archived correspondence and diaries... but there is one exception to the rule.

In Alan Buster's book Captain Marryat: Sea-Officer, Novelist, Country Squire, he reproduces the deed of separation that dissolved Marryat's marriage in facsimile. Divorce wasn't legal in Britain in 1839, but it's a divorce in all but name, stipulating that Frederick Marryat has to pay alimony and child support. It also looks like it has been ripped in half at one point, and taped back together?!

It's written in an astonishingly neat and legible clerk's handwriting, and I can easily read every embarrassing word. Marryat and his wife both have to pledge to leave each other alone and not interfere with each other's lives; and while Marryat usually signed his name FMarryat, here he writes out Frederick in a very neat and careful hand—his handwriting looks uncharacteristically miserable and subdued. I AM SO SORRY CAPTAIN MARRYAT.

#frederick marryat #captain marryat #tbh it was best for the both of them to separate #i don't regret reading this (and what little insight i have into catherine shairp marryat's life is mostly from here) #but WOW it's embarrassing and the ripped/taped effect is just. yikes. #shaun talks

[saintshauna]

what are ur lesbian vampire book recs!!!

OMG GLAD YOU ASKED !!! ok so there aren’t a Lot as i originally said i’m sorry i’m a liar but there is le fanu’s “carmilla”, the theres elfriede jelinek’s “illness or modern women” which is based on carmilla, octavia butler’s “fledgling” (not overtly lesbian if i remember correctly but major gay girl overtones), the blood of the vampire by florence marryat (same deal) and far and away the BEST one, jewelle gomez’s “the gilda stories”!!!!

some of them are like. old like victorian era when vampires and queerness went sort of hand in hand and were both perceived as kinda threatening or scary so in several of these the lesbian vampires aren’t as nuanced as you’d like them to be and don’t have the best endings but! they are all lesbian coded books to read and like i said i recommend gilda stories SO HIGHLY!

if it’s ok with you i’m gonna post this publicly so other people can read these if they wanna but if you’d rather me answer privately i can take it down and copy paste in your messages :) 🫶

#thank you for the ask!!!! #i love lesbian vampires!!!!!!

[almasexya]

So you started reading Dracula

As someone who loves gothic horror, it's really been a treat watching Dracula Daily absolutely blow up my dashboard this month. The memes and comments on this century old story have really breathed new life (and blood) into a genre that has honestly been a bit overlooked.

So if you're interested in sinking your teeth into gothic horror in between emails from Jonathan and Co., here's some other books in the same vein.

Each entry includes a link to where you can buy the book in question- I've done my best to avoid Amazon and send you over to Bookshop instead, which raises money for local bookstores with every title sold. Thriftbooks is another solid option if you'd prefer to save a little and pick up used books, and chances are your local thrift store has a copy of Dracula or Frankenstein knocking around.

A general warning for any of the older works here, predominantly those from the 1800s: These stories are very much a product of their time. Bigotry against marginalized people can be commonplace, and is rarely if ever remarked upon. This kind of content is inexcusable no matter the era and deserves to be commented on in the broader context of the genre in general, but is unfortunately something that is difficult to avoid when it comes to writing from this time period. If you'd rather not be exposed to that kind of content, I'd recommend sticking to the more modern entries on this list.

Vampires: First Blood Volume 1 and Volume 2 edited by James Grant Goldin

These two collections aim to catalogue as much of the pre-Dracula vampire material as possible. Here you can find Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, the tale of the sapphic vampire and the young woman who comes to know her, as well as Polidori's The Vampyre, which all but codified a number of tropes now common to the genre, and Dracula's Guest, Stoker's lost "prologue" to Dracula. Along the way are tons of less well known vampire stories, both in prose and poem, with introductions and conclusions written by the editor that help place the tales in the larger history of vampire fiction. If you're into the older Victorian era vampire stories, these two collections can get you most of them. It's important to note these are all public domain stories, what you're really paying for is Goldin's editing and observations, which I consider worth the price.

The Virgin Vampire by Etienne de Lamoth-Langon, adapted by Brian Stableford

This one is interesting, the story of a wronged woman who came back from the dead to get vengeance on the man who cast her aside. Another quite early vampire story, this one has only recently been translated. It's a fairly quick read, though at times a bit slow on the plot. A chapter from this story is included in Volume 2 of Vampires: First Blood, so if you pick up that book, you can get a preview of this one.

Blood of the Vampire by Florence Marryat

Alright this one is really odd. It stars as far as I can tell one of the first examples of the "psychic vampire," a young woman who exhausts and kills those to whom she becomes attached. This one is intriguing in that it's written by a woman, and also just really, really racist. The warning above can't do justice to how racist this one is - so be aware of that.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Another gothic horror classic, famously written by Mary Shelley when she was just a teenager. Victor Frankenstein's quest to create life is still a great read today, with the monster's desire for love and companionship firmly placed against the good doctor's revulsion at what he's created. There's really not much to say about this one that hasn't already been said, so make sure to check it out.

A Dowry of Blood by ST Gibson

This modern retelling of Dracula from the perspective of the Count's brides is a beautiful read, and a perspective that benefits from more attention. Dracula's brides are often background characters who exist mainly to be killed in whatever adaptation they end up in, so it's refreshing to see the relationship developed into what amounts to a queer polycule without any of it feeling forced. The story doesn't follow the events of Dracula, though they get a tongue-in-cheek mention - it's more the story of the brides overcoming the emotional and psychological abuse of Dracula, a man they can't help but still love.

Carmilla and Laura by SD Simper

Sad that the original Carmilla ended the way it did? Well you're in luck, because this retelling is beautifully, relentlessly sapphic. Unlike Dowry of Blood, which is basically its own story, Carmilla and Laura stays true to the majority of the original tale's story beats, tweaking things here and there. The majority of the changes come in the relationship between protagonist Laura and her new vampire guest, who quickly hit it off and start to become something more.

The Vampire Super Pack by Fantastic Stories

This collection has a ton of vampire stories in its 600+ pages, from the familiar public domain works to lots of modern stories. Not a lot of editing here, but being a short story collection there's bound to be something for everyone.

Fangs by Sarah Andersen

This is a cute comic series about a vampire and a werewolf who get into a relationship. You've likely seen this one get posted on tumblr, and since it's a webcomic you can read most of it for free! The printed version does have a few extra panels in it, however. The author (who you probably know better from her more famous webcomic, Sarah's Scribbles) is right at home pulling the pair of classic monsters into the modern age, with cute, evocative art and plenty of jokes.

Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology edited by Celine Frohn

This is another collection of modern short stories that runs the gamut of supernatural topics, from ghosts and vampires to mermaids and plenty of haunted protagonists. With around 18 stories, there's lots of different perspectives and settings at play here.

The Vampire Chronicles Collection by Anne Rice

A lot has been said about Anne Rice already (and deservedly plenty is negative), but this collection of the first three of the sprawling Vampire Chronicles series is still worth a look, considering this is the series that is largely credited with taking vampires out of the realm of horror movie monsters and planting them firmly into the "tortured sad boy" category. The writing is beautiful and the characters compelling, so if you want to see when vampires really became modernized, this is where to start.

Anno Dracula by Kim Newman

Another series, though this one is an alternate history with direct ties to the original Dracula novel, where the titular count succeeds in moving to London and spreading vampirism throughout England after marrying Queen Victoria herself. With a veritable clearinghouse of public domain characters and real people plucked from the pages of history, the Anno Dracula series is a wild period piece that deserves more attention. The later entries in the series move into different historical periods, but the first book is unabashedly Victorian, though also a bit steampunk.

This is hardly an exhaustive list of gothic horror fiction, so feel free to add to it with your favorites. It should at least keep you busy between emails.

#dracula daily

[cadmusfly]

It’s not Midshipman Monday for me anymore, but have some very amateur art of my ghost captain character as a hypothetical midshipman! I was inspired by reading Marryat’s Frank Mildmay (The Naval Officer) and Mr Midshipman Easy because those books are just full of asshole teenage midshipmen who keep getting into Shenanigans

I think that as a midshipman he would have been an arrogant bully who, after some incidents involving duels and near death experiences, might have calmed down and learned some measure of kindness and humility… or maybe just how to pretend to be humble.

I got an IRL friend into watching MaC (and now they’re reading the first book yeeeeees) and they asked me if the ghost ship has any midshipmen. My first instinct is to say there’s no midshipmen or chaplain, partially because I didn’t want to overcomplicate the cast list and maybe because it could be a thematic thing that the ghost ship has no faith or hope (in the form of youth), but my friend was saying that it would be creepy to have the midshipmen acting out their roles nonsentiently like the rest of the ship’s sailors, and that is a tempting idea! Gambolling and skylarking and learning, but not so vivid or bright as the chained officers…

Anyway maybe I should make an actual midshipman character (possibly removed from the ghost ship story). Middies are fun!

#cadmus rambles #cad talks about sbs #cadmus draws #this is my blog and i have a disclaimer saying i can post whatever i want #even if it is my terrible art #i tried to run this through the image generator to make it better but… it did not work out

[taleweaver-ramblings]

I posted 5,427 times in 2022

That's 1,988 more posts than 2021!

171 posts created (3%)

5,256 posts reblogged (97%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@mariposasmonarch

@lady-merian

@bookdragon1811

@theriu

@swinging-stars-from-satellites

I tagged 5,112 of my posts in 2022

Only 6% of my posts had no tags

#from the queue - 2,820 posts

#art - 545 posts

#dracula daily - 416 posts

#dracula - 402 posts

#fanart - 317 posts

#memes - 305 posts

#language warning - 272 posts

#the lord of the rings - 264 posts

#tumblr culture - 218 posts

#humor - 212 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#we literally cannot eat peanut butter and chocolate in the same meal without my parents joking about 'you got chocolate in my peanut butter'

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

I'm two episodes into Over the Garden Wall, and Beatrice is honestly a Mood.

96 notes - Posted October 20, 2022

#4

Not to be dramatic, but I would die for Maia Drazhar.

103 notes - Posted June 21, 2022

#3

Finally watched Encanto and I am very confused why everyone is obsessed with "We Don't Talk About Bruno" when "Waiting On a Miracle" is right there. Y'all sleeping on the good stuff.

116 notes - Posted March 13, 2022

#2

Just finished rereading the Daughter of the Lilies webcomic (because the writer and artist are posting remastered pages with commentary while they're on hiatus) and I have two things to say:

(A) storms it's so good.

(B) I have never wished for October so hard in my entire life.

278 notes - Posted May 31, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Just a PSA for my fellow Dracula Daily fans — I have discovered a host of similar daily-dose-of-classic-literature-in-your-inbox subscriptions, and I thought others might be interested too! We have:

The Penny Dreadful: Starts on October 1, features various gothic tales originally sold as serialized Penny Dreadfuls. Authors include "J. Sheridan Le Fanu, John William Polidori, Lord Byron, James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Puckett Prest, Florence Marryat, Bram Stoker, and many others."

Edgar Allan Poe Daily: A companion to Dracula Daily! This sends out Edgar Allan Poe stories and poems on the weekdays that Dracula Daily does not update.

Letters from Dr. Watson: Dr. John Watson does not actually have a blog, but as of January 1, 2023, he WILL have an email newsletter keeping us all up to date on the cases of his detective roommate.

Frankenstein Weekly: Starts February 2023. What it sounds like.

Whale Weekly: This one's already been going around Tumblr a bit, but I wanted to include it for anyone who missed previous posts. Read Moby Dick in bite-sized portions over the course of four years! Starts December 2022.

347 notes - Posted June 21, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #it's me #taleweaver speaks #(sorta)

[calamitys-child]

OH PREV ITS MARRYAT AAAAAAA I read a very fun fic where Holmes and Watson were sexting using marryat telegrams lmao