BloodOwl31518 Pottermore Sorted
Shadow over Innsmouth - H.P. Lovecraft
Visionary Pub Co - 1936
Only 200 copies printed, the only book of Lovecraft’s fiction distributed during his lifetime.
17th May 2013
Reblogged From toomuchhorrorfiction
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Just a normal, low-key Saturday in the haunted palace, with some light reading, As you do.
Sounds like a Gatsby stunt.
Source: mental_floss Book of Listory
Illustration of Alice Liddell and Lewis Carroll by Inga-Karin Eriksson, ‘The Other Alice’ (1993).
A new version of the Atlas of Early Printing was released last week. It’s well worth spending some time with.
(Source: theparisreview)
“My name is Ernest Miller Hemingway. I was born on July 21, 1899. My favorite authors are Kipling, O. Henry and Steuart Edward White. My favorite flower is lady slipper and tiger lily. My favorite sports are trout fishing, hiking, shooting, football and boxing. My favorite studies are English, zoology and chemistry. I intend to travel and write.”
— Ernest Hemingway, Age 9.
I may or may not buy a Caesar salad today and stab it twenty-three times.
For loyal science fiction fans, the author’s slow descent into poisonous politics has been nothing short of tragic
This piece originally appeared on Pajiba.When I was twelve years old, I read Ender’s Game and had my mind blown….
The New York Public Library’s lions were known as Leo Astor and Leo Lenox until the Depression, when they were renamed Patience and Fortitude. #catfactfriday http://instagr.am/p/WU_OqIK3rN/
Tolstoy in the middle of telling his grandchildren a story.
The Long Winter, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Happy birthday to one of my favorite authors, and favorite women!
February 7, 1867 - February 10, 1957
“Pooh and his friends were given as gifts by author A. A. Milne to his son Christopher Robin Milne between 1920 and 1922. Pooh was purchased in London at Harrods for Christopher’s first birthday. Christopher later gave them to publisher E. P. Dutton, who in turn donated them to the New York Public Library.”
Oh my god. Oh my god.
