"There is only one principle in Hell. Bring back food or be food yourself." - C S Lewis, 'The Screwtape Letters' #BookWormSat #CSLewis #demonology #BookChatWeekly (I had to repost this because a Renaissance painting of Hell was AdultContent-ed. *sigh* So here's 'Calvin In Hell' by Heemskerck)

"Within the shelter of black yews The owls in ranks are ranged apart Like foreign gods, whose eyeballs dart Red fire. They meditate and muse." - Baudelaire, 'The Owls' (trans. Roy Campbell) #OwlishMonday #owls #poetry #poetrysky #decadents #BookChatWeekly

Weird picture of the day: an illustration by Beresford Egan for 'Fleurs du Mal' by Baudelaire. #illustration #artsky #poetrysky #Baudelaire #decadence #BookChatWeekly

A duel, one of many amusing vignettes inserted into his 1840 journal by the 15-year-old Richard Doyle. #illustration #artsky #cartoons #Victorian #BookChatWeekly

🐾🖤🐾"It strayed unbound, intentionally freed from its accustomed bonds and byways, a law unto itself. An elemental entity, birthed at a pivotal shift lost in the deep past, when a friend was refined from a foe." 📖Deeper Older Darker. #MythologyMonday #FairyTaleFlash #BookChatWeekly

"In an instant he realized the truth.... He had turned into a dragon while he was asleep. Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself." - C. S. Lewis, "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" 🎨Pauline Baynes #BookologyThursday #BookChatWeekly

Richard Doyle and Charles visit a bookshop to check out the latest publications and to learn whether one of Dick's drawings has been accepted for publication. Just a sketch in the diary of a 15-year-old - but what a characterful and detailed drawing it is. #BookChatWeekly #Victorian #artsky #booksky

Facsimile editions of the 1840 Journal by a young Richard Doyle are well worth acquiring. Even at the age of 15 he showed the sense of fun and skill with the pen which, along with 'Phiz', made him one of the most popular cartoonists and illustrators of the Dickensian era. #BookChatWeekly #Victorian