a.a. de levine

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i write mostly about swamps and shopping malls and all the ghosts therein.

🐊 short story writer - new gothic review, bear creek gazette, taco bell quarterly, nosleep

🐊 essayist - good night sweet prince, medium

🐊 short story editor - coffin bell journal

🐊 niece - aunts (various)

socials + writinghttps://linktr.ee/aadelevine
coffin bellhttps://linktr.ee/CoffinBell
these days i'm mostly on bluesky:
i've been neglecting you, dear mastodon, but in my defense it's not easy to post new and exciting updates across 1,763 different social platforms.

Nursery rhymes hit different back in the day.

(found in The Junior Instructor Book 1, circa 1943) #book #books #vintage #poetry #nurseyrhymes

"To understand the past, we must investigate the stories we were not told, because those stories were withheld for a reason."

- Kelly Hayes, *Let This Radicalize You*

#bookstodon

Looks like someone pissed off the bog witch.
#lichen #hiking #lichensubscibe

Sometimes you just want to look at some colorful "no known copyright" endpapers. Feel free to reuse!

These are all from books published between 1890 and 1930. Scanned by the Bergen Public Library in Norway. #endpapers

Image credit: Bergen Public Library on Flickr Commons https://www.flickr.com/photos/bergen_public_library/albums/72157633827993925

Antique book patterns

A collection of antique book patterns from front or end papers. Spanning from 1890-1930. Orderd by theme.

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"The great paradox of consciousness is that it constitutes both our entire experience of reality and our blindfold to reality as it really is. Forever trapped within it, we mistake our concepts of things for the things themselves, our theories for the universe, continually seeing the world not as it is but as we are." https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/04/28/evelyn-underhill-practical-mysticism/
Practical Mysticism: Evelyn Underhill’s Stunning Century-Old Manifesto for Secular Transcendence and Seeing the Heart of Reality

“Because mystery is horrible to us, we have agreed for the most part to live in a world of labels; to make of them the current coin of experience, and ignore their merely symbolic character, …

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Roaming Wild - The Wildg'fahr | Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles

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Rarely have I seen such spontaneous applause for a masquerade costume

Two days away!! THE LEGEND OF CHARLIE FISH. Scoundrels, sea people, witches, and one killer hurricane. I appreciate everyone who’s pre ordered and helped spread the word. This week is gonna be fun!

https://tachyonpublications.com/product/the-legend-of-charlie-fish/

The Legend of Charlie Fish - Tachyon Publications

“Odd, creepy, funny, The Black Lagoon meets the Six Gun universe. You need this.” —Joe R. Lansdale,  author of the Hap and Leonard series As an unlikely found-family flees toward Galveston, a psychic young girl bonds with Charlie Fish, an enigmatic gill-man. Meanwhile, they are pursued by bounty hunters determined

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