"𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖒𝖆𝖓 𝖜𝖍𝖔 𝖇𝖊𝖑𝖎𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖘 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖊𝖈𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉 𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖗 𝖍𝖎𝖉𝖉𝖊𝖓 𝖑𝖎𝖛𝖊𝖘 𝖎𝖓 𝖒𝖞𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖋𝖊𝖆𝖗. 𝕾𝖚𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖜𝖎𝖑𝖑 𝖉𝖗𝖆𝖌 𝖍𝖎𝖒 𝖉𝖔𝖜𝖓." - Cormac McCarthy 🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯 Happy Friday the 13th to the spooky nerds, the spookalicious superstitious, and the "Oh, is it Friday?" folks amongst us! 🏗 With thanks to @gothicbookworm for the prompt, today I will #showmeyourfriday13 (where 'me' = 'you' and this sentence exudes grammatical logic 🙃). 🏗 As I understand it, the tag is a fun opportunity to raid the shelves for any old 13 - as long as they're of the generally gothic, dark & spooky persuasion and, importantly, have covers to die for. So, there you have it - my 13 cover ghouls; flawless!* 🏗 My August theme - Of Monsters and Men - seems to have pervaded my picks. Admittedly, the theme has thus far presented more in my brain than on this page... but many of these monstrous texts are ones that I will, have, or intend to discuss here during Augusts past, present, and future. 🏗 🕯Do you like what you see? 🕯Where do these texts rate on your lists - beyond covers into the depths of content? Featured are texts I adore and abhor; texts tbr and dnf. It's quite a range, but each has aesthetic (imo) & generally gothic appeal! 🏗 🕯Also - just being nosey - are you superstitious? Some hotels and hospitals are built "without" a 13th floor for superstitions sake. As far as ideas go, I dunno, I'd say it's... kinda... *flawless... 😏 . 🔖I'm going to pretend I'm not posting minutes before midnight and tag a few of you - no pressure if it's still before midnight where you are. And if it's beyond midnight & you want to post: do ittttttttt! ✌ . #fridaythe13th #fridaythethirteenth #ofmonstersandmen #monsters #gothicnovel #gothicfiction #bookstagram #bookish #books #spookynerd #darkacademia #bookworm #frankenstein #horrornovel #scifi #waroftheworlds #jekyllandhyde #edwardgorey https://www.instagram.com/p/CSiDSLWo515/?utm_medium=tumblr