#the demon lover

[charnel-grounds]

“The clouds grew dark and the wind grew loud”

John Gilbert (1817–1897), The Demon Lover

illustration from Samuel Carter Hall's ‘The Book of British Ballads’, 1842

engraved by John Bastin

source

[marwyn]

Ned’s description of Jaime 🤝 Merlin’s mother’s description of the incubus who fathered her child

“[…] Jaime wore the white cloak of the Kingsguard over his golden armor. I can see him still. Even his sword was gilded. He was seated on the Iron Throne, high above his knights, wearing a helm fashioned in the shape of a lion’s head. How he glittered!”

(AGOT, Eddard II)

“ […] And when I was in bed in slumber, with my soft sleep, then came before me the fairest thing that ever was born, as if it were a tall knight, arrayed all of gold. This I saw in dream each night in sleep. This thing glided before me, and glistened of gold […].”

(Layamon’s Brut trans. Eugene Mason)

[garlandedspirits]

Paolo Santangelo, for the introduction to Zibuyu, “What The Master Would Not Discuss”, according to Yuan Mei (1716 - 1798): A Collection of Supernatural Stories

[thefugitivesaint]

John Gilbert (1817-1897), 'The Demon Lover’, ''The Book of British Ballads'' by Samuel Carter Hall, 1842 Source

[pasdetrois]

Deborah Lutz, The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative

[fanofspooky]

Scream King - Gunnar Hansen

[cimmerian-war-shrine]

[gennsoup]

knowing you are dreaming of me, knowing we will always be each other's muse, forbidden lover, witch and warlock joined by a filament of flesh lover through the looking glass.

Erica Jong, The Demon Lover