The Wabe

Weird Fiction. Folklore. Fairy Tales. Horror. Illustration.

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Millais’ Ophelia 

by Susan Herbert

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Edwin Howland Blashfield (1848-1936) - Spring scattering stars

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“The heart of another is a dark forest.” - Gloria Vanderbilt

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The Story of the Princess of Deryabar

Stories from The Arabian Nights, retold by Laurence Housman with drawings by Edmund Dulac, c.1920s-1930s

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Otake Ayana 大竹彩奈

Akogare 憧れ (longing) - Japan - 2015

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Charles Rambert L'usure (Usury), 1861

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Endymion, George Frederick Watts.

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Edmund Dulac’s illustrations for Hans Christian Andersen’s The Wind’s Tale.

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William Holbrook Beard (1825-1900), A Sailor’s Delight, 1891

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Feliks Jabłczyński (Polish, 1865 -1928 ) - ‘Death and Psyche’,1908.

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Ando Utagawa Hiroshige - New Year’s Eve Fox Fires at the Changing Tree, Oji. 1856-1859

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Richard Holzschuh

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W. Heath Robinson’s illustrations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (1914).

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Les Oceanides Les Naiades de la mer(Oceanides, Naïads of the Sea) by Gustave Doré.

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Arthur Rackham (United Kingdom,1867-1939)

Pandora

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