biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

fantheoriesandfoodporn:

Fun fact! According to folklorists, all myths, fairy tales and nursery rhymes that are about some dude named Jack are talking about the same guy

What this means is, that ever single one of the following

  • Jack Be Nimble (who jumped over burning candles for fun)
  • Jack the Giant Killer (who sold his cows for magic beans then robbed and killed a giant)
  • Stingy Jack (who tricked the devil so many times he was banned from both afterlives)
  • Jack of Jack and Jill (who splattered his head open falling down a hill)
  • Jack o’ Lantern (the headless horseman spirit of halloween)
  • Jack Frost (the spirit who heralds the end of autumn and the start of winter)

Are literally the same jackass who made so many bad life choices he ended up an immortal ice dullahan with a pumpkin serving as both his head and flashlight

but what an incredible journey he had getting there

*Curtsies* Any Halloween book recommendations, duke?

dukeofbookingham:

*Curtsies* Oh hell yes, this is my kind of ask. 

  • Classics: Dracula by Bram Stoker and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • Modern classics: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  • Literary: The Keep by Jennifer Egan
  • Fantasy: The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
  • Horror: This Book is Full of Spiders by David Wong
  • Short stories: “The Body Snatchers” by Robert Louis Stevenson and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Poetry: The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire, A Season in Hell by Rimbaud, and “Phantasmagoria” by Lewis Carroll
  • Drama: Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott
  • Nonfiction: Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi or Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
  • Essays: On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas de Quincey

Uh, let me know if this isn’t enough or there’s a genre missing you’d like to see.