Unquiet
Things

I have been stricken by a sudden sickness; a miserable spring cold that arrived out of nowhere and has rendered me scratchy-throated, fuzzy-brained, and with a wretched, wracking cough. All I want to do is put on some fuzzy socks, curl up under the covers and prop myself up on a fluffy pillow, sip a lemony hot toddy, and lose myself in the restorative properties of good book. And if I’m not cured by the last page, well, at the very least, I’d like to think that from these beloved books and treasured tales, I will have been inspired in some small way.

Sometimes my mind wanders as I am reading, and I find myself wondering all kinds of ridiculous things. But things which certainly require answers, I am sure you will agree! What sorts of clothes were the tenants from the grotty apartment building wearing, in that thoroughly unsettling tale? What sort of fabulous frocks might the witches from that mystical manifesto caper and cavort in? Did that invisible wind-based demon who tormented lonely travelers wear a sweater to keep warm?

See below for the culmination of these feverish thoughts involving sartorial suggestions for selected sick-bed stories. Some of them, because my nonsense cannot be contained, even have accompanying soundtracks!

As, always, click the image for a detailed listing of the items used, and links to books and texts and music have been provided as well.

What Is A Witch by Pam Grossman and Tin Can Forest

Salt Is For Curing by Sonya Vatomsky

“Near Zennor” by Elizabeth Hand (in the collection Strange Errantry)
Near Zennor playlist on 8tracks

The Tenant by Roland Torpor
The consistency of empty space playlist on 8tracks

Revenants by Daniel Mills
Don’t you recognize your own daughter? playlist on 8tracks

The Sea Priestess by Dion Fortune
The tides of all men’s souls belong to me playlist on 8tracks

“The Carrion Gods in their Heavens” by Laird Barron (in The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All.)
In a voice rusty and rugged playlist on 8tracks

“The Birds” by Daphne du Maurier A madness seized them playlist on 8tracks

The House On The Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
That fragment of ruin playlist on 8tracks

“Into The Woods” by Robert Aickman (in the collection The Wine Dark Sea)
It is something I have long known playlist on 8tracks

“The Wendigo” by Algernon Blackwood
The merciless spirit of desolation playlist on 8tracks

Wanna see some more ridiculous ensembles? Go nuts!

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