Holy crap, where'd you find that book? Like...Freddy's ACTUALLY in a book about faeries?
Tenth birthday present. I didn’t actually know Freddy was a horror icon at the time. There’s also a reference to The Nightmare before Christmas that went over my head.
My mom apparently didn’t flip through it beforehand. The Great Encyclopedia of Faeries is not child-friendly.
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THANK GOD AMERICAN CHRISTIANS JUST HAVE SANTA CLAUS. (Unless your family is German-American. In which case you may also get Krampus and/or Belsnickel. Still not as terrifying as this madame, though.)
If foraging for mushrooms by moonlight was actually like this, I would have started ages ago.
Miss Piggy wishes she could.
Sometimes you gotta reward a good horsie with some ketchup.
Kiss my *ss, Daenerys.
Goth game hard AF.
Douch3bag ogresses were vap!ng before it was cool.
I unironically thought this was a very haunting and beautiful image. Also, I had to cu✝️ her nipnops off to comply with Tumblr regulations.
At times this tome and The Complete Encyclopedia of Elves, Goblins, and Other Little Creatures may seem anachronistic but that’s because Pierre Dubois and the Sabatiers aren’t prissy about folklore. It didn’t suddenly come to a halt in the 1800s, darn it.
I just thought this illustration was pretty.