There’s a galaxy full of Star Wars features – like this one: https://lilywight.com/2012/05/25/darth-vader-has-a-throbbing-saber/ – right here at Lily Wight ~ The Arcade of Arts & Arcana.
Head to the sidebar to search our archives but, before you go, take a look at these amazing Day of The Dead inspired Star Wars sugar skulls, a super trooper and a Skywalker song spoof…
…and finally…
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Updated 16/10/2015
The Bloody Red Baron (1995) is the second novel in Kim Newman’s superlative and ever-expanding Anno Dracula series. Newman continues to weave effortlessly both history and fiction to conjure a world in which Dracula – formerly wed to Queen Victoria – has joined forces with The Kaiser to bring terror to Europe.
The shift in time and tone may surprise some readers expecting more of the first book’s Victorian gothic. Book two is a World War I novel that successfully captures the tropes of military fiction whilst broadening its appeal with genre-mashing wit and just the right amount of girl power so you won’t miss those smog bound cobbled streets whatsoever.
A running theme of genetic experimentation and weird science ensures that the series becomes increasingly pertinent and there is plenty of action too…
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Updated 30/9/2015
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The Autumn Equinox marks the annual fruit and vegetable harvest and is the season best known for apple-picking.
According to Arthurian Tradition the fallen King Arthur was transported to Avalon – “The Isle of Apples” – symbolising winter death and the promise of rebirth in spring.
Click the link below to discover more about this Wheel of The Year festival…
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Sci-Fi & Fantasy fans may recognise the title as a quote from Frank Herbert’s Dune. Everybody else may simply appreciate the opportunity to explore new places from the comfort – and safety – of their favourite armchair or free wi-fi zone.
This holiday season we are boldly going to Westeros (yes, really) to face the terrors of flight delays, lost luggage and untimely beheading so you don’t have to.
We recommend that you keep an eye on Matt Copeman’s blog, “It Wasn’t My Fault…”, instead. Matt is a journalism graduate based in Hull, UK City of Culture 2017. He’s going places. Literally. He’s planning his next travel adventure right now and you could be there too – from the safety of your armchair of course 🙂 Just click the link below to subscribe…
http://mattcopeman.tumblr.com/
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It’s time to harvest the grain and cereal crops and show a little love for the sun-god, Lugh. Click the link to read The Beginner’s Guide To The Wheel Of The Year and discover the origins of this annual August festival.
https://lilywight.com/2013/08/01/lughnasadh-the-beginners-guide-to-the-wheel-of-the-year/
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John Polidori (1795 – 1821) is best remembered as Lord Byron’s travelling companion and personal physician but his short story, The Vampyre (1819) is the first significant vampire tale in English Literature, following on from Lady Caroline Lamb’s less revered Gothic Novel, Glenarvon (1816).
The Vampyre is rather prosaic and melodramatic for modern tastes yet its brevity and vital role in vampire mythology make it an essential read. The Vampyre himself, Lord Ruthven, is the original frilly-cuffed brooding immortal; a character endowed with the dangerous dilettantism associated with the Romantic writers and artists who, for many, have come to define the tastes, fashions and attitudes of the Georgian era. Ruthven’s style of vampirism bridges the gap between the demons and monsters of folklore and the modern vampire 
anti-hero with his magnetic charisma and troubled conscience. This new archetype was later perfected and explored by…
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Updated 08/07/2015
Lily Wight is always available to be the sanguinous stuffing in an Anne Rice and Clive Barker sandwich – so please tuck in 😉
The Grande Dame of Grand Guignol and The Master of The Macabre (via official administrator, Alex) were kind enough to recommend and share features from the blog at www.lilywight.com with their huge online communities.
Just click the links below for these unmissable posts ~
“The Wolf Gift” scored this generous review by Lily Wight and I’m grateful. Also note the cool use of Ran Valerhon’s art in this review. Love it.
~ Anne Rice, 19th February 2013.
https://lilywight.com/2013/02/13/a-present-from-anne-rice-the-wolf-gift-matt-bomer-christian-grey/
Here’s a new blog post on Nightbreed by Lily Wight.
~ Clive Barker (administrated by Alex Ghastbrow) 21st February 2013.
https://lilywight.com/2013/02/21/clive-barker-cabal-nightbreed-directors-cut/
Thank you, fellow imagineers x
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You can call it Midsummer, The Longest Day, Litha or The Summer Solstice. Whichever you prefer just click the link to read all about it in our popular guide to The Wheel of The Year festivals…
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Updated 03/06/2015
If you enjoy a little “Scary Fairy” just click the pics to view an album of inspired images and why not send us a Facebook Friend request while you are there. xx
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Here’s a little something to get you in the mood for Bill Condon’s Beauty & The Beast with Emma Watson.
If you haven’t seen Cocteau’s classic yet, well, you really should so just click to view the trailer.
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Updated 13/05/2015
You will find lots of links to forgotten favourites right here at Lily’s Arcade of Arts & Arcana 😉
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How will you celebrate your May Day bank holiday weekend? You could always get married, jump over a broomstick or get naked and paint yourself red like these folks.
You can discover the origins and traditions of the Beltane festival by clicking the link below for Lily Wight’s Beginner’s Guide To The Wheel Of The Year.
https://lilywight.com/2013/05/01/beltane-the-beginners-guide-to-the-wheel-of-the-year/
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Updated 22/04/2015
It is nearly forty years since Anne Rice refined and defined our contemporary Romantic Vampire archetype with her seminal and controversial novel Interview With The Vampire.
Rice may have returned to The Universal Studio Monster Vault (vampires, mummies and now wolfmen) but her latest foray into the supernatural is distinctly light on familiar Gothic tropes and offers something entirely current via the imagination of an author steeped in history and mythology.
The Wolf Gift is a superhero origin story with the werewolf or “Morphenkind”, Reuben Golding, glorified and elevated into a shape-shifting biological missing-link: a creature designed to track and destroy the very essence of evil.
The bright, breezy world of modern San Francisco offers architectural and natural majesty a world away from the grim, historical Grand Guignol of Rice’s Vampire…
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Updated 26/03/2015
Click the picture (Brian Froud’s The Power of The Dark Crystal) to view lots more inspiring faerie art.
Please feel free to share Lily’s selected images and keep checking the Gallery for new additions.
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Ostara is an Anglo-Germanic fertility festival celebrated at The Spring Equinox. This year’s festival coincides with a rare solar eclipse on Friday 20th March. Click the link to read all about it in Lily Wight’s Guide To The Wheel Of The Year.
https://lilywight.com/2013/03/20/ostara-spring-equinox-the-beginners-guide-to-the-wheel-of-the-year/
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Updated 12/03/2015
You will find the picture album Faerie Lore & Fairy Tales in Lily Wight’s Gallery. Click the picture (left: Black Coat Elf by Brian Froud) or head to the tab above to explore.
Don’t get lost now 😉
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Updated 05/03/2015
The picture gallery at Lily Wight ~ The Arcade of Arts & Arcana is always open. Click the tab at the top of the homepage to explore or just click Lily’s picture (below) for a shortcut 🙂
Deviant Moon Tarot, The Eight of Cups by Patrick Valenza.
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Updated 26/02/2015
There’s always lots of Scary Faerie at Lily Wight 🙂
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Updated 12/02/2015
Can you spot Johnny Depp’s school photo in this promotion for Dark Shadows…
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Updated 05/02/2015
Jamie Dornan may have bagged the much coveted role of sado-hunk Christian Grey but it is his little known co-star, Dakota Johnson, who is currently Google’s most searched for celeb. So here she is, Ms. Anastasia Steele, in this month’s movie adaptation of E. L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey.
You’ll soon be seeing ALOT more of her 😉
*Dakota Mayi Johnson was born 4th October 1989 in Austin, Texas, USA.
*Dakota is the daughter of actors, Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson and the stepdaughter of Antonio Banderas.
*Dakota made her acting début in Crazy In Alabama (1999) directed by Antonio Banderas and starring with her mother, Melanie and half-sister, Stella Banderas.
*Dakota signed to IMG Models in 2006 and became Miss Golden Globe the same year.
*Film credits include a brief *ahem* but memorable scene in Facebook movie, The Social Network.
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The Celtic Fire Festival, Imbolc is celebrated on the 1st of February. Click the link to read all about it in Lily Wight’s Guide To The Wheel Of The Year.
https://lilywight.com/2013/02/02/imbolc-the-beginners-guide-to-the-wheel-of-the-year/
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Updated 15/01/2015
Vampire: The Masquerade‘s role-playing world offers plenty of intrigue and diversity but the chronological re-editing of multiple novels tends to mar an otherwise engrossing series.
Vampire Hesha’s story is over-written and uneventful yet it dominates this second collection whilst the laboured build-up to major events causes structural shortcomings.
With future volumes offering more conclusions and twists this is still a series worth sticking with and a great introduction to the realm of role-playing games.
Click here for a review of Volume One 🙂
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Updated 09/01/2015
Every vampire fan should be well aware of White Wolf’s seminal role-playing game system, Vampire; which effectively collates and categorizes every bit of vampire lore and literature up to and including the work of Anne Rice.
This book owns a hefty title – and well it might – as it boasts a doorstop-sized collection of spin-off novels and associated writings, re-edited chronologically into a complex and epic drama.
With numerous authors at work there is some jarring in the narrative style and the structure suffers, albeit necessarily for the books conceit. Certain events are needlessly re-played from different characters’ perspectives without providing extra insight whilst dramatic tension is often lost when chronology forces precedence over plot.
There is however so much going on that new readers of all tastes…
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