'A commonplace library. You felt, nevertheless, the presence of something leering and ugly. A vibration, a pale terror like the mist on a photographic plate.' ... not to mention that marble hand creeping about the house! POISON IN JEST John Dickson Carr Polish paperback cover #BookWormSat

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"...he saw suddenly...the most loathly shape that he had ever beheld, horrible beyond the horror of an evil dream. Most like a spider she was, but huger than the great hunting beasts, and more terrible than they because of the evil purpose in her remorseless eyes." -LOTR J.R.R. Tolkien #BookWormSat

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Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark? William Shakespeare- Twelfth Night. #BookWormSat

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"She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy." 📕Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde #BookWormSat #ScaryBeings

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A new side to Agatha Christie: Surfer, technophile and housewife The British Library’s cosy show challenges our preconceptions about the Queen of Crime, but I was left with more questions than answers 👉 www.telegraph.co.uk/art/reviews/... #BookchatWeekly #BookwormSat #Booksky #AgathaChristie

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