#SpookySunday An inventive twist on the headless horseman, Lionel Feininger, 1898, has instead illustrated a headless cyclist using his skull as a lamp. Be seen & be safe! Or in this case, be scared!
Ruins of Despair
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A weary pilgrim on the grave of the Romantic Hero, a forlorn eulogist cast upon the desolate shore of the exquisite agony that is The Gothic. #books #art #gothic #romanticism 'Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' (P.B. Shelley)
Lord George Byron contemplating the Colosseum in Rome #art Arthur Willmore or James Tibbets Willmore, after the original composition by William Westall
In the Cloister, Palermo 1840 oil Martinus Rørbye ~ (Danish, 1803–1848) #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
'I have seen,' he said, lowering his voice, 'I have seen the Bodach Glas.' MAC-IVOR WARNED OF HIS FATE BY THE GREY SPIRIT. Grey Old Man serves as a fatal family omen in Walter Scott's Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since (1814) #SpookySunday
+++ On this very evening, the 1st August 1893. From the Log of the Demeter, which is travelling from Varna to Whitby +++ " We seem to be drifting towards some terrible doom " The picture is the Dmitry from Narva, wrecked in 1885 which inspired Bram #BramStoker #Dracula #Whitby #GothicHorror #OTD
“I bear in my shirt a head; the head of Urien, That governed a court with mildness; And on his white bosom the sable raven doth glut.” (Llywarch Hen “Elegy on Urien Rheged”, c 600 CE) 🎨audrey benjaminsen #BookwormSat
" - Good God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn." - William Wordsworth #WyrdWednesday #Pagan #poetry
Insatiable vampire l'éternelle Luxure Sur la Grande Cité convoite sa pâture. #wyrdwednesday #gothic Le Stryge (The Gargoyle / The Vampire), fifth state, by Charles Meryon 1853
Human skeleton reads a list of animal names Title page for: Cornelius van Dyk's "Osteologia", 1680 (Rijksmuseum)
Bear Unknown artist, 16th century (British Museum)
"And great and weary Charon rowed on and on beside the little, silent, shivering ghost. ... "I am the last," he said. No one had ever made Charon smile before, no one before had ever made him weep." (Dunsany) 🎨 José Benlliure y Gil (detail) #PhantomsFriday
Mediums who weren’t up to DIY-ing their cons could purchase ready-made ghosts, self-rapping tables, self-playing guitars, and other séance supplies from the secretly circulated catalogue “Gambols with the Ghosts,” issued by Ralph E. Sylvestre of Chicago. #PhantomsFriday
Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all. Byam Shaw's #illustration for Poe's The Masque of the Red Death in 'Selected Tales of Mystery' (London 1909)
In their spirit photography in the 1920s and '30s, the Scottish-born brothers Craig and George Falconer specialised in ectoplasm. The results are rather artistic. #PhantomsFriday
#WyrdWednesday Contemporary artists Anna & Elena Balbusso's depiction of Guy de Maupassant's 1887 supernatural tale 'Le Horla'. Tormented by nightmares, the narrator is attacked by an evil entity who induces the feeling that something is weighing upon his chest as he sleeps. All does not end well.
Poster for screenings of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
“All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair” (Coleridge) 🎨 kAt Philbin “Sentinels” (2014)
Philip de Loutherberg, 'Avalanche In The Alps'. #art #artsky #landscape #mountains #Switzerland #Alps #Sublime
The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them—She was the Universe. Ending to 'Darkness' by Lord Byron, assumably written in July 1816 during 'The Year Without a Summer'. #wyrdwednesday #art Józef Rapacki 1918
Simon Luttichuys, Vanitas nature morte avec crâne, livres, estampes et peintures de Rembrandt et Jan Lievens, avec un reflet du peintre à l'œuvre, 1635-1640, Huile sur panneau de bois, 36 x 47 cm, Musée Nationale de Gdánsk .
