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Charlie Brown and His Dog Snoopy, As Rendered by Tony Millionaire
Tagged: Art, Charlie Brown, Comics, Comix, Horror, Snoopy, Tony Millionaire
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“Over an Absinthe Bottle”— W.C. Morrow
“Over an Absinthe Bottle” by W.C. Morrow Arthur Kimberlin, a young man of very high spirit, found himself a total stranger in San Francisco one rainy evening, at a time when his heart was breaking;...
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“The Company of Wolves”— Angela Carter
“The Company of Wolves” by Angela Carter One beast and only one howls in the woods by night. The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he’s as cunning as he is ferocious; once he’s had a taste of flesh then...
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“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe (Illustration by Harry Clarke) TRUE!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my...
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“Pickman’s Model”— H.P. Lovecraft
“Pickman’s Model” by H. P. Lovecraft You needn’t think I’m crazy, Eliot—plenty of others have queerer prejudices than this. Why don’t you laugh at Oliver’s grandfather, who won’t ride in a motor? If I...
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Witches Ready to Fly — Francisco Goya
Tagged: Art, Books, Francisco Goya, Horror, Readers, women reading
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The Cat With Hands — Robert Morgan
Tagged: Horror, Robert Morgan, Short film, stop motion animation, The Cat With Hands
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RIP Wes Craven
RIP Wes Craven, 1939-2015 Like a lot of people my age (I was born in 1979), I grew up alternately seeking out and then trying to look away from snippets of Wes Craven films—posters, previews,...
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The gothic is an avant-garde genre
…the gothic is an avant-garde genre, perhaps the first avant-garde art in the modern sense of the term. A pursuit, half serious enterprise, half fashionable vice, of the intellectuals of the end of the...
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“Berenice”— Edgar Allan Poe
“It was a fearful page in the record of my existence” –Harry Clarke’s illustration for Edgar Allan Poe’s “Berenice” “Berenice” by Edgar Allan Poe Dicebant mihi sodales, si sepulchrum amicae visitarem,...
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Illustration for Algernon Blackwood’s The Wendigo — Matt Fox
Read The Wendigo at Project Gutenberg. Tagged: Algernon Blackwood, Art, Halloween, Horror, illustration, Weird Fiction
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Terms like space-warp, telekinesis, teleportation give to that latest avatar...
Terms like space-warp, telekinesis, teleportation give to that latest avatar of the gothic, science fiction (even its name adapted to modern times), the most respectable of cachets. The blasphemous...
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“The Cone”— H.G. Wells
Plaza Italia (Great Game), Giorgio de Chirico “The Cone” by H.G. Wells The night was hot and overcast, the sky red, rimmed with the lingering sunset of mid-summer. They sat at the open window, trying...
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Sunday Comics
With Halloween approaching, here are three creepy full page panels from Charles Burns’s Black Hole (Pantheon, 2005). Tagged: Art, Black Hole, Comics, Comix, Horror, mutants
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Read “The Dancing Partner,” Jerome K. Jerome’s horror story about an automaton
“The Dancing Partner” by Jerome K. Jerome from Novel Notes (1893) “This story,” commenced MacShaugnassy, “comes from Furtwangen, a small town in the Black Forest. There lived there a very wonderful old...
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“The Tell-Tale Heart”— Edgar Allan Poe
Illustration for Poe’s”The Tell-Tale Heart,” Arthur Rackham (1935) “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe TRUE!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I...
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Wherein I Suggest Dracula Is a Character in Roberto Bolaño’s Novel 2666
The Self Seers (Death and Man), Egon Schiele I. Here’s my thesis: Dracula is a character in Roberto Bolaño’s dark opus 2666. Specifically, I’m suggesting that Dracula (like, the Count Dracula) is the...
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Distortion #51 — André Kertész
Tagged: André Kertész, Art, Horror, nude, Photography, scream
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