Cementerio Hightgate de Londres.

Dos cañas y un espidifen.

Sábado
Landis Blair

a figure in a canopied bed surrounded by seated figures with witch hats on and accosted by a giant walmart sized skeleton in a witch hat

dream, by Fritz Czuczka -- just another deadly tribunal dream ho hum

Martes
Tony Karpinski

He looks so cute in the photo.

Scan of a rubbish photo of King's College Chapel taken by me in the 1980s (well, it was dark in there!).

...high Heaven rejects the lore
Of nicely calculated less or more;
So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense
These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof
Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells,
Where light and shade repose

- Wordwsorth, King's College Chapel, Cambridge
#BookWormSat

#BookWormSat Thomas Hood's book length poem, with illustrations by Herbert Railton, 'The Haunted House' (1895) earned praise from Poe, especially the stanza 'O'er all there hung a shadow & a fear, A sense of mystery, the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted.'

'The Wave' by Ivan Aivazovsky 1889. An oil painting with a storm at sea. The hues are greenish blue, as the huge waves fill the majority of the image. A sailship is being swallowed by the sea, and the crew is escaping in a small boat. Some have drowned.

As if ocean had sunk from beneath them: they pass
To their graves in the deep with an earthquake of sound,
And the waves and the thunders, made silent around,
Leave the wind to its echo.

– P. B. Shelley, 'A Vision Of The Sea' 1820. He died in shipwreck in 1822.

#booksky
#art Ivan Aivazovsky

Oh my :O

HISTOIRE DES VAMPIRES rare illustrated French treatise on #vampires and evil spectres from 1820

GLORIOUS GRAVEYARD BATS #Bats have long been associated with dusky graveyards inspiring gloriously gothic symbolism in cemeteries such as Père Lachaise in Paris. Photos Allison Meier #BatAppreciationDay

Close-up of the little black dog in the illustration.

What a demonic looking pooch!

“There are seven pillars of Gothic mould,
In Chillon's dungeons deep and old,
There are seven columns, massy and grey,
Dim with a dull imprisoned ray,
A sunbeam which hath lost its way”

(Byron)

🎨 Julius Schlegel “Schloß Chillon” (1872)

#bookwormsat

Jonathon Frid- DARK SHADOWS (1966-1971)

A pigeon flying away from an mossy stone block, a bridge with some persons walking is blurred in the background. trees and a river can be also seen

The Elgin Marbles moved back to the British Museum in London from their War-time home in a London Underground Railway tunnel. The photograph shows two men with centre slab of the East Frieze of the Parthenon with the Peplos Scene. Photographed at the British Museum, 27 November 1948.

Curst be the hour when from their isle they roved,
And once again thy hapless bosom gored,
And snatch'd thy shrinking gods to northern climes abhorred!

– Lord Byron on Parthenon in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 1812

Image: The Elgin marbles in British Museum in 1948

#bookwormsat

Artwork of a gloomy forest of pine trees with straight trunks. Lurking amidst them half hidden is a lady wearing a dress with her hands folded.

#PhantomsFriday 'A Ghost Among the Trees' by Wilhelm Keller, from Jugend magazine, April, 1896

And the butterflies began to sing, Max Ernst, 1929.

Fontana paperback cover

Crooked House
Agatha Christie

#illustration #coverart

An ornate trade card with illustrations of coffins around the edges

Trade card of Richard Middleton, coffin maker and undertaker - 19th century.

Aw shucks

Aww this is really nice.

(Ruins of anything – let alone despair – shouldn't be sentimental, not in this sort of fluffy fashion, anyway...)

Birds in a tree.

Birds before leaves. ✨

Byron, Queer History and Poetry An interactive workshop on Byron's early queer poetry

I'm running some more interactive workshops next week. We'll exploring the difficulties and possibilities of constructing queer histories and looking at early queer writing by Byron. Come join us!

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Ha :D

Nice horsie

:D oh no

Note: The translation is by E. P. Coleridge (1891), with the exception that the word 'car' is replaced by 'chariot', as is customary these days. Image: 'Diomède dévoré par ses chevaux' An oil painting showing the King of Thrace being attacked by four horses in a classical setting. The palette is muted and pastel, contrasting sharply with the subject of the painting. One of the enraged horses is brown and three are white. Diomedes is depicted as a young man in the state of undress and deep fear and anguish.

He mounted on a chariot and tamed with the bit the horses of Diomedes, that greedily champed their bloody food at gory mangers with unbridled jaws, devouring with hideous joy the flesh of men.

– Euripides, Herakles

#bookwormsat

#art 'Diomedes Devoured by His Horses' by Gustave Moreau 1866

That's such a lovely drawing <3

I suspect you suspect correctly