Beauty in the apertures of pain

The Three Witches from Macbeth by Daniel Gardner, 1775.

Paradise Lost, John Martin (1827)

John Milton’s early notes on Paradise Lost as a play, c. 1640.

New Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland USA

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#HappyHalloween! We’re looking at our copy of The Devil. Or, The New-Jersey Dance (Boston, 1797) for some costume inspiration, though NOT for party planning ideas. According to the “FACTS” printed within, the #JerseyDevil showed up to a dance party dressed as a fiddler, and all the attendants were forced to dance for over 30 days, “…dancing on the stumps of their legs to infernal music, their feet being worn off, and the floor streaming with blood.” 

#YIKES #IsntThisABuffyEpisode

The Devil. Or, The New-Jersey dance. Boston [Mass.]: Printed and sold at Russell’s, near Liberty-Pole., 1797.

Dracula (1931) // What We Do in the Shadows

Some film monsters by Greg Ruth

16th century “La femme Vampire”.

night sluts

they’re called vampires

Bela Lugosi first played the part of Count Dracula, not in the 1931 movie, but on Broadway. The first show was on October 5th, 1927.

Important note to all Dracula fans - Coca-Cola was invented in 1886, and the story is set in 1897. This means you can authentically hint at coca-cola in any and all fanworks set around the book’s time period.

(not that it’s very impressive, since Dracula himself wouldn’t drink it, but certainly the American suitor can!)

Van Hellsing absolutely wired on classic cocaine coca cola defeating dracula

Dracula - “I do not drink…. wine”

Pops open a can of coke

Dracula - “This shit though? This I can chug for DAYS!”

Count Dracula is the title character of Bram Stoker’s 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula. He is considered to be both the prototypical and the archetypal vampire in subsequent works of fiction. The character has appeared frequently in popular culture, from films to animated media.