Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - Illustration from Honoré de Balzac's "Les Cent Contes drolatiques", 1855 edition.

Edward Gorey - Dracula in Dr. Seward's Library

Clive Barker - Original cover art for Rue Morgue #47, 2004

Clive Barker - The Resurrection of Christopher Carrion

Red is the color of death.

"Haroot was astride the galloping winds, and the stars were running with torches past him...." - Theodora Du Bois

Lawrence Sterne Stevens - The Devil's Spoon

(Famous Fantastic Mysteries - June 1948)

Inktober 2023 × Bloodborne

7. Arrival of The One Reborn

Odilon Redon (1840-1916) - Le contour vaporeux d’une forme humaine (The vaporous outline of a human form)

plate 1/6 from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's "The Haunted House" (La Maison Hantée), 1896

"Still reading, you see,” said Clendyne." - J. J. Connington

Virgil Finlay - Nordenholt's Million

(Famous Fantastic Mysteries - December 1948)

Virgil Finlay - The Metal Monster

(Famous Fantastic Mysteries - August 1941)

I'm being very brave today

Bloody Fingers

Dianne, 11:30 AM, 10,191 AG. Entering the planet of Arrakis. Five miles south of the Imperium, 12 miles west of Canopus. Never seen so much sand in my life. As W.C. Fields would say, "I'd rather be here than on Salusa Secundus." 54 degrees on a slightly overcast day, mentat said rain. If you could get paid for being that wrong 60% of the time, you'd be working.

Okay... looks like I'll be meeting up with a, uh, naib Stilgar. Shouldn't be too hard to remember that. He'll be at the Sietch Tabr. Guess we're going to go up to Arrakeen and take a look at the Sardaukar that just showed up. I'm pretty sure I'll be checking into the palace. I'm sure the naib will be able to recommend a clean place, reasonably priced. That's what I need, clean place, reasonably priced. Oh, Diane, I almost forgot. I've got to find out what kind of worms these are. They're really something special.

"It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies dancing hellish sarabands... The shaft of phosphorescence from the well grew brighter and brighter, bringing to the minds of the huddled men a sense of doom..." - H. P. Lovecraft

Virgil Finlay - The Colour Out of Space

(Famous Fantastic Mysteries - October 1941)

"Là, sous mes yeux, apparaissait une ville détruite"

Alphonse de Neuville (1835-1885) - Ruined City

Illustration from Jules Verne's "Twenty thousand leagues under the sea", 1870

Sanjulian - Headless Horror

cover art for Creepy #49, November 1972

This is me when i disappear from Tumblr for long stretches

Paul Andreas Weber (1893-1980) - Auftakt (Prelude), c. 1931-1932