"For on one side lay Scylla and on the other divine Charybdis terribly sucked down the salt water of the sea"

The Odyssey, Book 12

"If any one unwarily draws in too close and hears the singing of the Sirens, his wife and children will never welcome him home again, for they sit in a green field and warble him to death with the sweetness of their song."

The Odyssey - Book XII

"It was just a colour out of space — a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it"

"Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably" Shakespeare's 'Much ado about nothing'

'Lola Montez'

inspired by the 1955 Max Ophuls film

"Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs. If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge."

Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice'

'The Demon Feast'

Jane Austen's 'Northanger Abbey'

"At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain, Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain"

The Iliad, Book 22

"The Thing cannot be described - there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order."

H. P. Lovecraft's 'The Call of Cthulhu'

Drawing of a dream I had one time

based on Jane Austen's 'Emma'

Portrait of Hongi Hika, Rangatira of Ngapuhi during the New Zealand Musket Wars

'Hannibal and Hasdrubal Barca, Carthaginian generals'

'Tangaroa appears before wayward Maori boatmen'

“Damn it, it wasn’t quite fresh enough!”

H. P. Lovecraft's 'Herbert West: Re-animator'

'Pan and the Oreads'