Gruppe und Feston aus Thierschädeln, Lorbeer, Kürbissen etc. 1893. J. Schober.
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Love this as far The Return Of The Living Dead and Death Wish 3
It’s silly to feel silly about bat wings.
Donald Sutherland (!)- CASTLE OF THE LIVING DEAD (1969)
“The resurrection-bell,” from The New Hyperion, 1875.
“In similar fashion to how babies rest upturned in the birth canal waiting to be born, the bat hangs inverted in its cave (the quintessential womb of the Earth Mother herself), waiting for the right moment to emerge from the darkness into the next phase of its life.” —Scott Alexander King, Animal Dreaming
It rings true: my collection of bells ringing through time.
“In the interests of health.” From The Doctors, A Satire in Four Seizures by Elbert Hubbard, 1909.
It’s macabre – my collection of vintage death imagery.
Healing: a collection of vintage doctor imagery.
The imagery that Tumblr bizarrely deemed insensitive to community standards: Weblog ◆ Books ◆ Videos ◆ Music ◆ Etsy
i-alwayslikedstrangecharacters:
The Addams Family - Christmas With The Addams Family (1965)
Tattle Tales, Fall 1937
Vaught’s Practical Character Reader, Louis Allen Vaught, 1902
From The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 1899.
It’s been said that we still have only the crudest understanding of ghosts. Here are a thousand vintage ghosts I’ve invited over.