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GRAVE DIGGER AND GHOST by George Murgatroyd Woodward, c.1790. Part of a host of comic images on ghosts and the supernatural designed by Woodward in collaboration with caricaturist Richard Newton.
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H. Warner Munn was born Nov 5, 1903. Lovecraft suggested a werewolf story told by the werewolf, and Munn wrote "The Werewolf of Ponkert" for our July 1925 issue. Its sequel, "The Werewolf's Daughter," took our Oct 1928 cover.
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"The Mad King's Castle, Schloss Neuschwanstein by night", by Percival Gaskell, c.1900.
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1896: Washington spiritualists list the city's haunted houses and ask to hold seances in them, including the empty Octagon mansion and a Capitol Hill house where white figures pass the windows after midnight.
Weird Tales got there in May 1923 with "The Haunted and the Haunters."
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'Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth.'
From Lovecraft's 'The Dunwich Horror'.
Pictured: the first page of the typed manuscript for the tale.
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Tonight’s Clyde Caldwell classic is The Thing from the Pit, originally painted in 1982 for the cover of Dragon Magazine #76.
A sword wielding warrior, a spellcasting wizard, and something absolutely horrible coming out of the ground. That’s old school D&D at its finest.
Clyde later had this piece included in Masterpieces of Fantasy Art alongside legends like Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo, and Sanjulián.
More than 40 years later, this one still looks fantastic, great piece of fantasy art.
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Lately, I have been studying the pages of French occult magazine 'la Vie Mysterieuse' which ran from 1909 till 1914, when the Great War started.
It's a fascinating and richly illustrated occult magazine of the Belle Epoque, about all the esoteric topics of that time. In its pages we encounter some of the most well known French occultists of that era, such as Papus who was co-editor.
Its issues feature a variety of subjects; a vampire tale, poltergeist and haunted houses accounts, and a science fiction story about humans flying in a spaceship to Venus and interacting with the Venusians.
Original copies are now quite rare, I am fortunate to have 73 of the 132 issues that were ever published.
Scanned copies are found here: iapsop.com/archive/materials…
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Who wants to go back to 1992?❤️🔥
“Vampirella: 1992”(Dynamite, June 2021)
Cover art by Mike Krome
#FantasyArt #Vampirella
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May those we remember in our hearts return to us tonight. Celebrating the beautiful Mexican tradition of Dia de Muertos.
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Richard Newton, one of the great cover illustrators from the golden age of horror paperbacks.
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#DayoftheDead - In Etruscan mythology, Charun was known as the "Demon of Death" who guarded the entrance to the underworld. He is characterised by a heavy hammer, a hooked nose and pointed ears. He would strike the deceased on the head with his hammer to ensure they were truly dead.
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#DayOfTheDead 💀🌼
💀🌼 March with the spirits in Mexico’s colourful Día de los Muertos celebrations, November 1st & 2nd! 🇲🇽🥁
Streets bloom with golden #Marigolds, believed to guide departed souls home, while dancing calaveras (skulls) remind us that life and death are forever entwined. 🌼💀🕯️
Through music, flowers and procession, the spirits of our ancestors live on in memory. Forever celebrated, never forgotten. 🌼❤️
💀 #DayOfTheDead 🕯️ #SundayFolklore #DiaDeLosMuertos 🌼🥁 #MexicanFolklore 🇲🇽 #OTD
ALT Photo: Diego Grandi
ALT Photo by Richard Ellis.
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In Greek mythology "Harpies" were a combination of bird and woman who were terrifying spirits of storm winds. In "Fashions of 1934" they were a figment of the wild Pre-Code imagination of one Busby Berkeley.
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Tis finally here…
Samhain brings endings, darkness, thinning veils, and the crone of winter. Tonight these woods are full of mist, spirits and shadows, we shall see what the night brings.
A very happy and magickal Samhain to all! 💀🕯️🍂
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Late Night Clyde Caldwell 🌙
Nobody painted a beautiful woman in the middle of an impossible adventure quite like Clyde Caldwell. And nobody made you want to climb right into the painting faster.
Tonight’s beauty is Llana of Gathol.
A Martian princess, a sky full of warships, and just enough clothing to keep the censors guessing.
Pure Edgar Rice Burroughs, with that unmistakable Caldwell magic.
Clyde didn’t just illustrate fantasy worlds. He made you wish they were real.
Sweet dreams, everyone.
