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Remembering Edward Gorey on his birthday

A greeting for negligent penpals and procrastinating authors. Postcard from my collection, 1911.

I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

Gaspe Peninsula (Gaspesia) 🌅 🏡 📍Quebec , Canada 🇨🇦

✨New audio role announcement.✨ Happy to share that I voice the role of Madame La Comtesse, mother of the eponymous Carmilla, in #Carmilla a new miniseries from the fabulous team at Re: Dracula. #Carmilla 🧛‍♀️💫🎙️ #Audio #GothicHorror Courtesy of @redracula.bsky.social

#art inspired by #Carmilla — Twenty-five years before Dracula, Le Fanu’s 1872 gothic tale gave us the first true #vampire seductress. Dark, atmospheric, and boldly feminist, it reshaped vampire fiction. #inkart #fountainpenart #darkart #SheridanLeFanu #gothicfiction #horrorart

Hey, you like free books, right? If you join my newsletter, I'll send you two! 🔗 below 👇 Shadows and Sunlight: the reflective story of a girl with a gentle heart destined to become a monster 🐺 How to Found Your Kingdom: the dynamic tale of an alcoholic angel blackmailed into running a kingdom 😈

JK Rowling naming an Italian character:

Stuff on the shop and we ship internationally! wolfskulljack.com/collections/...

Stop putting that Dracula ballet on my feed. I've had enough of Dracula/Mina fanfiction shoved down my throat lmfaooooo

Great photography 🦊

Dracula walking in on Jonathan and Mina like

And above all, you let life defeat you. All the gifts your parents gave you, all the love and patience of your friends, you drowned in a neurotoxin. You let misery win. And it will keep on winning till you die -- or overcome it.

This is the moment when Mina remembered Lucy stretching her arms while being stained with blood to beacon her husband to come into her hungry arms. If you care.

Oh my god!!! Only 100 were printed in 2014 (I think) and I had only just started being a full time artist after I got made redundant from the call centre!! Thanks for supporting my work all these years ago and today still!

Lilith and the Weeping Wings

Jonathan Harker, watching Count Dracula climb out of a window (lizard fashion) A small interior illustration for my Dracula artzine, made with graphite powder and a good ol' pencil 🦇

Jonathan reaches his second night in Castle Dracula. All's well. #dracula #jonathanharker #Harker seearcane.substack.com/p/harker-cha...

smothered in the very whitest and daintiest of fragrant spermaceti

Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can’st not go mad?

Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other

this website is on another level

recent zooglyphs

putting Carmilla And Laura deluxe ed. on my tbr because it sounds up my alley vs the many modern retellings

My favorite part of making a zine, the part where I get to choose quotes for the chapter breaks! This zine is about lesbian vampires, called My Wild Heart Bleeds With Yours, itself a Carmilla quote. It is long and very political because horror always is, you see. Pre-order live Feb. 14 🦇❤️

📍Yorkshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

Detail: P S Krøyer 1899 - Summer evening at Skagen's beach. The artist and his wife. #Art #painting #landscape

Sameba cathedral in night view 📍Tbilisi , Georgia 🇬🇪

Status on Robert Eggers' upcoming projects 🎬

Art by Jana Heidersdorf 🥀₊˚⊹🩸

Lucifer (1890) by Franz von Stuck (German artist, lived 1863–1928). “Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost.

Pretty sure this photo from my collection is @jortsthecat.bsky.social ca. 1950s but I can't prove that.