Persian Demons from a Book of Magic and Astrology (1921)

Weird Persian Demons 🔥 While perusing Public Domain Review, I came across this post chock-full of trippy demon illustrations! Some are rather amusing, to say the least: “These watercolours come from a bound manuscript written by a rammal — or soothsayer — in Isfahan, Iran.” Not all of the 56 painted illustrations in the manuscript…

King-eating Colossus of Revolutionary France and its Connection to Frankenstein’s Monster

As the French Revolution entered its most radical years, there emerged in print a recurring figure, the collective power of the people expressed as a single gigantic body — a king-eating Colossus. Samantha Wesner traces the lineage of this nouveau Hercules, from Erasmus Darwin’s Bastille-breaking giant to a latter incarnation in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. —…

Diableries, Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell by Denis Pellerin, Brian May, Paula Fleming

Diableries were made exclusively in France, beginning in the 1860s, and continuing on until around 1900.

The Eternal Lovers: art piece by Welderwings

Featured Horror Art of the Day: The artist known as “Welderwings” is among my current favorites. This is modern artist creating beautiful surrealist gothic art. Among their pieces, you’ll find skulls, skeletons, ravens, eyeballs (yes, EYEBALLS!), lots of mixed mediums in a gothic/horror setting. The above is just one example of a recent piece. For…

Vintage Weird Tales Art

This illustration by Joseph Howard Krucher appeared in “Weird Tales”, Vol. 44, #7, 1952. Krucher’s bibliography is available in IFSDB. He also did this interesting piece for Necromancer [v1 #2, #3, March 1948]