Acid Honky

... now vegetated as the unknown bearer of ephemeral fame, like a fleeting shadow that a secret object sends into the bright world of living.

[acidsemen]

Funereal Presence - Achatius

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“Phantastes” writer: George MacDonald illustrator: Arthur Hughes

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-- Dennis Forkas

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Teitanblood - “The Baneful Choir” (2019)

[azalyre]

“A torinói ló”, “The Turin Horse”, Béla Tarr, 2011

[the-final-sentence]

[T]hat the World, life, and people will all come to an end, and it is there they will end, below, this time here below, below the dreams of Shang, in the grave-statuary broken to pieces and the screaming of the bronze-cast animals, for there are animals below the earth, perhaps in immeasurable quantity, pigs and dogs, buffalos and dragons, goats and cows and tigers and elephants and chimeras and snakes and dragons, and they are all screaming, and not only are there cataracts in their bulging eyes, but they are all blind, they stand leaning to one side in pieces corroded from the acids around the collapsed graves, and blindly they scream in the darkness, they scream that this was awaiting them, this awaited the Shangs, but that up there above, the same fate awaits us, it awaits us who now reflect upon Shang, the horror, which is not just the residue of some cheap fear: for there is a domain, that of death, the dreadful weight of the earth pressing in from all sides which has entombed them, and which in time shall devour us as well, to close in upon itself, to bury, to consume even our memories, beyond all that is eternal.

László Krasznahorkai, from Seiobo There Below (via the-final-sentence)

[acidsemen]

He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a question of such overwhelming simplicity that he had no means to face it. He found himself wondering if his life were worth the living; if it had ever been. It was a question, he suspected, that came to all men at one time or another; he wondered if it came to them with such impersonal force as it came to him. The question brought with it a sadness, but it was a general sadness which (he thought) had little to do with himself or with his particular fate; he was not even sure that the question sprang from the most immediate and obvious causes, from what his own life had become. It came, he believed, from the accretion of his years, from the density of accident and circumstance, and from what he had come to understand of them. He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge: that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty, and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter.

John Williams, ‘Stoner’

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Stefan Żechowski

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This is the corpse of Anna Maria von Stockhausen. After death she was strapped down to keep her in her grave. According to folklore, Stockhausen was a witch who resurrected herself 5 times.

[yan-wo]

Oda Iselin Sønderland

[rowanecassidy]

Witch

[howling-science]

Philippe Druillet

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Ian Miller

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-- Mariusz Lewandowski