Carmilla’s Bride

🦇Raelyn, 28, bi, she/her🦇

[academic-vampire]

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[deborahlutz-blog]

Mary Shelley’s dressing case

Shelley kept relics of the ones she loved—collecting their hair in folded paper packets and treasuring the objects they used daily. Some of these are still in this case, such as this packet with Byron’s hair. The bracelet pictured here was made from Shelley’s own hair, cut from her corpse. Not here is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s heart, which Edward Trelawny claims he snatched from the fire cremating P.B. Shelley’s remains on the beach at Viareggio. According to family lore, the heart was given to Mary, who stored it in a copy of Adonais, the elegy Percy Bysshe wrote on the death of Keats. Some say she kept this book in her portable desk. I don’t know where her portable desk is, but the heart is said to have been buried with their son and the copy of Adonais is at the Bodleian, as is this dressing case.

http://shelleysghost.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mary-shelleys-dressing-case?item=225

[nemfrog]

Solar protuberances. Le soleil. 1875.

Internet Archive

[fiery-kitty]

Der Flösser Tod / The raftsman Death – Franz Lippisch (1897)

[the-almost-fashion-historian]

carriage dress, c.1885 by Franziska Noll Gross

this dress is made of silk velvet, decorated with jet and celluloid beads

this dress can be found in: the Metropolitan Museum of Art

[charnel-grounds]

Edward Gorey (1925–2000), “Vampire”

cover design detail for ‘Phantasmagorey,’ 1974

source

[vampires-secretary]

Postcards from the graveyard

[zegalba]

Jean Paul Gaultier: Blood Drip Faux Fur Coat Autumn/Winter 1998

[fascinationstreetmp3]

So when she's not here and he's not here, am I third in the queue? Did I beat Antoinette?

Joseph Potter as Nicolas de Lenfent Interview with the Vampire — 3.04

[minoravirus]

this is virusofminora. these are my drawings

[random-brushstrokes]

Antoni Fabrés - Vanitas (Sic transit gloria mundi), ca. 1908

[platoapproved]

—She was already broken-hearted, and you burned her first boyfriend. —She's the one who killed him!

[velvet-jellyfish]

Looking for disability crafts I can do sitting in bed, so I’m channeling my inner grandma. Richelieu cutwork doily from a pattern I drew myself. Here is a link if anyone wants it!

[zanephillips]

The Canterbury Tales (1972) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

[greengableslover]

CRIMSON PEAK (2015) dir. Guillermo del Toro

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Some of my favorite pics of Vincent Price and Christopher Lee, who share a birthday today (May 27th)

Thanks @alwaysdearie

[prokopetz]

Upon reflection, the tendency of Dracula adaptations to treat Jonathan as a bit character is probably inextricable from their tendency to treat the episodes concerning his time in Castle Dracula as a fairly tedious piece of exposition to a story which truly begins with Dracula's arrival in London.

I know this is blasphemy, but I feel like Dracula is the one novel that might actually benefit from being split into multiple films. Do an intimate bottle-episode psychological horror piece covering Jonathan's confinement to and eventual escape from Dracula's castle, so in the next movie we actually have proper context for his whole... everything.

[prokopetz]

Critically, I feel like it would need to be a pair of films rather than a miniseries because a. as series you'd have to awkwardly work around the fact that most of the billed cast just plain don't appear in the front half of the episode list, and b. a big ominous "To Be Continued" title drop when Jonathan finally escapes followed by making the audience wait a year for the continuation would do fun things to the fandom.