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Ken Currie (b. 1960), “Salt Cod”

etching, 2025

#ken currie #salt cod #symbolism #dark art #contemporary art #art #illlustration #etching

James Hutton, “The dog who ate its master,” 2025

#james hutton #the dog who ate its master #dogs #symbolism #dark art #art brut #contemporary art #art #illustration #drawing

ursaminorjim

“TV set” - The Cramps, Gravest Gravy

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#the cramps #tv set #music #Bandcamp

Randy Ortiz, “Battles”

oil on canvas, 2026

#randy ortiz #battles #dogs #horror #symbolism #dark art #contemporary art #art #oil on canvas #oil painting #painting

Andrew Blucha

#andrew blucha #metafables #pressure #devils #brains #dark surrealism #surrealism #dark art #contemporary art #collage art #art #digital collage

theoddsideofme

What are you wearing right now?

Doom and Gloom .

charnel-grounds

Metropolis | 1927 | dir. Fritz Lang

#metropolis #grim reaper #death #death personified #skulls #skeletons #1920s scifi #1920s movies #1927 #fritz lang #german expressionism #silent film #dystopia #scifi #gifs #my gifs

Claudio Elias Scialabba, “La Morte”

oil on canvas paper, 2024

#claudio elias scialabba #la morte #death #death personified #grim reaper #skulls #horror #horror art #dark art #contemporary art #art #oil on canvas paper #oil painting #painting

“In my dreams I brought back the old days. . . .”

Virgil Finlay (1914–1971), illustration to “The Dark World” by Henry Kuttner

Fantastic Story Magazine Vol. 6 #3, Winter 1954

source

#virgil finlay #the dark world #demons #entities #henry kuttner #fantastic story magazine #my edit #fantasy art #horror art #pulp art #art #pulp illustration #illustration

regardintemporel

Elizabeth Opalenik

#elizabeth opalenik #ghosts #haunting #surrealism #art #b&w photography #photography

“The song of a sorceress snared his soul when he came to another world, another self, across space and time. . .”

Virgil Finlay (1914–1971), illustration to “The Dark World” by Henry Kuttner

Fantastic Story Magazine Vol. 6 #3, Winter 1954

source

#virgil finlay #the dark world #sorceress #witchcraft #wolves #henry kuttner #fantastic story magazine #my edit #fantasy art #horror art #pulp art #art #pulp illustration #illustration

diana-andraste

Woman in the Lake, Jerry Uelsmann, 1992

#jerry uelsmann #woman in lake #surrealism #1990s #1992 #art #b&w photography #photography

thirdity

“Fantasy is true, of course. It isn’t factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it, too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night

#ursula k. le guin #the language of the night #quotes

Frank Vernon Martin (1921–2005), “Vampire”

woodblock print, 1970

#frank vernon martin #vampires #vamps #occult #decadence #dark art #art #illustration #wooblock print

“I saw two big eyes staring into the sky...”

Lawrence Sterne Stevens (1884–1960), illustration to “Mimic” by Donald A. Wollheim

Fantastic Novels Vol. 4 #3, September 1950 — source

#lawrence sterne stevens #mimic #monsters #creatures #donald a. wollheim #fantastic novels magazine #pulp art #horror art #scifi art #art #my edit #pulp illustration #illustration #drawing

cyborges

“Life breeds both plenitude and void, exuberance and depression. What are we when confronted with the interior vortex which swallows us into absurdity?”

— Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair (via unencumberedbylogic)

#emil cioran #on the heights of despair #quotes

Andrew Blucha

#andrew blucha #metafables #skulls #dark surrealism #surrealism #dark art #metaphysical art #contemporary art #collage art #art #digital collage

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