chthonic transmissions

“In lone and silent hours / When night makes a weird sound of its own stillness” —the lost blog network—

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Randy Ortiz, “Battles”

oil on canvas, 2026

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Andrew Blucha

[theoddsideofme]

What are you wearing right now?

Doom and Gloom .

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Metropolis | 1927 | dir. Fritz Lang

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Claudio Elias Scialabba, “La Morte”

oil on canvas paper, 2024

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“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

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[regardintemporel]

Elizabeth Opalenik

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“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

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[diana-andraste]

Woman in the Lake, Jerry Uelsmann, 1992

[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

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

woodblock print, 1970

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“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

[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)

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Andrew Blucha

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Alessandro Biffignandi (1935–2017), “Senza Bernarda”

original cover art for Biancaneve Vol. 2 #12, 1973

tempera on cardboard

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Joseph René Gockinga (1893–1962), “Visitation”

pen, brush & black ink on paper, n.d.

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“Always, there is the quest of the heart’s desire, always the unobtainable, the lure that beckons across the deserts of life to those who watch.”

Lawrence Sterne Stevens (1884–1960), illustration to “The Eye of Balamok” by Victor Rousseau

Fantastic Novels Vol. 3 #1, May 1949 — source