Awaken the princess from her sleep?

What a cruel thing to do! For what if the princess wishes not to receive the kiss of awakening, but rather to continue to sleep forever?

[thatsbelievable]

[awildwickedslip]

vampires are the key to everything… [from: the reproduction of evil: a cultural and clinical perspective by sue grand]

[treasures-and-beauty]

An Art Nouveau ‘Bat’ necklace, attributed to Lucien Janvier, circa 1900. Composed of silver, silver gilt, plique-à-jour enamel and pearls.

[vamqira]

The Moth Diaries, Rachel Klein

[aurelie-c]

Eugène Thivier, Le Cauchemar, 1894.

[derangedrhythms]

Ecstasy. From the Greek Ekstasis. Meaning not what you think. Meaning not euphoria or sexual climax or even happiness. Meaning, literally: a state of displacement, of being driven out of one’s senses.

Jeffrey Eugenides, from 'Middlesex'

[vampyrahhh]

Carmilla & Laura

art by: maena.paillet

[isabellaofparma]

They think you're the Devil. What do you think?

Carmilla (2019) dir. Emily Harris

[awoooniper]

*pointing at your wife*: you know that thing would eat you if you died, right?

[nataliakoptseva]

The Fall of the Damned Dirk Bouts, detail

[historicl]

Sita and Sarita Cecilia Beaux

[sosuperawesome]

Light-Up Chandelier Earrings // Diana Caldarescu on Etsy

[x-atropa-belladonna-x]

The Two Faces of Love (Les Deux Faces de l'Amour), 1851 engraving which serves as the frontispiece to a work titled Syphilis by A. M. Barthélemy

[cosmicanger]

Ron Isaacs

Wing, 2015

[deathly-maiden]

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

[countess--olenska]

Leda and the Swan costume designed by Travis Banton.

Worn by Marlene Dietrich at Countess di Frasso's costume party, 1935

[deathly-maiden]

Leda and the Swan by William Butler Yeats