beautiful terror

we're all insane

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The future I dreamt of and lost does not exist anymore.

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Early cabaret sign in the form of a bat, crafted from wrought and rolled iron, carved and embossed, with green glass. French, likely 19th century with 20th-century modifications.

Collection: Réunion des Musées Métropolitains, Rouen, Normandy, France.

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'Vertigo' (1903) by French genre painter and portraitist Hubert Denis Etcheverry

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Gary Oldman in a promotional photoshoot for "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992)

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Vampire's Kiss by Max Ernst, 1934

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by James Hoff

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Love the creepy opera basement man 😔🙏

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Art by Andrew Blucha

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Attraction.

Painted by Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944)

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View in Dracula's Tomb, circa 1922. Illustration by Fritz Schwimbeck.

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Poster art for a 2006 performance of Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan concert hall.

From Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography

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“If you're not enjoying something, it's almost always because you're doing it too fast.”

-Donna Tartt, American novelist and essayist

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"Nude Vampire With Gloves”

Tintype on silver, 1864 CE, Artist Unknown

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“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”

— William Blake

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Bathroom in a residence, built in 1933

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“Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose?”

Gary Oldman as Dracula in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

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Eva, my Eva.

Penny Dreadful