Lapwing

"You said I killed you - haunt me, then"

[fuzzbby]

Liu Bing.

[lightthereis]

Anton Graff German, 1736-1813 (detail art)

[kaleidoscope-vol2]

Guillermo del Toro on the Misunderstood Beauty of Crimson Peak

“The thing that will always, pun intended, haunt that movie is that it was sold as a horror movie.”

[phantom-threaded]

Crimson Peak 2015, dir. Guillermo del Toro

[lucy-harker]

But the horror... The horror was for love. The things we do for love like this are ugly, mad, full of sweat and regret. This love burns you and maims you and twists you inside out. It is a monstrous love and it makes monsters of us all.

CRIMSON PEAK (2015) dir. Guillermo del Toro

[horrorheights]

What do you dream of? A kind man? A pure soul to be redeemed? Perfection? Perfection has no place in love, Edith!

- Crimson Peak (2015) Guillermo del Toro

[pre-raphaelisme]

Lovers in a Garden by Edward Burne-Jones, 1861

[yvain]

Stoker (2013) dir. Park Chan-wook and "The Lady of the House of Love" by Angela Carter

[horrorheights]

"Oh! That gentleness! How far more potent is it than force!"

~ Jane Eyre

[sirgawin]

The Other Lamb (2019) dir. Małgorzata Szumowska

[horrorheights]

“I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.”

- Jane Eyre

[erymanthian]

Paintings from the ‘Peripety’ series by Jen Mazza

[cithaerons]

— Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber  

[derangedrhythms]

I lay in bed alone. And I longed for him. And he disgusted me. 

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; from ‘The Bloody Chamber’

[divineandmajesticinone]

The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.

The Tiger's Bride, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

[pasdetrois]

like eve before you

George Frederic Watts, Eve Tempted (detail) • Vievee Francis, "Apologia" • Edmund Blair Leighton, The Keys (detail) • Maria Tatar, Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives • Angela Carter, "The Bloody Chamber" • Heinrich Aldegrever, Adam and Eve • Gustave Doré, Illustration for "Blue Beard" • Paul Dukas, Ariane et Barbe-bleue • Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer • Hans Baldung Grien, Eve, Serpent and Death • Erika Steiskal, Illustration for "The Bloody Chamber"

[holly-mckenzie]

Wuthering Heights (2011) → ADULTHOOD Costume Design by Steven Noble