Long Whispering Shadows

40/Bi/He/Him 18+ MDNI Sometimes (NSFW) A place for not just Universal and Hammer horror films, but also silent horrors, giallo's, krimi's, slashers, kaiju, the paranormal, creature features, Harryhausen, Hitchcock, Corman, cult movies, golden age hollywood, psychedelia, retro, kitsch, kinky and gothic stuff, etc. Some triggering content.

[pmamtraveller]

The Black Sea at night, by Ivan Aivazovski (1879)

[anasabdin]

warmth

[aperfumedpearl]

[mistressofthemacabresworld]

[edwardslovelyelizabeth]

Perfume bottle by F. Boucheron | France, XlX century

[headless-horse]

The Skull Series

[cryptofwrestling]

Cover art from A Clutch Of Vampires ,by Edward Gorey

[aqua-regia009]

The Nightmare (1790–91) - Johann Heinrich Füssli

[the-cinder-fields]

Julien Adolphe Duvocelle, Ogling skull c1904

[nyx-lys]

Model: Anaïs B.

Photography / makeup / hair :  Nyx Lys

[yharnam-art]

Gothic Bridge.

[batstolovers]

☽ 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔠 𝔞𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔱𝔦𝔠 (x) ☾

[arteandemocion]

Detail of "Young Man with a Skull", Frans Hals (c.1626-1628)

Art history for those who look closer. Hidden meanings. Dark symbols. Classical paintings that still haunt us centuries later.

[decode the hidden symbolism here]

[caspar-david-friedrich-paintings]

-The Cemetery Entrance-

[ilcontephotography]

La Recoleta Cemetery.

Buenos Aires, Argentina.

© Roberto Conte (2025)

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[ducissatenebrarum]

The Flaming Flame, 1667, Amsterdam

[publicdomainreview]

Illustration by Scottish artist Noel Laura Nisbet, for a 1916 edition of “Cossack Fairy Tales”, a collection of folk stories from an area known to us today as western Ukraine: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/cossack-fairy-tales-1916