magnificent oblivion

[feral-ballad]

Carol Ann Duffy, from Rapture; “You”

[amaranth-devi1]

[joeinct]

Prison Tattoos, Ramsey Prison, Huntsville, Texas, Photo by Danny Lyon, 1968

[wxmatija]

[derangedrhythms]

Margaret Atwood, Dearly; from ‘Walking in the Madman’s Wood’

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustrations from Pierre Louÿs’ The Songs of Bilitis by Willy Pogany (1926)

[innervoiceartblog]

“I’m a dryad living in an old pine, or a little brown wood-elf hiding under a crinkled leaf. That white birch you caught me kissing is a sister of mine. The only difference is, she’s a tree and I’m a girl, but that’s no real difference.”

~ L.M. Montgomery, ‘Anne of Avonlea’

Image: Face Lifting amid the Olive Trees, Hollywood, California, 1947 by Edmund Teske

[hauntedbystorytelling]

lady, how you dare bathing nude! you unsettle the censors!

Harry Richardson Cremer :: Nude Woman under a Waterfall, undated (probably 1920s). | src eBay  | related post

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[hauntedbystorytelling]

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[shisasan]

Ph. Ellen Rogers

[spitblossoms]

[victorianchap]

Vintage photograph of a (mock-) Black mass room from French s&m brothel on Rue Navarin, Paris

[ancient-mystery]

[deathandmysticism]

 Yearbook of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1911

[lillyli-74]

It’s not time that passes, it’s you, it’s I.

~Rutger Kopland

[crumbargento]

Oramunde - Emlen Etting - 1933 (short film)

[sleepywalker]

[sad-house-of-mortality]

All beautifully haunting images by Sharon Covert