lucy🕯

she/they/he*23*this is my side blog for gothic literature, dark/dead academia & gothic aesthetics 🪦 im also @skanknstein

[theivorypiano]

𝔉𝔦𝔢𝔩𝔡 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔞 𝔳𝔦𝔢𝔴

gouache on canvas, 20x30cm

[duxuebing]

Photography by Xuebing Du

Instagram: xuebing.du

[therepublicofletters]

Portraits of Santa Casilda and Santa Catalina by Francisco de Zurbaran, ca. 1630

[stlamb]

agnus dei (lamb of god) by francisco de zurbaran - detail

[honeyrosepetals]

gorgeous stairs in an abandoned farmhouse

[self-titled-lives]

Church steeple struck by lightning in Baltimore, MD on the morning of March 28th

Photo by Barbara Haddock Taylor of The Baltimore Sun

[spiced-wine-fic]

The willow woman.

Photo taken by The Henge Shop, Avebury.

[hapless-hollow]

Autumn, hushed and full of phantoms.

Helaena C Moon

[hellfreeway]

"Ophélie" by Jean-Baptiste Bertrand, 1867

[lone-nyctophile]

[spookshowvixens]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MARY SHELLEY!

The original Goth Girl!

Born this day in 1797, we owe so much to this amazing woman, her morbid imagination and her devotion to the dark side of the Romantic movement.

[megairea]

— Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet, 1986.

[peaceinthestorm]

Edouard Kasparides (1858-1926, Austrian) ~ The Penitent Mary Magdalene in the Cave, 1890

[Source: johnmoran.com]

[mybluewindow]

Franz von Stuck - “Die Sinnlichkeit”, 1891

[coleqiala]

[evilvvithin]

KEANU REEVES as Jonathan Harker in BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA 1992 | dir. Francis Ford Coppola

[farmwitch]