Death and The Emperor

Thought I'd draw the curtains, stop the clocks, cover the mirrors and then retire to my room

[the-mediaeval-monk]

Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 304 f.47v

Three smiling bat doodles with script (proto gothic?)

Drawn by Matthew Paris, monk at Saint Albans.

Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 304

View high resolution digitized images of Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 304 Texts on prognostication

[nyxshadowhawk]

Diagrams from a thirteenth-century version of the Ars Notoria.

[ancientsstudies]

Chetham's Library.

[glorianas]

Alicia von Rittberg as Elizabeth Tudor in Becoming Elizabeth (2022)

[genes-tierney]

Who's got a kiss for the Pickety Witch?

SLEEPY HOLLOW (1999) dir. Tim Burton

[devouringyourson]

mia wasikowska portraying india stoker, edith cushing and jane eyre is so deeply personal to all the autistic former weird little girls who grew up on gothic romance novels and had no friends (it's me im the girlies)

[possession]

STOKER (2013) dir. Park Chan-wook

[userslayer]

Perhaps it has always been there, this thing, this demon inside me. Or behind my back, waiting for me to turn around.

[happyheidi]

gothic garden entomology vintage book covers

[biohazard-pizza]

The Strange Woman (1946)

[thenighteternal]

[detailedart]

Moonlight

[zegalba]

[thelongvictorian]

Death and the Maiden (1908) by Marianne Stokes (Austrian artist, lived 1855-1927).

[jameslaurentxx]

| brussels, belgium |

[aqua-regia009]

Hidden Duvivier, Fotocollage 2019 by Volker Hermes

[infected]

Miguel Carbonell Selva (1854-1896) - Death of Sappho, 1881