Starry Wisdom Sect

★ Est. 1844 ★ Providence, RI ★

[starrywisdomsect]

Dark Intruder  (1965) 

[va-lentine]

Carl Linnaeus - Floral clock, 'Philosophia botanica', 1751

[hadrian6]

The Camposanto in Pisa. 1858. Leo Von Klenze. German 1784-1864. oil/canvas.     http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

[spiritsdancinginthenight]

Reconstructed mummy shroud of a woman and a young boy from Saqqara, with the gods Osiris and Anubis dates from the 2nd Century, A.D. https://egypt-museum.com/mummy-shroud-of-a-woman-a-boy/

[venustapolis]

Prometheus (Jean Delville, 1907)

[koredzas]

Fernando Yanez de la Almedina - Saint Sebastian. 1506

[somerandomrecluse]

INFERNO (1980)

Dir. Dario Argento

[thalasophobic]

San Sebastiano. Giovanni Colacicchi. c. 1943 C.E. Oil on canvas.

[starrywisdomsect]

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari  (1920)

[hadrian6]

The Sun God Helios. 138-161 AD. marble. Neues Museum Berlin.                  http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

[yoursghouly]

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[toomuchhorrorfiction]

Paperback horror novels by Shirley Jackson

Published by Popular Library, 1970s

[funeral]

Puppets, dolls, and other carica­tures of the human often make cameo appearances as shapes sagging in the corner of a child's bedroom or lolling on the shelves of a toy store. There are also dismembered limbs and de­capitated heads of manikins that have been relegated to spare parts strewn about an old warehouse where such things are stored or sent to die. As backdrops or bit-players, imitations of the human form have a symbolic value because they seem con­nected to another world, one that is all harm and disorder—the kind of place we sometimes fear is the model for our own home ground, which we must believe is passably sound and secure, or at least not an environment where we might mistake a counter­feit person for the real thing. But in fiction, as in life, mistakes are sometimes made. 

Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

[beyond-the-pale-deactivated2023]

Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (1833-1922) Samson's Youth, 1891

Christie's, 2018

[anitapallenberg]

Black Sunday (Mario Bava, 1960)

[ducissatenebrarum]

Solomonic Pentacles (Key to the 12 Months) from Éliphas Lévi’s personal copy of his Les Clavicules de Salomon, 1860

[weepingwidar]

Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899-1991) - Black Cat (n.d.)