Storms Are Evil

[arteandemocion]

"The Magic Circle" - John William Waterhouse (1886)

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

[decode the hidden symbolism here]

[velvetnightgallery]

Burg Scharfenberg bei Nacht (1827) by Ernst Ferdinand Oehme

[rhera]

You're one of us You're a part of the night You're one of us Say goodbye to the light

— Nosferatu (2024), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), The Return of the Vampire (1943), Horror of Dracula (1958), Dracula (1931), Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

[derangedrhythms]

The twilight is enchanted, bewitched. Let’s stay out awhile. The garden’s suffused in magic. One doesn’t know what beautiful phantom might appear from these purple shadows.

Leonora Carrington, The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington; from 'The Sisters', tr. Kathrine Talbot

[deathandmysticism]

Zodiac Man, 1528

[cherubinas]

2025 film diary → DEN STYGGE STESØSTEREN // THE UGLY STEPSISTER (2025) dir. Emilie Blichfeldt

I'm hopeless. No one will ever choose me.

[silkenscreen]

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) dir. Peter Weir

[storms-are-evil]

Digital Dante offers original research and ideas on Dante: on his thought and work and on various aspects of his reception.

[storms-are-evil]

Divina Commedia, Paradiso, Canto XXVIII

[zegalba]

Serial Experiments Lain (1998)

[nobrashfestivity]

Juraj Herz, Beauty and the Beast, 1978

[deathandmysticism]

The Book of Revelation, a study of the last prophetic book of Holy Scripture, 1919

[shisasan]

the rain, the rain, the rain.

July 16th, 1962 Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters First published: 1977

[evilbuildingsblog]

Prague Castle in baroque style

[enchantedbook]

The knight’s encounter with the mysterious faery lady, an otherworldly figure who enchants him, draws him away from the world of men, and leaves his soul bound to her spell.

“I met a lady in the meads, Full beautiful, a faery’s child…”

From John Keats’s poem "La Belle Dame sans Merci." Engraving after Edward Brewtnall, 1881.

[les-fleur]

Vampyr (1932, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)

[jinxproof]

Lara Belmont | 'La Couture Nature' Vogue Paris (2000) ph. Satoshi Saikusa