Very Curious...

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” —Dorothy Parker

[semidarksorahana]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN.

By Megumi Inoue.

http://sorahana.ciao.jp/

[nssindelkdld-deactivated2020051]

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993) dir. Henry Selick And since I am dead, I can take off my head to recite Shakespearean quotations!

[one-photo-day-deactivated202005]

Picasso. Le masque Japonais, 1949, by Robert Capa.

[disneyadaptations]

On All Hallow’s Eve, when the moon is round, a virgin will summon us from under the ground. Oh oh! We shall be back, and the lives of all the children of Salem will be mine!

Hocus Pocus (1993) dir. Kenny Ortega

[cute-pet-animals-aww]

I am the dark, fear me 🦇

[indigodreams]

©Tom Chambers, Hidden Aviary

[deephouseacidbass]

[acecroft]

I condemn you to living death. To eternal hunger for living blood. BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA (1992) dir. Francis Ford Coppola

[histsciart]

Happy Halloween! 

Check out these “ghosts” found in Biodiversity Heritage Library!

Ghost bats (Macroderma gigas) live in Australia. SciArt by R. Mintern from the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1880), digitized by the Natural History Museum, London Library and Archives.

Labyrinth ghost moths (Abantiades labyrinthicus) also live in Australia. SciArt by Helena Scott for Australian Lepidoptera and their Transformations, Drawn from the Life, Vol. 1 (1864), digitized by the Australian Museum.

Atlantic ghost crabs (Ocypode quadrata) live along the Atlantic coast of the United States. SciArt by Mark Catesby for his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, Vol. 2 Ed. 2 (1754), digitized by the Peter Raven Library of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Ghost orchids (Epipogium aphyllum) lack chlorophyll, grow in dimly lit areas, and rarely appear. SciArt by Walter Hood Fitch for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, Vol. 80 (1854), digitized by the Peter Raven Library of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Enjoy more #PageFrights in the Flickr gallery of Biodiversity Heritage Library! 

[robertmitchum]

I dreamed that I, that I killed you and Danny. But I didn’t just kill ya. I cut you up in little pieces. Oh my God. I must be losing my mind.

THE SHINING dir. Stanley Kubrick

[bob-belcher]

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) dir. Henry Selick

[chrishemsworht]

                                🎃 HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃

[madeline-kahn]

Dancing in Film: Halloween Edition

Featuring Corpse Bride, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (chgph. Michael Smuin), Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (chgph. Anne Fletcher), Young Frankenstein (chgph. Alan Johnson), Hocus Pocus (chgph. Kenny Ortega), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (chgph. David Toguri), The Addams Family (chgph. Peter Anastos), Beetlejuice (chgph. Chrissy Bocchino), It 2017 (chgph. Roberto Campanella), and The Skeleton Dance

[talesfromthecrypts]

Every year, on Halloween, this town goes batshit crazy. 

Tales of Halloween (2015)

[cvasquez]

[ledger-heath]

Samantha Robinson as Elaine in The Love Witch (2016)

[histsciart]

Happy Halloween!

Give your Halloween true love a delightfully dark bouquet of black flowers. Select your favorite black flower in my Flickr gallery of SciArt found in the collections of Biodiversity Heritage Library (@biodivlibrary​).

Dragon arum (Dracunculus vulgaris) by Peter Charles Henderson for Robert John Thornton’s Temple of Flora (1807), which was digitized by the Raven Library of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Hyacinth (Hyacinthus orientalis) from Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Vol. 18 (1869-70), edited by Louis Von Houtte, which was digitized by the Raven Library of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Bellflowers (Genus Campanula) with a blood red Dianthus plumarius. SciArt from Gartenflora, Bd. 2 (1853), edited by E. Regel, which was digitized by Harvard Botany Libraries. 

Black primroses (Primula auricula) by L. Stroobant for Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe, Vol. 4 (1848), edited by Louis Von Houtte, which was digitized by the Raven Library of the Missouri Botanical Garden.