It's been raining all day but now it's cleared just in time for sunset 🌅

'What do you want, dark ghost! Where are you going?' -Guido Gezelle 🎨Moritz von Schwind #PhantomsFriday

Another of Prof Ronald Hutton’s excellent Gresham College Lectures www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/go...

Bat Friday

New art doll available on my website The Forgotten Queen I love her and she has to be one of my favourites ever. littlebirdofparadise.bigcartel.com/product/the-... #bsnm #handmade #artsky #witchsky #Christmas

Another Mossy Troll waiting to be photographed tomorrow 💚✨ #goblincore #troll #britishfolklore #artdolls

Mossy Trolls! xphaiea.bigcartel.com #goblincore #trolls #dollart #folklore

A small wip. She is supposed to be a Christmas Fairy but so far, she looks more like the ghost of a Victorian child 😅🤣 Let's see what happens with her today... Happy weekend everyone ❤️ #folkart #handmade #dollcreation

daamn Caitlin R. Kiernan was looking sooo good in this H.P. Lovecraft documentary from 2008 like wow shes so goals. Bleaching the top + front while keeping the ponytail dark was srsly such a high-tier maneuver for the time (she wrote a really good book called The Drowning Girl & you should read it)

On this day in 1982, #TheSistersOfMercy released their third single, the iconic "Alice". On the other side is "Floorshow", another storming Sisters classic!

a mystery mushroom has sprung up in a pot in the front garden

This is a great exploration of the Mayan use of cave systems and how they incorporated them into their religion and ceremonial practises. Well worth watching! youtu.be/BRjG9hUoV2k?...

I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.

Thank you Dina Douglass for unearthing this photo, young and in love. 🥀🥀 "I took this photo of Rozz Williams and Ron Athey during the Christian Death in-store appearance at Vinyl Fetish in Hollywood. The date was April 10, 1982, to promote the release of Only Theatre of Pain."

A team of archaeologists working high on the Aurlandsfjellet mountain plateau in Vestland County, Norway, has made a fantastic discovery: a remarkably well-preserved 1,500-year-old reindeer trapping system revealed by retreating ice. archaeologymag.com/2025/11/1500...

Forest in Late Autumn, Caspar David Friedrich, 1835.

Raven dives into a whale’s mouth and builds a fire; he travels to a town of ghosts, who rob him blind; he teaches a perpetual loser to be the Greatest Gambler in the World... Read the myths of the Tlingit people of southeastern Alaska: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

'Wapping' (1941) by John Minton (Imperial War Museums)

Oh to be a spiky little guy snuffling around in the mossy ground

ʍɛȶǟʍօʀքɦɨǟ : phase 3 www.xphaiea.bigcartel.com #xphaiea #metamorphosis #artdoll #art #softsculpture #surrealism

Collage, Nov. 2025 #illustration #artsky #collage #artistsofbluesky #art

We are out here fighting over whether we should keep burning the atmosphere or if people should have enough food to eat, and meanwhile the spiders are learning to cooperate. You do not want the spiders to cooperate. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...

"Science fiction is the mythology of modern technology." – Ursula K. Le Guin #famousquotes #futurism

METAMORPHIA Two new mini art dolls now available on my website xphaiea.bigcartel.com/products #bugs #weirdart #goblincore #hybrid #insects

Citizens of the Land of Mushrooms, C20th lithograph.

#supermoon #fullmoon

Some more recently collaged cards! #collage #art #illustration

Art by • Mark Harrison

“Offrandet” - Mixed Media On Hahnemühle cold press 100% cotton 300 gsm / 140 lb watercolor paper (Status: Available) If interested DM me or message me through my website, link in bio.

Hello Wednesday. 🖼️ Jill Barklem

doodle made into a handmade card #illustration #drawing

Yes, here's the classic illo from Leo and Diane Dillon, a marvelous painting.

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

the beast of tomorrows

𝗣𝗘𝗚 𝗣𝗢𝗪𝗟𝗘𝗥 is a grotesque figure believed to haunt the river Tees. Similarly to the watery hag Jenny Greenteeth, she also lures children to their death with her bewitching hypnotic stare and long green hair. #pegpowler #jennygreenteeth #ghouls #halloween #britishfolklore #artdolls

Yellow Eye, a Forest Spirit 🌿 Handmade from textiles and found objects, she is a little beauty ready to be displayed on your walls. See more pictures on my website littlebirdofparadise.bigcartel.com/product/yell... #textileart #dollcreation #bsnm #artshop #art #handmade #fantasy

Sid posing for the camera

"He drags her head to the bed's edge... With a plunge he seizes her neck in his fang-like teeth—a gush of blood, and a hideous sucking noise follows. The girl has swooned, and the vampyre is at his hideous repast!" —Varney the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood, James Malcolm Rymer #BookWormSat

🌳🌘🌳"A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her." 📖Terry Pratchett - Wintersmith. #BookWormSat #FolkloreSunday

BANSHEE The death-messenger from Irish folklore, known for her overpowering scream heralding a death in the family. www.xphaiea.bigcartel.com #banshee #irishfolklore #ghouls #goblincore #dolls

‘I call upon Pan, the pastoral god, I call upon the universe, upon the sky, the sea, and the land, queen of all, I also call upon immortal fire; all of these are Pan’s realm.’ — ‘Orphic Hymn 10: To Pan’ (trans. Athanassakis & Wolkow) 🎨Athanasius Kircher, 1652

The 𝙁𝙄𝙅𝙄 𝙈𝙀𝙍𝙈𝘼𝙄𝘿 was a popular sideshow exhibit, supposedly the bizarre real life proof of the existence of mermaids, it was in fact fashioned from the torso of a monkey attached to the tail of a fish. ••• #fijimermaid #cryptids #goblincore #horrordolls #creepycute

𝗚𝗪𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗛 𝗬 𝗥𝗛𝗜𝗕𝗜𝗡 is a monstrous spirit from Welsh folklore that is seen as an omen of death, similar to a banshee. She is believed to resemble a hideous shrieking hag with leathery wings and skeletal appearance. #gwrachyrhibin #welshfolklore #goblincore #horrordolls #halloween

GLAISTIG The Glaistig is a Scottish supernatural character, sometimes believed to be the ghost of a noblewoman. Also referred to as The Green Lady, she is often seen mournfully walking through crumbling castles and her approach is heralded by the sound of her hooves. #glaistig #scottishfolklore

Sid found some amanitas! #amanita #amanitamuscaria #borderterrier #dogs #woodlandwalk

Blackthorn #artdolls #goblincore #witchsky

Halloween is near! It's time to post this marvellous articulated Roman skeleton, presumably meant to be a reminder to enjoy life to the fullest, since pleasure ends irrevocably with death. In Petronius’ Satyricon, the host of a dinner party brings out a small skeleton with moveable...🧵1/2

Afternoon walk

got new craftpaper stickers ✨