Peter Steele posing for Mark Weiss

Roma, Corpus Delicti

Siouxsie Sioux, 1981

Batcave & Tribe Club, by Derek Ridgers (1980s)

Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star), 1990s.

It's all about the gothic romance

Nosferatu 2024, Frankenstein 2025, and Werwulf 2026. I'm alive at exactly the right time

[ #art ] Ophelia by Ernest Hébert (1876)

[ #art ] "Romantic Encounter" by Mihály von Zichy (1827-1906)

[ #art ] "The River's End" by Dean Cornwell(1892 - 1960)

[ #art ] "Diogenes" by John William Waterhouse (1882)

[ #art ] Medieval heart-shaped prayer book in a medieval painting and in real life

[ #art ] The Funeral of Atala (The Entombment of Atala), by French painter Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1808)

It’s the perfect time of year to focus on my indoor hobbies like lying down in a dark room and feeling insane

[ #art ] "Frederick the Great Playing the Flute at Sanssouci" by Adolph Menzel (1852)

[ #art ] "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Emilio Freixas (1899-1976)

Winona Ryder & Sadie Frost in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, 1992

[ #art ] Angel of the Resurrection by Giulio Monteverde

The Seventh Seal, dir. Ingmar Bergman (1957)

Louise Post of Veruca Salt, 1997

[ #art ] Romantic Darkness by Ozy Worldy

Tia Giles lying over the grave of Bela Lugosi, by Fred H. Berger, Propaganda Magazine

[ #art ] "Medusa on her throne" by Reza Sedghi

[ #art ] The Soul of the Rose by John William Waterhouse

[ #art ] "Does anyone see my suffering" by Luca Ponsato

[ #art ] Cats by Shou Xin

[ #art ] Disappointed Love by Francis Danby (Irish, 1793–1861)

[ #art ] The Fairy of the Moon by Hermann Kaulbach (1846-1909)

Deleting the apps so I can meet someone the old fashioned way (force my creator to make another creature such as myself so I cannot be alone)

[ #filmsky / #moviesky ] Van Helsing (2004)

[ #art ] Old German Folk Tale by Hermann Hendrich, 1896

[ #art ] Palas Atena by Rembrandt

[ #art ] Eve by Mauro De Donatis

Percy Shelley doodling while helping his wife Mary edit the draft of her first novel, #Frankenstein ; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818):

Please read books, poetry, academic articles, comics...please think & reflect...know your history...it matters much more than this screen-addled, instant gratification, sound-bite, consumer based irreality tries to tell you

[ #art ] The Sleeping Beauty by Konrad Dielitz, 1879

[ #art ] The Kiss by Mihály Zichy (1827–1906)

Dracula’s Brides in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

[ #art ] Romeo and Juliet by Frank Dicksee (1884)

[ #art ] 'The Origin of the Harp of Elfin' (c. 1890), Henry Jones Thaddeus (Irish, 1859-1929)

[ #art ] Front cover of Vanity Fair, November 1921

[ #art ] The Garden of Armida by John Collier

[ #art ] The Three Fates by Alexander Rothaug

[ #art ] by René Gruau

[ #art ] "The Kiss" by Silvio Allason

[ #art] Dante and Virgil encounter Lucifer in Hell, by Henry John Stock (1923)

[ #art ] "The lament for Icarus" by Herbert James Draper, 1898

[ #art ] Gustav Klimt, Death and Life, 1908

[ #art ] Sleep by Christina Bothwell