Feigning Death Part 3. Read the bewitching conclusion to Gloria Goldberg's strange out of body experience in Tales from Nevermore. Written by @sasidor.bsky.social, read it now: www.arkhamhorror.com/news/tales-f...

Check out this new story I wrote! Oddities, Opossums, and the Occult abound! www.arkhamhorror.com/news/tales-f...

Feigning Death - Part Two Gloria Goldberg's strange tale continues in this extract from the pages of Tales from Nevermore and @sasidor.bsky.social. Read or download today's issue now: www.arkhamhorror.com/news/tales-f...

Pavel Tchelitchew, 1949

A 3,400 year old Ancient Egyptian ‘Senet’ game board with gaming pieces. Senet is one of the earliest known board games. Popular in ancient Egypt, it was associated with the soul’s journey through the underworld and was often placed in tombs. Brooklyn Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

Green Man, a pagan symbol of fertility. Nave Ceiling Boss. Crowland Abbey was a monastery of the Benedictine Order in Lincolnshire. #Easter #grotesque #monstrous

Had a work trip to Swansea Museum earlier. Waiting in the foyer I overheard a school kid say to their group "Let's go and see the devil!" I followed them *of course* down to the lower ground floor and found The Swansea Devil... >>> Hit Alt Text to Discover More <<<

Jinenger, an eccentric, energetic mountain yam, is an unofficial mascot for Shiroi City.

A close up of a most magnificent Moth, a Privet Hawk-moth. #MothMonday #teammoth

Takato Yamamoto

Jaguar mace head nephrite jade 500 BCE - 500 CE Chorotega culture Costa Rica #handmade #ancientart #culture #chorotega #costarica #mesoamerica #precolumbian #prehispanic #carved #nephrite #jade #jaguar #macehead #weapon #ceremonial #ritual #religion #art #craft #oneofakind

The goddess Athena herself would have coveted this stirrup-spout bottle in the shape of an owl. Created thousands of miles across the ocean from Greece, this bottle is typical of the work of Moche ceramicists of Peru’s North Coast. #MetMuseum 🏺 1/ 200-500 CE. 📸 me

Reminder: most rodents have thumb nails rather than claws. In fact the ancestor of all rodents probably had nails. They probably evolved independently from our nails but for similar reasons: nails are good for dexterous food handling. 📸Missagia et al 2025

The Mills of the Gods by Tim Powers: Review by Gary K. Wolfe locusmag.com/review/...

Cladonia sp lichen. NWT, Canada. Lichen is about 3cm high. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Near perfect cubes of Pyrite from a mine in Spain. These natural crystals have not been carved, cut, or polished and are shown just as they came from the earth. This 1.8kilo specimen has 3 amazing cubes that sit attached to their original limestone matrix. ~ r/Damnthatsinteresting

Timeless design! Roman rock crystal gaming die marked one to six like modern dice 🎲 1st-2nd century AD. 📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Archaeology

Writing something about the new edition of The Thing Artbook, and I've finally traced the uncredited artist for the cover of the Bantam novelisation. It's Jim Burns. Rather vague where the film is concerned but it's still the best of the novelisation covers.

The Venus of Brassempouy (or Lady of Brassempouy) is one of the earliest representations of the human face. It was sculpted in mammoth ivory about 25,000 years ago. It was discovered in a cave at Brassempouy, France in 1892.

Spirit guardian, Henan or Hebei China, ca. 500-534

Cetraria islandica, an edible #lichen, often called Iceland Moss…even though it isn’t a moss. Looks very Star Trek. Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

A charming #Egyptian figurine of a hedgehog, made of faience, dating ca 1900 BC, from Thebes, #Egypt. The Egyptians associated hedgehogs with rebirth. On display at Neues Museum Berlin 📷 me 🏺

See, this is what the internet is really about: a lovely older gentleman showing off the massive purple cabbage he grew whilst wearing a purple cabbage print hat and coat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRYw...

Happy Noirvember to all who celebrate! On the Criterion Channel, enjoy a wide array of private eyes, femmes fatales, toughs, and fall guys in our British Noir, Blackout Noir and Japanese Noir collections, plus so much more! 🖤

Ciruelo Cabral, Black Cat

The happiness of flannel shirt season...

I am the prey

Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3 📷 D. v. Recklinghausen 🏺

Latest read (audio), Swords and Ice Magic (1973-77); the earliest Fafhrd & Gray Mouser stories are generally the most fondly remembered (and they are great) but Leiber, in his sixties, when he wrote these short stories (and a novel) is really wonderful here as well. #BookSky

It takes a lot of really talented people to make movies great. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Since FALLEN STAR came out last week, I've been bombarded with messages from scammers pretending to be famous authors, just wanting to be my pal. I was curious what Fake Dan Brown wanted from me. Here is our exchange. leegoldberg.com/my-conversat...

Polished off a lobster roll, nursing my second cold pint, and waiting for the theremin music to kick in...

Ramón Manchón, 1926

So today I learned that there were tie-in novels for THE DOLLARS TRILOGY that went beyond the movies and boy do they have some amazing titles.

‘Serpents’ corsage ornament by René Lalique, 1889-1900 gulbenkian.pt/museu/en/wor...

VIRIDIAN HORROR (2024) Acrylic - 14 ¾” x 12 ½” Shoggoth study for AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft I don't know what possessed me to spend time on this hideous thing, but...it insisted on crawling out of my imagination.

Visions & Nightmares, our new #ArkhamHorror omnibus is on sale now! Get 3 action-packed tales of horror & the silver screen by @rosemaryjones.bsky.social, plus two new short stories featuring fan-favorite Betsy Baxter. Read the 1st short story, Old Terrors, now. www.arkhamhorror.com/news/visions...

Nicolau Raurich, Catalan, Spanish (1871-1945), Barcelona, 1909, oil on panel, 115.5 x 95.5 cm, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Was very lucky to do a cover for a reprint of GODS OF JADE AND SHADOW by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Arcadia Books 💚

The Foundation is back and this time Professor Dyer's expedition to Terra Antarctica has their attention. Written by Sam Gregor-Stewart, read The Foundation Files: Expedition Appraisal. www.arkhamhorror.com/news/the-fou...

Our friends at @aconytebooks.bsky.social have a new book announcement! Visions & Nightmares is a new omnibus that includes 3 action-packed pulp adventures. Written by @rosemaryjones.bsky.social & cover art by @thinkstrange.bsky.social, pre-order Visions & Nightmares today! books2read.com/u/3LMXY1

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Jerzy Szelagowsky, Polish (1929-1991), Nokturn, 1961, gouache on paper, 35 x 24.7 cm, private collection

The Foundation is back and have their eyes on a potential new recruit… ⁠ Read, The Foundation Files: Evaluation Report by David Annandale now! www.arkhamhorror.com/news/the-fou...

Jessica Brilli, contemporary US artist who works in a style that encompasses American realism and 20th century iconography #WomensArt #Monday

Welcome to the dazzling spectrum of Weird Wild West stories, from cowboys and outlaws squaring off against supernatural creatures to outlaws terrorizing the Martian frontier! What are your favorite examples? reactormag.com/five-books-s...

We begin a new series – Arkham International: Discover familiar faces, far from home in the aftermath of the events of the Drowned City. Read or listen to Chapter One: Paris at the link below, written by @jmreynolds.bsky.social and narrated by ToddMenesses. www.arkhamhorror.com/news/arkham-...

I have made another little video of Early Gothic reading recommendations but this time they're (slightly) less well-known! youtu.be/ONuSvBFewpU?...