Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)

A thing about my bookaholic tendencies is I can sniff bargains. For £4 in a single second-hand shop today I got a hoard that would've cost me £97 cheapest for the same editions if bought online.

The Lodger (1927)

Dora Maar by Man Ray (1936)

Labour are backtracking on a plan to help save birds: by blocking a new rule that would make developers put a £35 nest brick in every new home. They think it'll help win them votes - we need to show it would do the opposite. Sign the petition 38d.gs/ky2i

I also got this today. #BookAddiction

Dance - George Tooker (1946) #Art #thanatos #DanceOfDeath

The Seance - Hyman Bloom (1931) #art

My current obsession is antique and vintage weird and macabre poster art. #books #art

#MementoMoriMonday My mummified sheep heart

#MementoMoriMonday My antique green poison bottle and varied curiosa

Frosted Green

Nuclear explosion tree I saw on my walk today

Tunnels and bridges

The skeleton of Sister Mélanie Calvat attended by two nun devotees. Mélanie Calvat (1831 - 1904) alongside her friend Maximin Giraud reported seeing an apparition of the Virgin Mary La Salette-Fallavaux, France, in 1846.

Hair-do for the Atomic Age (1951) ~ model: Liliana Orsi. Photographer: Unidentified

Lady Viola (Ethel Martin) - photo by Fred Clark. circa 1920s/30s Lady Viola travelled the circus sideshow circuit with her 8 foot tall husband, the Giant Captain Gulliver. She still worked the shows into her 70s

Anna Coleman Ladd was a neoclassicist sculptor but the carnage of World War I saw her divert from galleries to sculpting masks for 'the men with broken faces' - soldiers who had been badly disfigured in battle

Where the wild garlic grows ...

H.G. Robley's Mokomokai collection photo - H. Stevens (1895) Mokomokai/Toi Moko are the preserved heads of the Maori people. They were prepared both for ancestral rites and as war trophies. This collection was repatriated to Te Papa Tongarewa museum with intention of return to their families

Zwei Kinder ~ Otto Dix (1921)

Death Rides a Mosquito: Japanese health graphic. Artist unidentified (circa 1930s/40s)

The Possibilities are endless now ... Crazy to think that Hinson apparently wrote this song aged 15 (but didn't studio record until decades later) - it's so sophisticated and moving. youtu.be/Ks1v5BTx3dY?...

Nice surprise today. These 'rectangle' trees can be seen from miles around locally and I frequently notice them. Anyway my brother has just informed me that it was my dad (who has just recently died age 98) who actually planted them. 🙂🌳

Just a random fish in the street, found on my walk today. Nothing to see here, move along now.

My spirituality is actually inclined towards Animism but I wear the St. Christopher's as my late father left me it, the Celtic Cross was a gift from my late mother and the rectangle is funerary jewellery containing some of soul-cat's ashes. So my pendants are actually memento mori/ancestral worship

Moonshine #CaturdayEveryday

Apple blossom #SilentSunday

#SilentSunday Peony bud

Where does all the time go? #SilentSunday

Moonshine and I.

Just got weighed in hospital. I am 66.6 kg which amused the nurse 😈 (I have however somehow unintentionally lost a stone in little over a month so hopefully that won't continue 🪨)

My dad's obituary (including my eulogy) www.weardale-gazette.co.uk/michael-paci...

Japanese womb doll (circa 1877)

Radium cigarettes (During the early 20th Century Radium craze not all products with Radium in name actually contained it, one time when false advertising was actually a good thing)

Trying to limit my book-buying whilst I'm in a wave of depression is not really happening. Art/photo books especially are my self-medication for melancholy, my drug of choice. The latest acquisition to arrive ...

Out of context. The latest page I've illustrated for Dr Bob Curran's Conjure Man comic strip

New post on my Northumbria Ghost~Lore Society blog northumbriaghostloresociety.wordpress.com/2025/05/04/e...

Currently #Reading

Got a Starling nest on my roof. 🙂 Sad to see the diminishing murmurations, but it sounds like a healthy brood in there. They're keeping their parents busy gathering invertebrates.

Midnight by the urn of Shah

Currently #Reading 💀💀💀💀

Dark was the night, Cold the ground. I heard voices all around ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9cm...

The sky began to descend I guess this will be the bitter end of me www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0wi...

Studio Manasse

Studio Manassé- Totentanz, 1930

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920) poster by Antonio Pérez González (1971)