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"CHEESECAKE" (2005), YUE CHANG LIN 林月嫦

The earth has guilt, the earth has care, Unquiet are its graves; But peaceful sleep is ever there, Beneath the dark blue waves.

-Wallace Stevens, “Sunday Morning”

— by Georges Rochegrosse

Personal ads in Siren, a Toronto-based lesbian magazine, 1998

the macabre beauty of victorgpqart’s illustrations haunts me, a surreal descent into the darkest corners of the mind where horror and elegance entwine, a chilling reminder that the most terrifying things are often the most alluring, a dark siren’s call that beckons me deeper into the abyss

Max Slevogt, Three Sudanese in the Boat, 1914

— isa b. june's embrace

Pavel Karlovich Wenig

Beth Beri (ca. 1910) Louis Fleckenstein

T. Kingfisher - What Stalks the Deep