Mid Century Morbid

I’m an adult who reads three different newspapers. This is Tumblr, where I go to get away from the news. If I don’t want to read something on Tumblr, I don’t have to. If I don’t reblog something, that doesn’t mean I’m ignoring it. I’m not talking about it here because I’m talking about it to people in my real life.

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Giuseppe Festino (b. 1943), “La sposa maledetta”

original cover art to Il Vampiro Vol. 4 #55, 1979

A curse upon you! With the wings of a bat! With the blood of a serpent! I shall curse you! Curse you!

Rikka Sormunen

Ghost Friend, 2024, oil on linen, 116x92 cm

Faience ring with Udjat eye, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, 1550-1292 BC

Canopic Jar Lid Depicting Duamutef

Ramesside Period, c. 1295–1069 B.C.

Acquired by the Louvre in 1899 through Georges-Aaron Bénédite and the dealer Panayotis Kyticas. Now on long-term loan to the Musée de Picardie, Amiens. E 10837

▫ This finely modelled Canopic jar lid represents the jackal-headed deity Duamutef, one of the Four Sons of Horus charged with protecting the internal organs of the deceased during mummification.

Duamutef, associated with the stomach, was under the protection of the goddess Neith. His distinctive canine features (elongated snout and alert ears) are rendered here in vibrant faience, whose lustrous glaze ranges across tones of deep blue, green, violet, and red. Such colours were not merely decorative but evoked regeneration, divine protection, and the eternal qualities of the afterlife.

Eartha Kitt, from Kodachrome slides, 1954

MĀRAMA (2025)

SNOW WHITE: A TALE OF TERROR (1997)

FRANKENSTEIN (2025)

NOSFERATU (2024)

THE UGLY STEPSISTER | DEN STYGGE STESØSTEREN (2025)

THE WITCH (2015)

Herz Bube + Herz Dame, Tarock-Spiel, tw. mit "Wiener Typen"/"Volksleben"-Darstellungen, Carl Holdhaus, um 1850

Plate of lepidoptera taken from 'Les Papillons de France' (1880).

Published by J. Rothschild.

Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique.