Pale and Interesting

Look inside my soul

It’s a sci-fi holiday in these Ed Emshwiller cover illustrations for Christmas issues of Galaxy magazine, 1951 to 1960. Please note that Santa Claus appears in each one, always with four arms.

— Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

Vita Sackville-West, from a letter to Virginia Woolf, featured in The Letters of Vita Sackville West & Virginia Woolf

Bizarre No. 13, 1954, from The Complete Reprint of John Willie's Bizarre (1995)

THE SUBSTANCE (2024) dir. Coralie Fargeat + TRIVIA

John Brophy is an American artist currently living in Ireland

"The Penitent Magdalene" ~ by Francesco Lupicini

The Will o' the Wisp and the Snake by Hermann Hendrich (1854–1931)

The Seventh Victim (1943)

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Art by Gina Lacob