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Frontispiece: Burkard Keller of Yburg. Legends of the Black Forest (1890)

A ghostly woman glowing white floats in the air, her bare feet not touching the ground, as she reaches out to a knight, kneeling in awestruck adoration. In the background a statue of the same woman at [...]

Keywords: people, ghosts, spirit, spooky, owls, forests, knights, colour

Places shown: Baden; Germany

Added: 2009-03-24

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Frontispiece, Judges V. 20. Astrology (1806)

The engraving opposite the title page of this erly 19th century (1806) book on Astrology clearly tries to place a Biblical and Christian veneer over the proceedings. It falls perhaps a little wide of [...]

Keywords: astrology, temples, people, zodiac, spooky, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-08-23

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Page detail: Art Neuveau border The Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

A detail from the January Week 1 page showing the decorative border, which repeats on every fourth page throughout most of the book. A cat stands on a skull.

Keywords: borders, cats, skulls, sketches, spooky, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-25

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1.—Martyrs suspended by one or both feet, by the arms with heavy weights attached to the feet; crucified; Christian women hung up by the hair Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyrs suspended by one foot. B. Suspended by both feet. C. Raised on the cross head uppermost. D. Nailed to the cross, head downwards. E. Hung up by both arms, heavy weights being attached to the [...]

Keywords: death, torture, nudity, people, punishments, religion, feet, bare feet, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-26

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12.—Gaulish Deity. Hesus. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A Celtic war god

Keywords: spirit, druids, gods, religion, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-03-13

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29.—Arch-Druid in his full Judicial Costume. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A fanciful drawing of an Arch-Druid (archdruid) in his full costume, judicial presumably meaning that he is ready to judge over people. An old and stern-looking man with a long flowing beard wears a r [...]

Keywords: people, beards, bare feet, monks, robes, druids, spooky, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-08-29

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Catacombs in Alexandria Pictureseque Egypt Vol I (1878)

“By far the most magnificent portion [of Alexandria] was the Bruchium (granery, or height), bathed by the waters of the Great Harbour, and adjoining the oldest part of the city, namely, the original f [...]

Keywords: death, interiors, caves, catacombs, tombs, spooky, ancient egypt, greyscale

Places shown: Alexandria; Egypt

Added: 2006-02-10

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Young Bekie Some British Ballads (1919)

The picture shows a young man lying on the floor of a prison cell or castle dungeon [donjon], his hands on his head, and with one ankle chained to the wall. There are a great number of rats or mice i [...]

Keywords: interiors, prisons, animals, people, chains, colour, spooky

Places shown: Paris; France

Added: 2006-05-13

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In a Gloomy Wood Inferno: The Vision of Hell (1870)

In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growt [...]

Keywords: forests, spooky, people, trees, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-10-28

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In Needwood Forest The Story of Some English Shires (1897)

“. . . the Roman road from leicester to Chester skirted the Forest of Needwood, and was held by a station at Uttoxeter” (p. 177) In Needwood Forest is some of Britain’s most ancient woodland. It is ma [...]

Keywords: forests, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Needwood Forest; Tutbury; Staffordshire; England

Added: 2005-09-20

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18. Five Skulls Fabrica... (1543)

The top-left skull here is normal, and the others are abnormal.

Keywords: anatomy, skulls, death, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-11-03

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Arches of Cloister of S. Aubin’s Abbey, Angers A Short History of the English People (1902)

The Abbey of S. Aubin, founded in Merovingian times, seems to have been rebuilt by Geoffrey Greygown and Fulk the Black. “Only one huge tower remains, but fragments of it are still to be seen embedde [...]

Keywords: ruins, pillars, arches, abbeys, occult, spooky, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Angers; Maine-et-Loire; France

Added: 2008-07-07

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