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"I fear nothing. Your hands on fire, it's burning me..."

Spanish Baroque playwright Tirso de Molina who staged the first dramatisation of the Don Juan legend, died #OTD 1648

🎨 Charles Ricketts "Don Juan challenging the Commander" (1928)

#ofdarkandmacabre

"... the Beauties of Nature and Wonders of Art”

Anglo-French Romanticist painter Philip James de Loutherbourg died #OTD 1820 in Chiswick

🎨 "Avalanche" (1803)

“It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern'st good-night” (Shakespeare)

🎨 Johannes Figlhuber's concept art for "Ori and the Blind Forest" (2017)

#OwlishMonday #ofdarkandmacabre #dontgointothewoods

"So he went into the forest with the intention of hanging himself from a tree." (Brothers Grimm)

Broke blacksmith met Old Nick thusly in the woods who helped him out of his misery and gets cheated and beaten for his pains. Poor Devil.

#FaustianFriday #dontgointothewoods

"Yet men have found so many methods, sadly,
To cheat the Devil of their souls, or try" (Goethe)

And in the end, Faust is indeed forgiven under some divine volte or the the other and poor Mephisto is left with his binding contract unfulfilled for all his pains

#FaustianFriday

"I was shown a small square pillar of white stone, which had been recently discovered in the wood" (Arthur Machen)

... dedicated to Nodens, "the god of the Great Deep or Abyss" in Roman times and witness to some very disturbing rituals.

#WyrdWednesday #dontgointothewoods

“But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.” (Sheridan Le Fanu)

🎨 Richard Riemerschmid "Cloud Ghosts" (1897)

#BookwormSat

"My dear sir, you see the thing
Exactly as all men see it: why,
We must re-order everything,
Before the joys of life slip by.
Hang it!" (Goethe)

...or, the beginning of one of world literature's most peculiar male bonding scenes

🎨 Harry Clarke "Faust" (1926)

#FaustianFriday

"Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living."

"Wild Swiss" Henry Fuseli was born #OTD 1741 in Zurich

🎨 "The Nightmare" (1791)

"Art is a line around your thoughts.”

Gustav Klimt died #OTD 1918

🎨 "Nixen - Silberfische" ("Nixies", 1899)