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"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1920) is a film adaptation of the 1886 novella "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson.Millicent Carew does not appear in Stevenson's story,but rather in the 1887 stage version by Thomas Russell Sullivan #31daysofHalloween
The harpy eagle is a neotropical species of eagle. The word "harpy" comes from the Ancient Greek "harpyia". In Ancient Greek mythology, the harpies were wind spirits that took the dead to Hades or Tartarus, and were said to have a body like a vulture and the face of a woman.
The American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe died #OTD in 1849. In his honour, check out my new blog post in which I study @karenleestreet's "Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster" #31daysofHalloween https://t.co/JyzqNAnVoP
#FaustianFriday In Polish folklore and literature, Pan Twardowski is a sorcerer who made a deal with the Devil. He sold his soul in exchange for special powers – such as summoning up the spirit of Polish King Sigismund Augustus' deceased wife – but he eventually met a tragic fate
Gustave Doré's Hauntingly Beautiful 1883 Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" https://t.co/tPOTEHCjjT via @brainpicker #31daysofHalloween
"Los Caprichos" are a set of 80 prints in aquatint and etching created by Francisco Goya. The prints were an artistic experiment: a medium for Goya's condemnation of the universal follies in the Spanish society in which he lived https://t.co/Z5qGjEZ9qK #GothicAesthetics
John Anster Christian Fitzgerald was a Victorian era fairy painter and portrait artist. Many of his fairy paintings are dark and contain images of ghouls, demons, and references to drug use; his work has been compared to Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brueghel #FairyTaleTuesday
"The Family of the Vourdalak" is a novella by Alexei Tolstoy. The word "Vourdalak" was referenced by Pushkin referring to #vampires or werewolves from Slavic folklore. The novella became the basis for "I Wurdulak", one of the 3 parts of "Black Sabbath" https://t.co/SOJyWUUVLo
Odilon Redon: "My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They determine nothing.They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined. They are a kind of metaphor." #GothicAesthetics