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#GothicNewWorlds Thanks to her association with liminal spaces, Hecate is recognized as a chthonic goddess. As the holder of the keys that unlock the gates between realms, she can unlock the gates of death. By the 5th century BC, Hecate had come to be associated with ghosts.

#WyrdWednesday Odd Nerdrum is a Norwegian figurative painter. The figures in Nerdrum's paintings are often dressed as if from another time and place. Rembrandt and Caravaggio are primary influences on Nerdrum's work, while secondary influences include Titian and Leonardo da Vinci

#FairyTaleTuesday "Viy" is a novella by Nikolai Gogol. The title is the name of the entity central to the plot.Gogol insisted that Viy, the King of the Gnomes, was a character from Ukrainian folklore, but no discovery has been made of any East Slavic folktale resembling the story

18 poems of 'Les Fleurs du mal' ('The Flowers of Evil') by Charles Baudelaire were first published #OTD in 1855. More poems were added in 1857. Baudelaire dedicated the book to the poet Théophile Gautier, describing him as 'a perfect magician of French letters'.
🎨Carlos Schwabe

Maximilian Pirner was a Czech painter whose s usual themes were classical mythology and the macabre.
'The End of All Things - Finis' (1887)
'Funeral of a Fairy' (1888)
'Medusa' (1891)
'Hekate' (1901)

#scaryfairies William Blake claimed to have seen a fairy funeral. He told how he had seen 'a procession of creatures of the size and colour of green and grey grasshoppers, bearing a body laid out on a rose-leaf, which they buried with songs, and then disappeared.'

'Dracula: A Symphony in Moonlight and Nightmares' (Marvel Comics - 1986) Writer/Illustrator: Jon J. Muth

Princess Eleonore von Schwarzenberg suffered from cervical cancer,and,as she gradually wasted away becoming pale and thin,people thought her a vampire. The 2007 documentary 'The Vampire Princess' features Eleonore as the supposed inspiration for Gottfried August Bürger's 'Lenore'

#FolkloreThursday Ghost stories are commonly examples of ghostlore. Belief in ghosts is found in all cultures, and thus ghost stories may be passed down orally or in written form. The ghost story is a form of fiction specifically of weird fiction, and is often a horror story.

'And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth.'
— (Rev. 12:3–4, KJV)
#art 'The Great Red Dragon' Paintings by William Blake