# talesofterror

Quite an ominous show for the children at Christmas

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2018-12-17

Day 12!

Brian Coldrick's "Behind You: One-Shot Horror Stories" (2017) is an illustration series, a comic with no panels, where each piece is essentially a separate story.
There are also some very cool gif versions! https://t.co/eyMG50l675

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2018-12-12

Peering behind door 8 of the we spy Kate Baylay's ghoulishly enchanting illustrations for the new Folio edition of Seven Gothic Tales (1934) by Danish author Isak Dinesen's (aka Karen Blixen).

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2018-12-08

Reanimated Russian insects getting festive around the tree with Santa - undoubtedly one for 'The Insects' Christmas / Rozhdestvo obitateley lesa' (1911) dir. Ladislas Starevich.

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2018-12-04

Day 4 of the is the cover inspired by the ghastly gastrapods in Patricia Highsmith's utterly disturbing titular short story "The Snail-Watcher".
🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌☠☠☠🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌

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2018-12-04

The strange Victorian dead bird Christmas card tradition, the cards were “bound to elicit Victorian sympathy and may reference common stories of poor children freezing to death at Christmas.”

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2018-12-03

Lussinatta, was marked in Sweden 13 December. Then Lussi, a female demon or witch, was said to ride through the air with her followers. This itself might be an echo of the Wild Hunt, found across Northern, Western and Central Europe.

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2018-12-01