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Bukavac is a demonic creature in Slavic folklore. It lives near swamps, rivers & lakes. It screams loudly, has a long tail & terrifying curved horns. If you walk too close to its watery lair at night it will look to drown you.

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2020-07-24

The studio behind 'Nosferatu' (1922),Prana Film,was founded by Enrico Dieckmann and Albin Grau and named after the Hindu concept of prana. 'Nosferatu' was its only production, as it declared bankruptcy to evade copyright infringement suits from Bram Stoker's widow

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2020-07-18

Edvard Munch entitled this 1895 painting Love and Pain. Others called it degenerate. But Munch's friend, critic and self-styled Satanist Stanisław Przybyszewski, saw it at an exhibition and immediately gave it the name Vampire...

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2020-07-17

Titan Comics has adapted "The Phantom Of The Opera" as a graphic novel! The 92-page adaptation features beautiful art from José María Beroy. It was released and went on sale on the 20th of June, 2020.

(Source: https://t.co/DNyA7RDbMS)

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2020-07-10

Theatrical game

You are a haunted stage performer - show us your likeness, your demonic mentor, your stage and a dramatic climax

Vampire Ballerina
The Count Himself
Théâtre de sang
Vanquished by evil understudy https://t.co/Fo37ZKh4Jv

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2020-07-11

The time has been
That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
And there an end.
But now they rise again
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns
And push us from our stools
- Macbeth (Macbeth, Act III, Scene IV) upon seeing the ghost of Banquo!

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2020-07-10

“I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.”

– Horace

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2020-07-09

You are an alchemist. Show us your outfit, your expertise, your lab & your familiar: My garb is trad Medieval, my lab is in the Catacombs of Rome where I specialise in creating homunculi with my demonic lab assistant.

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2020-07-03

Draugr / burial mound / Orm of Norheim / and the accursed níðstang https://t.co/nJC3rCxyXL

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2020-06-26

"He that revels in a well-chosen library has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor."
— William Godwin

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2020-06-24

John Constantine the master of the occult who struggles to overcome the influence of both Heaven and Hell over humanity and despite his occasional forays into heroism, the foul-mouthed cynic always pursues a life of sorcery and danger.

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2020-06-19

I think that this game has inspired a new short story.
Outfit: Victorian Goth
Nemesis: Body snatchers (stealing bodies for medical purposes)
Magic specialty: Necromancy
Book that started it all: Phenomena of spiritualism by William Crookes F.R.S
https://t.co/hVxT3leffP

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2020-06-19

Harry Clarke's Beautiful and Haunting 1925 Illustrations for Goethe's 'Faust' https://t.co/uWasRQqqaM via

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2020-06-19

Introducing myself, , as one of the first Dark Queens of I shall begin with a four image game to exemplify my aesthetic: my attire, my abode, my specialisation (Necromancy), and the historical figure that I identify with (Circe).

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2020-06-16