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The Revenant (2015) Dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu

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2021-08-15

Happy belated birthday, Alfred Hitchcock! To celebrate, here are my paintings of Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in NORTH BY NORTHWEST and Vera Miles in PSYCHO to celebrate!

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2021-08-15

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シリル・コラール
『野性の夜に』で
おはようございます。

ロマーヌ・ボーランジェ

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2021-08-14

Born on this day, William Goldman (1931 – 2018).

Here's his 1978 psychological horror novel, Magic.

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2021-08-12

At the height of his career, Norman Granz was one of the most powerful non-musicians in jazz. He fought for the music, for his artists, and against racism, forcing many hotels and concert venues to become integrated in the 1940s and 1950s.

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2021-08-06

Born on this day, Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893).

Here's Tales of Supernatural Terror, with cover art by Josh Kirby.

Maupassant died of syphilis at 43. He wrote his own epitaph: "I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing."

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2021-08-05

Born on this day, M.R. James (1862-1932).

Here's 'A Pleasing Terror: The Complete Supernatural Writings', edited by Barbara and Christopher Roden.

Cover art by Paul Lowe.

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2021-08-01


I am trying to choke you
Delicate thought
Posed
Frankenstein of delicate grace
posed by my fear
And you
Graciously
Take me by the throat

The body hungers before the soul
And after thrusts for its own

Elise Cowen (1933–1962)

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2021-08-01

Born on this day in 1959, Kim Newman.

Here's Bad Dreams with cover art by Mark Longworth.

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2021-07-31

‘In the spring of 1940 the birds migrated early from the Great Marsh. The world was on fire. The whine and roar of the bombers and the thudding explosions frightened them.' (1941) by 1897
Illus. (1946) founder &

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2021-07-26

Your weekly Wunderkammer safety advice - under-the-weather edition

“Ring around the moon, it’s meant to rain soon”

Thank you. Spit thrice, touch cold iron and be safe.

🖼️ Alphonse Mucha (#BOTD 1860) "The Moon" (1902)

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2021-07-24


"The admonition to look within has always kept me going. It's when people are copy each other that they don't establish their own as

Claire Falkenstein (1908–1997) in

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2021-07-23

Happy Birthday to one of the most innovative artists and thinkers of the first half of the 20th century: László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946).

Check out Valeria Carullo’s book, MOHOLY-NAGY IN BRITAIN: 1935-1937, for more about his time in Britain in the mid-1930s...

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2021-07-20