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The Origin of the Harp of Elfin by Henry Jones Thaddeus, 1890 The painting illustrates the subject of Thomas Moore's poem of 1841, The Origin of the Harp in his Poetical Works, where he writes that the harp 'Was a Siren of old, who sung under the sea' but was disappointed in love; 'heav'n looked with pity on true love so warm, And chang'd to this soft Harp the sea-maiden's form . . . her hair, as, let loose, o'er her white arm it fell, Was chang'd to bright chords uttr'ing melody's spell'. Moore concludes that this is why the harp is known 'To mingle love's language with sorrows sad tone'. Thaddeus's image shows a siren who seems to have dragged sea-weed and even chains from the deep to provide structure for her harp; she by contrast seems to be fading away as her hair turns to strings. The gracefully bowed head and hidden face express Moore's idea that beauty in music and life is allied to sorrow.

ブラック・ジャック

Bizarre magazine №29

Poem 8 dir. Emlen Etting 1932-1933 "I thought, how interesting it would be if we used the film in a different method. So far it had been used like a novel to tell a story, or else as a documentary and there was nothing else in between, and I wanted to use the film as a poetic medium, to do a poem like T.S. Eliot’s poems, and do it entirely visually and that’s how I came about to do my film I called 'Poem 8' and as far as I know it was the first film that experimented in that as a poetic medium." - Emlen Etting

Per Yngve "Pelle" Ohlin / Dead (Mayhem)

月下幽霊図 (Picture of a Ghost under the Moon) 幽鬼図 : 凄涼たる夜半のこと (Picture of a Ghost: Chilling Loneliness in the Dead of Night) by 山本タカト (Takato Yamamoto)

Lobby card for Tattooed Temptress (Irezumi Muzan, いれずみ無残) dir. Hideo Sekigawa (関川秀雄) and starring Chizuko Arai (荒井千津子), 1968

Bride of Frankenstein dir. James Whale 1935

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave promo, 1968

unusualbrasil Top "Antracito" Canícula SS21

Petrified №2 (USA – Florida) Winter, 1993 Editor: “Thorns (Sentis)” This one is very timely, packed with tons of interviews/features/reviews from the pivotal underground year of 1993, including Absu, Behemoth, Black Crucifixion, Carbonized, Skeletal Earth, Cradle of Filth, Emperor, Equinox, Gorgoroth, Impaled Nazarene, Immortal, Mortiis, Necromantia, Occult, Pan-Thy-Monium, Opeth, Primordial, Profanatica, Sinister, Necrony, Typhon, Blod, Unholy, and more

憂国/Yūkoku (Patriotism) dir. Yukio Mishima 1966

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ph. by Alex Stoddard

Ritual magazine №6

Nude ph. by Edward Weston, 1927