Count Magnus

The Great Pyramid at Meidum, 1956

Fantastic Planet (1973) Dir. René Laloux

@bernardtjoy Many people with lower IQs do very well in life, and many with higher IQs who struggle. Two questions that have never been answered are what does IQ measure? And is it worth measuring?

Anyone who thinks of intelligence in terms of IQ is low-IQ.

Crown Princess Marie of Romania, 1896.

Theda Bara

Remembering Irish author and Theatre Manager - BRAM STOKER - best known for writing ‘Dracula’ of course, who died 114yrs ago today, aged 64.

Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, wearing the uniform of the Life Hussars Regiment (Leib Husaren Regt Nr 2) as she was their Colonel in Chief. Photographed in 1910.

Happy birthday to the great Tim Curry, who turns 80 today

Giger

@fauxshizzle Tell me more

boy do I have a book club for you

@enilnitsal Not very hygienic. Reptiles are a big risk for salmonella

🌵 Queen of Thorns. Eerie photo of a couple dressed up for a fair in Mexico, 1940.

Such an iconic closing shot from an iconic film. The Shining (1980)

She died quite young, alcoholism I believe.

Kiki was a well prostitute in Montparnesse in the 1920s and 30s, very popular with artists of the time.

🕸️At length, I climbed out of the hole & arranged the great barrels of acid around the pit, so when necessary I might empty them all down the aperture in quick succession. I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit...The surface I uncovered was fishy and glassy—a kind of semi-putrid congealed jelly with suggestions of translucency. I emptied barrels of corrosive contents one after another down that charnel gulf and upon the unthinkable abnormality whose titan elbow I had seen🎨Art: Daniel Vega🕸️#HPLovecraft #Lovecraftian #Cthulhu #Dagon #Azathoth #Kraken #Yogsothoth #Nyarlathotep #Necronomicon #Gothic #Monster #Mythos #Apocalypse #HorrorArt #Horror #Scifi

@PaterDagon Fire vampires?! Not two things that usually go together.

@Pseud0Methodius I read his story about the fire vampires, Fhtaggua, but I haven’t read anything else of his work.

本日4月20日は、1908年生まれのドナルド・ワンドレイの誕生日。パルプ小説作家であり、H・P・ラヴクラフトの友人でもあった。さらに、オーガスト・ダーレスと共にアーカム・ハウスの共同創設者でもある。

THE GHOST AND MRS MUIR 1947 Truly one of the all-time great films, not just horror films. So many movies have stolen from this, and with good cause because it's brilliant! Absolutely nothing like the 1960s TV show.