Dr Chelsea Nichols

I've posted about this before, but I'm never going to stop until the whole world knows about SEX WEASELS in Renaissance art. (A thread)

The Addams would have happily matched her freak and welcomed her with open arms if she had been honest about being a black widow and they would have lured men into the house to give to her and this is a hill I will die on

@MsAdrianBlack @WitWarrior Write your own jokes, ghoulfriend.

Salvador Dalí, 'Freud's Perverse Polymorph (Bulgarian Child Eating a Rat)', 1939. Gouache on photograph.

I think, therefore eye ham. René Magritte, The Portrait (1935), oil on canvas.

From “Vampyr” (1932) ⚰️

Unusual 1880s tintype, man wearing a skull mask. I’ve never been sure what it is he’s holding… 💀 🕳️

This is what I'm going to do to when I retire.

This is the grave of ten-year-old Florence Irene Ford, who died in 1871 of yellow fever. The story goes that Florence was afraid of thunderstorms, and her mother, not wanting her to be alone during the storms, had steps built leading six feet down to her daughter's grave, with a little viewing window at her head. For many years after Florence's death, her mother would sit and read children's books to her during storms. The steps are still there, but the window was walled up in the 1950s.

More views of the hideous little thing. Via La Bonheur Vintage.

Terracotta pincushion in the shape of a crying baby with a big gross metal bug on its face. The nightmare only gets worse as you shove sewing pins into the soft spot on his poor wee head. Made in France in the early 1900s by someone who clearly hated children but loved crafting

So did the Howards actually murder someone, or mutilate a corpse to try and get away with insurance fraud? Or was the severed hand just a very bizarre coincidence? We will probably never know for sure. 7/7

So where did the severed hand come from? We still don't know. It was confirmed to be a woman's hand, and a number of graves were exhumed to search for its owner with no luck. 6/7

Severed hand found on the beach of Taylor's Mistake (Te Onepoto) near Christchurch, New Zealand in December 1885. The discovery sparked a sensational mystery (and some pretty gruesome illustrations) which still remains unsolved today. 1/7

The skeleton clock from Rocky Horror is a great, fun fake prop, isn't it? Except that it was real. Not only was the coffin clock a real antique, but held a real human skeleton. burialsandbeyond.com/2023/05/07/the…

A rare item from my vintage magazine advertisement collection. Summerisle Apples. UK, c. mid 70s... 🌞

the codex gigas or "devil's bible" is the largest medieval manuscript in the world. according to legend, it was written by a monk who was about to be put to death for heresy. he made a deal with satan to create a book so beautiful he'd be redeemed, and wrote it all in one night.