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Holidays – Halloween

Oct 31

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Happy Halloween!!

Creature from the Black Lagoon Mask

October 1960

October 1973

Illustration by Adam McCauley

1984 Advertisement for CapriSun

Sun Maid Raisins Advertisement, October 1965.

Advertisement by the California Raisin Advisory Board, October 1975.

Advertisement for Nickel Stainless Steel, 1964.

Advertisement for Nickel Stainless Steel
Life, September 18, 1964.

Ricky’s Poster Advertisement, 2003.

October 24, 197[?]

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Animals – Spiders +++

Oct 29

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+++ See Pictures +++

Among approximately 80 pictures in Animals – Spiders are these charmers:

The web of a bowl and doily spider. Our First Spider Picture is Spiderless.

Check out the frantic and dark Coffin Joe from our DVD Collection:

At Midnight I Will Take Your Soul

This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse

Awakening of The Beast

Good Old Coffin Joe and his Trilogy of fine Films. This still is from “This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse” 1967.

Peruvian Pinktoe

Garter Snake Stuck in a Spider’s Web

Wind Scorpian, Audubon Society Book of Insects, 1983

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Mythology & Fairy Tale – Monsters & Devils

Oct 29

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We continue our pictorial lead up to Halloween with a bit of the beastly. In the Mythology & Fairy Tale – Monsters & Devils folder you will find 93 images. Below we offer, like so many virgins on a satanic alter table, a sampling. Please enjoy the smooth electro stylings of the Electric Hellfire Club while you peruse them.

Old Rosicurian Order Illustration of Kabbalistic symbolism
Ritual America, 2012, by Adam Parfrey and Craig Heimbichner.

“The Last Judgement” by Fra Angelico
(detail)

Illustration CA. 1910-1919, reprinted in Smithsonian Magazine, 2003

The Life Book of Christmas, Vol 2: The Pageantry of Christmas, 1963.
“Horror and Drollery are combined in this 15th century illustration of a miracle play. It depicts angels battling a band of devils for possession of the Castle of Faith.”

“Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons” by Martin Schongauer
From the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jacob S. Rogers Fund, 1920.

Previews, July 1991.

Dürer, the harrowing of hell, 1512

Previews, July 1991 [?]

Scenes from the unreleased ending of The Phantom of the Opera, Dir. Rupert Julian, 1925.
Pictured: stars Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin
“The Phantom is redeemed by Christne’s compassionate kiss.”

Film Still
Eyes Without a Face, 1960, Dir. Georges Franju.
Starring Edith Scob (Pictured)

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Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street

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Cemeteries

Oct 25

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From the longer poem Outside the Ossuary by David Pemberton

In the Cemeteries folder there are 80 pictures. Here are a few:

Ancient Sarcophagi

Wethersfield, Connecticut

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Sarcophagus of the painter Gericault at Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France.

Chester Street Burying-Ground
The Century Magazine, Vol XXVIII, No 5. September 1884.

The Cappucine Cemetery
Travel, January 1927.

Little Falls Cemetery

Grave of Three Soldiers, Germany, 1949.
Photo by David Seymour “Chim”

City of the Dead
Cairo, Egypt

From the longer poem Outside the Ossuary by David Pemberton

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Film – Stills (Scary)

Oct 24

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We have over 700 film stills spread throughout 37 “Film – Stills” subcategories in the Picture Collection. These folders are sub-categorized alphabetically, but there are also a hand-full of films that have their own folders: Alien (1979), The Birds (1963), Black Hole (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Clash of the Titans (1981), Conan the Barbarian (1982-), Eraserhead (1977), Forbidden Planet (1956), Salem’s Lot (1979), Star Trek (1979-), Star Wars (1977-), Superman (1978-), The Thing (1951 & 1982), Wizard of Oz (1939). etc. Inside these folders you will find production stills, still-frames from the film, behind-the-scenes photographs, interviews with crew members, and segments from articles which once appeared in such acclaimed publications as Cinefantastique. Below are a few scary film stills, just in time for Halloween.