January122013

“The Tune of Seven Towers” from “Pre-Raphaelite Ballads” by William Morris, illust. H.M. O’Kane
(Click for the complete book, via archive.org) 

October112012
October52012
Frontispiece to the 1831 edition of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”

Frontispiece to the 1831 edition of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”

September302012
4PM
“The Flight of Faust and Mephisto” by Mikhail Vrubel, 1886

“The Flight of Faust and Mephisto” by Mikhail Vrubel, 1886

4PM
“Pact with the devil” (Faust and Mephisto) by Julius Nisle, c. 1840

“Pact with the devil” (Faust and Mephisto) by Julius Nisle, c. 1840

September262012

“The Kingdom of Dreams” suite: Jacob Landau’s illustrations for “Selected Writings of E.T.A. Hoffmann” (University of Chicago Press, 1969)

September232012

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“I have been reading Vathek, ‘tis a mad Book to be sure, and written by a mad Author…”- Mrs. Thrale-Piozzi

Just finished reading this book last night. The above is an accurate description.

September192012
Poe’s “Lenore”, illustrated by Henry Sandham, 1886(source) 

Poe’s “Lenore”, illustrated by Henry Sandham, 1886
(source

10PM
“Siegfried Awakens Brunhild”Original art by Otto Donner von Richter (1828-1911)Engraving by R. Bong (1880-1908)

“Siegfried Awakens Brunhild”
Original art by Otto Donner von Richter (1828-1911)
Engraving by R. Bong (1880-1908)

September162012

“Haschisch Hallucinations” (1905) Drug-induced visions by Sidney Sime (source - including the full text of the original article by H.E. Gowers!)

Trippy.

10AM

“A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder” (1888) illustrations by Gilbert Gaul (source)

September52012
6PM
“Circe” by Louis Chalon, c. 1888
When Ulysses, after the fall of Troy, as the “Odyssey” relates it, went voyaging in search of adventures, he landed at the island of Aeaea, to the westward of Sicily, which was ruled over by the fairhaired and beautiful sorceress Circe, the daughter of the Sun. Around her wonderful palace, where she sat enthroned on a golden throne, in a pond of lotus and lilies, roved herds of beasts, wolves, lions, tigers, oxen, and the like, which had once been human beings and whom she had transformed by her spells. The companions of Ulysses, feasting and drinking her drugged wine while guests at her palace, were converted by her incantations into swine, but the hero himself, forewarned by Mercury and provided by him with a supply of mystic herb called moly, was proof against her sorcerey. His invulnerability, courage, and manly beauty captivated the lovely witch, and for a year he remained her guest, when, having induced her, out of her love for him, to disenchant his companions, he resumed his voyage. Louis Chalon, the painter, is a native of Paris, and a pupil of Jules Lefebvre and G. Boulanger.(source) 

“Circe” by Louis Chalon, c. 1888

When Ulysses, after the fall of Troy, as the “Odyssey” relates it, went voyaging in search of adventures, he landed at the island of Aeaea, to the westward of Sicily, which was ruled over by the fairhaired and beautiful sorceress Circe, the daughter of the Sun. Around her wonderful palace, where she sat enthroned on a golden throne, in a pond of lotus and lilies, roved herds of beasts, wolves, lions, tigers, oxen, and the like, which had once been human beings and whom she had transformed by her spells. The companions of Ulysses, feasting and drinking her drugged wine while guests at her palace, were converted by her incantations into swine, but the hero himself, forewarned by Mercury and provided by him with a supply of mystic herb called moly, was proof against her sorcerey. His invulnerability, courage, and manly beauty captivated the lovely witch, and for a year he remained her guest, when, having induced her, out of her love for him, to disenchant his companions, he resumed his voyage. Louis Chalon, the painter, is a native of Paris, and a pupil of Jules Lefebvre and G. Boulanger.
(source

10AM

ELMER PAISLEY!

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O Blacknezz realizou uma pequena entrevista com Elmer Paisley, criador de uma arte detalhista, viva e cheia de belas cores. Confira e coloque seu inglês em dia!

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These guys asked me to do an interview for them! What a nice compliment :D
Click to read it. I probably sound really awkward in it, but whatever…it was a huge honour just to be asked!

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