Very Eerie Pre Halloween Art. October 10th issue in the MMXXIV show . . .

drifting on air as somewhere deep in a West Indian rain forest the children sneak away from school and disturb a nest of dragonlets deep within the old banyan tree . . . free they are now but what to do . . .every which way . . .some for the sea and some for the volcano down the way . . . who knows where in the end but a path of fire writhing as they go with a new flicker each time they breathe . . .

Guillotine earrings made in 1989 for the anniversary of the French Revolution with fleur de lis and phrygian caps. Costume jewelry. Collections of the Cooper Hewit. smithsonian on Instagram. via Instagram.

Cover of the metal band Countess album Ancient Lies and Battle Cries. Released in 2014. Dutch. via metal-archives.com.

Chimera bracelet. 1930's. Platinum, diamond, turquoise, and emerald. Cartier​, maker. via langantiques.com. Many thanks to Christian De Bor​ who sent me the link.

Bat handbag. 20th c. Probably American. Maker not known. Photo courtesy of Sue Burkey.

Black cat and pumpkin. blackcattrails on Instagram. via Instagram.

“Maibaum.” 2009. Canadian. Kristi Malakoff, maker. kristimalakoff.com. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. via hyperallergic.com.

Netsuke in the motif of a skull. Meiji period, 1868-1912. Japanese. Stag antler. Artist not known. via onlinegalleries.com.

Hecate. Photopolymer etching with silver leaf detail and hand embellishment on Fabriano white. 2016. Irish. Sarah Sheil/Stag and Serpent, artist. via sarahsheilart.tumblr.com.

Illustration from Richard A. Bradley's Common Spiders Of North America which was first published in 2012. via trendsmap.com.

Illustration from “The Tractatus de Herbis”, a treatise on the subject of medicinal plants. 1440. Collection of the British Library, London. via ziereisfacsimiles.com.

Roberts family stone with mourning sculpture. Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio. May 2019 photograph. American. Bill Wasserman, photographer who is also Mycroft Masada Holmes dad.

Artwork for the Czech edition of William Mayne's A Grass Rope which was printed in Prague in 1961. Ota Janeček, illustrator (1919-1996). via flickr.com.

Black cats roaming the streets. Vintage photograph. via An Elegy for the Lost City by Johnny Goldstein.

Turittopsis magic fluorescent ink. via agicfluorescentink.com. Many thanks to Mycroft Masada Holmes​ who found it.

Anabasis from Deep Comatose. 2014. Mexican. David S. Herrerias, artist. via stalkram.com.

Deschauensee's anaconda. Image courtesy Lutz Dirksen. sun-sentinel.com via mikethemadbiologist.com.

Playing card skull. ca. 2019. Italian. Nicola Bolla, artist. via florabigai.it.

Paper art pumpkins. 2024. Flowers by Nadya, artist. Taken from the artist's Instagram.

Scenes of Witchcraft. 1645-1649. Italian. Salvator Rosa, painter (1615-1673). via Facebook.

Grinning Halloween cat. Contemporary. Johanna Parker Design, creator. jparkerdesign on Instagram. via Emporium 32 on Facebook. Many thanks to Mycroft Masada Holmes​ who found it.

Poppet of stuffed fabric with stiletto through the face. Installation view from the Ashmolean exhibition Spellbound. Found in Devon, England. ca. 1909. Collection of the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic. via ashmolean.org.

Tea urn with sphinx. Egyptian Revival. Silver. Maker not known. via spurgeonlewis.com.

October. 2016 calendar. Paper art. Seoul, South Korea. DOTMOT, maker. via dotmot.kr.

Mourning rings, all made in the 18th century. Image courtesy Fred Leighton. via townandcountrymag.com.

Spooky Silhouettes stamps. 2020. American. United States post office on Facebook. Many thanks to Mycroft Masada Holmes who sent me the link.

Poster for the Exposition Internationale Rome which was held in 1911. Italian. Duilio Cambellotti, illustrator (1876-1960). via pinterest.com.

Dance of the Nature Spirits. ca. 2016. American. Gilbert Williams, artist. gilbertwilliams.blogspot.com. via artmight.com.

Skull ice cube. via amazon.com and atlasobscura.com.

Late Victorian spider brooch in gold with pearls and diamonds. via licor43.com.

Horseman with a bow and arrow, wearing a William Mortensen mask from the film The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. 1921. American. Rex Ingram, director. insearchofpaganhollywood on Instagram. via Instagram.

Memory of Edgar Poe King Plague. 1999. Used as an illustration in a 2011 edition of Poe's King Pest. Russian. Ilyas Phaizulline, illustrator. Born in 1950. painterilya.com. via tumblr.com.

Pair of walrus ivory candelabra. Late 18th c. Russian, made in Archangel, probably in the workshop of Nikolai Vereschagin. via Sotheby's.

Dragon. Balloon animal. ca. 2019. Japanese. Masayoshi Matsumoto, artist. via boredpanda.com.

Haunting. Story photograph. ca. 2017. Italian. Fabio Interra photographer. via darkbeautymag.com.

Golden skull clock. No date or maker. via skullappreciationsociety.com.

Grieving angel, Saint Pancras and Islington Cemetery, London. Image ca. 2018. via Tea and Morphine on Facebook. Many thanks to Sue Burkey​ who spotted it.

“The Angels of the Pyramids”. No exact date, by 1921. Polish. Vasily Wilhelm Alexandrovitch Kotarbinsky, artist (1849-1921). via pictorem.com.

“The Halloween Tree”. Painting. 1960. American. Ray Bradbury (1920-2012). via artkandy.com.

“The Spider who Cries”. 1881. Charcoal. French. Odilon Redon, artist (1840-1916). via curiator.com.

Cotton Carnival parade, Memphis, Tennessee. no date but a fun float with a sphinx. Image courtesy Jarvis Berry. via Facebook.

“Madame la Morte”. 1891. French. Paul Gauguin, artist (1848-1903). via art.com.

“But as he and his companion began to climb towards the top they paused in horror, for the ground was white with dead men’s skulls.” Illustration for the “Olive Fairy Book”. 2004. British. Kate Baylay, illustrator.

Bat pendants displayed on a pumpkin inscribed Fazio’s. Contemporary. Pet themed jewelry. via Fazio’s Cat Jewelry on Facebook. Many thanks to Christian De Bor who found it.

Brunswig pyramid tomb, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana. Mausoleum. 20th c. American. Photo credit Greg L. Jones. via flickr.com. Many thanks to Philip Denman who told me about it and then found the picture and sent it to me.

Bain D’Etoiles. 2013. French. Monotype. Sophie Lecuyer, artist. via sophielecuyer.blogspot.com.

Attic (detail), part of Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. 1943-48. American. Frances Glessner Lee, maker. Photo credit Susan Marks. Collection of the Harvard Medical School. via atlasobscura.com.

An Encounter of Souls In Outer Space. 20th c. Czech. Jan Konupek, artist (1883-1950). via pinterest.com.

Honeybee brooch in sterling silver with cubic zirconia crystals. Supraone. via amazon.com. Many thanks to Christian de Bor who sent me the link.