Monday, October 28, 2013

Literature Pick #66

Cold Ghost
by Chester S. Geier
From the November 1948 issue of Amazing Stories comes this excellent ghost story.

Friday, October 25, 2013

Salvator Rosa painting

Rocky Landscape with a Huntsman and Warriors
by Salvator Rosa (1615–1673)
circa 1670, oil on canvas, 55.9" x 75.6"
Baroque Artist from Italy

Literature Pick #65

The Mummy's Foot
by Théophile Gautier
A fantastical horror short story from 1840 and translated by Lafcadio Hearn in 1908.

Friday, October 18, 2013

Thomas Daniell painting

Temple, Fountain and Cave in Sezincote Park 
by Thomas Daniell (1749 - 1840)
1819, oil on canvas, 39.9" x 50"
English landscape painter

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Literature Pick #64

Doom of the House of Duryea
by Earl Peirce, Jr.
A macabre horror short story from the October 1936 issue of Weird Tales.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem painting

An Italianate Landscape.
by Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1620-1683)
1654, oil on canvas, 20.9" x 25.2"
Dutch Golden Age painter born in Haarlem, North Holland