Tumblr, you’re being too creepy for bedtime.
Terrifying advertising image from Woman’s Day, 1956.
TENIERS, David the Younger
The Temptation of St Anthony
Oil on oak panel, 22 x 16 cm
Private collection
I’ve gone ahead and annotated this with my reactions.
Thanks for terrifying me, centuriespast
“Stupid Questions,” This Is Not Going To Last
The horror…
Got a sort of zombie theme going today.
“Choteau Ave. in St. Louis, was famous in the early 20th Century for Brain Sandwiches (use a lot of mustard). It was not uncommon for dolts to be told to take a quarter down to Choteau to get some brains. Sadly, the building is no longer standing.”
DRIVE-IN BRAINS 25c - Jack Klobnak- Boing Boing
Source: Boing Boing
BLIND
November Night
Listen…
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall.
-by Adelaide Crapsey
(via thetranscendentalmodernist)
(via yama-bato)
Source: thetranscendentalmodernist
I am declaring November GirlishWhimsy’s month of belated Halloween, so that I actually have time to savour it before we get into those tiresome holidays that are about family togetherness rather than severed heads.
Read more about how I missed October on my Long Blog
Source: girlishwhimsy.com
Happy Halloween from GirlishWhimsy!
If you’ve already checked out The Gothic Novel, other Halloween-y things include the spooky children’s story Newt Gets Lost, the Halloween episode of The Gay Companions, “A Gay Hallowe’en,” or this brief series of Creepy Things from my Blog.
"The Kunstkammer was regarded as a microcosm or theater of the world, and a memory theater. The Kunstkammer conveyed symbolically the patron's control of the world through its indoor, microscopic reproduction."
