Belden C. Lane, The Great Conversation

Bones on display at Eggenburg Charnel House- Eggenburg, Vienna

Black henbane Root Sickle by Borealis Ironworks

“I emerge Monstrous from the Monster, my skin the dragon-flesh of nightmares.”

— Catherynne M. Valente, The Labyrinth (via monstress)

Mount Wilson Observatory, The Pleiades, M45, +/- 1950 United States.

Vintage silver print

Marianne Stokes

Death and The Maiden (c. 1908)

(detail)

Stag handle knife, Europe, 19th century.

from Czerny’s International Auction House

“I want to raise up the magic world all round me and live strongly and quietly there.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. February 1934