A southwest blow on ye
And blister you all o’er!
– Caliban, The Tempest, Act I, scene ii
The Devil’s Muse
a horror fan blog by Sean Zio
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Curses!
Tempest, act I, scene II, the inchanted [sic] island : before the cell of Prospero — Prospero, Miranda, Caliban, & Ariel … [graphic] / painted by H. Fuseli ; engraved by I.P. Simon. 1797. Folger Shakespeare Library -
The Magical World of Scooby-Doo
Dr. Najib is somehow able to produce three concrete replicas of himself, the professor, and Scooby in a manner of minutes, then carry said replicas to various places by himself. Even if he somehow used a cart to lug the statues around, there’s no explaining how he was able to make them accurate down to the last detail so quickly.
From TV Tropes: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! S1E12 “Scooby-Doo and a Mummy, Too”
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The Head of John
“Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.” – from Salome, Oscar Wilde
L’Apparition, 1876, by Gustave Moreau, Musee d’Orsay -
My Ghost?
My ghost? Do you suppose I’m fool enough to go to the expense of keeping one of my own, when there are so many charming ones in my friends’ closets?
~Edith Wharton, “The Eyes,” Tales of Men and Ghosts, 1910
The Haunted Room by Alfred James Munnings (1878-1959), Painted at a Farmhouse on Exmoor; The Munnings Art Museum -
In a Dark Wood
How They Met Themselves, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British, 1828-1882 “Rossetti’s drawing How They Met Themselves was a doppelganger image of a young couple meeting their ghostly doubles in a dense wood. Its first version was completed during his honeymoon in 1860 and it was reworked as a coloured version in 1864. Writing of what Dante Rossetti called his ‘bogie picture’, William said: ‘To meet one’s wraith is ominous of death, and to figure Lizzie as meeting her wraith might well have struck her bridegroom as uncanny in a high degree. In less than two years the weird was woefully fulfilled’ (Dante Gabriel Rossetti: his family letters I: 207).”
From The Victorian Web: The Séance Diary of William Michael Rossetti
