“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
The Devil’s Muse
a horror fan blog by Sean Zio
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The Head of John
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
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Mask
The reason he continues to have the impact that Michael Myers has is the simplicity of the evil. The enigmatic, faceless, expressionless look of Michael, it projects into that mask every terrifying image we have.
You see, I think we can put all of our fears and concerns and knowledge that evil exists in the world, ’cause evil exists in the world. Put it behind that mask and it can be anywhere anytime, anybody. I think it’s the simplicity of that. That is terrifying.
– Jamie Lee Curtis, 2021
Rotten Tomatoes: An Oral History of Halloween With Jamie Lee Curtis and John Carpenter
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Happy Horrordays!
The call is coming from inside the house!
