Category: creepy
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Slides from the Peoples Temple Publication Department
I am fascinated by cults and by what attracts people to them. I am particularly intrigued by the Peoples Temple, which had the seeds of being a meaningful agent of good social change if it had not been led to such a destructive ending by a troubled leader. The California Historical Society has published a digital library of photos from the Peoples Temple Publication Department. The catalogue of over 2,000 images portrays insights into the group, its activism and its final home in Guyana.
March in Los Angeles for Farr 
Summer trip: in church 
Cabins 
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The Camden Town Murder, or What Shall We Do for the Rent?
The Camden Town Murder or What Shall We Do for the Rent? by Walter Richard Sickert, ca 1908 From the Yale Center for British Art:
This is one of several paintings Walter Sickert made in response to a gruesome murder of a prostitute that took place in Camden, North London, in September 1907. Sickert, who had worked in the area for several years, was intrigued by the unsolved case, using the title The Camden Town Murder for a group of paintings between 1908 and 1909. None of these works depict an actual murder, with the woman in this painting popularly supposed to be sleeping rather than dead. Sickert’s use of the alternative title in parentheses—a wry parody of Victorian narrative paintings—confirms the artist’s refusal to confirm a single meaning for this enigmatic picture. What is never in doubt, however, is Sickert’s commitment to subject matter that many of his contemporaries would have seen as sordid, rendered in a markedly modern style.
Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016
For a full discussion on the painting and the series, visit Walter Sickert: The Camden Town Murder and Tabloid Crime by Lisa Tickner published by the Tate.
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Madame Tussaud & Her Waxworks
Tour of Madame Tussauds London – 1998
Tour of Madame Tussauds London Chamber of Horrors – 2022
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All Saints’ Day
In honor of All Saints’ Day, here are gruesome paintings of their trials. Visit Daydream Tourist’s Shocking Paintings of Martyred Saints for a full article and more paintings.
Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew 
Giovanni Bellini – The Murder of St Peter the Martyr (detail), 1509, Courtauld Gallery, London 
Following his decapitation in 258 C.E., St. Denis is said to have picked up his head, walked 6 miles, and given a sermon. St. Denis Picking up His Head, 19th century, Panthéon murals, Paris (Photo) -
The Devil
Florence Baptisry mural, created c.1260, by Coppo di Marcovaldo
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Bunnicula
Happy Easter, boys and ghouls!
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Shiver
“Propped, or you might say sitting, on the edge of the bed was — nothing in the round world but a scarecrow! A scarecrow out of the garden, of course, dumped into the deserted room . . . Yes; but here amusement ceased. Have scarecrows bare bony feet? Do their heads loll on to their shoulders? Have they iron collars and links of chain about their necks? Can they get up and move, if never so stiffly, across a floor, with wagging head and arms close at their sides? and shiver?”
– “Rats” by M.R. James, first published in The Collected Ghost Stories of MR James (1931), from Hypnogoria: Chained Ghosts
The Devil's Muse 