La Bête du Gévaudan by Johanna Öst. Watercolor, 2010. Related Posts: – Silent Sundays: Death in the Tree (1897) – Silent Sundays: A Modern Dance of Death (1912) – Silent Sundays: Gothess Absynth (2010)
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Happy Thanksgiving: 13 Creepy Vintage Floats from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
If you have spent any time in the United States around Thanksgiving, you probably stumbled across the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade at some point. Dating to 1924, the parade first featured balloons in 1927, when a larger-than-life Felix the Cat produced… Read More ›
The Medieval Recipe for Unicorn
Darlings, if pumpkin coffee cake and dinner rolls aren’t filling the bill for a properly horrific Thanksgiving, how about a medieval recipe for roasted unicorn? Dating to the mid-14th century, this long-lost illuminated cookbook paired the elusive unicorn with cloves and garlic before applying the… Read More ›
The Year of Halloween 