Post-Mortem Laureatus, Kimon Loghi, 1896

“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”

— Rumi

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

Vintage silver print

photographs from the u.s. naval observatory total solar eclipse expedition, may 17, 1901.

The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel by Louis Daguerre

Sergey Solomko (1867–1928) - Walpurgis Night

Gemma Gary, The Devil’s Dozen: Thirteen Craft Rites of the Old One

Venezia, october 2013

photo: Max Kuiper

It was as if something was perpetually tugging her downward, toward the underworld, the mess, the dirt, and the filth, as if she was unable to feel disgust when others did and was overwhelmed by fascination instead.

Ia Genburg, The Details, tr. Kira Josefsson

Lily-Rose Depp in Nosferatu (2024) | Ph: Aidan Monaghan