Uncanny Pix

Eerie images I like from medieval woodcuts, through Victorian illustrators to movies and contemporary artists.
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Being interviewed on air/online tonight about spooky stuff.

Being interviewed on air/online tonight about spooky stuff.

I have far more obstacles than this, mainly my self-distract button. Oddly enough, the last one would at least give me something to write about. Cartoon by Tom Gauld.

I have far more obstacles than this, mainly my self-distract button. Oddly enough, the last one would at least give me something to write about. Cartoon by Tom Gauld.

Part of the ruins of the medieval Crowland Abbey, Lincolnshire. To the right, out of shot, is the part of the abbey which continues in use today as the parish church. A Dark Age hermitage was originally on the site, which, before the land was drained, was an island in low-lying reed beds. The island was supposed to have been possessed by devils and may have been a Bronze Age burial site. A Norman abbey was subsequently built here, with later medieval extensions, after it became a focus for pilgrimage.

Part of the ruins of the medieval Crowland Abbey, Lincolnshire. To the right, out of shot, is the part of the abbey which continues in use today as the parish church. A Dark Age hermitage was originally on the site, which, before the land was drained, was an island in low-lying reed beds. The island was supposed to have been possessed by devils and may have been a Bronze Age burial site. A Norman abbey was subsequently built here, with later medieval extensions, after it became a focus for pilgrimage.

Green Man ceiling boss in Crowland Abbey, Lincolnshire. Rare because it is still coloured. Unusual too because it’s very close to the altar but this is because the current church was remodelled from what remained of the original abbey.

Green Man ceiling boss in Crowland Abbey, Lincolnshire. Rare because it is still coloured. Unusual too because it’s very close to the altar but this is because the current church was remodelled from what remained of the original abbey.

Names to conjure with. Headstone of the incredibly gothic-sounding Victorian couple Augustus and Drusilla Blood. Spotted in the graveyard of Crowland Abbey, Lincolnshire.

Names to conjure with. Headstone of the incredibly gothic-sounding Victorian couple Augustus and Drusilla Blood. Spotted in the graveyard of Crowland Abbey, Lincolnshire.

Beltane Walk, appropriate for the most important pagan festival of the year.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

—Edgar Allan Poe

I read, and in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.

—William Hope Hodgson