Category: Horror

A Heart-shaped Face

Mural in Lima, Peru.  

The Suitor

Apparantly he was a cold fish. (Artwork by Randy Mora)

Turn to the Left

FASHION! Turn to the left… no, right… aw hell with it.

Amazed

“Maybe I’m a-mazed at the way you love me all the time…”   (Supremely creepy poster art by Polish artist Wieslaw Walkuski)

Santa’s Strange Appetite

HO-HO-HO  no.

Oh, Deer.

One of the most bizarre Christmas decorations I’ve ever seen. Who would make this? Who would buy it?  

Horrible Christmas Album Covers

Croation pop singer Kićo makes a pretty glum Santa on the cover of this album, often cited as one of the worst Christmas album covers ever made. He doesn’t even convey the solemnity of a traditional Father Christmas. He’s just… there. Hungover, or wallowing in existential despair.  His version of “Jingle Bells” featuring a banjo …

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Welcome, Winter.

An early 20th century representation of a Scandinavian frost giant, from the silent movie Conquest of the Pole  by French film pioneer Georges Méliès.  To me the creature looks more like a goofy Russian ventriloquist’s dummy.  Which is no less horrible than a bloodthirsty spirit to my eye, but probably not what the director intended.