Alfred Hitchcock in a publicity shot for Dial M for Murder, 1950
Tag: Art and artists
The Art Critics
“And yessss? Deconstructivism, postmodernism, neoexpressionism, what you say?”
Worldbuilding Wednesday 3/11/20: Vampire Novels
Here’s the book that started the erotic vampire story trend. Released in 1994, at the height of the Splatterpunk trend, Love in Vein mixed vampires and sex in a new, explicitly adult way. Featuring fantasy and horror heavyweights like Kathe Koja, Gene Wolfe, and Charles de Lint, with an opening essay by Poppy Z. Brite …
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Artwork by Dan Hillier
A Heart-shaped Face
Mural in Lima, Peru.
The Suitor
Apparantly he was a cold fish. (Artwork by Randy Mora)
Amazed
“Maybe I’m a-mazed at the way you love me all the time…” (Supremely creepy poster art by Polish artist Wieslaw Walkuski)
Worldbuilding Wednesday 11/27/19: Let’s Talk About
xxxxAphrodite
In Greek mythology Aphrodite was the goddess of love, but she had a surprisingly macabre beginning. Legend says she was born of the sea-spume cast up on shore after the Greek god Cronus cut off his father Uranus’s genitals and tossed them into the waves. Also strangely for a goddess of love, her own lovers …
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