THE DEAD ZONE. Series by French photographer, Julien Coquentin.
Erotic horror, LA BÊTE (The Beast) (1975). I was going to chance it with more explicit images—but bleh, Tumblr.
Paintings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s disturbing poem, DER ERLKÖNIG (The Erlking, a sort of demonic elf king) by Julius von Klever (1850-1924) and, image 3, Moritz von Schwind (Austrian, 1804-1871).
EDIBLE WILD FLOWERS.
From the book, Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook (2013).
JACK FROST (1934) by Ub Iwerks. Such a beautiful cartoon. I’ve tried to focus on the backgrounds a little when taking screenshots, as they are all so gorgeous, even though the quality isn’t exactly 4K.
1960s/70s illustrations from Dutch children’s series, Paulus the woodgnome. By Jean Dulieu (1921-2006).
Starting out as a newspaper strip in the 1940s, Paulus appeared in children’s novels, TV puppet shows, radio plays, et cetera, and all by this one guy, Jean Dulieu. Great artist.
I read many of the books when I was a kid; the woods were never quite the same after that. I loved the atmosphere: there was always a kind of autumn dread in the air, Paulus had animal friends, but usually he was alone, just roaming about, hoping not to run into anything bad. The woods were dangerous, or rather, indifferent. The witch, Eucalypta, might seem kind of genial in these illustrations, but she was a real terror. Running into her meant trouble: the black kind.
I’ll do a post about the puppet shows later on, because seeing is believing.
Art by Yuri Hill.