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Tag: Art and artists
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 …
Go away, don’t bug me.
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 …
The Silver Metal Lover [Review]
The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee DAW, 1981 The Silver Metal Lover is perhaps Tanith Lee’s best known novel after her three Flat Earth books. It may be the most beloved. Though an abiding Lee fan I was immune to its charms for many years until finally deciding to read it last summer. The …
Calligraphy
Calligraphy follows shapes and spirals. A shell (caracola) and a pear. A lively looking butterfly with personality. What does it mean?
Marching Devils
…out of Hell and into your nightmares. They are not human. They are made of living stone.