Classic love songs are being reimagined as covers of books that could have been written by Stephen King. I don't think I can think of "How Deep is Your Love" in the same way ever again.

Also, here's a set of tarot cards inspired by Santa Muerte, or Our Lady of the Holy Death. Very lovely indeed.

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Came across some macabre artworks from the 19th and the 20th century: The Orchid Garden, Beautiful Macabre. Here's the institution who started the whole thing: Century Guild. Very nice indeed.

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After two days of rain, the cold sets in, and I'm drinking way too much tea to keep warm.

Haven't been up to much lately: writing as usual, waiting every week for the next Yuri!!! on Ice episode to come out, skimming through a few IFComp 2016 entries. The entry that stands out most for me at the moment is The Queen's Menagerie. It's very Gothic ( Read more... )

Watched Crimson Peak. The film is very much steeped in the female Gothic mode: the heroine, a writer of "ghost stories", could have been an avatar of Ann Radcliffe, who was one of the early female Gothic romance writers in existence. Many of the signature Gothic elements are there: the remote location, the crumbling manor house, the aristocratic ( Read more... )

Among various video game genre, Nippon Ichi Software seem to have a liking for cute but cruel games with a picture book horror aesthetic. The protagonist in SD form, usually a little girl (or in the case of htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary, the firefly guiding the girl), must traverse a creepy wasteland or a deserted street at night to search for a way ( Read more... )

Guillermo del Toro's Gothic horror film Crimson Peak will be in theatres next month, and BlackPhoenix Alchemy Lab will be releasing a Crimson Peak fragrance collection to celebrate the occasion. I always check the BPAL website around this time of the year. Reading the descriptions of their Hallowe'en fragrance collection is enough to set me in ( Read more... )

Finished The House in Fatamorgana, an exceptional Gothic suspense visual novel created by doujin game maker Novectacle. The tragedy in the story is very heavy, so much so that it's difficult to go through most of the chapters. Towards the end, the story is more about redemption, and it really makes you feel that those characters deserve happiness ( Read more... )

For some reason, there's been an explosion of anime news lately (because of Otakon?); I expect there'll be even more news when C86 comes around, which will take place this Friday.

( Gaming news: The House in Fata Morgana & Jupiter ~The Night Clowns~. )

Hallowe'en is around the corner, and the other day I saw some very lovely photos of cemeteries around the world. Strangely enough, I'm one of those people who aren't really afraid of cemeteries; after all, the living are far scarier than the dead ( Read more... )

The first PV for the upcoming Noitamina anime series, Psycho-Pass, is out. KHR's Amano Akira will be responsible for character designs, while the main character will be voiced by Seki Tomokazu (I admit I have a flashback to Himitsu ~The Revelation~, in which he lent his voice to the main character, a policeman). More details will be revealed on ( Read more... )