Theodore Kittelsen

The Cloisters Museum, NYC

The figure of Melusine, at the 16th century sculpture garden of Bomarzo, Italy.

Häxan (1922)

dir. Benjamin Christensen

Charles Baudelaire, from The Flowers of Evil: Poems; "A Former Life,"

Stag handle knife, Europe, 19th century.

from Czerny’s International Auction House

photographs from the u.s. naval observatory total solar eclipse expedition, may 17, 1901.

Night is not less wonderful than the day . . . it is lit by the splendor of the stars and it reveals things to us that the day does not know. Night is closer than day to the mystery of all beginning. The abyss is open only by night: day spreads a veil over it.

Nicolas Berdyaev, "The Middle Ages"

The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel by Louis Daguerre

Norfolk, England