Horror Vacui by Federico Chiesa

In Horror Vacui, Italian photographer Federico Chiesa asks the question, What if the most scary horror film icons from the 80′s were alive today? For this latest series he teams up with special effects and make-up artist Carolina Trotta to give us a glimpse at what the future for these once feared villains would hold.

 

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Insane Children’s Book Art Ruins Bedtime

What you’re looking at here are Heiri Strub’s illustrations from the 1956 Swiss edition of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Tinderbox, a fairly deranged 1835 children’s yarn about a trio of magic dogs with eyes the sizes of teacups, mill-wheels, and windmills, respectively.

 

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Skeletal Pin-ups by Sylvia Ji

Themes of beauty and death merge in the work of Sylvia Ji, whose skull-faced femme fatales are adorned with nightshade and black widows. Her macabre images are both provocative and alluring, a reflections of life’s binaries; beauty and decay, love and lust and danger and desire.