The Goste family was asleep when the impact occurred. On one side of the room the parents, Willard and Parthenia. On the other side, their two girls, Saje (8) and Paje (10). When the West Hartland hit, the bow sliced the Goste’s cabin in half, seriously wounding Willard, and trapping the two girls in their beds. Parthenia  managed to escape, bringing help, and remove the  wounded Mr. Goste, but the poor girls were doomed. Parthenia overcome with frantic rage, had to be forcibly removed.

Once the crew had the injured husband and grieving mother topside, they moved immediately to transfer Wilson over to the West Hartland with the rest of the passengers fleeing the sinking ship. As they were distracted, Parthenia broke free from her rescuers and ran back into the ship to be with her children.  She, of course, was never seen again.

The S.S. Governor sunk within 20 minutes of impact, taking eight of the 240 passangers with it – including Parthenia Goste and her two children. In close proximity to the wreckage is the Point Wilson Lighthouse, whose keeper  witnessed the tragic accident. Today,  the apparition of a woman is seen by the locals, wearing a nightgown and wandering  the lighthouse  as if searching for her children.

post script: aujourd’hui is French, pronounced au +‎ jour +‎ de +‎ hui, literally “at the day of today”

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DEAR R.,

INSIDE THIS OLD BOX IS A ONE-OF-A-KIND COLLECTION WE’VE AMASSED AND CATALOGUED WITH YOU AND YOU ALONE IN MIND…THE PLAIN TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS, WE ARE PRETTY OBSESSED WITH DARK STORIES. LIKE YOU. WE ADMIRE YOUR DEDICATION TO THE KREEP. PLEASE KEEP UP THE SUPER WORK. WE’LL BE READING.

SINCERELY,

THE CORALINE TEAM

351 of the world’s oddest and most talented animators, artisans, and puppet fabricators have hand-made CORALINE. Led by Henry Selick, the director of THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS and JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH, this team has created the first stop-motion feature shot entirely in 3D. Based on the beloved best-selling children’s classic by Neil Gaiman, CORALINE is a fairy-tale nightmare steeped in classic storytelling, craftsmanship, and the old-fashioned art of moviemaking magic.

CORALINE is nominated for an Academy Award for best Animated Feature,  to be televised by ABC on March 7, 2010.

Still NO. 93. BAT/DOGS

Skeleton key with password: armpithair

NO. 46/50

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All around him couples were clinging to one another, shrieking n’ shivering from the horrors director Patrick Lussier (Scream I, II & III) persistently threw in all their faces. And they loved it. Every last adolescent one of them was in cheesy splatter heaven. Holding onto one another as if they were dropping off the face of a way too complicated world, My Bloody Valentine –3D delivered such gratuitous ultra-violence to make their little hearts explode.

Cupid is right outside a suburban window. An old angel with dirty wings, he stands there peek-a-booing through the frosty glass of someone’s living room. He takes a withered hand and wipes away the chill, wonders why the roses and the paper hearts aren’t hung around the living room akin to the holly and blinking lights that the Christmas angels all adore. He thinks his lovely celebration is dwindling. Cupid deems our hearts are growing bitter. So our wee-sized cherub with a duffle bag filled with dusty arrows and a bow shakes his head, walks away bewildered.

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As a child, Chet Zar would doodle the fantastic and macabre.  In fact, he drew the weird and wonderful very well indeed. And when he could finally hide in the shadows of the local movie house, his visions matured. For Chet Zar realized he had a deep connection to the more pungent horror films he witnessed. He could relate to the anxiety and isolation the dark imagery flickered from the screen.

It touched the wounded child, caressed the artist fair, and launched another icon into the maddening spinning sphere.

I am in awe of his oil-based world. Like a kid with my nose pushed up against the window of an exotic toy store or sneaking into the tent of the Freak Show that just rolled into town, Chet’s art attracts my notice complete. Something dreadful is happening but I cannot look elsewhere.  I cannot turn around, walk away from it.  I cannot forget the mysterious metaphors resting on the canvas there.

Chet Zar is an artist of unique vision.  He has an extraordinary talent. Fall into his world of sinister beauty that in many ways mirrors all of us.  For these are not creatures looking back at us.  They are merely all of us upside down and inside out.

“The characters i paint may seem like creatures from another dimension, but I think they are simply us, here and now. Modern humanity without it’s masks, without the adornments that make us acceptable to whatever group we are a part of. From the straight laced conservative to the tattooed, anti-social rebel, we all cover up to fit in someplace . Yet the only place where we are truly the same is on the inside. We all share feelings of fear and loneliness. We feel ugly and insecure. We feel separate from our environment and each other. These are the feelings that i try to convey in my paintings. These are the feelings that connect us.”

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IN DARKNESS THERE I SEE

In darkness there I see
Shadows dance athwart brim and bottom
Float across worthlessness in twilight gone
Settle on my brow
Prance the tarantella
Say so long to see you later
Scamper soundlessly

In darkness there I see
Imaginings that tell me I’ve not escaped it
Not yet
Not ever
Not now
No never
The enigma of my lunacy

In darkness there I see
So perfect raison d’être
The ghosts that call
Whisper upset in my ear
So taunting
Notify the horror’s real

In darkness there I see
Discern it’s genuine
Breathing
Beating
Beast of midnight weaves the skeletons
So faultless
As I kneel beside it

In darkness there I see
Imaginary terrors
To inhabit my obscurity
Launch the cycle still
In heartless recitation
Over n’ over n’ more n’more
‘Til imprudence takes me home

in E†ernity,
Brazillia R. Kreep

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Fine artist, sculpture, and doll maker extraordinaire, Whobyfire is from Sweden. She spends a lot of her time making fantastically macabre art such as strange dolls from clay, super-sculpey and steel-wire.

We think she’s über imaginative. A real “find”. In fact, our editor has many of her works, including the original Kreep doll. Imagine that?

Visit her. Fall in love with her treasures. Buy them. Show them off to art critics and friends. Giggle at how affordable they are, now, before she’s whisked away by an even greater success.

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“i’ve decided to burst my bubble again and let new creations climb out of my dark cave and see the world with half blind eyes. i just have to let them go so there’ll be room for new thougts, new energy, new dolls and sculptures in my mind. the ones who managed to climb out of my cave are now in my etsy shop.”

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ODE T’WHOBYFIRE

O t’mold a tiny dream
a vision shared
a kreepy theme
at once prepared
by nights’ moonbeam
now declared
to which redeem
none compared
‘tis art supreme

In E†ernity,
Brazillia R. Kreep

Viktoria Modesta is a site to behold

Gorgeous, talented plus highly innovative, model/musician Viktoria Modesta is a site to behold. Really. She’s renaissance, deliciously eccentric, and sculpted from the school of hard knocks. Too cool.

We love that she’s launched her solo music project with musician/producer Nik Hodges w/tracks written and produced by Viktoria and Nik. They’ve established a sound that reflects a mix of Electro, Dirty Pop, and a wee pinch of Indie/Rockabilly twang.

From the mouth:

“The project is already gathering an exciting amount of attention from the music industry with great reviews from MUSIC WEEK (Jane Bond has been featured on MUSIC WEEK playlist) , BRAND AMP, KISMET and BIZARRE. Her appearance @ London Fashion Week generated an amazing response after she performed an adapted version of SATELLITE, live as a finale of ZIAD GHANEM & FIRETRAP’s fashion show at The Freemasons Hall – Vauxhall Fahion Scout, stealing the show wearing a white couture gown.”

Oh, and Viktoria is an amputee. Something that she’s thrilled about. We can see why.

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“Since the operation, there hasn’t been a single day where I’ve thought I shouldn’t have gone through with it. I do sometimes still wish I had a normal leg – but not my old leg.” -Viktoria, Bizarre

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Viktoria @ selected London venues, playing as a 3 piece live band . Watch. Listen. Bye Bye. Gone.

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Viktoria Modesta Performance at the Ziad Ghanem London Fashion Week Show S/S 2010

The Tiger Lillies have won an Olivier Award in theatre, been nominated for a Grammy and play from one end of the globe to the other. They have 26 albums-that we know of-and are Monty Python meets Radio Head  And so it is, without any due hesitation, our duty to advocate with great fan fare and farts their new-fangled freaky double album Freakshow. 

We like it.  You’ll like it.  Your neighbors might go mad.

“Welcome to the Carnival of Circus Freaks
The Bleeding Lady the blood from her leaks
Here is a place where you can buy crack
Lobotomised whores who you can slap.“

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The Tiger Lillies Perform GIN on BBC2

O’ Poverty thy wicked Cthulhu

O’ poverty thy wicked Cthulhu
Enchained a mind in coiled darkness
T’refute remarks n’ ruminations
In poetry n’ verse thus pending
As well quick a scribe’s bereavement
Malevolent feat indeed undone our author

O’ scarcity thy heinous Cthulhu
Threadbare wellbeing, better despair
Crush thy creator well your weight
Rip innards whilst no riches dwell
Curse the life obscurity n’ unaided
Lovecraft’s passing reaps return

O’ paucity thy odious Cthulhu
Neither headstone nor words printed
Nix bed t’sleep in restful slumber
Destitute the fate of Poe
Gone the extraterrestrial mythos
Vanished here forever more

In E†ernity,

Brazillia R. Kreep

Cthulhu (kə-THOO-loo) is a fictional cosmic entity created by horror author H. P. Lovecraft in 1926, first appearing in the short story “The Call of Cthulhu” when it was published in Weird Tales in 1928.

-Wikipedia

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One of the fathers of modern horror, HP Lovecraft (Howard Phillips) wrote horror, fantasy, and science fiction, coined in the early 1900’s as weird fiction.  Own a piece of the historic “Lovecraft Circle” with this near mint postcard penned to horror writer/illustrator Howard Wandrei in HP’s own hand.

Inscription:

“Hail Spawner of Daemons! Am harboring a guest of honor whom I believe you are not unacquainted. Have just produced an ice-cream famine at Maxfields & a general famine at Jakes (has Donald told you about these centers of…) & now absorbing scenic impressions. Now by the shore at Buttonwoods. Hope you’ll get over to these parts before you flash away towards the sunset!” Also signed at the conclusion, “Greetings out of the dark from the unknown, but not malefic. James Morton.”

ALS signed “H. P.,” on the correspondence side of a 3.5 x 5.5 picture postcard of the Providence County Court House, no date, but postmarked August 4, 1934. Postcard to Howard Wandris in New York.  

Lovecraft died unknown and penniless in 1937 of cancer, aged 46.

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Heads-up  courtesy of  H. P. Lovecraft And His Legacy – Hosted by Chris Perridas

Gothic fun from youtube. Enjoy. See yourself in the reflection of the pool of shadowed darkness. What shimmers back at you? What image wavers in the water? Is it… you?