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FEATURES
"MYTH, LEGEND, AND THE DARK MUSE"
  Part I - Judith and Holophernes   Part V - La Belle Dame Sans Merci
  Part II - The Myth of Orpheus   Part VI - The Death of Ophelia
  Part III - Perseus and Andromeda   Part VII - The Death of Cleopatra
  Part IV - Circe the Enchantress   Part VIII - The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian
FEATURED ARTISTS AND INTERVIEWS
  Hansjurgen Bauer   Lori Earley
GALLERY EXHIBITS
  Remedios Varo   Antoine Wiertz
MINI-FEATURES
ART IN CULTURE
  Gwynplaine and The Joker   The Ghoulish Gallery
  Lustmord: When Death Inspires Art   The Gates of Albert Paley
  Illusionary Skulls   21st Century Schizoid Man
  Salome   The Misfit's Skull
  The Tomb of Ligeia   Death and the Glutton
  Baphomet   Death Claims a Suicide
  Memento Mori   Death Claims an Infant Baby
  Seven Deadly Sins   Demons
  Visions of Vampirella   Visions of Lady Death
  Visions of Purgatori   Visions of Chastity
  Visions of Lady Demon   Visions of Dawn
  Iron Maiden's "Eddie the Head"   "Temptation"
  Premature Burial   The White Witch
  "Death Car"    
CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS
  Yoshitaka Amano   Alphonso Azpiri
  Jason Beam   Julie Bell
  Enki Bilal   The dark fantasy art of Simon Bisley
  Brom   Brom
  John Bolton   Gia Chikvaidze
  Jean-Claude Claeys   Dorian Cleavenger
  Brian Froud   D. W. Frydenall
  Juan Gimenez   Marcus Gray
  Gris Grimley   The Brothers Hildebrandt
  Adam Hughes   Howard David Johnson
  Ayami Kojima   Matt Mahurin
  Tony Mauro   Patrick McEvoy
  François Miville-Deschênes   Rowena Morrill
  Paul Renaud   Keel
  Derek Riggs   Massimo Rotundo
  Luis Royo   Mark Ryden
  Crab Scrambly   Paolo Serpieri
  Masamune Shirow   Wojtek Siudmak
  Sorayama   Drew Struzan
  Chad Michael Ward   Dave Correia
  Simon Bisley - Anime Illustration   Joseph Linsner
  Arantza Sestayo - Beautiful vampires    
       
20th CENTURY ARTISTS
19th CENTURY ARTISTS
  William Bouguereau 'Elegy"   John William Waterhouse
  William Bouguereau 'Bacchante"   Philip Burne-Jones "Vampire"
  William Bouguereau 'Elegy"   Jean Delville
  John Collier   Henry Fuseli "Nightmare"
  Gustav Dore "Scenes of the Apocalypse"   William Etty
  Knut Ekwall "Fisherman and the Siren"   John William Godward
  Joshua Reynolds - "Sarah Siddons"   Arthur Hacker "Temptation of Parsival"
  Louis Welden Hawkins   Albert-Joseph Pénot - "Bat Woman"
  Lord Frederick Leighton   Lord Frederick Leighton
  Salvatore Rosa   Solomon J. Solomon
  Franz Von Stuck   Henry Wallis "Death of Chatterton"
      John William Waterhouse
18th CENTURY ARTISTS
  John Hamilton Mortimer    
RENAISSANCE ARTISTS
  Gian Lorenzo Bernini: St. Theresa   Durer's 'Knight, Death and the Devil'
 
     
 
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MINI-FEATURES
"PLACES AND EVENTS"
  The Ossuary Chapel of Sedlec   The Bone Pyramid at Sedlec
  Haunted Halloween Attractions   I See Dead Things at "Necromance"
  Dead Can Dance/The Tomb of Raspail   The Embracing Skeletons of Mantua
  Sleepy Hollow: a legend you can visit!   Bat's Day in the Fun Park
  The Rare Beauty of the Corpse Flower   Hollywood Movie Night in the Cemetery
  Strawberry Hill: birthplace of gothic   Abney Park Cemetery
  We All Scream... Free Ben and Jerry's!   Labyrinth of Jareth Masquerade
"PERSONALITIES"
  The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin   Gotham Public Works
  Milicent Patrick and The Creature   Herschell G. Lewis, Godfather of Gore
  Elizabeth Pepper - Witches' Almanac   Brian Jones - 1942-1969
  Laurie Cabot - Salem's 'Official' Witch   The Legacy of Edward Gorey
  Brian Froud   Ray Bradbury
  Ray Harryhausen   Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  Stan Winston - Classic Monster FX   Anita Berber: Priestess of the Depraved
  The Death of Poet Thomas Chatterton   William Castle director of 50's Horror
  Lord Byron's Physician   The Unforgettable Bob Clark
  Rick Baker - Master of Monster Make-up   Lon Chaney Sr. Man of 1,000 Faces
  Sarah Siddons The Tragic Muse   Lon Chaney Jr. Curse of the Wolfman
"PUBLICATIONS"
Rue Morgue Magazine   Creepy and Eerie Magazines
    GOTH - Undead Subculture
"SAYINGS, SYMBOLISM & CELEBRATIONS "
  The Symbolism of Baphomet   Day of the Dead
  Inverted Pentagram Sigil of Baphomet   "Mad as a March Hare"
  The Seven Deadly Sins   "Memento Mori" Remember Death
  Baby New Year    
"DECADENT FOOD, DRINK, DRUGS & POISONS "
  Fat Witch Brownies!   The Opiate Laudanum
  Transylvanian Desserts   Belladonna aka Deadly Nightshade
  Macabre Mealtime Recipes   Opium Dens and the Literati