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Terence Stamp as The Devil in The Company of Wolves

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The Rolling Stones

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Giuseppe Giorgetti’s Saint Sebastian which is placed at the site of the saint’s burial along the Appian Way.

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Fiona Finnegan Sleep and its Derangements, 2022 Oil on linen on wood.

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Mary Oliver, from "Peonies"

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Franz Stassen - Der Ring des Nibelungen (1914)

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John Barrymore in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 1920 | dir. John S. Robertson

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Der müde Tod | 1921 | dir. Fritz Lang

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THE INNOCENTS (1961) THE OTHERS (2001) CRIMSON PEAK (2015) THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR (1947) THE VVITCH (2015) THE BLOOD ROSE (1970) BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1946) THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED (1969) THE HORRIBLE DR. HICHCOCK (1962) THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE (1946)

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David Roberts (1796-1864): Entrance to the Crypt, Roslin Chapel, 1843, Oil on Panel, 71.6 x 62.1 cm, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

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Momentarily at times when, after reading certain books, his disgust for everyday life was accentuated, he longed for lenitive hours in a cloister, where the monotonous chant of prayers in an incense-laden atmosphere would bring on a somnolence, a dreamy rapture of mystical ideas.

— Joris-Karl Huysmans trans. Keene Wallace, Là-bas

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NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE — 1979, dir. Werner Herzog

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Channing Pollock makes a dramatic entrance in Georges Franju’s Judex (1963)

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-Zoë Lianne

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The excavation of the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo.