#grimoire of horror

[weirdlookindog]

Sorcière devant son grimoire (A Witch Reading Her Grimoire)

after Félicien Rops (1833–1898)

from Eduard Fuchs’ “Illustrierte Sittengeschichte vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart”, 1909

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Marina Vendrell's Grimoire

Artist: Lenka Šimečková & Scott Okumura TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[sillymanga]

[imp-thing]

Detective grimoire fancase idea where all the suspects were in on the murder and the investigation was a way to lure Sally and Grimoire in.

[billyshamsartblog]

Did that redraw thing. I'm calling this group the "beige-on-brown ensemble"

[luridleftovers]

Entry #17

I don't know how long I can keep doing this for. The nightmares are getting more real each time I fall asleep. She keeps taunting me, constantly telling me I failed. But I know she's alive somewhere. I just need to keep going. Keep searching. I can't stop until I find some progress on the cure. Please. Someone help me.

Signing off, Rex. CW For bugs

[adobealmanac]

La llorona

People often ask me “can I worship la llorona?” or similar questions, and my response is always the same.

The tale of la llorona, at its core, is a cautionary tale. She is a heed; a warning of sorts, and she is not to be messed with. She is fundamentally dangerous, malevolent, and evil. She is not some “dark feminine” or Lilith type of character. She is a murderer, and an evil spirit. Advanced practitioners do not invoke her, fools do. Invoking her is a stupid idea, and will only lead to misfortune and misery. I have spoken with many fellow brujx’s about this subject, and they all agree that she is to be avoided at all costs.

However, if you are adamant about working with her, I do have some advice. Don’t work with her directly, as that will only cause you harm. Instead work with the archetype of the death mother. This archetype is of the body. It is the archetype of women who's behavior endangers or threatens the lives of their children. In western culture, this archetype is the antithesis of the traditional loving and nurturing "ideal" mother. Because of this, the archetype is rejected by western culture, and in turn the death mother is full of shame. This archetype has an energy in which the mother wants that she, or some part of herself is dead. Infanticide is simply an outlet, or an expression of the archetype. Since this idea is rejected by western society, there is often a huge amount of shame revolving around the death mother archetype.

I do not fully understand why someone may choose to work with the death mother archetype, however I do believe that working with it would require a deep amount of inner reflection and shadow work. I personally do not feel drawn to work with her, as I am a man. However I do believe that she is a powerful archetype to work with, especially for mothers and soon to be mothers due to the amount of shadow work and reflection required to fully understand, embrace, and diffuse this archetype within oneself.

[windupaidoneus]

the game does not even get into what happened to weiss noir or rubrum AT ALL. you learn that shit from lore books. if you've only played the games you have no idea weiss noir & rubrum used to be humans & they were child soldiers (presumed. at the very least weiss died at 19 & participated in successful military operations at 16) (actually he knew rubrum ahead of time so yes rubrum was also around that age. & if memory serves me noir was also. there. but yeah) who had to kill each other to be turned into magical grimoires & none of them knew this would happen to them they were tricked into participating by being told if they did they would be able to retire from being child soldiers permanently. & weiss has no memory of that at all. i can't say for noir but noir was cloned & i'm p sure the one we meet ingame is a clone not the original so if he does remember the painful memories he has from life aren't even his own so to speak & that comes with its own dimension of existential horror. & rubrum wasn't built to be allowed to understand/speak human language. she isn't even relevant at all compared to the other two. & i just have to live with all this? what the fuck

[sunthroughdarkclouds]

Vincent Price as Erasmus Craven in The Raven (1963) dir. Roger Corman

[silenthill6666]

[simplyonemore]

The second cover option for the horror book. Less old-fashioned, more dark and fearful. And this one is my fav as I prefer more minimalistic designs 😊

I like to do experiments with the styles, good exercise!

[chillsncharms]

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[egglrig]

Nicoli wrote a book!!!!

well technically its a Grimoire but its only mildly terrifying

[gothtransandroid]

The Ageless Tome

Worn on the edges by convulsive hands,

Encased in rough glass shattered into sands,

Recovered swiftly to forbidden lands,

Translated from words no one understands;

Was the tan book there to display its might,

Or inspire fools to chant in the night?

It was insipid to tame the unknown

With that wordless brick of inane old dreams

But some say they skim, mindless to what’s shown

While human thoughts sink in subconscious streams

So that those fools, lost into a nightmare,

Fall farther downward than any beast dare.

Still I read it once, to test present fears

Of community and of my country

Yet, as I thumbed it for strange words to try,

I saw only tan while I held my ears

To stop the ringing that cut through silence

Though unhearing it makes no difference.

[holmesoldfellow]

"Gaslight Grimoire" series, including the works of many authors, edited by J. R. Campbell and Charles Prepolec

"Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes," "Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes," "Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes," and "Gaslight Gothic: Strange Tales of Sherlock Holmes."