1.   St. Giles - His Bells. Spirits are painted in the night sky around St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh by Charles Altamont Doyle, British, 1832-1893.   Doyle, a watercolorist and illustrator, populated his night sky with heroes and villains. He illustrated John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and was father to novelist and Sherlock Holmes creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  Charles Doyle, who continued to create fantastical forms and strange dream paintings, died of epilepsy in a lunatic asylum.

      St. Giles - His Bells. Spirits are painted in the night sky around St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh by Charles Altamont Doyle, British, 1832-1893.

      Doyle, a watercolorist and illustrator, populated his night sky with heroes and villains. He illustrated John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and was father to novelist and Sherlock Holmes creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

     Charles Doyle, who continued to create fantastical forms and strange dream paintings, died of epilepsy in a lunatic asylum.

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Many classical writers and artists explored misty shades and shadows of the supernatural. Others chronicled myths and legends.
This is a collection of writers and artists who illustrated these dark themes.

For a lighter side, visit www.athousandwinds.tumblr.com

AUTHORS AND ARTISTS:
· Albert Ludovici
· Albrecht Durer
· Alessandro Magnasco
· Alexander Litovchenko
· Alexandre Cabanel
· Alexandre Colin
· Allegory
· Anonymous
· Antoine Wiertz
· Anton Pieck
· Arnold Bocklin
· Arthur Hacker
· Arthur Rackham
· August Bromse
· Austin Osman Spare
· Biblical Themes
· Book Covers
· Book of Hours
· Bram Stoker
· Camille Corot
· Caravaggio
· Carlos Schwabe
· Caspar David Friedrich
· Cemetery Sculptures
· Charles Dickens
· Charles Doyle
· Charlotte Bronte
· Charon
· Consolation
· Crypts
· Dance of Death
· Divine Comedy
· Domenico Feti
· Dreams
· Druids
· Edgar Allan Poe
· Edmund Blair Leighton
· Edmund Dulac
· Edouard Cibot
· Edouard Manet
· Edouard Rosset Granger
· Edvard Munch
· Edward Bulwer Lytton
· Edward Burne Jones
· Edward Gorey
· Edwin Landseer
· Egyptian Themes
· Elihu Vedder
· Emily Bronte
· Ernst Ferdinand Oehme
· Erskine Nicol
· Eugene Delacroix
· Eugene Grasset
· Evelyn de Morgan
· Executions
· Fear
· F.H. Townsend
· Fire
· Firs Zhuravlev
· Folklore
· Francis Danby
· Francisco deZurburan
· Francisco Goya
· Francois Biard
· Frank Dicksee
· Frank Holl
· Frederic George Cotman
· Frederic Lord Leighton
· Frederick Walker
· Gabriel Max
· Gaston Leroux
· George DuMaurier
· George Frederick Watts
· Georges de Latour
· Ghosts
· Giovanni Baglione
· Gustave Dore
· Hans Baldung Grien
· Hans Holbein the Younger
· Hansom cab
· Harper's Weekly
· Harrison Ainsworth
· Haunted Places
· Henri Latour
· Henri Regnault
· Henry Courtney Selous
· Henry Fuseli
· Henry James
· Herbert Draper
· Hieronymous Bosch
· Horace Vernet
· Howard Pyle
· Hughes Merle
· Hugo Simberg
· Ilya Repin
· Image
· Ireland
· Isle of the Dead
· Ivan Aivazovsky
· Jack the Ripper
· Jakub Schikaneder
· Jan Brueghel
· Jean Francois Millet
· Jean Gericault
· Jean Leon Gerome
· Jean Paul Laurens
· Johann Von Goethe
· John Baptist de Medina
· John Buchan
· John Collier
· John Downman
· John Martin
· John Everett Millais
· John Milton
· John Singleton Copley
· John William Waterhouse
· Joseph Farquharson
· Joseph Sheridan LeFanu
· Juan de Valdes Leal
· Konstantin Flavitsky
· Konstantin Makovsky
· Lee Brown Coye
· Legends
· Lenore
· Leon Bonnat
· Leonardo da Vinci
· Louisa May Alcott
· Louis Boulanger
· Louis Janmot
· Louis Leopold Boilly
· Luis Ricardo Falero
· McGuffey's Readers
· Mary Roberts Rinehart
· Matthew Gregory Lewis
· Maximilian Pirner
· Michelangelo
· Modest Mussorgsky
· Mourning
· Murder
· Mysteries
· Mystics
· Myths
· Nathaniel Hawthorne
· Nicholas Poussin
· Oddities
· Odilon Redon
· Operas
· Oscar Wilde
· Paul Albert Besnard
· Paul Delaroche
· Peter Claesz
· Peter Paul Rubens
· Philip Burne Jones
· Phyllis Chesler
· Pieter Bruegel,Elder
· Plague
· Poetry
· Randolph Schwabe
· Ray Bradbury
· Resurrectionists
· Richard Redgrave
· Richard Wagner
· Robert Draper
· Robert Lewis Stevenson
· Robert Bloch
· Rogelio de Equsquiza
· Rudyard Kipling
· Samuel Luke Fildes
· Sandor Liezen Mayer
· Sculpture
· Sherlock Holmes
· Shirley Jackson
· Solitude
· Sorrow
· Spiritualism
· Suicides
· Susan Hill
· Suspense
· Theodore Gericault
· Thomas Brooks
· Thomas Hardy
· Thomas Jones Barker
· Titian
· Tragedy
· Vanitas
· Vasily Grigorevich Perov
· Viktor Vasnetsov
· Vincent Van Gogh
· Walter Crane
· Walter Langley
· Walter Scott
· War
· Washington Irving
· Wilhelm Kotarbinsky
· Wilkie Collins
· William Bouguereau
· William H. Ainsworth
· William Holman Hunt
· William Blake
· William Frith
· William Hamilton
· William Shakespeare
· William Strang
· Witchcraft
· Witold Pruszkowski
· Xavier Mellery