1.  Seductive Death, 1852, engraving from the book Testing History: Philosophical and Picturesque Dances of the Dead designed by Eustache Hyacinthe Langlois, French, 1777-1837.  Death may have invited the young woman to the dance, but she looks unsure of her fate.

     Seductive Death, 1852, engraving from the book Testing History: Philosophical and Picturesque Dances of the Dead designed by Eustache Hyacinthe Langlois, French, 1777-1837.

     Death may have invited the young woman to the dance, but she looks unsure of her fate.

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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.

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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
· 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
· Edmond 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