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You-know-what is coming up, so prepare with this haunting treasury of vintage skull imagery.
For over 500 of the best vintage Hallowe'en illustrations, see my spooky gallery.
Aprended vivos de mí,
que há de ayer a Oy,
ver como me ves fuí,
y calavera, ya soy
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Learn those alive,
from me, who from yester to this day,
did look as you look naive,
and as a skull now I portray
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(Archaic Spanish from the original and my take at translation into english)
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From the polyptych of death preserved at the Museo Nacional del Virreinato (National Museum of Viceroyalty) in Tepotzotlán (Mexico).
Spooky Spooks! Look at the vintage Vampire costume by Collegeville! How cool is that?
Spooky Faces Disguise Kit (1960s)
Unfortunately, I already look like this all of the time.
i guess Groucho with botox and fangs could be scary…
Human trophy skulls from Asian tribes:
1. Ifugao (Philippines) - Headhunted human trophy skull mounted with bovine jaw
2. Ifugao - Headhunted human trophy skulls
3. Dayak (Borneo) - Headhunted human trophy skulls
4. Asmat (New Guinea) - Ancestor skull
5. Naga (India/Burma) - Headhunted human trophy skull
6. Ifugao - Headhunted human trophy skull mounted with boar skull
7. Asmat - Cannibalized child skull (victim, not ancestor)
8. Dayak - Headhunted, hand carved human skull
9. Ifugao - Headhunted human trophy skull
10. Asmat - Ancestor skull
(Headhunted skulls are trophies claimed from enemy victims; ancestor skulls are collected and venerated to remember deceased family members.)
EXCERPTS >|< Take Problems To Church (1947)
| Hosted at: Internet Archive
| From: Drive-In Movie Ads
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| Digital Copy: Public Domain
A series of Animated GIFs excerpted from Take problems to Church: a simple black and white animated musical with text persuading people with problems go to church and leave them there.
We invite you to watch the full video HERE.
EXCERPTS by OKKULT Motion Pictures: a collection of GIFs excerpted from out-of-copyright/historical/rare/controversial moving images.
A digital curation project for the diffusion of open knowledge.
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Killers from Space is a 1954 American black and white science fiction feature film, produced and directed by W. Lee Wilder (brother of Billy Wilder) from an original, commissioned screenplay by his son Myles Wilder and their regular collaborator William Raynor, and starring Peter Graves and Barbara Bestar. - rifftrax.wikia.com
StuffPoint, ebay, rifftrax
Lee Brown Coye (July 24, 1907 – September 5, 1981)
American artist probably best remembered for his black-and-white illustrations for pulp magazines and horror fiction, but he produced a variety of works in other media. (Wikipedia)
From our stacks: Dust jacket detail from The Dunwich Horror and Others. The Best Supernatural Stories of H. P. Lovecraft. Selected and with an Introduction by August Derleth. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1963. “The jacket drawing represents Wilbur Whately of The Dunwich Horror, as conceived by the distinguished artist, Lee Brown Coye, whose macabre conceptions decorated such anthologies as Sleep No More, Who Knocks?, and The Night Side.”
