Sunday Safari - Arachnophobia

 M. Dobuzinskij, D'javol from Zolotoe runo, 1907


Halloween is drawing near
time to face our wildest fear 

Odilon Redon, Smiling Spider, thanks to Japonisme

Bruno Paul, Plague in South Africa, illustration from Simplicissimus, 1901.

Many thanks to ihatemusic1943 for the info! 

 A. H. Watson, illustration from The Enchanted Blanket, 1936, thanks to ElfGoblin

 Aleksandra Waliszewska, Dom Babci

Film poster by Wojciech Fangor for Les Compagnes de la Nuit, 1956

Book cover by Rein van Looij, 1940s, thanks to 50 Watts

 Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz, Traveler at Night

Michael Sowa, Spider on the wall

Book cover by Emanuel Schongut, 1960s

Film poster by Wiktor Gorka, 1964

Film poster by Werner Klemke for The Golden Spider 

from Graphis 1959-60, thanks to Sandi Vincent

Lorenzo Mattotti, illustration from The Raven

Sunday Safari - Blacker than the Night

1940s Vintage Cardboard Halloween Die cut Decoration, thanks to Halloween guy


Happy Halloween to everyone! (especially black cat lovers)

Arthur Rackham illustration for Grimm's Fairy Tales,
thanks to ASIFA-Hollywood animation archive

 The Black Cat movie poster, 1934, thanks to This isn't Happiness

 Jenny Dalenoord Wiplala cover, 1958, thanks to art.crazed

 The Alarm of the Black Cat cover, 1942, via She Blogged By Night

 Tomb of Ligeia movie poster via wellmedicated

 Dick Bruna cover from Bruna's great set by juliensart on flickr

 Mas Negro que la Noche movie poster, 1975, thanks to Martin Klasch

Frans Haacken illustration from Peter und der Wolf, 1958, thanks to Arthur van Kruining

 Emanuel Schongut cover, 1960s

 Pablo Amargo poster

Los gatos con Mercè, Yolanda Mosquera

The Ladybirds Parade

Nicoletta Ceccoli, Angelica

Our insistent visions fly

where the human and the animal collide

Boris Bucan, The Firebird and Petruska, 1983

Gunther Kieser, Ballet Woche, 1984

Raquel Aparicio, illustration from Russian Fairy Tales

Lila de Nobili, French Vogue cover from Graphis 19, 1947

thanks to Sandiv999's fantastic vintage collection on flickr

Dorothea Tanning, costume design for Bayou, 1951

Marco Wagner

Kate Edith Gough, late 1870s photocollage

Sergei Solomko, thanks to Peacock's Garden

Emanuel Schongut, cover for Push Pin Graphic

Alberto Savinio, La fidele epouse, 1930-31

thanks to A Journey Round my Skull

Bogdan Zwir, Silence

Colette Calascione, Bird Girl

Mireia Pérez

Jan Lenica, The Visit movie poster, 1965