Winter's Gibbet, on Steng Cross, in Elsdon, Northumberland, remains a popular venue for a day's excursion. Named after one William Winter, hanged at Newcastle's Westgate in 1792 for murder and whose body was subsequently displayed as a warning to all Steng Cross, the current gibbet is the latest in a long line of wooden replacements.… Continue reading Raise The Horns For Halloween / A Day Out At The Gallows
Polina Washington creates art which bruises your heart then gently, ever so gently kisses it better.
Sometimes the Highstreet gets it right. Very right. Dress/New Look Shrug/She Likes Tights/Primark Heels/Chick Jewellery/Handmade from fox bones
Jason Blake. You just need to know his name and where you can find him. His photography does all the talking.
The photography available at Helen's Journal captures the mysterious, haunting beauty of wild England.
In July 1906 National Geographic published their first wildlife photographs - the ones you see here. I have, in the past, stumbled across a number of them on Tumblr, Pinterest and the like. The spookiness always intrigued me, but I never knew about their origins, until yesterday, when I discovered that they were shot by… Continue reading In The Night
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 