~Sharon Needles
Feeling in the Halloween spirit so we have ghosts for Art Thursday.
Phi Ta Khon Ghost Festival, Thailand
Dan Sai, Dan Sai District
There Cap'n Goldsack goes, creeping, creeping, creeping, Looking for his reasure down below!: illustration of a pirate ghost, 1902
Harper's Magazine
Howard Pyle
The Apparition
by Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin
Premonition
by Henryk Weyssenhoff, probably from 1893
Ivan the Terrible and the souls of his victums
by M.P.Klodt
The drowned man's ghost tries to claim a new victim for the sea
Thorvald Niss
Hungry Ghost Festival
Ethnic Chinese women burn hell money (food offerings) during the "Hungry Ghost" festival in Medan, North Sumatra
Great Halloween theme, Tabatha. Scary images all. The Howard Pyle image really reminds me of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
ReplyDeleteI looked at the images first in large scale (before looking at the titles) and thought that the Hungry Ghost Festival was a drawing, not a photograph. It seemed really eerie.