Occult artifacts

A 16th century German 'oath skull' (a human skull on which defendants swore their oath in Vehmic courts) - engraved with the 'magical' Roman 'Sator square', mysterious palindromic word-squares found across the Roman world, comprising the words SATOR, AREPO, TENET, OPERA, ROTAS.

Images from the Clavis Inferni or 'The Key of Hell', a late-18th-century book on black magic.

Joseph Curwen from "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" is arguably Lovecraft's best character, not to mention one of the few genuine villains in the Mythos. That's one of the reasons I was so happy to see this collection of items from his estate, created by the talented Jason McKittrick. He provided a preview of the included oil painting back in December, but now the entire project is finished. The complete set including the portrait mentioned earlier and Curwen's collection of occult items…

My Aesthetic Sense.

book You may want to check the other Alchemy collections we have. 25 rare antique books of ALCHEMY.

There is much nearby here at pinterest.com/carnavalbz on the Great Flood most likely caused by the Younger Dryas Impact of 13,000 years ago but this image compilation also underscores the archetype of the number three

You can support my art by buying my Necronomicon page prints and tome fragments in my online stores: On Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/zarono On E... It spoke, but only to ask for more blood

The cover of Finnish black metal fanzine Hammer of Damnation, February 1993. Read it in its entirety here. After being inspired by coming across the cover of a 1986 edition of Danish metal fanzine Metallic Beast, I went on a long vision quest in search of other fanzines in the black metal and heavy metal arena. Fanzines were the custodians and keepers of artifacts produced by counter-culture heroes and artists on the fringe before the Internet showed up. Bands would often create their own…

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