“I love you like skinning an animal: flesh to bone. Flesh to bone.”

Silas Denver Melvin, the last motel before a decade's long purgatory.

let's be mutuals, i promise i'm a cool person *slowly closes the door to my basement-turned-into-a-lab for mad scientific purposes and gruesome experiments*

I didn't choose the cryptid life. The void swallowed me and then spit me back out because I made its tummy hurt.

Robert Smith and Mary Poole’s Wedding day (1988)

i love you sapphic vampires i love you grotesque and lustful wlw i love you carmilla i love you laura i love you gothic atmosphere i love you vampiresque coffin i love you dreadful nightmares caused by sickening desires i love you black velvet victorian dresses i love you gigantic castles in which there barely live three humans i love you chilling air i love you death in mysterious circumstances which were actually caused by a pair of glistening fangs i love you killing in the name of desperate romance

Skull watch - Watchmaker: Isaac Penard (Swiss, 1619–1676), Casemaker: probably the Firm of Moulinié, Bautte & Moynier (Swiss, 1808–21)

the piano teacher, elfriede jelinek

"I stuff my mouth full of cherries. Say, this is the taste of love, and I will choke on it."

Angelea Lowes