The macabre isn't just for Halloween, you know.

Skulls have been used for artistic decoration right from early primitive civilisations. Whether they’re used to embellish your battle gear or the latest heavy metal album cover design, skulls are a symbol of death and evil that makes them the perfect imagery for certain aesthetics. In today’s design inspiration showcase I present 40 magnificently morbid […]

Ken Currie Cetus, 2014 oil on linen 259x168 cm

Jaroslav Panuška, Death Looking into the Window of One Dying, 1900. watercolour, white paint, paper, 46x35. NG, Prague. Urban, Otto M. In Morbid Colours: Art and the Idea of Decadence in the Bohemian Lands 1880-1914. Arbor Vitae, 2006, p. 370.

The famous scary paintings in art history were centred around religious themes, mythology and the artist's morbid imagination.

The Morbid Anatomy Anthology is a compilation of essays on a weird range of topics, including hysteria, postmortem photography, books bound in human skin, and the Palermo catacombs.