The unhappiest place on Earth: Grisly images from Thailand’s ‘Hell Garden’
Statues in the ‘Wang Saen Suk Hell Garden’ in Thailand. Photo by Darmon Richter. Located about 60 miles outside of Bangkok there is a massive…
Author: Cherrybomb Archives: 10/2016
The ‘Cutting Monster’: Bizarre 18th century illustrations of London’s stab-happy lady stalker
A bizarre illustration/caricature by James Gillray of the ‘Monster’ (aka the ‘Cutting Monster’) assaulting one of his female victims, 1790. Nearly a century before Jack…
Pulp friction: Vintage matchbooks transformed into tiny pulp novel book covers (and more)
Matchbook art by Jason D’Aquino based on the rather terrifying looking cover for the vintage pulp novel ‘The Hungry Ones’ from 1968. I’ve been a…
‘Plan 9 from Bikini Beach’: Glamourous beatnik ghoul girl ‘Vampira’ goths it up back in the 1950s
Maila Nurmi (aka ‘Vampira’) looking gorgeously goth at the beach with her umbrella, mid-1950s. Maila Nurmi the captivatingly gorgeous Finnish model and actress with a…
Mind-boggling images from the ‘World Bodypainting Festival’ in Austria
Some far-out contestants in the ‘World Bodypainting Festival’ held in Austria. So first of all yes, an event known as the “World Bodypainting Festival” is…