‘How the World Went Mad’: A diagnosis of the confusing, topsy-turvy world of President Donald Trump
I could start with a nod to Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis by writing: “Rupert Russell awoke one morning from unsettling dreams to find the world had…
Author: Paul Gallagher
Illustrations of weird creatures and fabulous beasts from a Japanese ‘Monster Scroll’
Oyajirome–this monster will see you sneaking up with its big eye in the back of its head and then rip you apart with its one-talon…
Pop Making Sense: Brian McDonald’s fabulous mixed media art
‘Mother’s Little Helper.’ Like. Love. Ha-Ha. Tweet. Share. Post. Walk. Don’t Walk. Keep to the left. Turn clockwise. Open lid carefully. Mind the gap. Wash…
Tom Adams’ macabre, surreal, and unsettling covers for classic crime novels
Tom Adams is an artist best-known for his cover artwork for books by Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Kingsley Amis, and John Fowles during the 1960s…
The Devil’s in the brushstroke: Lurid paintings of monsters, nightmares & demons for Mexican pulps
We have their paintings, their names, and that’s about it. Araujo, Dorantes, Fzavala, Marin, Pérez, Luna, and Ortiz. Many more just disappeared or have been…
Cool lobby cards from 1960s cult spy flick ‘A Dandy in Aspic’
By way of an introduction to this selection of lobby cards from the spy thriller A Dandy in Aspic, let me tell you something about…
Meet the priest who was Oscar Wilde’s lover and partly the basis for ‘Dorian Gray’
The writer Max Frisch once wrote that an author does nothing worse than betray himself. In that, a work of fiction reveals more of a…
In their own write: Fonts made from the handwriting of David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, John Lennon & more
For some, the first step towards a chosen career is imitation. Peter Capaldi is a fan of the great horror actor (and big screen Doctor…
What Mark E. Smith liked: Lou Reed, Sex Pistols, Frank Zappa, Philip K. Dick & Kurt Vonnegut, a list
When asked what he would do if he was ever elected Prime minister, Mark E. Smith replied: “I’d halve the price of cigarettes, double the…
Polaroids from ‘Return of the Jedi’
Harrison Ford wanted his character, Han Solo, to die in Return of the Jedi. Screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan agreed. Kasdan thought Solo’s death would freak out…