Artist Mark Wallinger conjectured that Sickert had known and seen his subject of Sick Doctor prior to death, and rendered from a photograph an image otherwise too macabre.

Birds such as ravens are known for their macabre image, and can cause the fear of birds in humans.

David Keyes, writing at cinemaphile. org in 2002, saw the film as a seminal entry in its genre: " Aside from its very evident approach as a crowd-pleasing popcorn flick, the movie is one of the original shells for identity-inspired mystery thrillers, in which natural human behavior is the driving force behind the true macabre rather than supernatural elements.

He is still known for his scathing insight into the human behaviour as well as revelation of the macabre animalistic nature of an enraged people, that stands out amidst the brevity of his prose.

His stories catch the macabre, sadistic and the terrifying aspects in human beings and life.

Lead singer / guitarist Nick Blinko is notorious for his witty macabre lyrics and dark pen-and-ink artwork, prominently featured on all of Rudimentary Peni's albums.

Johannesburg developed an extreme metal scene in1992 with rising grindcore / death metal act Retribution Denied, Boksburg based macabre / death metal act Debauchery followed by Pretoria doom metal band Funeral, Christian metal act Abhorrence closely followed by Insurrection, Metalmorphosis, Sacrifist and Agro the latter two acts of whom still perform today.

* Funny / Not Funny-A series of clips, often depicting violent or macabre images, airs with a chorus of children yelling either " funny " or " not funny ".

Despite a later reputation for " cuddly " kiddie lit and family-friendly illustrations for mainstream magazines, Flora's fine art — both early and late — was by turns bizarre, playful, comic, erotic and / or macabre.

" This was apparently a tribute to the famously macabre jest made by Henry's French-educated second wife, Anne Boleyn, who had joked before her death that the executioner would find killing her easy because she had " a little neck.

She agreed, but " postpones again ", and in what Gillespie calls " a macabre twist of fate ", he was assassinated on her 40th birthday ( April 4 ).

It is the failure of the screenwriter -- Mr. Foote himself -- to clarify why the object of the woman's deep affection is as badly mixed-up as he is and why the woman, who seems a sensible person, doesn't make a single move to straighten him out ... Granting that the wife is astonished and distressingly mystified at the neurotic behavior of her husband, this doesn't mean that the viewer is satisfied to be kept in the dark as to the reasons for the stark and macabre goings-on ... As it is, we only see that these two people are frustrated and heart-broken by something that's bigger than the both of them.

Lydia is an amateur, but nonetheless, talented photographer, entomologist, seamstress, and sketch artist with an innate affinity and love for all things gross, scary, weird and macabre, and who celebrates all that is ( in the words of her film incarnation ) ' strange and unusual '.

* Paul Féval, père was a one of the most important fantastique writers of the period with Les Revenants ( 1853 ), La Fille du Juif Errant Daughter Of The Wandering Jew ( 1864 ), the macabre La Vampire Vampire Countess ( 1867 ), and La Ville Vampire Vampire City ( 1874 ) which parodied Ann Radcliffe, making her the book's fictional heroine!

In the early 1990s, Peterson began a series of successful Elvira calendars with her striking provocative, and campy poses in various macabre settings.

He then tries to set Mags on the Doctor, but, unfortunately for the Captain, her chosen victim is him – but the whole macabre spectacle has delighted the trio in the crowd.

The principal models for Dame Hilda were Dame Ethel Smyth ( from whom Hilda took her lesbianism and rural heartiness together with the endlessness of her proposed memoirs ), and Elisabeth Lutyens, with whom Reed was acquainted, from whom Hilda took her interest in the macabre and obsession with architecture.

Maugin's subsequent sale to a terrifying scientist-for use in some kind of macabre experiment-could be the end of her, but for the actions of a young sky pirate, Quint Verginix.

Intrigued by Erik's macabre appearance and dexterity at murder, the khanum develops a great lust for him early on, and this she harbors spitefully, never quite daring to exercise her power in this particular area.

On the other hand he was no staunch giggler ; many of his paintings deal with death, sorrow and macabre themes.

" They also apply these judgments to other things that they encounter, and will usually deem something " cool " if it is associated with violence, sex or the macabre.

Speculative poetry, also known as fantastic poetry, ( of which weird or macabre poetry is a major subclassification ), is a poetic genre which deals thematically with subjects which are ' beyond reality ', whether via extrapolation as in science fiction or via weird and horrific themes as in horror fiction.

The historic first electrical recordings were also made in Camden, in April 1925, beginning with Saint-Saëns ' Danse macabre.

By extension, the word ghoul is also used derogatorily to refer to a person who delights in the macabre, or whose profession is linked directly to death, such as a gravedigger.

Though best known for his macabre fiction, Jacobi also wrote science fiction, weird-menace yarns and adventure stories.

Decayed cadavers can also be used to depict death ; in medieval Europe, they were often featured in artistic depictions of the danse macabre, or in cadaver tombs which depicted the living and decomposed body of the person entombed.

The name carries a secondary and more macabre meaning ; as boğaz not only means strait but also " throat " in Turkish.

Snicket displays a great aversion to macabre elements, but also gives off a sense of squeamishness with passages like the above excerpt.

* The eclectic Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam whose macabre Contes Cruels Tales ( 1883 ) and Tribulat Bonhomet ( 1887 ) were also inspired by Poe.

For Jean Brooks the scene is ' macabre ' and an illustration of ' cosmic indifference ', also highlighting the comic in the rescue.

The frescoes also include, among various subjects, a danse macabre to the right of the altar.

Whilst enthralled with the macabre spectacle of wartime Nazi Germany, he is also on record via his letters as deploring much of what he saw around him.

Though Huygens ' magic lantern was often used for amusement by projecting quaint and pastoral imagery, phantoms, devils, and other macabre objects were also sometimes projected, thus giving rise to phantasmagoria.

At Rouen in the cloister of St Maclou there also remains a sculptured danse macabre.

Lovecraft's penchant for dreamscapes and for the biologically macabre has also profoundly influenced visual artists such as Jean " Moebius " Giraud and H. R. Giger.

" James Muretich of The Calgary Herald wrote " From the ashes of Bauhaus has arisen a British trio that is turning into one of the most impressive and macabre dance bands around.

A great number of novels, stories, movies, plays and comics are variations or adaptations of the story, featuring similar plots built around wishes that go awry in macabre ways, occasionally with references to monkey's paws or to the story itself.

They moved in a series of rhythmic fits and starts, a macabre dance -- two steps back, two steps forward, two steps back.

Within this framework, what followed was strained, even macabre.

The theme of much of his work is egotism and its supernatural punishment ; his weird fiction is generally macabre in subject matter, gloatingly preoccupied with images of death, decay and abnormality.

Together with Mipps, he organized the smugglers into a well-organized band of " night riders ", called " The Devil Riders " with macabre disguises and code-names.

One long-running feature of the show was " Captain Fantastic ", featuring a parody superhero ( Jason ) in improbable, even macabre adventures against villainess Mrs. Black ( Coffey ).

The French term danse macabre may derive from the Latin Chorea Machabæorum, literally " dance of the Maccabees.

Danse macabre in St Maria in Bienno.

A danse macabre painting may show a round dance headed by Death or a chain of alternating dead and live dancers.

Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre.

The oppressive religious milieu, plus Edvard's poor health and the vivid ghost stories, helped inspire macabre visions and nightmares in Edvard, who felt death constantly advancing on him.

Additionally, one can discern a thread of the macabre running through Goya's work, even in his earlier tapestry cartoons.

The scenes are singularly disturbing, sometimes macabre in their depiction of battlefield horror, and represent an outraged conscience in the face of death and destruction.

The gothic fascination with the macabre has raised public concerns regarding the psychological well-being of goths.

They often feature scenes that startle the viewer, and the macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes.

Long before writing it he regaled friends and dinner parties with macabre tales of a childhood spent in hiding among the Polish peasantry.

Another often-reproduced drawing is a macabre sketch that was done by Leonardo in Florence in 1479 showing the body of Bernardo Baroncelli, hanged in connection with the murder of Giuliano, brother of Lorenzo de ' Medici, in the Pazzi Conspiracy.

A year later a further macabre discovery was made at Lindow Moss, just south-west of the Lindow Woman.

The macabre drama was part black comedy, action film and tragedy, with a warped edge rarely seen in Peckinpah's works.

* Uncle Silas ( 1864 ), a macabre mystery novel and classic of gothic horror.

* Jan. 4, 1903: Edison Fries an Elephant to Prove His Point – Wired article about Edison's " macabre form of a series of animal electrocutions using AC.

However, Southwood Smith's experimental efforts at mummification, although technically successful, left the head looking distastefully macabre, with dried and darkened skin stretched tautly over the skull.

His fellow students noted him for his love of violence and the macabre ; he had decorated his bedroom with the images of torture and war drawn during the Napoleonic Wars by Spanish artist Francisco Goya ( 1746 – 1828 ), and on one occasion chased one of his classmates while brandishing a dagger.