SUGAR + MEOWS

Albert Renger-Patzsch’s 1935 portrait of Mary Wigman’s dance school

Het Betoverde Meubel (The Haunted Furniture) (1888) – James Ensor (Belgian, 1860–1949)

“Photographs taken by Mrs. Ada E. Deans 1920 1923. Dozen No. 21”

Perhaps my favorite hoax of all time.

Ghosts (watercolor on paper, 1934) – George Grosz (1893–1959)

J’ai quelquefois aperçu dans la ciel comme des formes d’esprits, Plate XXI from La tentation de Saint-Antoine (1896) – Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916)

Untitled (Two Ghosts with Fireplace) (c.1969) – Ralph Eugene Meatyard (American, 1925–72)

The Spirit World Unmasked

Culmin’s Ghost appears to his Mother – Nicolai Abildgaard

Nightmare (1840) – Odilon Redon

Die Erscheinung (The Apparition) (1925) – Rudolf Koppitz (Czech, 1884-1936)

—Pick out who you are— – Marcel Dzama

Ouija

“Each night Father fills me with dread
When he sits on the foot of my bed;
  I’d not mind that he speaks
  In gibbers and squeaks,
But for seventeen years he’s been dead.”

– Edward Gorey (American, 1925–2000)

“October’s ‘Bright Blue Weather’
A good time to Read!”

“Ghosts need O’s
to go Boo!”

From Ghosts and Crows and Things with O’s (1976) – Leonard Kessler (b.1920)