Morbid Souls

J. R. R. Tolkien Ancestral Memory⁉️⁉️ According to biographers like Humphrey Carpenter, the quiet Oxford professor and philologist had a playful, mischievous side. He would put on Anglo-Saxon warrior gear, grab an axe, and chase startled neighbors—sometimes when irritated or just for dramatic fun.

Let There Be Light! (Es werde Licht!), by Hugo Höppener (Fidus), wood engraving, 1904.

The Exodus from Hyperborea - Vsevolod Ivanov

Palnatoki prepares to kill King Harald by Jenny Nyström (1895)

John Coulthart

A tarantula infected with the endoparisitic fungus Cordyceps sp.

The Knight and the Trio of Witches, Frank Frazetta