Inspired by Dracula
Something Long and Black
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Halloween prints and gothic gifts for book lovers
For the reader who keeps Dracula on the bedside table and Coraline on the shelf, these are the scenes that make the hair on your arms stand up. Each one is made in the style of an old print: a Victorian mezzotint, a black woodcut, a Victorian wood engraving.
They look their best in a dark frame on a dark wall, and they make a good Halloween present that lasts long after October.
Something Long and Black
Inspired by DraculaWhitby churchyard at one in the morning, in the velvet blacks of a Victorian mezzotint. The abbey ruins on the skyline are real.
See the printThe Other Mother
Inspired by CoralineLunch is ready, and she has buttons for eyes. A black woodcut with a touch of red, made to be properly unsettling.
See the printThe Hound on the Moor
Inspired by The Hound of the BaskervillesFog on Dartmoor, a full moon, and the thing the legend promised coming out of the dark.
See the printThe Witch-king at the Gate
Inspired by The Return of the KingA Victorian Gothic wood engraving of the broken gate before dawn. The only colour on the sheet is the flame on his sword.
See the printThe Judge in the Storm
Inspired by Blood MeridianNight, a storm over the desert, and the judge out in it, small and pale against the lightning, in dried-blood reds and bone white.
See the print
Gothic wall art that stays up after October
Most Halloween decorations go back in the box on the first of November. These don't have to. They are scenes from great books, made in the style of old mezzotints, woodcuts and hand-coloured prints, so they look as right in a study or a hallway in March as they do on Halloween night. Each one is made with AI image tools and art-directed by me.
A black frame suits all five. Every print is made to order and sent within 1 to 3 days, so order by mid October for Halloween.
From the journal
- 11 gothic novels to read this HalloweenOctober is the month for the books that creak.
- Dracula in Whitby: the real places behind the novelEveryone remembers Transylvania, but the most frightening chapters of Dracula happen on the Yorkshire coast.
- Boo basket ideas for book loversA boo basket is a little Halloween gift basket of treats for someone you love, the spooky cousin of an Easter basket.
- Black Shuck and the real legends behind The Hound of the BaskervillesBritain is full of phantom black dogs, and Arthur Conan Doyle borrowed the best of them for his most famous Sherlock Holmes story.