The Morthouse

None can narrate that strife in the pines,
A seal is on it — Sabaean lore!
Obscure as the wood, the entangled rhyme
But hints at the maze of war —
Vivid glimpses or livid through peopled gloom,
And fires which creep and char —
A riddle of death, of which the slain
Sole solvers are.

—Herman Melville, “The Armies of the Wilderness” 

Image: Skulls remaining on the field and trees destroyed at the Battle of the Wilderness, 1864, Virginia. Source: Wikipedia.

This must be the cover of some punk or hardcore 7”, somewhere.

Cover of LIFE magazine, October 31, 1960. Photo by George Silk. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

Illustration by Angelo Jank in the German art magazine Jugend, No. 13, 1897: “Der Tod im Baum.”

(Source: kickmeinthefaceplease, via theblurofserenity)

ellamorte:

In Colon Cemetery in Havana, Cuba is the site of the celebrated ‘boneyard’. A single grave in the cemetery cost $10 in rent for five years. At the end of the five years, if the remains were not claimed, the bones were thrown into the boneyard, (sometimes known as ‘bone pile’) by the cemetery authorities.

First World War-era cartoon by Dutch cartoonist Louis Raemaekers.

day-without-sun:

To Your Health, Civilization.

(via nocnitsa)

Too bad my birthday was last week. Next year, right?

wnycradiolab:

Have you always wanted to sit inside a skull?  Well, uh, here you go, weirdo.

(Source: jasonhoodrich)

nevver:

J’accuse!

Image: A post-medieval skull with a coin in each eye orbit, excavated from Bethnal Green, London. Copyright AOC Archaeology.

Via Bones Don’t Lie: Coin in the Mouth or Shoe in the Coffin.

(Source: ellamorte)

Third eye?

(Source: bigirondoor, via anaestheticroom)

This guy is all, “Let’s go SKULL SHOPPING!”

demonagerie:

Trogen, Kantonsbibliothek Appenzell Ausserrhoden, CM Ms. 13, f. 104r. Johann von Schwarzenberg: Memorial der Tugendt. c.1530/40. Death and the bone house.

(via centuriespast)

io9: The Awesomely Insane Heaven and Hell Nightclubs of 1890s Paris.

This photo has been in my queue for about a week now, and every time I open up my queue I stop and stare at it for longer than I probably should.

drfrankscali:

Paget’s disease/possible post-radiation osteosarcoma: (secondary osteosarcoma)