a picture that spooked me as a child

http://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~xyu/kale-gb/pics/gallen/kullervos_curse.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 14:20 (twenty-three years ago)

what has that nun done to the guy from nickleback?!?!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

the second one just looks like a typical day in olympia.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 14:22 (twenty-three years ago)

who cares?? he's dead! rejoice!

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 14:22 (twenty-three years ago)

markess, on the rare occasion(s) where i'm led to imagine your childhood, i inevitably return to the same mental image -> a young boy abandoned in some hushed gothic library / surrounded by tomes of long-discarded picture books / terrified but cruelly compelled to keep reading

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

The scary thing is that's also the upbringing of Neil Tennant.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

mark p, you make mark s sound like he grew up in a neil gaiman comic, which is just cruel.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

haha not far wrong mark!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

shut up jess, it wz grebt!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

haha better gaiman than the neverending story

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 14:37 (twenty-three years ago)

i wz actually trying to find some pix of finnish housetrolls which were in the same book (larousse encyclopaedia of mythology) for rickyt's thread

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

the second one just looks like a typical day in olympia

post of the day! perhaps i shall see for myself next year...

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

the second one just looks like a typical day in olympia

post of the day! perhaps i shall see for myself next year...

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

seriously! that guy is so the Scariest Guy Ever (cf. my blog.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

the one pic that frightened the wossname out of me as a kid was a plate in a reader's digest (i think) volume of Poe stories that my mum had. i would sneak a peak at it every now and then, but it really made me feel queasy. i will scan it in sometime. It's an illustration of the pit and the pendulum, but depicting some sort of dragon like apparition wrapped around the pendulum (IIRC).

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.calvin.edu/~hett/Red%20Riding%20Hood/LRRH%20Assets/Dore%20LRRH.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.calvin.edu/~hett/Red%20Riding%20Hood/LRRH%20Assets/Montresor%20Eating.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

mark any more and you'll be retroactively fucking with *my* childhood

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 16:18 (twenty-three years ago)

why were you looking at these pictures?

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

just one more!!

http://www.fln.vcu.edu//struwwel/daumen3.gif

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 16:40 (twenty-three years ago)

EEK! that last one is super frightening

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, what fairy tale is that from??

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

The picture of Granny Wolf gettin' her munch on has reduced me to tears of laughter.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 16:49 (twenty-three years ago)

The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb

One day, Mamma said, "Conrad dear,
I must go out and leave you here.
But mind now, Conrad, what I say,
Don't suck your thumb while I'm away.
The great tall tailor always comes
To little boys that suck their thumbs.
And ere they dream what he's about
He takes his great sharp scissors
And cuts their thumbs clean off, - and then
You know, they never grow again."

Mamma had scarcely turn'd her back,
The thumb was in, alack! alack!

The door flew open, in he ran,
The great, long, red-legged scissorman.
Oh! children, see! the tailor's come
And caught our little Suck-a-Thumb.

Snip! Snap! Snip! the scissors go;
And Conrad cries out - Oh! Oh! Oh!
Snip! Snap! Snip! They go so fast;
That both his thumbs are off at last.
Mamma comes home; there Conrad stands,
And looks quite sad, and shows his hands;-
"Ah!" said Mamma "I knew he'd come
To naughty little Suck-a-Thumb."

by Heinrich Hoffmann

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

haha i just realised what that poem is "actually" about!!

it's from struwwelpeter

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 16:52 (twenty-three years ago)

edvard munch's "red creeper"...that chills the shit out of me.

― mike (ro)bott, Wednesday, 2 October 2002 17:59 (twenty-three years ago)

"red-legged scissorman" is the scariest thing EVER. (thanks mom, for not telling me about him)

― the actual mr. jones (actual), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 18:11 (twenty-three years ago)

My Larousse has those two pics, Mark, but no housetrolls - in fact no trolls dancing to any kind of modern music, haha.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 18:58 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/treasures/Images/jpg/escher.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Awww....

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 19:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Now them's a vision.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 19:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark S, I hate you for what you've reawakened in me with that horrible hoffman nightmare. I hate you!

― Mark C (Mark C), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 21:33 (twenty-three years ago)

sorry mark c!!

(you are safe though, as long as you don't suck yr thumb)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 21:43 (twenty-three years ago)

http://art.gothic.ru/paint/dore/19.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 22:02 (twenty-three years ago)

http://art.gothic.ru/paint/dore/6.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 22:04 (twenty-three years ago)

mark you read dante as a child??

― the actual mr. jones (actual), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

no i am cheating now (i wd probably have looked at the pictures if they'd been there to look at) (i didn't *read* the larousse encyclopaedia of mythology as a child!!)

http://art.gothic.ru/paint/redon/3.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 22:12 (twenty-three years ago)

i tried to find a picture from "uncle lubin", but the one i found wasn't one of the really scary ones

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 22:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I seem to remember a bastardisation of Red Legged Scissorman done by Savage Pencil where he had a big nob and was chopping off Clint Boon's head..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 3 October 2002 02:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man
Putting end to evil doers games
Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man
Maybe you are in his book of names!

So be good and never poison people
Just think twice before the deed is done
When you wake up guilty in the morning
You may find important pieces gone

― gazza, Thursday, 3 October 2002 05:59 (twenty-three years ago)

What the fuck is David Hockney doing in the second picture?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 3 October 2002 08:52 (twenty-three years ago)