Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Doctor Who - William Hartnell


"One day, I shall come back... Until then there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs, and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine. Goodbye, Susan. Goodbye, my dear."

Karl Richter



The great Karl Richter (1926 - 1981) - conductor, organist and harpsichordist. Known as one of the finest Bach interpreters.

Thursday, 9 February 2012

And They Called it Puppet Love...


The magical Mr. Alan Moore. Comics writer extraordinaire and disciple of Glycon - the 2nd Century Roman Snake God revealed to be nothing more than an elaborate sock puppet. Here's to him.

Poirot


Flex those little grey cells...

Wednesday, 14 December 2011

Tuesday, 15 November 2011

Horror on a Universal Scale

It doesn't take the brightest pencil in the tin to read the name of this blog and deduce that I'm a bit of an ol' horror fan. So - what better way to pay due homage to the silver screen icons of yesteryear, than to render them in all their gory gray glory.

 Lon Chaney - The Phantom
The Phantom of the Opera 1925

 Boris Karloff - The Monster
Frankenstein 1931

 Bela Lugosi - Dracula
Dracula 1931

 Boris Karloff - The Mummy
The Mummy 1932

 Elsa Lanchester - The Bride
Bride of Frankenstein 1935

 Lon Chaney Jr. - The Wolf Man
The Wolf Man 1941

The Gill-Man
Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954