Kerry Kate has designed over 200 dolls while creating and painting hundreds by hand. Lucky for you she also has her own line of stuffed print dolls available on Etsy.
Her October Effigies has been featured in dark films such as BLACK DAHLIA and Silent Ghost Cinema’s THE GHOST OF SLEEP. Kerry has had features and photoplay in many alternative mags including DOLL MAGAZINE, VIAL, DARK CULTURE MAGAZINE and SPIN. Her hand painted dolls have been sold and shown in galleries all over the world.
Her full name is Parthenia Mary Lee Goste (Thea). She is of Welsh descent. She haunts a lovely lighthouse by the sea nestled on Point Wilson in a Victorian sea port named Port Townsend. Parthenia drowned in1921 with the sinking of the passenger ship the S. S. Governor traveling inbound from San Francisco to Seattle. It collided with the freighter S.S. Hartland taking to the sea eight souls.
Parthenia – S. S. Governor shipwreck
The Goste family was asleep when the impact occurred. On one side of the room the parents, Willard and Parthenia. On the other side, their two girls, Saje (8) and Paje (10). When the West Hartland hit, the bow sliced the Goste’s cabin in half, seriously wounding Willard, and trapping the two girls in their beds. Parthenia managed to escape, bringing help, and remove the wounded Mr. Goste, but the poor girls were doomed. Parthenia overcome with frantic rage, had to be forcibly removed.
Once the crew had the injured husband and grieving mother topside, they moved immediately to transfer Willard over to the West Hartland with the rest of the passengers fleeing the sinking ship. As they were distracted, Parthenia broke free from her rescuers and ran back into the ship to be with her children. She, of course, was never seen again.
The S.S. Governor sunk within 20 minutes of impact, taking eight of the 240 passangers with it – including Parthenia Goste and her two children. In close proximity to the wreckage is the Point Wilson Lighthouse, whose keeper witnessed the tragic accident. Today, the apparition of a woman is seen by the locals, wearing a nightgown and wandering the lighthouse as if searching for her children.
Parthenia Goste
post script: aujourd’hui is French, pronounced au + jour + de + hui, literally “at the day of today”
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A while back, Gothic poet and illustrator The Kreep (created by R. O’Donnell) received an entirely handmade box of treasures collected specifically for him by the CORALINE team at Laika films. Inside the box, numbered 46/50, are highly decorated secret compartments that contain relics from the film including a bat/dog model, a bat body mold, authentic skeleton key with secret password, and a wing skeleton prototype #3. An old envelop with a wax seal with inlaid black button (as used for the eyes of the witch) and a hand-typed note explained the curious gift:
DEAR R.,
INSIDE THIS OLD BOX IS A ONE-OF-A-KIND COLLECTION WE’VE AMASSED AND CATALOGUED WITH YOU AND YOU ALONE IN MIND…THE PLAIN TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS, WE ARE PRETTY OBSESSED WITH DARK STORIES. LIKE YOU. WE ADMIRE YOUR DEDICATION TO THE KREEP. PLEASE KEEP UP THE SUPER WORK. WE’LL BE READING.
SINCERELY,
THE CORALINE TEAM
351 of the world’s oddest and most talented animators, artisans, and puppet fabricators have hand-made CORALINE. Led by Henry Selick, the director of THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS and JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH, this team has created the first stop-motion feature shot entirely in 3D. Based on the beloved best-selling children’s classic by Neil Gaiman, CORALINE is a fairy-tale nightmare steeped in classic storytelling, craftsmanship, and the old-fashioned art of moviemaking magic.
CORALINE is nominated for an Academy Award for best Animated Feature, to be televised by ABC on March 7, 2010.
Still NO. 93. BAT/DOGS
Skeleton key with password: armpithair
NO. 46/50
Letter with Wax Button seal
source: R. Productions
photos: Eric Hoffhines
“All around him couples were clinging to one another, shrieking n’ shivering from the horrors director Patrick Lussier (Scream I, II & III) persistently threw in all their faces. And they loved it. Every last adolescent one of them was in cheesy splatter heaven. Holding onto one another as if they were dropping off the face of a way too complicated world, My Bloody Valentine –3D delivered such gratuitous ultra-violence to make their little hearts explode.”
Cupid is right outside a suburban window. An old angel with dirty wings, he stands there peek-a-booing through the frosty glass of someone’s living room. He takes a withered hand and wipes away the chill, wonders why the roses and the paper hearts aren’t hung around the living room akin to the holly and blinking lights that the Christmas angels all adore. He thinks his lovely celebration is dwindling. Cupid deems our hearts are growing bitter. So our wee-sized cherub with a duffle bag filled with dusty arrows and a bow shakes his head, walks away bewildered.
more Kreep here:
Fine artist, sculpture, and doll maker extraordinaire, Whobyfire is from Sweden. She spends a lot of her time making fantastically macabre art such as strange dolls from clay, super-sculpey and steel-wire. We think she’s über imaginative. A real “find”. In fact, our editor has many of her works, including the original Kreep doll. Imagine that?
Visit her. Fall in love with her treasures. Buy them. Show them off to art critics and friends. Giggle at how affordable they are, now, before she’s whisked away by an even greater success.
More Whobyfire:
“i’ve decided to burst my bubble again and let new creations climb out of my dark cave and see the world with half blind eyes. i just have to let them go so there’ll be room for new thougts, new energy, new dolls and sculptures in my mind. the ones who managed to climb out of my cave are now in my etsy shop.”
ODE T’WHOBYFIRE
O t’mold a tiny dream
a vision shared
a kreepy theme
at once prepared
by nights’ moonbeam
now declared
to which redeem
none compared
‘tis art supreme
In E†ernity,
Brazillia R. Kreep
The Tiger Lillies have won an Olivier Award in theatre, been nominated for a Grammy and play from one end of the globe to the other. They have 26 albums-that we know of-and are Monty Python meets Radio Head And so it is, without any due hesitation, our duty to advocate with great fan fare and farts their new-fangled freaky double album Freakshow. We like it. You’ll like it. Your neighbors might go mad.
“Welcome to the Carnival of Circus Freaks The Bleeding Lady the blood from her leaks Here is a place where you can buy crack Lobotomised whores who you can slap.“
The Tiger Lillies Perform GIN on BBC2
Viktoria Modesta is a site to behold
Gorgeous, talented plus highly innovative, model/musician Viktoria Modesta is a site to behold. Really. She’s renaissance, deliciously eccentric, and sculpted from the school of hard knocks. Too cool.
We love that she’s launched her solo music project with musician/producer Nik Hodges w/tracks written and produced by Viktoria and Nik. They’ve established a sound that reflects a mix of Electro, Dirty Pop, and a wee pinch of Indie/Rockabilly twang.
From the mouth:
“The project is already gathering an exciting amount of attention from the music industry with great reviews from MUSIC WEEK (Jane Bond has been featured on MUSIC WEEK playlist) , BRAND AMP, KISMET and BIZARRE. Her appearance @ London Fashion Week generated an amazing response after she performed an adapted version of SATELLITE, live as a finale of ZIAD GHANEM & FIRETRAP’s fashion show at The Freemasons Hall – Vauxhall Fahion Scout, stealing the show wearing a white couture gown.”
Oh, and Viktoria is an amputee. Something that she’s thrilled about. We can see why.
“Since the operation, there hasn’t been a single day where I’ve thought I shouldn’t have gone through with it. I do sometimes still wish I had a normal leg – but not my old leg.” -Viktoria, Bizarre
> Viktoria Modesta, Bizarre Cover Story
Viktoria @ selected London venues, playing as a 3 piece live band . Watch. Listen. Bye Bye. Gone.
> Viktoria
> Myspace
video Jane Bond by Modesta:
Dreamhours is a site dedicated to a world of images.
And we believe them. It’s one of the coolest rides we’ve been on lately. It’s like being trapped inside HBO’s Carnivale and Edgar Allen Poe’s head. Dreamhours is a Gothic Alchemy for the soul.
The creator speaks:
“If I was to add a final word, it would be a wish that you will be inspired to portray your own reality, wheter this is by words, images or the medium you feel the most comfortable with.”
–Viktor Kvant, early spring 2005.
O’ Poverty thy wicked Cthulhu
O’ poverty thy wicked Cthulhu
Enchained a mind in coiled darkness
T’refute remarks n’ ruminations
In poetry n’ verse thus pending
As well quick a scribe’s bereavement
Malevolent feat indeed undone our author
O’ scarcity thy heinous Cthulhu
Threadbare wellbeing, better despair
Crush thy creator well your weight
Rip innards whilst no riches dwell
Curse the life obscurity n’ unaided
Lovecraft’s passing reaps return
O’ paucity thy odious Cthulhu
Neither headstone nor words printed
Nix bed t’sleep in restful slumber
Destitute the fate of Poe
Gone the extraterrestrial mythos
Vanished here forever more
In E†ernity,
Brazillia R. Kreep
Cthulhu (kə-THOO-loo) is a fictional cosmic entity created by horror author H. P. Lovecraft in 1926, first appearing in the short story “The Call of Cthulhu” when it was published in Weird Tales in 1928.
-Wikipedia
One of the fathers of modern horror, HP Lovecraft (Howard Phillips) wrote horror, fantasy, and science fiction, coined in the early 1900’s as weird fiction. Own a piece of the historic “Lovecraft Circle” with this near mint postcard penned to horror writer/illustrator Howard Wandrei in HP’s own hand.
Inscription:
“Hail Spawner of Daemons! Am harboring a guest of honor whom I believe you are not unacquainted. Have just produced an ice-cream famine at Maxfields & a general famine at Jakes (has Donald told you about these centers of…) & now absorbing scenic impressions. Now by the shore at Buttonwoods. Hope you’ll get over to these parts before you flash away towards the sunset!” Also signed at the conclusion, “Greetings out of the dark from the unknown, but not malefic. James Morton.”
ALS signed “H. P.,” on the correspondence side of a 3.5 x 5.5 picture postcard of the Providence County Court House, no date, but postmarked August 4, 1934. Postcard to Howard Wandris in New York.
Lovecraft died unknown and penniless in 1937 of cancer, aged 46.
Heads-up courtesy of H. P. Lovecraft And His Legacy – Hosted by Chris Perridas
Feeding The Kreep Dirty Angels Dirty Wings In Shadows
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