Day 1,799: macabre

Edgar Allan Poe was known for his macabre stories.

Artwork of the day 
Danse Macabre
Frantisek Kupka
Date: 1896
Style: Expressionism,Symbolism
Genre: symbolic painting

Word of the day 
macabre: gruesome; ghastly; horrible

Quote of the day
“The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.”

― H.P. Lovecraft