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26 April 2008
The paintings of Rod Serling's TV series Night Gallery. (Direct link doesn't seem to work- look in the left-side menu for "The Paintings")
jrossi4r, I would always find those paintings creepy even without the association, if only because they so resembled the paintings that adorned the many Alfred Hitchcock Crappy Scary Story anthologies scattered around our house when I was tiny. Boo!
the many Alfred Hitchcock Crappy Scary Story anthologies scattered around our house when I was tiny.
Those were some of my formative reading too, Elsa. :) I owned a couple of the books before I really knew who "Alfred Hitchcock" was (this being the pre-VCR era).
I love Rod Serling and those "Alfred Hitchcock Crappy Scary Story anthologies". I can't believe how many of the pictures I recognize. I also loved The Sixth Sense.
Related: after trying and giving up on H.P. Lovecraft over and over for years, this week I learned how he is best read (for me, anyway): in bed after midnight with just one little light on, with the streets outside quiet enough to hear the shush-shush-shush of other-worldly limbs or pseudopodia ineffably beyond description creeping toward the bedroom window.