Gustave Le Rouge Story Illustration
Artist unknown, found in this article at El Desvan del Abuelito.

Purk el Hombre de Piedra



See more in this article at El Desvan del Albuelito.

Painting Of Demons


Artist unknown, details of a painting at the museum of fine arts in Sevilla, found in this flickr set.

Jörg Breu/Heinrich Steiner - Drunken child chained by the devil, 1535

"A drunken child chained by the devil; the child with horns, standing on an open book while urinating on a table. Holding a short sword in his right hand and a stick from which a crown is dangling over his left shoulder. The devilish creature holding the chains on the right, flames in the background. Illustration to Johann von Schwartzenberg, 'Ain buchle wider das zutrincken', published as part of 'Der Teütsch Cicero', Augsburg: H. Steiner, woodcut"

Image and quote taken from the British Museum.

Prints and Drawings Of Monsters
James Torrance, drawing from 1893. " "The story of Conn Eda", the hissing of the monster was heard at a great distance, illustration to 'Irish Fairy and Folk Tales' by William Butler Yeats, 1893, p.313; three snake-like creatures surrounding a figure on horseback. Brush drawing in grey ink and bodycolour (?)"

I think I just stumbled across the inspiration for The Neverending Story.

Giulio Bonasone - Achillis Bocchii Bonon. symbolicarum quaestionum de Universo genere quas serio ludebat (Emblems of Achilles Bocchius.) engraving, 1555. "Plate 61. Menelaus binding Proteus to force him to reveal the future, below are monsters; from a series of 150 engravings."


Domenico Tiepolo - A centaur attacking a seven-headed monster. Pen and grey-brown ink, with grey-brown wash, 1742-1804.


William Strang - 'A matter of fact' aquatint etching, 1901. From thirty illustrations to short stories by Rudyard Kipling. "In the foreground, seen from behind, five figures on the steamer the Rathmines, looking out to sea at the two sea monsters; the sightless and whiskered heads and finned backs of both monsters visible."

I've posted a lot of sea monsters here over the years but I think this is the most disturbing artwork I've seen of this subject matter. There's just something really horrifying about seeing the giant balding whiskered head of an old man on the body of a swimming monster. And the composition in this is amazing, rarely does the artist show the monster at sea from the perspective of inside the ship. Looking at this you really feel like a passenger or deck hand frozen in awe at this nightmarish and fantastic scene.

Artist unknown, engraving from 1510-1550.


Giulio Campagnola, engraving with stippling, 1509.
"The astrologer; a bearded man measuring a clestial globe next to a monster,"

Étienne Delaune - Africca, from series titled "The Four Parts Of The World" engraving, 1575.

Luca Ciamberlano - engraving , 1600-40. "Jonah on the shore with the whale threatening him on the left."

Richard Gaywood, etching, 1650-1668. "A stormy sea with two masted ships (and three more on the horizon) and a boat in which a party of hunters are spearing an improbable whale."


All works found at The British Museum.

J J Grandville - Le peuple livré aux impôts suceurs dans la grande fosse du budjet, 1833
Title roughly translates to.. "People delivered to the sucker taxes in the large pit of the budget." Originally found in a series of works titled "L'Association Mensuelle" published in Paris in May 1833.

Print found at The British Museum.

Famous Monsters Card, 1963



More in this flickr set.

HORRIBLE DREAMS OF MONSTERS AND DEMONS
Originally published in "The Empire Annual
For Girls" from 1910 and included in the short story "THE PEARL-RIMMED LOCKET" by M. B. Manwell.

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Franz Gaul Costume Designs, 1837






Gaul costumes previously posted here.

Even More Krampus!!




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The above is a digitally tweaked (by me) version of the copy found here.

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Weird Wheels


Here's a few intriguing monster hot rod hybrids from an old bubblegum trading card series called Weird Wheels. A handful of these cards can be viewed on flickr. A smaller, but complete collection, can be seen here.

R.M. Ballantyne - “The Kitten Pilgrims” 1882


The following illustrations and prose can be found in the incredible childrens book written and drawn 126 years ago by R.M Ballantyne, The Kitten Pilgrims. The story involves a group of kittens and a dog who must adventure into a land of monsters, each one representing a different sin.


An awful creature first they met,
A worm of low degree;
Its name was Sloth—a terrible thing,
With tails that caught the three.
And down they fell, but Flim escaped,
And back to the rescue ran;
And stabbed, and gashed, and pluckily slashed,
As brave as the bravest man!

Chorus:
Oh-o-o-o! what terrible monsters they did fight
While travelling through the land!


In desolate land, remote and grand,
They met with the Griffin Rage;
The most horrible thing—head, body, and wing, -
That kittens could well engage.
They fought him hard, and they fought him long,
And he nearly killed them all;
For wasn’t he gruff, and fearfully tough,
Though at last he went to the wall!

Chorus:
Oh-o-o-o! what monsters fierce they had to fight
While travelling through the land!


An eight-armed Octopus next they slew,
On the shore of the lovely sea;
So flabby and still and dead he seemed, -
But a regular cheat was he.
With a beak concealed to tear their flesh,
And glittering eyes to glare;
A face all puckers, with dozens of suckers
Hid under him slily there.

Chorus:
Oh-o-o-o! what monstrous cheats they had to fight
While travelling through the land!


And now at last, the journey past,
“Home, home!” they shout with cheers.
When, ghastly and cold, that sinner of old,
The Giant him-Self appears.
They fight him and catch him, and horribly scratch him,
Till a biddable slave is he;
Then, back to the Mother, Truss, Flim, and the brother,
With Self and the Monkey flee.

Chorus:
Oh-o-o-o! what dangerous foes they fought and felled
While travelling through the land!

The entire book can be viewed at Athelstane E-Books.