Gothic-ly Delicious
Posted by Leslie on November 14th, 2007 | 1 Comment
I’ve started a new historical gothic. While not main characters, the demons of Incubus and Succubus play a role in the story. While searching for images of these demons, I stumbled across the “Gothic Nightmares” exhibit at the Tate Museum in Britain. Each room holds different pictures in such categories as “Fairies and Fatal Women” and “Perverse Classicism.” Borrowed from that site is first image, which I found in the “The Nightmare” room. This is what they had to say about the work: An evil imp has visited two naked young women, and is shown departing on a demonic horse through the window. One of the women stretches as she wakes, her face indicating she has been troubled (or perhaps exhausted) by the night’s activities. The composition may suggest a kind of addled fairy-tale, with the sleeping beauties awakened by the departure of the beast. It evokes the themes of erotic arousal and sexual initiation that underlie many classic stories. Incubus: An image of a Succubus I found elsewhere:
