Name's Cat. I'm an L.A. gal who loves everything from classic movie queens to pinups to classic horror. My likes vary a lot. Having said that, I refuse to fit in a box or apologize for being me.

Universal Starlet Patricia Alphin c. 1947

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Dress

1940s

Timeless Vixen Vintage

 Universal starlet, Pat Alphin c. 1947

Vampira, 1954

Cover illustration for Detective Book Magazine, Winter 1949 by George Gross

Gloria Granbilt from the Katy Keene Comics (x)

Carroll Borland in Mark of the Vampire (1935)

La Vie Parisienne cover art by Chéri Hérouard, 1925

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Trophies

early 1900’s Ryan Winsch Postcard

Witchcraft issue #3  (1952)

“Winter”, 1923

Drugwebs

Spiders are not that easy for scientists. They create their webs at 4 in the morning. So in 1948 the Tübinger Zoologist Hans Peters wondered if Peter Witt knew, whether spiders might created their webs at a nicer time if he would give them drugs?… Witt tried with Strychnin and Morphium first. Then with Dextroamphetamin (Speed). Here you see the results.

1. typical hashish inspired net
2. net after about 0.04mcg. LSD
3. net after a high caffeine dose
4. net after a mescaline sulfate dose

Vampira

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“La voix du rossignol” (1925) - Wladyslaw Starewicz