Signs and their Portents #5: Coventry Cinema Fail

Signs and their Portents #4: "Frightened Gloss"

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."

HP Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

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JG Ballard, advertisement, Ambit #33, Autumn 1967

(Source: jgballard.ca - advertising announcements)

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"Johansen swears he was swallowed up by an angle of masonry which shouldn’t have been there; an angle which was acute, but behaved as if it were obtuse."

HP Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

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"Everything he saw was unspeakably menacing and horrible"

HP Lovecraft, The Dreams in the Witch House

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(Source: lifebuzz)

Signs and their Portents #3: "Tender Path"

Caroline Bergvall's 'Via' (from Ubuweb)

Signs and their Portents #2: "Necrophage"

necrophage, n.

[...] Chiefly Zool.

An organism, esp. an insect, that feeds on dead bodies or tissue. Also in extended use.

1940 Q. Rev. Biol. 15 48/2  Animals dependent on primary foods (green plants) are primary animals... Fungivores, necrophages, and coprophages are low secondaries.

1965 B. E. Freeman tr. A. Vandel Biospeleol. xix. 328  It is generally impossible to classify a cavernicole as a humiphage, xylophage, mycophage, coprophage, or necrophage.

1982 Science 10 Sept. 1059/1  No other protein sources are used by T[rigona] hypogea, and pollen transporting structures have been lost, making this species an obligate necrophage.

1994 P. J. Gullan & P. S. Cranston Insects viii. 207/2  The typical sequence of corpse necrophages, saprophages and their parasites is often referred to as following ‘waves’ of colonization.

1995 Times 20 Jan. 35/2  Hunger can make necrophages of us all.

(Source: OED)

Signs and their Portents #1: "Do not enter, Hopper"