A Moonlit Landscape

A Moonlit Landscape

The harvest fields are sleeping,

Moonlight dapples bales and sheaves,

In the hedge something’s creeping,

The night wind among the leaves? 

The sound of footsteps falling

In an empty midnight lane,

Faint voices wailing, calling,

Shadows walk the road again.

The pale road winds on, gleaming,

Round fields and farms, the moon weaves

A path through night’s long dreaming,

For a lost soul that still grieves.

Painting - A Moonlit Landscape by John Atkinson Grimshaw

Verse by Jim Moon

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THE GHOSTS OF AUGUST

The Ghosts of August

We had such summer times here,

Laughing in the hall's hey day,

A season of endless cheer,

But now only shadows play

Too much, too long, wines turned sour,

The blue skies faded to grey.

But the place still has power,

And now only shadows play

Trapped by secrets, guilt and gloom,

Cant ever leave, doomed to stay,

Locked in echoes of lost rooms,

Now only our shadows play…

Painting - Autumn Glow by John Atkinson Grimshaw

Verse by Jim Moon

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Passing an Old House by Moonlight

That old house is still empty,

Though once it was bright with life,

But darkness calls it home now,

Since the master killed his wife.

‘Twas just evil said the judge, 

And so he hung ten years back,

But they say there's blood stains still,

Spattered on walls red and black.

Did something pass that window?

Surely a trick of the light...

And not a hanged man's corpse

Seeking blood to sup tonight…

Painting - Old English House by Moonlight by John Atkinson Grimshaw

Verses by Jim Moon

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HYPNOGORIA 278 - The Ideas Are Fish

The second part of my tribute to the late great David Lynch, in which we uncover Lynchian theories on life, art, film making, and the importance of fishing...

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A Little Something for #WorldPoetryDay

Care for an apple?

Come now child,

Its ripe from the tree, 

Raw red and wild, 

Just one taste

And you will be free...

verse and art by Jim Moon 

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MICROGORIA 65 - Shiver and Shake and the Creepy Creations of Ken Reid

Appearing in the British comedy horror comic Shiver and Shake, every week a new mutant monstrosity escaped the pen of Ken Reid. And now the crazed creatures from this marvellous menagerie has been rounded and collected together in a handsome new tome from Rebellion - Ken Reid's Creepy Creations. Mr Jim Moon explains why you need this essential monster spotter's handbook on your shelves!

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Inktober 2018 - Week 5

Day 29 - "Double" - Well obviously the first thing that sprang to mind was a symmetrical ectoplasmic entity caught in an etheric howlaround... Well, that was the first thing that sprang to my mind...

Day 30 - "Jolt" - I wasn't sure what to do for this word, but than a flash of inspiration hit me like a bolt from the blue!

Day 31 - "Slice" - Who better for "slice" than the original slasher himself? After all, tonight it is the night he came home...

Week 1 is here
Week 2 is here
Week 3 is here
Week 4 is here

Inktober 2018 - Week 4

Day 22 - "Expensive" - another tricky prompt word... so I did a silly one as it was a Monday...

Day 23 - "Muddy" - This prompt word I took as a style cue, and hence captured this entity that appeared the other evening in my scrying glass...

Day 24 - "Chop" -  I went for one of the great chops in horror cinema - Peter Cushing's beheading of Ingrid Pitt at the finale of Hammer's The Vampire Lovers

Day 25 - "Prickly" -  After assorted monsters, violence and weirdness, I thought it was time for a nice picture, so here's a little hedgehog!

Day 26 - "Stretch" - After some consideration, and wanting to avoid joining the inevitable flood of Reed Richards/Plastic Man/Armstrong pics, I went for a portrait of one of Britain's most notorious criminals, who did many a stretch in stir...

Day 27 - "Thunder" -  for this one, I went for a genuine Thor's hammer amulet found in Skåne, Sweden

Day 28 - "Gift" - for this one I decided to do the original girl with all the gifts - Carrie White

Week 1 is here
Week 2 is here
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Inktober 2018 - Week 3

Day 15 - "Weak" -  a quick and silly one today... Hey, it was a Monday and we all need a chuckle on Monday morning, right, gang?

Day 16 - "Angular" - This reminded me of the classic weird tale The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long

"They are beyond good and evil as we know it. They are that which in the beginning fell away from cleanliness. Through the deed they became bodies of death, receptacles of all foulness. But they are not evil in our sense because in the spheres through which they move there is no thought, no morals, no right or wrong as we understand it. There is merely the pure and the foul. The foul expresses itself through angles..."

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Day 17 - "Swollen" - This prompt made me thing of another Mythos entity, Tsathoggua, created by Clark Ashton Smith. This sketch is from a Hyperborean statue carved by Smith himself of the fat, sleepy bat-toad god.

Day 18 - "Bottle" -  Fancy a djinn and tonic?

Day 19 - "Scorched" - At this time of year, I couldn't help thinking of the fate of many a guy...

Day 20 - "Breakable" - This put me in mind of breaking curses, which in turn leads me to Casting the Runes by MR James...

Day 21 - "Drain" -  Well, in an attempt to avoid doing the inevitable Pennywise picture, I considered "drain" as a verb, which led me to vampires, and therefore provided the perfect excuse to draw Ingrid Pitt...

Week 1 is here

Week 2 is here

Inktober 2018 - Week 1

Well, it's that time of the year once again, so here are my collected scribbles for #inktober! This year, I thought it would be fun challenge to produce drawings every day using the official list of prompt words pictured above. And so far, it's working out rather well! Whether I stick with it, remains to be seen... Tune in next week to find out! Anyway, here's the first week's results! 

Day 1 - "Poisonous" - fairly straight-forward this one!

DAY 2 - "Tranquil" - This is my Mum's dear old little dog Penny, who went to her permanent rest aged 17 not long ago 

DAY 3 - "Roasted" - I went for something with an old school RPG vibe for this one! 

DAY 4 "Spell" - I stuck with the white on back and D&D flavours for this one too

Day 5 - "Chicken" - Toughest word so far... And I couldn't bring myself to do some doodle of an ordinary fowl so went for intergalactic space-bastard, the cyborg kaiju Gigan... who looks a little bit like a chicken...

Day 6 "Drooling" - I stuck with the big monsters vibe, and created this chap who may be a distant relation of 2000 AD's Satanus!

Day 7 "Exhausted" - Another tough one, but I thought I'd even up the odds with this one...

INKTOBER WEEK #3

Day 16  - "Uninvited Guests" - another homage to old school RPG art

Day 17 - Crooked House with Mark Gatiss as the Curator

Day 18 - I think I'm calling this one "Black Goat Kaleidoscope"

Day 19 - Ghastly McNasty, Editor at Large #inktober2017

Day 20 - A regular face at the Great Library of Dreams...

Day 21 - Misty

Day 22 - another piece inspired by MR James
"One thing I did notice in the carving on the well-head, which I think must have escaped you. It was a horrid, grotesque shape — perhaps more like a toad than anything else, and there was a label by it inscribed with the two words, “Depositum custodi” - "Keep that which is committed to thee"...

from The Treasure of Abbot Thomas

Day 23 - The Stain of Vampirism - this piece was very much an exercise in seeing what suggested itself from some random splashes.