Terrifying Collection

Nichiren Calming the Storm, 19th century. Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Nichiren Calming the Storm, 19th century

Form of Palden Lhamo (?), Nyingmapa Buddhist or Bon Ritual Card, 18th-19th century. Creator: Unknown
Form of Palden Lhamo (?), Nyingmapa Buddhist or Bon Ritual Card, 18th-19th century

A Terrifying Deity in Yab-Yum, 19th century. Creator: Unknown
A Terrifying Deity in Yab-Yum, 19th century

Le Massacre des Innocents, between 1626 and 1627. Creator: Nicolas Poussin
Le Massacre des Innocents, between 1626 and 1627. The Massacre of the Innocents

The Flood, n.d. Creator: William Young Ottley
The Flood, n.d

A tragic masked ball, 1930. Creator: Unknown
A tragic masked ball, 1930. Un Tragique Bal Masque. Guest in a burning bear costume. Back cover of " Le Petit Journal Illustre". [France, 30 March 1930]

Exorcism by bell, book and candle, 1816. A clergyman reads a prayer by the light of a candle held for him by a man trembling with terror

The Ghost in the Stereoscope, ca. 1856. Creator: London Stereoscopic & Photographic Co
The Ghost in the Stereoscope, ca. 1856

Terrour or Fright (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions), January 21, 1800

The Fall of the Damned, 1642. Creator: Pieter Soutman
The Fall of the Damned, 1642

Her ghastly face and blood-stained garments... 1919. Creator: Unknown
Her ghastly face and blood-stained garments struck terror to the souls of the petrified spectators, 1919....the brides sumptuously lacquered kago appeared, surrounded by a numerous retinue

An appalling cataclysm, 1932. Creator: Unknown
An appalling cataclysm, 1932. Un Epouvantable Cataclysme. Buildings are torn apart and people are killed and injured during the destruction of Saint-Denis de la Reunion

The Last Day of Pompeii, 1833, detail, (1965). Creator: Karl Briullov
The Last Day of Pompeii, 1833, detail, (1965). Depiction of people fleeing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy in 79 AD

Souls condemned to Hell, second half of the 15th century, (1849). Creator: Kellerhoven
Souls condemned to Hell, second half of the 15th century, (1849). The dead are brought naked in chains, before being cooked in a fire by devils. Below is Satan on his throne

Destruction of Pompeii, 1833, (1939). Creator: Karl Briullov
Destruction of Pompeii, 1833, (1939). The Last Day of Pompeii, depiction of people fleeing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy in 79 AD

The Adventure with Scylla, 1926. Artist: Henry Justice Ford
The Adventure with Scylla, 1926. Scylla, the female six-headed monster who seizes crew from all vessels that pass the cliff where she dwells, including six men from Odysseus ship

The dragon sank towards him, opening its terrible jaws, 1910. A scene from the legend of Cuchulain, Champion of Ireland. A print from Hero Myths and Legends of the British Race by MI Ebbutt, 1910

The Evil Conscience of Tarquin, 1852. Artist: John Leech
The Evil Conscience of Tarquin, 1852. From The Comic History of Rome, by Gilbert A A Beckett, illustrated by John Leech. [Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London, 1852]

The Shipwreck, c1805. Artist: JMW Turner
The Shipwreck, 1805. Painting held at the Tate Britain, London. From Adventures By Sea From Art of Old Time, by Basil Lubbock. [The Studio Ltd. London, 1925]

The Nancy Packet, 1784. Artist: James Gillray
The Nancy Packet, 1784. The wreck of the Nancy, an East India Company ship, in a storm off the Scilly Isles in 1784. One of the passengers killed in the disaster was the celebrated opera singer Ann

Wreck of the Lady Hobart, 1803, 1925. The Lady Hobart was a Post Office packet which sank after striking an iceberg en route to England from Halifax, Nova Scotia

The Great Fire of London, 1666 (1905). From Cassells History of England, Vol. III, [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1905]

The Ghost Story. At this awful moment the Lady we are writing of beheld something white glide through the desolate apartment when all of a sudden a tremensous crash &c &c

The Feast of Belshazzar, 17th or early 18th century. Artist: Pietro Dandini
The Feast of Belshazzar, 17th or early 18th century. Scene from the Bible (Daniel V.17.28). After profaning the sacred vessels of the enslaved Israelites

A Balloon struck by lightning near Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1891. Illustration in Le Petit Journal, 1891

Eruption of Shirane-san and earthquake at Edo (Tokyo), Japan, 1650. After an engraving published in Amsterdam, 1669

Cossacks terrorising a Korean village, Russo-Japanese War, 1904. A marauding band of mounted Russian Cossack troops charging down a snowy street, terrorising the inhabitants and their livestock

A cat terrified by a dog, 1872
Cat terrified by a dog, from Charles Darwins The Expression and Emotions in Man and Animals, London, 1872

Womans Wrongs, 1874. Artist: Joseph Swain
Womans Wrongs, 1874. A brutish working-class husband prepares to beat his wife who still bears the insignia of previous violence

Targhe ed altri ornati di varie e capricciose invenzioni (Cartouches and other ornaments of various and capricious invention, page 34), 1773

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