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  2. Grotesquerie (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Grotesquerie is an American horror drama television series created by Ryan Murphy, Jon Robin Baitz, and Joe Baken for FX. [4] Niecy Nash-Betts stars as Detective Lois Tryon, alongside Courtney B. Vance, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Micaela Diamond, Raven Goodwin, and Lesley Manville. [5] The series premiered on September 25, 2024. [6]

  3. Grotesque - Wikipedia

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    Grotesque studies, Michelangelo Since at least the 18th century (in French and German, as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks.

  4. Southern Gothic - Wikipedia

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    Common themes of Southern Gothic include storytelling of deeply flawed, disturbing, or eccentric characters sometimes suffering from physical deformities or insanity; decayed or derelict settings and grotesque situations; [1] and sinister events bred from poverty, alienation, crime, violence, forbidden sexuality, or hoodoo magic. [2]

  5. John Coulthart - Wikipedia

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    John Coulthart (born 15 March 1962) is a British graphic artist, illustrator, author and designer who has produced book covers and illustrations, CD covers and posters. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed Lovecraft-inspired book The Haunter of the Dark: And Other Grotesque Visions which contains a collaboration with Alan Moore entitled The Great Old Ones that is unique to this ...

  6. Grotesque (2009 film) - Wikipedia

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    The British Board of Film Classification has refused to issue an 18 certificate to the unrated version of the film, banning its release in the United Kingdom. [1] BBFC director David Cook explained "Unlike other recent 'torture' themed horror works, such as the Saw and Hostel series, Grotesque features minimal narrative or character development and presents the audience with little more than ...

  7. Horror Victorianorum - Wikipedia

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    Wilson's argument formed part of a reaffirmation of the aesthetic principles of the grotesque. [ citation needed ] The argument that distaste for Victorian cultural values (' Anti-victorianism ') is irrational has been adopted by other writers, [1] either following Stove's politically conservative attack on liberal thought , or Wilson's ...

  8. New Gothic - Wikipedia

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    Gavin's 2008 book Hell Bound: New Gothic Art continued to theorize the existence of the movement. She has also referred to the style as "the art of fear". [3] The term is associated with work by Banks Violette, David Noonan and Gabríela Friðriksdóttir, in particular, as well as Christian Jankowski, Marnie Weber, Boo Saville, Terence Koh, and Matthew Stone. [3]

  9. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque - Wikipedia

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    There has been some debate, however, over the meaning of Poe's terms "Grotesque" and "Arabesque". Poe probably had seen the terms used by Sir Walter Scott in his essay "On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition". [6] Both terms refer to a type of Islamic art used to decorate walls, especially in mosques. These art styles are known for their ...