dark fantasy

The <n>Headless Horseman</n>, a character created by author <n>Washington Irving</n>.

<n>Queen Morgana loses Excalibur his sheath</n>, an illustration by <n>Aubrey Beardsley</n> for <n>Le Morte d'Arthur</n> (1893).

<n>The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane</n> (1858) by <n>John Quidor</n>.

<n>Albert Lynch</n>'s 1903 painting, <n>Joan of Arc</n>, depicts the saint before <n>Reims Cathedral</n>.

A woodcut titled <n>Witches giving babies to the devil</n> from <n>The History of Witches and Wizards</n>, ca. 1720.

<n>Hringboga Heorte Gefysed</n>, a c. 1927 painting by author and artist <n>J.R.R. Tolkien</n>.

<n>Sir Kay breaketh his sword at ye Tournament</n> (1903) by <n>Howard Pyle</n>.

<n>Shopi bridal costume</n> from the Sofia region, Bulgaria, from the second half of the 19th century.

<n>Sir Gawaine finds the beautiful Lady</n> (1881) by <n>Howard Pyle</n> for <n>The Boy's King Arthur</n>.

<n>The Black Knight</n>, an illustration by <n>Ivan Bilibin</n> for the Russian fairy tale <n>Vasilisa the Beautiful</n>, 1900.

Illustration by <n>Howard Pyle</n> titled <n>The Lady of ye Lake</n>, 1903.

<n>Dread Companion</n> (1980), a painting by artist <n>Ken Barr</n>.

A still from <n>The Color of Pomegranates</n> (1969), a film by director <n>Sergei Parajanov</n>.

A detail from the Hell panel of <n>The Garden of Earthly Delights</n> by <n>Hieronymus Bosch</n>, c. 1490-1510.

<n>Nikolai Ge</n>'s 1857 painting, <n>Witch of Endor</n>, depicts the biblical story of <n>King Saul</n>.

<n>Hamlet, Act I, Scene IV</n>, an engraving by <n>Robert Thew</n> after a painting by <n>Henry Fuseli</n>.

<n>Great Sea Journal</n> (1983), an illustration by <n>Hiroo Isono</n>.

An illustration by <n>Howard Pyle</n> depicting <n>King Arthur</n> receiving the sword <n>Excalibur</n> from the <n>Lady of the Lake</n>, 1903.

<n>The Dance of Death</n>, a pen, ink, and watercolor drawing by a 15th-century German artist, c. 1470.

<n>Henry Fuseli</n>'s painting, <n>Tiresias Appears to Ulysses During the Sacrifice</n>, from around 1780-85.

<n>Wodan's wilde Jagd</n>, an 1882 wood engraving by <n>Friedrich Wilhelm Heine</n>, depicts the mythological <n>Wild Hunt</n>.

<n>Errol Le Cain</n>'s illustration for the book <n>Thorn Rose</n> (1975), based on the tale by <n>The Brothers Grimm</n>.

<n>The White Tree of Gondor</n>, an illustration by <n>Alan Lee</n>.

<n>Vampire Hunter D</n> (1989) by artist <n>Yoshitaka Amano</n>.

<n>Portrait of Cultivation</n> (2009) by artist <n>Lieko Shiga</n>.

A detail of <n>Pegasus</n> and <n>Mercury</n> from <n>Andrea Mantegna</n>'s painting <n>Parnassus</n>, 1497.

Linocut illustration commissioned by the tabletop gaming shop <n>Codex Arcana</n>.