In art, literature and lore spectres and staircases are frequently linked as the latter are liminal places connecting zones in homes, in gardens, in minds, in nightmares...
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Thomas Rowlandson, 'Giving Up The Ghost', 18th Century. Always good fun, Rowlandson. I'm not sure who the One Too Many is - the physician who may have incompetently poisoned him, the undertaker (?) or Death himself. Can anyone make out the words on the label and floor?
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“I have seen phantoms that were as men
And men that were as phantoms flit and roam.”
- Thomson
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friends, the time has come... i must depart these plague-stricken lands and return to the moors where i shall become a banshee