Tag Archives: danse macabre

Macabre Weird Appalachia

Macabre: A Look into the Darkness of the Arts S1E21



Everyone has a dark side. These artists chose to embrace theirs to create exquisitely haunting imagery. In this episode, we are exploring macabre art; a world of nightmarish landscapes, death scenes, and disfigurement. Listeners beware, some of the subject matter is quite dark.

In the Episode:

  • The beginnings of macabre: Danse Macabre and the Black Death
  • Bosch, king of Hell
  • Francis Bacon: the man, the masochist
  • Our modern macabre favorites
  • An all-new Horror Icon of the Week!