The Apsinthion Protocol: Chapter Seven, Page Thirty
There are some things awe-inspiring enough that you can only watch.
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The Apsinthion Protocol: Chapter Seven, Page Twenty-Nine
And like the others, Li Anwei moves forward with her decision.
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The Apsinthion Protocol: Chapter Seven, Page Twenty-Eight
And Anwei has a stunning revelation…
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The Apsinthion Protocol: Chapter Seven, Cover
And now begins the thrilling concluding chapter of The Apsinthion Protocol. I won’t give away the meaning of Lon’s gorgeous cover.
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The Apsinthion Protocol: Chapter Two, Page Seven
Moira has imagination, but Corwin has….
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The Apsinthion Protocol: Chapter Two, Page Six
Moira’s library find links Gnosis College with a strange Southeast Asian beach.
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Octo pulp
Borderline as mad science, but definitely pulpy, and definitely a subject we’ve broached here at length at Erotic Mad Science.
This is also evidence on today’s Internet that whatever it is, there’s a site for it. In this case, a site Poulpe Pulps, a site devoted to pulp covers that feature giant octopuses. No, not a joke. And for what it’s worth, I think it’s awesome that we live in a world where one can find a site like this.
On top of that, the site creator put out an appeal to ver readers: where does this illustration come from? And as it happens, ve got an answer.
They went seaward
It turns out that the meme of people striding naked into the sea to transform into sea creatures, one so lovingly illustrated for Erotic Mad Science by Bokuman recently, has an artistic and perhaps even a mythological antecedent.
Found recently at Janitor of Lunacy. The artist is Edwin Willard Deming (1860-1942) about whom I haven’t been able to learn a great deal (there’s a short biography here and a notice from The New York Times in 1914 about one of his exhibitions here), except that he achieved notice as a painter of scenes of Native American life, which makes me think that perhaps this painting is an illustration of a Native American story or myth, though my sadly-limited knowledge of such things means that this can be only conjecture on my part. (If anyone knows better, please write in.)
For my part, the painting really does make me want to head for a seashore somewhere…
Frankenstein Venus
Awesome blog Wicked Halo has put together this gallery of images of the Bride of the Monster as created by Elsa Lanchester, a subject we’ve broached before here at Erotic Mad Science. All are worthy of your attention, but my personal second favorite was probably this one:
Thematically this falls into a line with one of the very first posts done here.
The hat tip goes to PZ Myers at Pharyngula, whose personal favorite coincides with mine. If you look at the Wicked Halo post I’ll bet you can guess which one that is (but no extra points if you peek at PZ’s post first).
Origins of tube girl meme?
I’ve done a lot of posts here at Erotic Mad Science about what I call the “tube girl meme,” the visual depiction of a pretty woman, often nude or scantily clad, sealed in some sort of transparent tube (often suspended in fluid) for the purpose of preservation, experiment, or some perverted purpose — let your imagination run free there. It’s clearly a pretty prominent visual motif in the mad science genre and really takes off with pulp covers after the Second World War. But where did it come from?
I’ll offer a conjecture, and kindly keep in mind that it’s only a conjecture so if any of you who read this blog know of an earlier or better one by all means please comment. It goes back to a locus classicus of cinematic mad science, The Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
In this film, Dr. Septimus Pretorius, one of Frankenstein’s former teachers, demonstrates to Frankenstein a set of experiments in creating life, in this case Pretorius’s creation of a set of homunculi that live in cylindrical glass jars. It’s a pretty good effect, given that it’s 1935.
Among these are a dancer, (who, Pretorius laments, will only dance to Mendelssohn’s “Spring Song”)…
..and, perhaps more on visual point, a mermaid.
Origin of the concept? Maybe. I’m willing to bet that all those pulp artists and the public that patronized their work both watched Bride of Frankenstein a lot.
Bonus erotic trivia: The mermaid in the jar is played by Josephine McKim, a swimmer who won a gold medal in 1932 Olympics and who was the body double for Maureen O’Sullivan during her famous pre-code “nude swim” sequence in Tarzan and His Mate (1934).
Is there video? You betcha!
Of course we have also visited the contributions of Olympic swimmers to erotica on this blog before.
