Dark Classics

Original engraving by Gustave Doré. In ancient European cosmologies inspired by Aristotle, the Empyrean was the place in the highest heaven, which was supposed to be occupied by the element of fire (or aether in Aristotle's...

What is dark within me, illumine! Original illustrations by Gustave Doré for Dante's Divine Comedy, 1857. 

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei), by Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1830. 

''And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the...

Well-behaved on the outside. Filthy in the margins. Victorian charm meets guilty pleasure - because “good girls” have always had the best libraries.