Happy Halloween

Pendant with Death and a Monk, France, 17th c

Franz Sedlacek, Ghosts on a Tree, 1933

Elna Borch, Death and the Maiden, 1905

Magnapinna Squid, c. 6,000 feet below the surface

Dance Macabre, 16th-century manuscript

Memento Mori from Borneo

Franz van Stuck, Lucifer, 1890

Harmen Steenwijck, Vanitas Still-Life, 17th c.

Max Pirner, The End of All Things, 1887

Cadaver Tomb of Rene de Chalon, c. 1550

Costume idea: the most dangerous man in modern warfare, the drone controller

Tibetan Mask

Maya Funerary Urn, MFA Boston

And the scariest thing of all, S. Maria Novella, Florence.