Testaments to the Boom Times to Come

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[thegetty]

The scariest (cutest) bats we’ve ever seen, straight from the Middle Ages to your nightmares.

A Nightingale; Bats, about 1250-1260, English. J. Paul Getty Museum.

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[lostsplendor]

LIFE Magazine: Halloween, date unknown by Cole Phillips (via ondiraiduveau on Flickr)

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[smithsonianlibraries]

Fly my pretties! Fly!

Lithographic illustration of bats by James McNeill Whistler in: Montesquiou-Fézensac, Robert, comte de. Les Chauves-souris: Clairs (1893).

More on the Paul Marks collection on Whistler at our Freer and Sackler Library.

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Edward Gorey illustrates Bram Stoker’s Dracula  [x]

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[wellntruly]

Get ready to tolerate my bat fondness during their brief season of being socially acceptable.

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[likeafieldmouse]

Kiki Smith (1998)

1. Bat

2. Bird

3. Bee

4. Moth

5. Fly

6. Squirrel