Public domain horror
I find images of ghosts, monsters, and demons so you don't have to.
Most of what I share is likely in the public domain, but usage policies vary by organization and country. Please check the citations and verify independently before using any imagery.
- The damned writhe in boiling cauldrons; representing hell. Woodcut, Wellcome Collection, London, England. #fire #hell #demonology #monsters #woodcut #illustration
- Bosch, Hieronymus. An angel leading a soul into hell. Oil painting by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch. Oil painting, Wellcome Collection, London, England. #oil #painting #hell #damned #torture
- Doyle, Charles Altamont. A crowned fairy king seated on a hedgehog drawn by a girl holding a giant daisy, accompanied by dancing fairies. 1800-1899, watercolour, Wellcome Collection, London, England. #watercolor #painting #fairies #hedgehog #fantasy #folklore
- Maclise, Daniel, engraving by Bacon, Frederick. A faun surrounded by fairies. 1840 , intaglio prints, Wellcome Collection, London, England. #intaglio #faun #fairy #folklore #print #fairies
- Doré, Gustave. Death on the Pale Horse. 1865, found in a 20th century Swedish bible. Wikipedia. #death #horse #demons #monsters
- Stothard, Thomas, engraving by Bartolozzi, Francesco. The entrance to hell guarded by Sin and Death. 1792, stipple engraving, on etching, Wellcome Collection, London, England. #sin #death #hell #gate #engraving
- William, Joseph Mallord. Death on a Pale Horse. c.1825-30, Oil paint on canvas , Nigel Llewellyn and Christine Riding (eds.), The Art of the Sublime, Tate Research Publication, January 2013, www.tate.org.uk/art/research... #death #horse #oil #painting #apocalypse #phantom
- A physician wearing a 17th century plague preventive. Watercolor painting, Wellcome Collection, London, England. #watercolor #plague #mask #doctor
- Ward, James. A Human Skeleton. Undated, Graphite and brown ink and brown and gray wash, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven, Connecticut. #skeleton #graphite #ink #anatomy #drawing
- Sadeler, Johann/ Barendsz, Dirck. Hel als een van de vier uitersten (Hell as one of the four extremes ). 1560 - 1600, engraving, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. #hell #demons #fire #engraving
- Goya, Francisco. El aquelarre (The Sabbath of witches). 1797-98, oil on canvas, Lázaro Galdiano Museum, Madrid, Spain. #sabbat #sabbath #goya #oil #painting #satan #witchcraft
- Le Breton, Louis. Images from The Dictionnaire Infernal (Infernal Dictionary) by Jacques Collin de Plancy. 1863, Wikipedia. #demonology #hell #bookillustrations #publicdomain
- Wolgemut, Michael. Dance of Death, leaf from "The Nuremberg Chronicle". 1493, Woodcut and letterpress text, The Met, New York, NY, Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008 #death #skeleton #dancing #woodcut
- Images from Surgical anatomy by Joseph Maclise. Project Gutenberg. #anatomy #medicalhistory #publicdomain #book
- Grien, Hans Baldung. Die Lebensalter und der Tod (The Ages and Death). Between circa 1540 and circa 1543, oil on panel, Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. #allegorical #painting #oil #life #death
- Warren, Johnson & Co. Devils and floating girl, circus stock poster. 1870, woodcut. Library of Congress, Washington DC. #devils #circus #publicdomain #woman #woodcut
- Doré, Gustave. Images from The vision of Hell, purgatory, and paradise by Dante Alighieri. Project Gutenberg. #dore #bookillustration #publicdomain #hell
- Bouts, Dieric. De Val van de verdoemden (The Fall of the Damned). c. 1468, oil on panel, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France. #oil #painting #triptych #hell
- Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur (End of Time in the Middle Ages: The Vineyard of Our Saviour). c. 1450–1470, parchment, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Douce 134 #hell #manuscript #illustrated #french #antichrist
- Orazi, Manuel. Astrological & lunar chart / Sorciére; Astrological & lunar chart / Sorciere. 1895, chromolithography, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY. #lithograph #witchcraft #magic #occultism #publicdomain #skull #bat #owl
- Bracquemond, Félix. Untitled (The Dream of the Mogul?). 1886, etching on vellum, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. #dream #monsters #snakes #figures #creatures
- Bracquemond, Félix. Le haut d'un battant de porte (Birds Nailed to a Barn Door). 1852, etching on laid paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. #birds #etching #publicdomain
- Painted by Moreland, G.; Engraved by Smith, J.R. A storm in a wild and rocky landscape: lightning flashes while a man drives a a coach and four hourses through the darkness. 1798, mezzotint, Wellcome Collection, London, England. #storm #lightning #darkness #horses #gloomy
- Rops, Félicien. A magician in his gothic study conjuring demons: a naked woman appearing from a mirror. 1800-1899, soft-ground etchings, Wellcome Collection, London, England. #etching #gothic #magic #demon #conjuration #woman
- Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros. Anno 1057. Noli me tangere (A very rare compendium of the entire Art of Magic...) c.1775, book, Wellcome Collection, London, England. #demonology #magic #occult #publicdomain
- Cyprianus, M. L., Clavis Inferni sive magia alba et nigra approbata Metratona (The Key of Hell or White and Black Magic Approved by Metatron). Late 18th century, book, Wellcome Collection, London, England. #demonology #talismans #magic #occult #star #publicdomain #book
- Schongauer, Martin, Temptation of St. Anthony. Between 1450 and 1491, engraving , Library of Congress, Washington DC #publicdomain #demons #monsters #engraving
- Taiso, Yoshitoshi, Rajōmon watanabe no tsuna oni ude kiru no zu (Watanabe no Tsuna cutting the arm of the demon at Rashomon). 188-, woodcut, Library of Congress, Washington DC #demon #woodcut #Ibaraki #publicdomain #art
- Schäufelein, Hans. The Rich Man in Hell and the Poor Lazarus in Abraham's Lap, from Das Plenarium. 1517, Woodcut (hand-colored) , The Met, New York, NY, Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1961 #rich #wealthy #theonepercent #wealthinequality #incomeinequality #eattherich #hell #publicdomain
- Ward, James. A Human Skeleton. Undated, Graphite, brown ink, brown and gray wash on medium, smooth, cream wove paper mounted on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven, Connecticut. #skeleton #stilllife #art #ink #graphite #skull
- Saftleven, Cornelis . Monsterlijke heks op een bezem (Monstrous witch on a broom). 1617 - 1681, paper & chalk, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. #witchcraft #chalk #drawing #publicdomain #art
- Woman, seated, facing skeleton symbolizing death. Published 1867, engraving. Library of Congress, Washington DC. #death #skeleton #engraving #art #dark
- Schmolze, Carl Heinrich. Allegorical image of a king surrounded by skulls, a woman surrounded by a garland, with three men below. Published 1864 , Print. Library of Congress, Washington DC. #skulls #king #queen #poetry #publicdomain #art
- Eugène Delacroix, French. Mephistopheles in the Air (Méphistophélès dans les airs), 1828. From Faust. Lithograph. DAC accession number 1944.D1.289.2. Gift of George W. Davison, 1944. Open Access Image from the Davison Art Collection, Wesleyan University. #faust #literature #night #wings #demon
- Calcar, Jan Stephan van . Quarta musculos commonstrantium figura, omnes in posteriori corporis. Published 1543, engraving. Library of Congress, Washington DC. #anatomy #medical #scientific #illustrations #publicdomain
- Volpato, Giovanni. Lucifer Nascere praeque diem veniens age Lucifer almum Virg. Between 1763 and 1803, engraving. Library of Congress, Washington DC. #lucifer #satan #devil #publicdomain #egraving #art
- Master of the Chronique scandaleuse. Denise Poncher before a Vision of Death. About 1500, Tempera colors, ink and gold. Getty, Los Angeles, CA. #tempera #death #vision #scythe #gold #ink #manuscript #sickle
- Kuniyoshi, Utagawa. Kuwana: The Story of the Sailor Tokuzō. ca. 1845-1846 (late Edo), woodblock, ink and color on mulberry paper, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, Gift of Justine Lewis Keidel, 1991. #seamonster #monster #apparition #woodblock #ink #art
- The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Die Gänsehirtin am Brunnen." (Goose-Girl at the well). The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1912. #fairytale #engraving #illustration #publicdomain
- Aldegrever, Heinrich. De rijke man door duivels naar de hel gevoerd (The Rich Man Transported to Hell by Devils). 1554, gravure. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. #hell #devils #theonepercent #wealthinequality #incomeinequality #publicdomain
- Picart, Bernard . God scheidt licht en donker, Allegorie op de zondeval en De duif keert terug met olijftak. 1683 - 1733, etching and engraving, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands #skeleton #snake #publicdomain #art #engraving #etching
- Mortimer, John Hamilton. Death on a Pale Horse. ca. 1775, Pen and black ink and gray ink, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven, Connecticut. #clouds #crowns #death #dragon #monsters #mythological #skeletons #vultures #ink
- Fokke, Simon. Figuren voor de hellepoort (Figures in front of the gates of hell). 1722 - 1782, etching. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. #hellfire #beasts #flying #gate #art #etching
- West, Benjamin. Death on the pale horse. Between 1900 and 1920, Photograph of a painting, Library of Congress, Washington DC #death #horse #painting #art #publicdomain
- Galle, Cornelis. Lucifer. c. 1590 - c. 1600, gravure. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. #publicdomain #lucifer #engraving #art
- Lecurieux, Jacques Joseph. Pluto, the guardian of hell. 1838, wood engraving, Wellcome Collection, London, England. #engraving #pluto #hades #hell #underworld #art
