NOCTURNAL ANIMA

Getting into the spirit of things.

A bit more foreign paperback art today. Among the pantheon of excellent vintage paperback artists, Benedetto Caroselli has become a favorite, as our many posts of his work attest. He painted this cover in 1964 for Sheila Norman’s L’anima nuda, or “naked spirit,” which was number thirty-three in Grandi Edizioni Nazionali’s macabre series I Capolavori della Serie KKK Classici dell’Orrore. Norman was a pseudonym for Oretta Emmolo, who also wrote as Christoph Bonig, Valerie Greeves, and Reg Sattle. We have plenty more Caroselli art in the website. Just click here.

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HISTORY REWIND

The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

September 16

1920—Terrorists Bomb Wall Street

At 12:01 p.m. a bomb loaded into a horse-drawn wagon explodes in front of the J.P.Morgan building in New York City. 38 people are killed and 400 injured. Italian anarchists are thought to be the perpetrators, but after years of investigation no one is ever brought to justice.

September 15

1959—Khrushchev Visits U.S.

Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States. The two week stay includes talks with U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, as well as a visit to a farm and a Hollywood movie set, and a tour of a “typical” American neighborhood, upper middle class Granada Hills, California.

September 14

1959—Soviets Send Object to Moon

The Soviet probe Luna 2 becomes the first man-made object to reach the Moon when it crashes in Mare Serenitatis. The probe was designed to crash, but first it took readings in Earth’s Van Allen Radiation Belt, and also confirmed the existence of solar wind.

September 13

1987—Radiation Accident in Brazil

Two squatters find a container of radioactive cesium chloride in an abandoned hospital in GoiÃ¢nia, Brazil. When the shielding window is opened, the bright blue cesium becomes visible, which lures many people to handle the object. In the end forty-six people are contaminated, resulting in illnesses, amputations, and deaths, including that of a 6-year-old girl whose body is so toxic it is buried in a lead coffin sealed in concrete.