Hello y'all I was at SOAD concert yesterday on July 4th (saturday) and i dropped my phone, someone managed to find the case but thats it, its an Honor Magic 6 Lite and the wallpaper is a yellow catholic cross with the word FAITH written in red on top of it, the background is all black. If someone found it, I lost it next to the fences that were in the middle of the moshpit.
Hello,
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I am trying to identify a book that I read in France around the early 2010s, but the book itself may have been much older, or at least designed to look much older.
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I read it in the private family library of an elderly and relatively wealthy French woman who was an avid collector of books and frequently bought books at flea markets and antique markets. According to a family member, she may also have been a Reader's Digest subscriber. The book was in French, but it may originally have been published in another language.
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Here is everything I can remember:
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- The book looked like an old encyclopedia or twentieth-century reference work.
- The cover was a dark burgundy or reddish-brown color, similar to many antique encyclopedias.
- It was a substantial volume with a serious, scholarly appearance.
- The layout often consisted of a page of text facing a full-page illustration.
- The illustrations were black and white.
- The artwork was not humorous and was often genuinely disturbing.
- The visual style strongly resembled the works of Odilon Redon, and possibly Alfred Kubin: dreamlike, grotesque, unsettling creatures rendered in black and white.
- The book reminded me somewhat of Collin de Plancy's "Dictionnaire Infernal" in terms of density of text and encyclopedia-like structure, but the creatures were much more nightmarish and psychologically disturbing.
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The most distinctive feature I remember is that the book seemed to be explicitly about nightmares.
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The creatures were not presented as mythological beings or demons in the traditional sense. Instead, they appeared to be creatures inhabiting nightmares, yet they were described in an almost zoological or natural-history fashion.
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Each creature seemed to:
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- have its own name;
- receive a lengthy description;
- have its anatomy discussed;
- have behaviors, habits, and perhaps even a habitat described.
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The tone was very similar to a scientific encyclopedia of animals, except that the subjects were nightmare creatures.
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One specific memory stands out: as a child, I encountered the French word "pédonculés" ("pedunculated" or "stalked"), used to describe the eyes of one of the creatures. I did not know the meaning of the word and asked my parents to explain it. This suggests the text used fairly technical biological vocabulary.
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I do not remember whether the book was genuinely old or a modern publication deliberately designed to imitate a twentieth-century encyclopedia. However, as a child I strongly perceived it as a very old book, perhaps one or two centuries old.
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Does this description remind you of any known book, illustrated encyclopedia, bestiary, art volume, or unusual publication dealing with nightmares, dream creatures, or imaginary beings?
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Thank you very much for any suggestions or leads.
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