Everyone has a dark side. These artists chose to embrace theirs to create exquisitely haunting imagery. In this episode, we are exploring macabre art; a world of nightmarish landscapes, death scenes, and disfigurement. Listeners beware, some of the subject matter is quite dark.

In the Episode:

The beginnings of macabre: Danse Macabre and the Black Death

Bosch, king of Hell

Francis Bacon: the man, the masochist

Our modern macabre favorites

An all-new Horror Icon of the Week!