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S. Elizabeth
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S. Elizabeth | weird little guy
Blog: unquietthings.com
Author of the Art in the Margins series
🕯️The Art Of The Occult 🕯️
🦇The Art Of Darkness🦇
🗝️The Art of Fantasy🗝️
…and a fourth title coming soon
Scent of the day: Regime des Fleurs Blood Spider Orchids is an intensely sugared cinnamon and autumn fruit compote, with a bit of brooding, jasmine-y burlesque sultriness. Big Titty Goth Girlfriend harvest spice simmer pot.
December 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Day 6 of my bookish gift guide…
Witch Hunt by @kristenkorvette.bsky.social Essential for witches seeking their lineage, for travelers who want their history alive with magic and fury, and for anyone who’s ever wondered how persecution becomes liberation becomes tourist attraction becomes revolution
December 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I rarely keep anything I knit for myself, but this shawl is extra good. I think it shall be mine. Shawl be mine! Heh.
December 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Day 5 of my bookish December gift guide, featuring books I adore: Lapidarium by Hettie Judah. A wunderkammer feast for the senses, for readers who want their geology served with soap opera drama, and for those who need weird rock facts to lodge in their brain like a wayward pebble in their shoe.
December 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Day four of my bookish December gift guide…

Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by @libraryatnight.bsky.social

Essential for death-positive weirdos, and readers possessing morbid curiosities!
December 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Day three of my December gift guide featuring books I love. Today: Salt Is for Curing by Sonya Vatomsky, a book I have given away more times than I can count. For those who seek the ritual in the repast, who recognize the tongue is where curses live alongside prayers.
December 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I finished my first shawl in like…a year? I didn’t want to pin it out so I soaked it and hung it over the shower curtain rod and called it a day.
December 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
As someone who curates image-heavy art books, I thought I'd share a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes process of what actually goes into selecting artwork for a book like The Art of the Occult.

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The Art Of The Occult And The Elusive Rosaleen Norton
There’s a lot of different moving pieces that go into an image-heavy books that I never even thought about before I began work on The Art of the Occult. Obviously, you must obtain permission …
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December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
December’s bookish gift guide continues! Still recommending other people’s books because it feels nicer than promoting my own.

Up next: Little Hidden Doors by Naomi Sangreal, guiding us through a luminous sanctuary for exploring the mysteries of our sleeping minds.
December 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
How to wear a date with Krampus unquietthings.com/how-to-wear-...
December 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
this is the first shawl I have finished in over a year…I desperately do not want to block it out ugh ugh
December 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I won’t pretend that I made Hildegard‘s Cookies of Joy in honor of national cookie day (I actually made these cookies three days ago!) But today seemed as good a time as any to photograph them.
December 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
On the Unquiet Things blog today...
Noir Kei Ninomiya 2026: midnight skies on two legs, goth Syfy channel creatures wearing the cosmos.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A December gift guide, except it's books I love rather than books I wrote, because that's more fun! First up: Worlds Beyond Time by @70sscifiart.bsky.social, a stunning gallery-in-a-book to light up your synapses with starfire, lasers, and demented glee. bookshop.org/p/books/worl...
Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s
Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s
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December 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
An artist I was so pleased to feature in The Art of Fantasy, Martina Hoffmann paints luminous doorways of revelation, both intimate and infinite, consciousness knowing itself, perception awakening to its own vastness. unquietthings.com/the-infinite...
The Art Of Fantasy Presents: The Infinite Cosmos of Martina Hoffmann
Artists construct worlds and invite us to enter – but not all of these realms exist in the same dimension of possibility. Some paint shimmering aquatic empires where sea-born royalty holds co…
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December 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
A gathering of all the scents I sniffed and pondered in November! Fallen angels in dusty alcoves, sunny Ghibli landscapes, Bjorkian lullaby swan dresses, loamy forest...I experienced so many gorgeous, fragrant creations this month! unquietthings.com/november-per...
November Perfume Reviews
Santa Maria Novella Quercia I know I talk a lot about grey overcast skies and thunderstorms and fog and mist and loving the glooms, but even I can appreciate an objectively beautiful day. Quercia i…
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December 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I watched Hudson Hawk for the first time this afternoon and omg this absolutely unhinged duo.
December 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
On the blog, more spiraling and working through my shit in real-time. I Don’t Want to Be a Content Creator, I Just Want You to Read My Books (Part 2). Skeletor for the algo. unquietthings.com/i-dont-want-...
November 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Seriously!! If you have a weirdo art-lover friend or family member, this is such a stellar gift idea!
Everyone getting a jump on holiday shopping: I wrote this art book! Get it here linktr.ee/70sscifiart
November 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Reposted by S. Elizabeth
Giger's version of the chest-bursting Alien was rejected for being too turkey-like.
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
…but why does our spatchcocked turkey look like a specimen from the Alien:Earth lab?
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
On the Unquiet Things blog today, travels, and trolls, and other tidbits. unquietthings.com/lil-tidbits/
Lil Tidbits
I am feeling a little self-conscious about everything I wrote yesterday (although I really appreciate everyone’s comments! It’s both weirdly depressing and heartening to know there&#821…
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November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Sometimes you need postcards for your favorite weirdos and freaky little guys and I can help with that. unquietthings.com/buy-my-book/
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I had a long chat with a very savvy person yesterday who works with folks on marketing and branding and all that sort of stuff. My main takeaway (even though she did not directly say this) is that the problem is me. I am the one who is getting in my own way.

That freaked me out. A lot.
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I know it’s six months away but I needed the flowerediest frock for my evening with Florence (and like an audience of several thousand I guess but I like to pretend she’s just singing to me.) I will pair it with beads and a velvet choker and the stompiest of boots.
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM