Agony or ecstasy?

Original post here. This appears to be the work of Spanish artist Arantza Sestayo, who has a DeviantArt site here. Sourced on tumblr to olderoticart via singoshibari.

Flames over Eden

Original post here. Image contains the text “Thrilling Detective. 10¢. Flames over Edent, A Novelet of Crime in Hawaii by Jean Francis Webb. Featuring Dead Man’s Gift, A baffling Murder Mystery Novel by Frederick C. Painton.” Sourced via greatgrottu. Original text:

spookybruceys:

obsidian-sphere:

Pulp fiction so thick you could spread it on bread like butter.

Lopan Vs. Fu Manchu!

Pendulum of doom

Original post here. Original text:

damsellover:

Vic Prezio pulp art. Great angle.

Witch burning

This artwork is by French expressionist and surrealist James Ensor. It is identified on this web page with the title “Le supplice de Jeanne d´Arc” (The Execution of Joan of Arc). It dates from 1892, according to the dated signature in the lower right.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.

They Finger Me with Scorn…

Original post here. Image contains the text “America’s best true crime stories. April 25¢. Real Detective. ‘They Finger Me with Scorn because My Mother Died in the Electric Chair!’ by Ruth Creighton, Long Island Schoolgirl. Love Mad Pirate. Drugstore Cowboy and the Desert Corpse.” Historical note: the “Ruth Creighton” to which a story is attributed may well have been the daughter of Mary Frances Creighton, who really was electrocuted in Sing Sing Prison in 1936. Image sourced to princess-pork-pie via mudwerks.

Goodbye, Charlie Birger

Original post here. Sourced via dichotomization:

Smiling on death row: This 1928 photo provided by the Franklin County Historic Preservation Society in Benton, Ill., shows bootlegging gangster Charlie Birger, center, on the gallows just before his public hanging in Benton.