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    Life in Paintings
    Life in Paintings
    DarknessAndLight
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    DarknessAndLight
    Ongoing
    Ongoing, First published Mar 10, 2014
    "I must have hit my head a lot harder than I had anticipated, or maybe breathe too much smoke because this is definitely nut-case crazy. Or a very creepy dream that feels way too real for my own good. I can pat my subconscious on the back for that one, but at the same time, it might be a little over the top."
        When Melody set fire to a museum she didn't expect to hit her head on the pavement and wake up in a nightmare. But she does. And this nightmare is not a nightmare apparently--it's a curse.
        A curse that traps her into paintings. And there's no escaping from the wrath of a possessed painting out to teach an art-hater a lesson.
        
        
        Cover painting made by Soo Kim (http://sookimstudio.com/blog/)
    All Rights Reserved
    • art
    • curse
    • gustave
    • horror
    • melody
    • painting
    • wattys2014
    artcursegustavehorrormelodypaintingwattys2014
    Table of contentsLast updated Dec 25, 2022
    • Prologue
    • Chapter 1 - The Crying Boy
    • Chapter 2 - The Triumph of Death
    • Chapter 3 - Saturn Devouring His Son
    • Chapter 4 - Adieu
    • Chapter 5 - Witch's Kitchen
    • Chapter 6 - Punishment of Marsyas
    • Chapter 7 - Rape of the Sabine Women
    • Chapter 8 - Portrait of a Young Boy
    • Chapter 9 - Judith and her Maidservant
    • Chapter 10 - Dante and Virgil in Hell
    • Chapter 11 - The Agnew Clinic
    • Chapter 12 - Through a Camera Lens
    • Chapter 13 - The Last Day of Pompeii
    • Chapter 14 - The Nightmare
    • Chapter 15 - The Story of Nastagio Degli Onesti, Part One
    • Chapter 16 - Guernica
    • Chapter 17 - The Vision of St Jerome by Guercino
    • Chapter 18 - Barge Haulers on the Volga
    • Chapter 19 - Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
    • Chapter 20 - Othello and Desdemona
    • Chapter 21 - Through Glass Lenses
    • Chapter 22 - Aristotle Tutoring Alexander
    • Chapter 23 - A Clipper at Sunset
    • Chapter 24 - Christina's World
    • Chapter 25 - Burning of a Witch
    • Chapter 26 - Self Portrait with a Black Dog
    • Chapter 27 - Sleep
    • Chapter 28 - Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie in the Louvre in Ruins
    • Chapter 29 - The Kiss
    • Chapter 30 - Echo and Narcissus
    • Chapter 31 - Through a Magnifying Glass
    • Chapter 32 - Pygmalion and Galatea
    • Chapter 33 - Café Terrace at Night
    • Chapter 34 - Barges on the Seine
    • Chapter 35 - The Robber and His Child
    • Chapter 36 - Midsummer Eve Bonfire on Skagen Beach
    • Chapter 37 - The Desperate Man
    • Chapter 38 - Wounded Angel
    • Chapter 39 - The Man Made Mad With Fear / Seascape at Saint Aubin
    • Chapter 40 - Pandemonium
    • Chapter 41 - St. Francis in Ecstasy
    • Chapter 42 - Through My Dreams
    • Chapter 43 - The Colossus
    • Chapter 44 - Young Woman on Her Deathbed
    • Chapter 45 - White on White
    • Chapter 46 - The Raft of Medusa
    • Chapter 47 - Portrait of Juliette Courbet

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    • Prologue
    • Chapter 1 - The Crying Boy
    • Chapter 2 - The Triumph of Death
    • Chapter 3 - Saturn Devouring His Son
    • Chapter 4 - Adieu
    • Chapter 5 - Witch's Kitchen
    • Chapter 6 - Punishment of Marsyas
    • Chapter 7 - Rape of the Sabine Women
    • Chapter 8 - Portrait of a Young Boy
    • Chapter 9 - Judith and her Maidservant
    • Chapter 10 - Dante and Virgil in Hell
    • Chapter 11 - The Agnew Clinic
    • Chapter 12 - Through a Camera Lens
    • Chapter 13 - The Last Day of Pompeii
    • Chapter 14 - The Nightmare
    • Chapter 15 - The Story of Nastagio Degli Onesti, Part One
    • Chapter 16 - Guernica
    • Chapter 17 - The Vision of St Jerome by Guercino
    • Chapter 18 - Barge Haulers on the Volga
    • Chapter 19 - Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
    • Chapter 20 - Othello and Desdemona
    • Chapter 21 - Through Glass Lenses
    • Chapter 22 - Aristotle Tutoring Alexander
    • Chapter 23 - A Clipper at Sunset
    • Chapter 24 - Christina's World
    • Chapter 25 - Burning of a Witch
    • Chapter 26 - Self Portrait with a Black Dog
    • Chapter 27 - Sleep
    • Chapter 28 - Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie in the Louvre in Ruins
    • Chapter 29 - The Kiss
    • Chapter 30 - Echo and Narcissus
    • Chapter 31 - Through a Magnifying Glass
    • Chapter 32 - Pygmalion and Galatea
    • Chapter 33 - Café Terrace at Night
    • Chapter 34 - Barges on the Seine
    • Chapter 35 - The Robber and His Child
    • Chapter 36 - Midsummer Eve Bonfire on Skagen Beach
    • Chapter 37 - The Desperate Man
    • Chapter 38 - Wounded Angel
    • Chapter 39 - The Man Made Mad With Fear / Seascape at Saint Aubin
    • Chapter 40 - Pandemonium
    • Chapter 41 - St. Francis in Ecstasy
    • Chapter 42 - Through My Dreams
    • Chapter 43 - The Colossus
    • Chapter 44 - Young Woman on Her Deathbed
    • Chapter 45 - White on White
    • Chapter 46 - The Raft of Medusa
    • Chapter 47 - Portrait of Juliette Courbet
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