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Origins of the Vampire
Origins of the Vampire

 



To celebrate the release of our new vampire product range "Romantique Vampiria" we present the Origins of the Vampire ...

 


The Vampire, by Phillip Burne-Jones (1897).

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Lucrezia Borgia
Lucrezia Borgia

 



 

There is no force quite so potent as a woman with infamy and corruption infused indelibly into her blood.

 

Lucrezia Borgia
Portrait of a Woman: Created by Bartolomeo Veneto, this has long been considered to be a painting of Lucrezia Borgia.

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The whitechapel messiah

 

The Whitechapel Messiah

a.k.a Jack The Ripper?

 

It wasn’t “Jack” and they were no ordinary ladies of the night…….

 

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The hellfire club

 

Debauchery; scandal; the lowest levels of depravity and excess.

Such things have been inextricably tied to the inner circles and darkest corners of high society since time immemorial – entire governments with strings manipulated by individuals of great power and persuasion behind closed doors, tainted by vice and immorality; and the origins of the infamous Hellfire Club are no exception.

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Founding Members of the Hellfire Club (date unknown).

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steampunk

 

Visit our Alchemy Empire feature site to view steampunk inspired artefacts and art from the Alchemy studios.

Imagine a world in which the greatest leaps of innovation were propelled in a heated rush of industrious haze; a bygone era where proud pioneers dared to break the mould, creating prototypes for unfathomable feats of technology that relied on nothing more than the power of steam, the energy of the sun and the crank of metal – or the crashing force of a lightning bolt, captured and harnessed for some improbably exotic experement.

Such a world is not as far-fetched a concept as one might first believe – its ideals of progress to launch society out of the darkness of the Victorian age not quite so lost to the dusty annals of history.

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