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Gothic NightmaresFuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination, 15 February - 1 May 2006
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Your Gothic Nightmare

We invited you to write a scenario for a gothic horror movie based on one of the images in the exhibition. You imagined what had and would happen as if the picture is a still from a film yet to be written, produced and directed.

Submissions are now closed and five entries chosen to win their authors a copy of the catalogue. Read some of our favourites and the winning entries below.

Henri Fuseli, The Nightmare exhibited 1782, Oil on canvas, 1210 x 1473 x 89 mm. Lent by the Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr and Mrs Bert L. Smokler and Mrs Lawrence A. Fleischman
Gargoyle scenario by Ned, age 4

William Blake, The Ghost of a Flea circa 1819-20, Tempera heightened with gold on mahogany, 214 x 162 mm. Bequeathed by W. Graham Robertson 1949
The Ghost of a Flea scenario by Giles Smith, age 18

William Blake, Widow Embracing The Turf which Covers her Husband's Grave circa 1805. Pen, grey wash and blue watercolour on paper, 154 x 208 mm. Lent by the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
The Oath scenario by
Cristiano Bruzzi, age 33

Henri Fuseli, The Nightmare exhibited 1782, Oil on canvas, 1210 x 1473 x 89 mm. Lent by the Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr and Mrs Bert L. Smokler and Mrs Lawrence A. Fleischman
The Nightmare scenario by Caspar Siddique, age 17

Henri Fuseli, The Nightmare exhibited 1782, Oil on canvas, 1210 x 1473 x 89 mm. Lent by the Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr and Mrs Bert L. Smokler and Mrs Lawrence A. Fleischman
The Nightmare scenario by Emma Raynsford, age 17 		       William Blake, Death on a Pale Horse circa 1800, Pen, Indian ink, grey wash and watercolour on paper, 393 x 311 mm. Lent by the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Death on a Pale Horse scenario by James Wood,
age 18

Henri Fuseli, The Nightmare exhibited 1782, Oil on canvas, 1210 x 1473 x 89 mm. Lent by the Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr and Mrs Bert L. Smokler and Mrs Lawrence A. Fleischman
The Nightmare scenario by Maarten Weynants, age 23

Philip James De Loutherbourg, Visitor to a Moonlit Churchyard 1790. Oil on canvas, 863 x 685 mm. Lent by the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Visitor to a Moonlit Churchyard scenario by Callum Brady, age 18

Henry Fuseli, Percival Delivering Belisane from the Enchantment of Urma exhibited 1783. Oil on canvas, 991 x 1257 mm Presented by the National Art Collections Fund 1941
Percival Delivering Belisane from the Enchantment of Urma scenario by Sarah Stewart-White

The Garnier opera house, Paris, after hours scenario by Katherine Busby, age 21 		       William Blake, The Good and Evil Angels 1795/? circa 1805, Colour print finished in ink and watercolour on paper, 445 x 594 mm. Presented by W. Graham Robertson 1939
Good and Evil Angels Struggling for Possession of a Child scenario by Sara Verbrugge, age 25

Philip James De Loutherbourg, Visitor to a Moonlit Churchyard 1790. Oil on canvas, 863 x 685 mm. Lent by the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Eloise scenario by Howard Taylor

Henri Fuseli, The Nightmare exhibited 1782, Oil on canvas, 1210 x 1473 x 89 mm. Lent by the Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr and Mrs Bert L. Smokler and Mrs Lawrence A. Fleischman
The Nightmare scenario by Stacey Vanessa Ellis, age 16

Henri Fuseli, The Nightmare exhibited 1782, Oil on canvas, 1210 x 1473 x 89 mm. Lent by the Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr and Mrs Bert L. Smokler and Mrs Lawrence A. Fleischman
The Nightmare scenario by Misha Sidapra, age 17

Henry Fuseli, The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches 1796. Oil on canvas, 1016 x 1264 mm. Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Bequest of Lillian S. Timken, by exchange, and Victor Wilbour Memorial, The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment, Marquand and Charles B. Curtis Funds, 1980
The Night-Hag Visiting the Lapland Witches scenario by Thomas Larsson, age 24
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