She intended to solve the mystery of her death and find the cutthroat responsible. For a violent end she believed she had suffered".
Lily Oleander is my first doll for 2026. Hand-sculpted, painted and sewn.
#gothicdolls #handcrafted #art
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Australian mixed media artist & author who is inspired by Ghost/Gothic/Vintage culture and creates strange characters. "There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness" - Edgar Allan Poe https://www.youtube.com/@elizabethwilsonartistauthor
She intended to solve the mystery of her death and find the cutthroat responsible. For a violent end she believed she had suffered".
Lily Oleander is my first doll for 2026. Hand-sculpted, painted and sewn.
#gothicdolls #handcrafted #art
Doll in a flowery gown, with a flower headdress, sits on a table with netting and pots of faux flowers, brick wall in the background.
Doll in a flowery gown, with a flower headdress, brick wall in the background.
"Lily awoke to find herself a ghost, her life expired within the boundaries of her very own garden, Dressing herself in the foliage and flowers that she had tended to by hand, she readied herself".
18.02.2026 02:10 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0In memory of Charles M. Schulz, creator of Snoopy and the Peanuts gang, who passed away 26 years ago today, hours before his final Peanuts Sunday comic strip ran in newspapers around the world.โ ๐
12.02.2026 18:20 โ ๐ 223 ๐ 62 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 2Two happy little dolls with bug toothy smiles.
A strange and happy little doll with a bunny like pink furry hat, sitting on a hand.
Made a friend for my little happy buddy ๐ฉท๐ฉท
I am enjoying working on these a lot as I am learning new techniques and working with new materials. This is fun and hopefully I will soon ba able to add some on my website ๐ฅฐ
#art #handmade #creepycute #fun
I loved this adaptation too - rewatch it every so often!
12.02.2026 02:06 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0fantasy bust of hybrid human/animal
Still loving this needle felted bust I made a few years ago #needlefelt #fiberart #sculpture
11.02.2026 14:57 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Only one more story to write and the manuscript for Tales of Unease 2 is complete. Then it's revision and artist Jack Rabbit getting to work on the illustrations. Tales of Unease is also being slightly edited, to be printed by the end of this year.
#horror #shortstories
After being gifted another Perky Pal dog statue (the one of the left in the photo), I decided that another story should be written putting the two pups together - the one of the right featuring in the original story.
12.02.2026 02:04 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0"Jennifer's eyes widened as she glanced upon its strange but endearing countenance. "Oh My God..."".
Perky Pal (Another Surprise Discovery) from upcoming Tales of Unease 2 is a sequel to the tale 'Surprise Discovery' from Tales of Unease.
Parking, a story from upcoming Tales of Unease 2 was inspired by the car in the photo here, that I discovered in a park randomly. It was a striking image that I felt deserved to be written about.
#horror #shortstories
Image of a burnt out car sitting on a paved road, surrounded by grass and trees, with a water filled ditch in the foreground.
"Kate felt the gaze hot on her skin before she caught sight of the car. She had a funny feeling all day that something was 'off', a shift, something chaotic and heavy in the air around her".
12.02.2026 01:58 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The property featured a lake and an elephant, gorilla and lion statues. I contacted the real estate agent selling the property and was told the current owner had put the statues there, but could not tell me why. The place is still up for sale. #horror #shortstories
12.02.2026 01:52 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Photo of a lake, surrounded by grass and trees, with a faux elephant statue to the right.
"As an estate agent of twenty-five years, I had encountered and sold many odd properties, mostly residential. This was the oddest commercial sale I had committed to".
No Picnic (A Relator's Tale) from upcoming Tales of Unease 2 was inspired by a property for sale I stumble across in 2023.
Oh yes1 I have seen this!
06.02.2026 01:14 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I wish I could get my hands on those, only have seen a couple - not sure if I can get to them in Australia.
03.02.2026 20:16 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Only โ๏ธdays to go! Coming Wednesday at 5pm BST - The first story in our Season 2 lineup. Get ready - we have loads of the spine-tingling content you love coming your way!
02.02.2026 19:19 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0#horror #shortstories
03.02.2026 20:10 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The Tales of Unease 2 story 'All Locked Up' was inspired by visits to Whittlesea and Mornington back in 2023. I noticed that both towns had somewhat similar old lockup buildings - pictured here is the Mornington one - and looking through the barred windows in the doors, a story evolved.
03.02.2026 20:10 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Pale brick building with two doors, with two windows above, sits on a multi coloured brick path, with green lawn in front. Behind the building from the right, is a two story brick building that is curved. To the left is a smaller building and two cars.
"Resting is head upon the chill metal, inside his mind a scene emerges - 'A man sitting upon an aged wood bench. Desolate of spirit, head low, heart empty, he waits trapped'."
03.02.2026 20:10 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I took this photo to capture the strange glow in the windows I would see each day.
#horror #shortstories
'Bones' is one of the many stories that will be part of Tales of Unease 2. Inspired by the view from a house I lived in circa 2023. It was on the edge of a new housing estate, homes being built all around it.
29.01.2026 20:00 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Photo of two two story homes, the one to the right with a golden glow in the windows. In front temporary fencing.
"Walls, windows, roofs giving the appearance of life, but it was a falsehood, faux flesh over the real innards, the wooden structure that had been present for eons."
29.01.2026 20:00 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0A video about Tales of Unease is up on youtube: youtube.com/shorts/-n1fN... #horror #shortstories #art
28.01.2026 21:48 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Once some edits have been done, to bring some new content for the book, I will be looking into getting the book printed - either myself or through a publisher and hoping to get that done this year.
The writing of Tales of Unease 2 is almost done, and I will be sharing some info about that here!
Thank you to everyone who has engaged the TOE posts here, and who have read the e-book. If you have read the book or want to read it when it comes out in paperback, please leave a review or add to your want to read list on goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
28.01.2026 21:48 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Japanese ghost doll hanging in front of wood cube shelves.
Illustration of Japanese ghost with the text in red: Tales of Unease. Written by Elizabeth Wilson. Illustrated by Jack Rabbit.
For the cover of Tales of Unease, artist Jack Rabbit did an illustrative take on my Yurei doll I made back in 2018.
28.01.2026 21:48 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0#horror #shortstories
27.01.2026 19:10 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Illustration of a cat's head with open mouth in front of a night sky with tree branches and a moon. Text states: The moon rises bright and full in the sky, and the caterwauling begins that has plagued many evenings before this.
Sculpture/doll of a cat in human clothing, holding a red balloon. Stands on a wood square with faux grass. Black background.
Sculpture/doll of a cat in human clothing, holding a red balloon. Black background.
"The moon rises bright and full in the sky, and the cauterwauling begins that has plagued many evenings before this".
The Boy with the Baby Blues story from Tales of Unease was inspired by hearing a very peculiar sound one afternoon that I could not figure out whether it was a child or a cat.
- and the story was born.
#horror #shortstories #booksky
Black and white illustration of long claws on a road, with the red text "The clatter of long talon like fingernails; scraping of old, dry bones against hard ground".
Photo of sculpture with skeletal face and long pink body, with long dark hair and long talon nails, on a road.
Photo of sculpture with skeletal face and long pink body, with long dark hair and long talon nails, on a road.
Photo of sculpture with skeletal face and long pink body, with long dark hair and long talon nails, on a road.
"The clatter of long talon like fingernails; the scraping of old, dry bones against hard ground". One July Afternoon is inspired by the sculpture I made back in 2020. After creating her, I imagined her crawling down a suburban road in broad daylight. I wondered what brought her there...
22.01.2026 23:21 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0