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The painting is L’ombre de Samuel apparaissant à Saül chez la pythonisse d’Endor by 17th-century painter Salvator Rosa. Rosa inspired dozens of English novelists of the macabre. They, in turn, influenced new generations of Gothicists on both sides of the Atlantic, and the influence wore on through to the early 20th-century avant-garde, to hardboiled detective fiction and noir, to rock and electronic music, and, of course, to Goths.… Read the rest