A spectral Two-for-Tuesday

1.) Here is a game Hilary taught me last night:

Look into the mirror.
Stare into one eye.
Say (or think) Bloody Mary thirteen times.
Switch off the light, close your eyes, and wait for the face of Bloody Mary to appear.

2.) Flaubert:

And Emma started laughing, a ghastly, frantic, desperate laugh, fancying she could see the hideous face of the beggar rising up like a nightmare amid the eternal darkness.

3.) From a thaumatrope: