When one thinks of "eerie clocks", the image of a clock face in old bell tower comes rather readily to mind. After all, countless horror movies have begun with a scene in a small, quiet town over which a bell tower looms like a silent presence, innocuous enough in the daytime, but taking on a curiously sinister quality with the fading of the light. But clocks in bell towers aren't the only timepieces capable of casting a sense of eeriness over the scene at hand. In our endless quest to satiate our appetite for eerie clock images, we've scoured the internet in order to bring you some photographs of clocks, watches and timepieces that we think might lend an unsettling quality to our strange little blog. We hope that you find them strange and unsettling as well.
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| Send not to ask for whom the bell tolls... |
ASTRONOMICALLY EERIE
The Prague Astronomical Clock, believed to have been constructed in 1410 by famed clockmaker Mikulas of Kudan, has long been a source of eerie legend and morbid speculation, including talk of a centuries old curse. The clock's eeriness comes not so much from its appearance, which is stunning, but from the mystery which still shrouds its origins. Add to that the fact that Prague itself is such an old and fascinating city, and that the figure of Death tolls the bell, and you have a clock whose eeriness reaches astronomic proportions.
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| It tolls for Prague. |
"My grandfather's clock was too tall for the shelf, so it stood ninety years on the floor."
On a less astronomical note, the above image of a grandfather clock shadowed in surreal red gleam is a good example of the reason we find grandfather clocks eerie in general. As the subject of at least two songs and a classic Twlight Zone episode in which a grandfather clock played a crucial role in an old man's demise, these timepiece giants seem to have an almost anthropomorphic presence. that can be unsettling in the extreme.
The following are some other images of clocks and timepieces that we find eerie or disturbing.
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Th hands of this shattered clock are frozen in the moment
that the bombs hit Nagasaki in 1945. |
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Some clocks are timeless. This one, found on an abandoned schoolroom
floor, lacks its hands and is covered in rust, a disturbing image for a clock
once associated with the education of children. |
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| Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch. Need we say more? |
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Clocks and shadowed hands are always an eerie combination
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| Words would be superfluous here, don't you think? |
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| Doll face clocks are more creepy than cute |
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| If the Lord doesn't smite this, we will. |
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| The clock really pulls the room together. |
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| Eeriness in Victoria |
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| Tailor made to tweak us out |
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| Antique clock and candle. Delicious. |
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We've said it before: Please tear out our eyeballs.
So there you have our compendium of eerie clocks and timepieces. We trust that you enjoyed it. If not, just remember that time marches on. Chances are that you will be enjoying something before too long. |
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