Godfried Schalcken - Strange Event in The Life of Schalken The Painter

The atmospheric work of Schalcken provided the inspiration for Sheridan Le Fanu's gothic horror story Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter (sic), which was adapted as Schalcken the Painter, and broadcast by the BBC on 23 December in 1979.

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