Realistic colour tattoo of a snarling mouth with fangs and dripping blood on the calf.

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Bloody fanged mouth on a calf

Realism · Calf · Colour · Photo

A snarling mouth with upper and lower teeth, including pointed fangs, is shown with glossy red lips that drip blood down the skin. The shading is smooth and detailed, with deep reds, dark purple tones and bright highlights giving a three-dimensional effect. The design is centred on the calf and fills most of the frame against a dark, out-of-focus background.

Realism Calf Mouth Lip Fangs Teeth Blood

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The Regal's lobby card had been dripping since the Thursday rain came through the roof over the stalls, and Mr Pryce would not let me take it down. 'People pay sixpence to be frightened,' he said, pushing his spectacles up with one knuckle, 'and they'll pay it again if the poster looks wet enough to scare them.'

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So I went up the ladder every evening with a tin of cherry lake and a size-two brush, and I painted the lips back into a smile that wasn't one. The fangs were the hard part. Eli, who ran the projector and talked to nobody but the film, had shown me how to lift the highlight with a dry bristle so the enamel caught the gaslight from the foyer. 'Teeth are only wet mouths,' he said. 'Everything in here is just wet.'

On the last night of the run the rain came back and the card went soft at the corners. I found Eli in the box with the reel spooled across his knee, splicing a torn frame of the bite scene. He didn't look up. 'Leave the poster,' he said. 'Let them see what the weather does to a thing.'

I climbed back up anyway. By the time the doors opened, the red had run off the bottom edge of the paper and dripped onto the pavement where the queue was forming, and a little girl in a yellow mac stepped round it carefully, the way you'd step round something that might still be alive.