Black and grey realism tattoo of a snarling wolf head above a shaded skull, across a man's chest.

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Wolf and skull on chest

Realism · Chest · Black and grey · Photo

A snarling wolf or lion head with bared fangs sits above a skull with a cracked, sculpted dome and fanged jaw. The skull is rendered with smooth grey shading and strong highlights, while the wolf's mane is drawn with fine, flowing linework that fades into the skin. The tattoo covers most of the upper chest, with the subject cropped at the neck and below the ribs and no face visible.

Realism Chest Wolf Skull Fangs Mane

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The skull came up out of the shingle on the third morning of the gale, and Mrs Pargeter would not have it in her scullery. She wrapped it in a tea towel, carried it up the back stairs herself and set it on the sill of number seven, where the sea light came in grey and flat through the salt-streaked glass. Mr Keel, who had the room for the season and paid in advance, watched her from the doorway with his collar still undone.

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'Mind the crack,' he said. 'It's older than the wall. The cliff gave it up, or the sea did, and the sea gives things back to whoever is listening.' He ran a thumb along the split above the eye socket, not gently. Mrs Pargeter noticed the fangs were filed, every one of them, and noticed too that the rough wolf's head he had sketched on the back of his hand that morning, its jaw wide and its mane streaming, looked very like the bone on the sill. She said nothing. Landladies learn that a lodger's drawings are his own affair, provided the rent arrives on time.

That night the wind dropped and the house went quiet in the way that frightens her most. Around two she heard the sill creak, then a long low exhalation like a bellows, then something moving across the floorboards that did not stop at the door. In the morning the skull was still on the sill, but it faced the bed now, and the tea towel lay folded beneath it, dry as paper, while the window stood wide open on the grey water.

Mr Keel had gone before breakfast. His rent sat on the mantelpiece in a neat stack of coins, and beside it, pressed into the wet dust of the sill, were four long prints, each one ending in a claw. Mrs Pargeter took the tea towel down to the scullery, boiled it twice, and did not, under any circumstances, go up to number seven again before the tide came in.