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Archaic Medicinal Amulets! Vampires of London! Folk Customs on Film!...
This week marks, I am sad to say, the second to last week of The Morbid Anatomy Lecture Series at London's Last Tuesday Society. Tonight--Monday July 15th--we are delighted to be hosting the delightful...
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"Death in Mexico" Guest Post and Field Trip Deadline!
Following is a guest post by the lovely Ms. Laetitia Barbier, who has been quietly and brilliantly running Brooklyn's Morbid Anatomy as Head Librarian since March. When she heard about the upcoming...
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Special "Morbid Curiosity Issue" of United Academics Journal of Social...
I am delighted to announce the release of a brand-new "Morbid Curiosity" themed issue of United Academics Journal of Social Sciences. I was co-editor of the issue, which is available digitally for ipad...
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Uncanny Folk Customs on Film! Fictitious Animals in Early Modern Bestiaries!...
This week marks, I am very sad to report, the very last week of The Morbid Anatomy Lecture Series at London's Last Tuesday Society.Tomorrow night--Wednesday July 24th--please join us for an evening of...
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Jeweled Skeletons! Reliquary Dolls! Taxidermy! Ex Votos! Day of the Dead!...
Jeweled skeletons and book party with Dr. Paul Koudounaris, author of Empire of Death (image above, from the book)! Taxidermy! Ex Votos! Wax reliquary dolls!Full info follows on all events; Hope to see...
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Macabre Canterbury Cathedral
On a recent and wonderful trip to Canterbury and Margate (thank you, Julie Anderson, Phoebe Harkins and Ross MacFarlane!), I spent a good hour wandering around legendary Canterbury Cathedral. It was...
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The Enigma of the Margate Shell Grotto, Kent, England
Was it the Romans... the Knights Templars... a persecuted religious group?There are many more questions than answers and perhaps that is how it was always meant to be. The Grotto's chameleon uniqueness...
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Call for Papers: "Monstrous Antiquities” Archaeology and the Uncanny in...
"Monstrous Antiquities”Archaeology and the Uncanny in Popular CultureUCL Institute of Archaeology, 1-3 November 2013Haunted ruins, cursed artefacts, arcane rituals and ambulant mummies:archaeology and...
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Congress for Curious People, London Edition, August 29th to September 8th:...
In just a few weeks, Morbid Anatomy and our partners--Strange Attractor, UCL's Preserved! and The Coney Island Museum--will be launching the second annual London edition of the Congress for Curious...
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"It is a Great Art to Die Well" : Memorial Rings at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum
"It is a great art to die well." --Jeremy Taylor, English clergyman (1613-1667)The distribution of rings to friends and family in memory of the dead dates back to the thirteenth century.By the...
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Memorial Skulls of The University Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Oxford,...
You can find out more about Oxford's University Church of Saint Mary the Virgin church by clicking here. All photos are my own.
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"Reclaiming Spectacle" Two-day Symposium, Congress for Curious People,...
I am delighted to announce the final schedule for the two day symposium component of this year's London-based Congress for Curious People. The theme is "Reclaiming Spectacle," and it will take place at...
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Blaschka Glass Flowers! LA Death Salon! Rabbit Taxidermy! Reliquary Dolls! Ex...
Illustrated lecture on the legendary Blaschka glass flowers with Jenny Brown, collection manager of the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants at Harvard University! A Los Angeles-based...
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Turquoise-set Gold Cased Verge Watch with Human Hair and Memento Mori...
At the Oxford Ashmolean Museum last weekend, I stumbled upon the very curious woven- and monogrammed (!!!) human-hair and death's head-bedecked watch chain pictured above; the website describes it...
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"Circulating Now" New Blog of the National Library of Medicine, Washington D.C.
I am very excited to welcome Washington D.C.'s fantastic National Library of Medicine to the blogosphere! All the images you see above are drawn from recent posts found on "Circulate Now," the National...
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Amazing Auction Alert: "Out of the Ordinary" Auction, September 5th,...
All of these exquisitely idiosyncratic objects--and many, many more!--will be included in the upcoming "Out of the Ordinary" auction at Christie's South Kensington, London on September 5th. You can...
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The Congress for Curious Poeple: A Festival of Spectacular Culture; August...
I am absolutely delighted to announce this year's 4th annual Congress for Curious People. This year's iteration, subtitled "A Festival of Spectacular Cultures," will take place from August 29th –...
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Death Themed Drinking Establishments of the Near and Distant Past: "Cafe le...
He: "Oh look; they have The Grave, The Dead March and the Danse Macabre."She: "Oh, that sounds ever so nice!"--Look at Life - Coffee Bar, 1959Readers of this blog will already be familiar with one of...
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Silent Film Star Theda Bara with Skeleton, 1915; Publicity Still from the "A...
Silent film star Theda Bara, "The first vamp." (1885-1955) in a publicity still for the 1915 film A Fool There Was. This film was based on Rudyard Kipling's 1897 poem "The Vampire" which explores the...
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"The Congress for Curious People: A Festival of Spectacular Cultures" London...
I am delighted to announce the final line up for this years epic, eleven day (!!!) UK edition of The Congress for Curious People. This series of events, performances, field trips, walking tours,...
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