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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
This week's Link Dump is hosted by another of our Halloween Cats!
Everybody dance!
Watch out for those phantom coffin-makers!
This week in Russian Weird looks at Moscow's legendary lost library.
A coin hoard linked to the Glencoe Massacre.
The ghost of Mecklenburgh street.
The life of a polar explorer.
A brief history of the theremin.
The birth of James Bond.
The science is settled: cats are perfect.
Coin tosses might not be all that random.
A jazz age superstar in Britain.
A look at narcosynthesis.
The legend of Queen Esther's Curse.
If you love books, go to Hay-on-Wye.
Nobel winners gone mad.
A very well-preserved ancient tomb.
Soul houses and false doors in ancient Egypt.
A 1918 hotel for dogs.
The remarkable "human camera."
A case of early 19th century bigamy.
The link between "Rocky Horror" and Victorian seances.
The Brixton baby farmers.
America's deadliest fire.
The days of professional pew-openers.
Why so many females become ghosts.
Related: A girl ghost in Pennsylvania.
A fiend with a shotgun. Not good.
19th century "recipes for the poor."
A brief history of "yo."
10th century food poetry.
What's inside the Moon.
A tomb that was used to conceal a murder victim.
The menu of a Cold War fallout shelter.
And, finally, you will be pleased to hear that gurning has a new world champion.
That's it for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a supernatural murder plot. In the meantime, here's Joni Mitchell. I wouldn't say I'm one of her biggest fans--she's one of those singers where a little of their music goes a long way with me--but I love this song.
The Flemings were interesting people to read or read about, though I have found Peter's books more entertaining than Ian's. And I have long longed to go to Hay-on-Wye - and stay for a few years... But I had no idea that its bookish reputation was founded so recently.
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