"...we should pass over all biographies of 'the good and the great,' while we search carefully the slight records of wretches who died in prison, in Bedlam, or upon the gallows."
~Edgar Allan Poe

Friday, October 11, 2024

Weekend Link Dump

 

"The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn


Welcome to this week's Link Dump!

And afterwards, join us for afternoon tea on the Strange Company HQ grounds.



The adventures of a corpse.

A particularly clumsy fraud.

The Lawson Family Murders.

A doctor murders his wife.  (Personally, I doubt this case inspired "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."  Chantrelle was no split personality--he was just an amoral bastard.)

Images of late 19th century London.

When death appears as a dog.

When death appears as a pigeon.

In case you were wondering, people are still wasting their time trying to identify Jack the Ripper.

UFOs and a musician's disappearance.

So, who's in the market for some morbid real estate?

Some superstitions from Britain and Ireland.

A look at "Wuthering Heights," one of the worst novels ever written.  (The author of this piece doesn't say that; I do.)

A look at mourning rings.

The hatter and the harpist.

Solving the mystery of the sculpture intended for JFK's grave.

The papers of two British families in India.

A face on Mars.

Night in ancient times.

The site that may be the world's oldest observatory.

The various meanings of the word "pecker."

The midwife of death.

A New England ghost hunter.

An ancient Egyptian tomb has just been discovered.

The dangers of bedsheet ghosts.

People have been worried about fake photos for quite a long time.

People have been taking cocaine for quite a long time.

Psychedelics and medieval witchcraft.

An unsolved Tennessee murder.

The monsters of Indigenous folklore.

Murder at The Swamp.

That's all for this week!  See you on Monday, when we'll look at a prophetic dream story with a couple of odd twists.  In the meantime, RIP John David Souther.

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