1926 illustration by Charles Walter Simpson of the skeleton of Québécois murderess Marie-Josephte Corriveau (“La Corriveau”) terrifying a traveler from its iron cage, from Légendes du Saint-Laurent.
Art & Inspiration
Silent Sundays: Death and Life (1910)
Gustav Klimt, Death and Life, 1910 (reworked 1915), oil on canvas.
Silent Sundays: Firestarter Premiere (1984)
Drew Barrymore lights Stephen King’s cigarette at a 1984 fundraising premiere of Firestarter in Bangor, Maine, photographed by Mimi Cotter.
The Year of Halloween 