Apparition of the Large Skeleton Summoned Before Otake Taro Mitsukuni and His Retainer, by Takiyasha, Daughter of Taira no Masakado, in His Haunted Soma Castle, woodblock triptych by Utagawa Kuniyoshi circa 1844
1840’s
Silent Sundays: From The Life of George Barnwell (1841)
Illustration from The Life of George Barnwell by Edward Litt Laman Blanchard, 1841
Silent Sundays: Resurrectionists (1847)
1847 illustration by Hablot Knight Browne of resurrectionists John Holmes and Peter Williams unearthing cadavers, from The Chronicles of Crime; Being A Series of Memoirs and Anecdotes of Notorious Characters Who Have Outraged the Laws of Great Britain from the Earliest Period… Read More ›
The Year of Halloween 