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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris
NYTimes Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor. Kids' book: PLAGUE-BUSTERS (Oct 10, 2023) Married to @TealCartoons.
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Associate Professor of Research @UniofHerts; Convener @OGOMProject; Botanist & Gothicist: Vampires, Werewolves, Angels, Yōkai. Gothic Fairies, Wolf Children
Cat Irving
Human remains conservator at Surgeons’ Hall. Snake charmer. Beagle feeder. All-round general necromancer.
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PhD student @upvehu researching @PMcGrathNovels's fiction. MLitt in the Gothic Imagination. Published by @LunaPressGlobal @[email protected]
Louvain Rees ⚰️
social historian of death & wales | exploring working-class histories 💀 interested in paupers, workhouses & lunacy 🧠 views are my own • she/her 🪦
#MythologyMonday 'Saturn Devouring His Son' at the Museo del Prado is one of the most expressive images from Francisco Goya's Black Paintings. This mythological god could be the personification of such a human feeling as the fear of losing one´s power museodelprado.es/en/the-collect…
☠️Fellow Mortals!
Climb aboard THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE and ride into gothic darkness - Wednesday at the wonderful The Cinema Museum as our friend (and genius) Stephen Horne Stephen Horne performs a live score to Victor Sjöström's silent 1921 horror masterpiece.
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #WorldBeeDay Telling the Bees, Hugo Breuil, 1890. In addition to telling the bees of the household death, the young lady is craping the beehives to put them into mourning, so the bees do not die or fly away.
