Halloween Countdown 2019, Day 20

[eldritchhobbit]

Halloween Countdown 2019, Day 20

Here are a couple of cheery news items that seem to strike a particularly Halloween-ish note. (Both text excerpts are taken from The Victorian Book of the Dead, selected and edited by Chris Woodyard.)

(Antoine Wiertz’s painting of a man buried alive. Source.)

(Sidney Paget illustration. A page scan of a book The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. Illustration appeared in The Strand Magazine in August, 1901. Original caption was “THERE IN THE CENTRE LAY THE UNHAPPY MAID WHERE SHE HAD FALLEN.” Source.)

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re: Halloween Countdown 2019, Day 20

[acciochocolate]

I always think of Poe's "The Premature Burial" when I read articles like the 1st one. Any follow-up?

Re: Halloween Countdown 2019, Day 20

[eldritchhobbit]

Yes! Me too!

There was no follow-up in the source book, and I haven't investigated. I do wonder if anyone got to the bottom of this. *shiver*