Chilling post-mortem Victorian era photographs are just the kind of spine tingle I prefer to frighten myself with. Even at the invulnerable hour of midday on a sunny Sunday, I am scaring myself by looking at galleries of these shuddersome images, many of which include surviving members of the family posed with the deceased! Why I am spending said sunny Sunday indoors looking at such things is a mystery even to me, so I will post a morbid link and then move outdoors to join the wholesome living and be normal.
http://cogitz.com/2009/08/28/memento-mori-victorian-death-photos/
I arrived at this website on a search for photos of Victorian fashion. I find it a really fascinating era, with all its heady Gothicism and the somehow titillating sexual repression resulting in some pretty strange samples of human behavior. I suppose I have a slight penchant for the macabre.
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