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A Remarkable Circumstance

February 9, 2023 boneandsickle anomalies, books, Britain, crime, criminals, curiosities, death, EPISODE, history, horror

A potpourri of peculiar tales culled from a favorite 19th-century volume. This episode features some outstanding British eccentrics, an extraordinary[…]

A Christmas Ghost Story

December 23, 2022 boneandsickle Christmas, England, EPISODE, ghost stories, ghosts

The Christmas Eve ghost story is a fine old tradition associated with Victorian and Edwardian England, one now making a[…]

The Dead Lover’s Heart

February 13, 2022 boneandsickle ballads, cannibalism, death, Decameron, EPISODE, folklore, gore, history, holidays, homicide, horror, legends, literature, love, Mary Shelley, murder, murder ballads, Romanticism, seduction, Valentine's Day

Whether freshly removed or strangely preserved after death, the dead lover’s heart occasionally has continued to be embraced as a[…]