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Epitaphs

February 24, 2023 boneandsickle books, Britain, cautionary tales, death, EPISODE, graves

Epitaphs can sum up the life of the individual buried beneath or can comment on the human condition generally. From the[…]

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[…]

Villainous Victorian Women

November 14, 2022 boneandsickle ballads, Britain, broadsheets, crime, EPISODE, execution ballads, folklore, gore, history, horror, murder, murder ballads, poison, Victorian

Our survey of villainous Victorian women examines six individuals associated with some of the most ghastly crimes of the era,[…]