Under the city of Paris, hundreds of miles of tunnels and rooms - many of them unmapped - contain the bones of millions of Parisians. In the 18th century, bones were exhumed from overcrowded cemeteries and dropped into old quarry tunnels. Some of the bones are said to date back more than a thousand years.… Continue reading Footage Found In The Paris Catacombs
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The stark yet beautiful photographs you see in this post were taken by Danish photographer Cathrine Ertmann and are part of a series entitled About Dying. The series documents the journey that the human body takes from death to burial. There's a fascinating piece about Ertmann's work here.
Death Wooed Us is a deeply emotional, deeply personal photographic series by landscape photographer Donna J Wan. In this series, Wan documents locations where people have chosen to end their lives.
One can never have too many pillows, especially when they are decorated with skeletons, witches and plague doctors. Loving the intricate illustrations of Elias Aquino.
The Science of Human Decay is an absolutely fascinating insight into the world's largest body farm.
“In a lifeless urban landscape where time itself has stopped its crawl, a mad ballet is commencing and a newly hatched butterfly is about to die. This tragic story was constructed using dead insects gathered from forgotten attics and tool sheds, between window panels and cobwebs. It combines a number of animation techniques from classic… Continue reading Erään hyönteisen tuho / The Death Of An Insect
Stunned into silence by the evil, intricate work of Polish artist Rafal Wechterowicz.
Winter's Gibbet, on Steng Cross, in Elsdon, Northumberland, remains a popular venue for a day's excursion. Named after one William Winter, hanged at Newcastle's Westgate in 1792 for murder and whose body was subsequently displayed as a warning to all Steng Cross, the current gibbet is the latest in a long line of wooden replacements.… Continue reading Raise The Horns For Halloween / A Day Out At The Gallows
Do you ever find Etsy stores which have so much stuff that you feel overwhelmed, yet simultaneously eager to discover everything they have to offer? Well, that's how I felt when I encountered Crimson Hollow. Mum and daughter team Shelly and Emily make up Crimson Hollow and provide beautiful, unique and very affordable hand stamped… Continue reading Crimson Hollow
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 