The Haunted Palace Blog

Nineteenth century

April 1, 2026

The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle upon Tyne

Lenora
January 18, 2026

Wandsworth’s Orphanage of Horrors: The Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum for Girls

Miss_Jessel
March 30, 2025

Step Back in Time: The Dual-Minute Clock of Bristol’s Historic Corn Exchange

Miss_Jessel
November 29, 2024

The Ouseburn Murder and the Macabre Afterlife of Charles Smith

Lenora
October 3, 2024

Mummy Unrolling in Nineteenth Century Britain: Science or Spectacle?

Lenora
August 8, 2024

The Origin of the Picnic: How Amateur Dramatics, Hard Drinking, and the French Revolution, got Britons Hooked on the Humble Picnic

Lenora
June 28, 2024

The Fen Tigers: Rebels of the Reeds

Miss_Jessel
May 31, 2024

Rags to Riches: The Elopement of Bessie Surtees and John Scott, a Newcastle Love Story

Lenora
July 23, 2022

Anthropodermic Bibliopegy: The Macabre Art of Making Books out of Human Skin

Lenora
June 7, 2022

The Curse of Cleopatra’s Needle

Miss_Jessel

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