Death and the Victorians: A Dark Fascination by Adrian Mackinder (Hardcover)

From spooky stories & real-life ghost hunting to shows about murder & serial killers, we are fascinated by death, thanks to the Victorian age. Death & the Victorians explores a time when the search for truth about the afterlife was matched by imagination & invention. Walk among London’s graveyards, where the dead were rising. Visit the Paris Morgue, where thousands viewed death daily. Discover how spirits were invited into homes, secret societies taught survival after death, & science was applied to prove the afterlife. The Victorian era is the golden age of the ghost story, with tales from Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Oscar Wilde & Henry James. The popular press nurtured our taste for murder, and Jack the Ripper was a Gothic horror fiction crafted by cynical Victorian newspapermen. Death & the Victorians exposes the darker side of the nineteenth century, a time when the living invented ways to connect with the dead that endure today.