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Vincent Price as January Q. Irontail
Nothing says "Happy Easter" like the malicious master of the macabre, Vincent Price, voicing January Q. Irontail in the 1971 classic Here Comes Peter Cottontail
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Arthur Machen: the sounds from beyond the veil
Writings by Arthur Machen on London and its sounds
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This Is What Happens to Unclaimed Bodies in Washington, DC
Unclaimed bodies are supposed to be buried in marked graves with proper identification, but most end up in mass burial sites, without identification, beside heaps of trash.
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The Allure of Dark Tourism
The French photographer Ambroise Tézenas travelled the world to document sightseers at Auschwitz, Chernobyl, and other disaster sites.
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The eeriness of the English countryside
Writers and artists have long been fascinated by the idea of an English eerie - ‘the skull beneath the skin of the countryside’. But for a new generation this has nothing to do with hokey supernaturalism – it’s a cultural and political response to contemporary crises and fears
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To Boldly Go Where No Body Has Gone Before
What to do when an astronaut dies in space.
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The Grueling, Never-Ending Job of Painting the Golden Gate Bridge
Nature wants to turn this American icon to rust. Chad Allan won't let that happen.
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No Animals were Harmed in the Making of this Film, 70 People Were
Three years ago, I published an article about a photo story I’d found hiding away deep in the LIFE archives. I saw it spread like wildfire on the internet; jaw-dropping photographs of Tippi Hedren and her family living with full-grown lions, including her daughter, a young Melanie Griffith who is the little girl pictured lying in bed with a lion and hanging out by the pool with her head in its mouth...
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We are stardust: the restrained elegance of Clive James’s Sentenced to Life
“The world you quit / Is staying here, so say goodbye to it.”
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The strange afterlife of Einstein's brain
Einstein’s death 60 years ago was just the start of a fascinating and macabre journey for the most prized part of his anatomy, his brain.
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The Nanda Devi mystery
Fifty years after deadly plutonium was lost on India’s second highest mountain, the enigma continues
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The Trader In the Wild
Kate Matrosova was a classic overachiever, and at 32, had everything to live for. Still she set out alone into the mountains of New Hampshire—and a deadly storm.
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Stairway to Heaven
Stairway to Heaven by photographer Noriko Hayashi explores the ways in which Japan is dealing with the issue of real estate for the deceased.
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Spalding Gray’s Catastrophe
A car crash, a brain injury, and an actor's decline.
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Death in Secret: California’s Underground World of Assisted Suicide
Though physician-assisted suicide is not legal in California, families find a way to do it – in secret.
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Butchery is in our blood whether we eat meat or not
How we lost touch with animals, life and death, and learned to find butchery repulsive while eating more meat than ever
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A Son of Football Calls His Mother
Born into a football family in a football-first community, Patrick Risha became a star on the gridiron. But after he graduated from Dartmouth, there were signs that something was off.
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These Radical Undertakers Want Funerals to Be More Honest and Participatory
Claire and Rupert Callender are breaking all kinds of taboos by asking funeral attendees to carry the coffin, talk about the manner of death, and reflect on their loved ones openly and honestly.
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Living With Being Dead
This terrifying disorder turns people into living zombies. But somewhere in the troubled brains of victims may be the ke…
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Asne Seierstad’s ‘One of Us,’ About Rampage in Norway
“One of Us” explores a dark side of contemporary Scandinavia through the life and crimes of Anders Behring Breivik, a mass murderer who killed 77 people, most of them teenagers.
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