The Victorian Book of the Dead by Chris Woodyard

The Victorian Book of the Dead

Ghosts of the Past

Chris Woodyard with Jessica Wiesel (Illustrator)

345 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative mysterious slow-paced

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Chris Woodyard, author of the The Ghosts of the Past series, digs through long-buried newspapers and journals, for this fascinating look at the 19th-century obsession with the culture of death. The Victorian Book of the Dead unearths extraordinary...

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