{"product_id":"curious-victorians-evelyn-blair-9798249852313","title":"Curious Victorians: Volume X: 150 Morbid Facts About Death, Mourning \u0026 The Victorian Afterlife","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeath was never far from Victorian life - it lingered in bedrooms, crowded hospitals, factory floors, and black-draped parlours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this final volume of the \u003ci\u003eCurious Victorians\u003c\/i\u003e series, Evelyn Blair explores the era's most unsettling realities: common causes of death, bizarre and tragic accidents, medical experimentation on the dying, elaborate mourning rituals, post-mortem photography, spiritualist obsessions, and society's strange fascination with the afterlife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom death masks and premature burials to public executions and seances conducted in candlelit drawing rooms, the Victorians did not hide from mortality - they studied it, photographed it, ritualized it, and, at times, commercialized it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeticulously researched and deeply atmospheric, \u003ci\u003eCurious Victorians\u003c\/i\u003e: Volume X is an intellectually unsettling journey into how a civilization both feared and fixated on death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome facts disturb. Some haunt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll are true.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you have followed the series this far, you already know: the past is rarely polite.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Evelyn Blair\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798249852313\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d","brand":"Evelyn Blair","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447370690815,"sku":"9798249852313","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_27cdf9a3-4ab7-4c10-9bbb-9342b358d8ac.jpg?v=1777230655","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/curious-victorians-evelyn-blair-9798249852313","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}