Uncanny pic of the day: The dead – alive!

Posted on September 8, 2011 by


This splendid image comes from The Terrific Register, a sensation-mongering journal of the Georgian period. This engraving illustrates the story of a woman suddenly waking up in her coffin during her own, well, wake! Such stories were fairly frequently reported and may indeed have occurred from time to time, medical knowledge being what it was back then.

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I am the editor of Uncanny UK (www.uncannyuk.com), a website devoted to British ghosts and folklore. I am the former editor of Paranormal Magazine and the author five books on Welsh folklore. Just launched Apparition Developments, first product of which is Ghost Finder London - an app plotting 300 haunted sites in London for iPhone. I'm a highly experienced journalist and corporate copywriter. I'm an enthusiast on the subjects of UK folklore, the supernatural and antiquities and am fond of old horror and sci-fi movies, cult TV such as Dr Who and I collect Victorian/Edwardian magazines. I also enjoy weird art and macabre literature by the likes of M R James, E F Benson, Algernon Blackwood, W Hope-Hodgson, H P Lovecraft etc. I live in North Wales, which is a very spooky place.
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