“A Slight Freshness on the Neck”: Prints Depicting the Execution of Louis XVI (ca. 1793)

William Wood’s The History and Antiquities of Eyam (1848)

London's Dreadful Visitation: A Year of Weekly Death Statistics during the Great Plague (1665)

Plague Doctor Costumes

Frances Power Cobbe’s “The Peak in Darien: The Riddle of Death” (1882)

François de Nomé’s Imaginary Ruins

John Reynolds’ Book of Murder Tales (1621–1635)

The History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist Times (1884)

Abide With Me (1914)

The Tragedy of the Seas (1841)

Hans Holbein’s Dance of Death (1523–5)

The “Salad Oil Style” of Jan Toorop

“Dialogue Between Frederick Ruysch and His Mummies” by Giacomo Leopardi (1827)

Francesco Tamagno sings Verdi’s Otello, Death Scene (1903)

The Death and Burial of Cock Robin

The Steps of Life

New Elucidations of Thomson’s Seasons (1822)

The Explosion of the Spanish Flagship during the Battle of Gibraltar (ca. 1621)

Images from The Champion Text Book on Embalming (1897)

A Collection of Very Valuable and Scarce Pieces relating to the Last Plague in the Year 1665 (1721)

Barbara Allen performed by Frank Luther (1928)

The Newgate Calendar (1795)

Nekrokēdeia or The Art of Embalming (1705)

A Treatise on Adulteration of Food and Culinary Poisons (1820)