#in the house with burke and hare

[darchildre]

Tonight's Rathbone Holmes film is The Woman in Green, which has the distinction of being the only Rathbone Holmes movie I've previously seen.

I literally remember one single thing about it, which is that Moriarty is played by the dude who was the Dr Knox character in The Body Snatcher. He's shown up in two previously Holmes films, I've looked up his name both times (because I quite liked him in The Body Snatcher), and the poor dude's name refuses to stick in my mind.

Hilariously, I can't ever remember his character's name in The Body Snatcher either.

[amuseoffyre]

History time:

Mr. Dalrymple, the eminent surgeon in episode 3 of S2 of Good Omens, appears to be inspired by Robert Knox, an Edinburgh surgeon famous because of his connection to the Burke and Hare murders in the 1820s.

He became an anatomist at the Edinburgh College of Surgeons in Newington and quickly developed a reputation as a lecturer that guaranteed him a steady flow of students, but as with Dalrymple in the show, the shortage of available cadavers was a constant and persistent problem in the city.

Since it gets a bit grisly, I'll pop it behind a thingie.

Graverobbing became so common that many of the graveyards in the city installed watchtowers to keep an eye on the graveyards and some of them had mortsafes put in place:

The coffins were locked in these cages to give the bodies time to get to the stage of decay that would render them useless to anatomists, then popped in a grave afterwards.

This is where Burke and Hare enter this story. They lived in the slums of the old town of Edinburgh and learned that the surgeons would provide money in exchange for fresh bodies, so rather than dig up the graves and risk the watchmen, they cut out the middleman and started murdering people for profit.

Robert Knox was their primary customer and he claimed to be oblivious to the crimes that were being committed, even though Burke and Hare were showing up with unsettling regularity with fresh corpses, but since they were killing the poor, no one was really paying much attention.

According to Mr. Knox, he thought the men were picking up corpses from the poor houses, though there is evidence that suggests he was aware of what was happening: one of the victims was a well-known boy with distinctive physical disabilities who would have been well-recognised. According to contemporary accounts, Knox had the young man's head, hands and feet removed, so no one would recognise him.

Since this could never be proven, he wasn't arrested for his part in the whole affair, but he was described as being "deficient in principle and heart" and public opinion spoke loud and clear. He left Edinburgh in disgrace and was eventually also debarred from teaching by the Royal College of Surgeons in England.

Eventually, laws were brought in to prevent grave robbery, but not before dozens of people were killed for profit.

[a-whispering-echo]

Burke and Hare

Up the close and down the stair, In the house with Burke and Hare, Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the man who buys the beef. Burke and Hare they were a pair, Killed a wife and didnae care. Then they put her in a box, And sent her off to Doctor Knox. Burke's the Butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox’s the yin that buys the beef!

this is more of a concept sketch thing rather than a fully rendered one, but this idea has been in my head for AGAES and i FINALLY had the chance to design them, SO-! Burke and Hare au!

(ps, if you dont know who Burke and Hare are, i'd recommend googling it for the full story, but basically - killed like 16 people, sold their bodies for like 10 quid in olden money to a doctor for anatomy studies. :) fun times)

[scotianostra]

9th October 1900 saw the birth in Edinburgh of Alastair Sim, the actor best known for his character and comedy roles.

He was the youngest of Alexander and Isabella Sim's four children. His father was a tailor who owned his own shop on Lothian Road, it is still a shop selling running gear nowadays.To use a suitable phrase for his father, I like the jib of the man, Alexander was one of a group of professional people in Edinburgh who noted the plight of wounded Veterans returning from the front who had little or no prospects of suitable accommodation or employment ahead of them. They founded the Scottish Veterans Garden City Association during the 1st World War and, under the chairmanship of Lord Salvesen, paid for the construction of houses for the use of returning servicemen.

Alexander Sim was offered, but refused, a knighthood.

For a time, the family lived above the shop, but as Alastair entered school, the business picked up enough that they were able to move to a house in Craigleith. Young Alistair was educated at Bruntsfield Primary, James Gillespie's High School and George Heriot's School. He worked for his father then another Edinburgh tailor but showed little aptitude and decided to enter Edinburgh University, studying analytical chemistry, but his further education was cut short when he was called up to the army. After the war he returned home and announced to his parents he was going to take up acting, this wnet down like a lead balloon and there was a falling out, Alistair left the family home and spent a year in the Scottish Highlands with a group of jobbing workers.

On returning to Edinburgh Sim took post in the burgh assessor's office. In his spare time, he entered poetry reading classes, winning the gold medal for verse speaking at the Edinburgh Music Festival.This led to him taking a job as a Fulton lecturer in elocution at New College, part of the University of Edinburgh.

Alastair Sim began working as a stage actor in 1930, taking on minor roles. His deep talent was soon discovered, and he was cast as Othello that same year. In 1932, he met and married Naomi Plaskill, his muse and wife for life. The couple had one child, a daughter named Merlith. It wasn't long before Sim moved to films in supporting roles. One of his more memorable characters was that of Detective Sergeant Bingham in the film series Inspector Hornleigh. His on-screen presence was so dominant that he has often been credited with "stealing the scene" from the film's star actors.

Throughout the 1940s, Sim was cast in several lead roles; he starred in the thriller Green for Danger, the comedy The Happiest Days of Your Life and Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright, among other major films. One of Sim's better-known portrayals was that of Captain Hook in the production of Peter Pan, a role he reprised six times during his career. In a national cinema poll in 1950, Sim was voted the most popular film actor in Britain.

I think quite a few of us will remember Alastair Sim in a slightly different role to those I have already pointed out, growing up before we had all the TV channels we have now and watching the old black & white films and the classic Belles of St Trinians where he played headmistress Millicent Fritton.

Looking through his other roles, I spotted he played the notorious Dr Knox, not once-but twice. For those who don't know, the doctor of note was a professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh University, he paid Messrs Burke & Hare for fresh cadavers to demonstrate the human anatomy at the University.

I mentioned Alistair's father refusing a knighthood, and it pleases me to tell you he too refused the offer of becoming Sir Alistair Sim in the early 70's.

He died of cancer in August 1976, insisting that his body be used for medical research - and that there should be no memorial service for him. His widow lived until 1999; she published a memoir, Dance and Skylark: Fifty Years with Alastair Sim in 1987. There is a plaque, commemorating Sim's birth, outside the Filmhouse Cinema in Lothian Road, Edinburgh, only a short distance from where he was born above his father's shop.

[noomycatz]

Up the close and down the stair,

In the house with Burke and Hare,

Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the man who buys the beef!!!!

Art trade with the so totally awesome @slapf1sh !!!!!!!! Yippie

[scary-movies-on-netflix]

THE FLESH AND THE FIENDS (1960)

This film takes place in the 1820's in Edinburgh, the spookiest of Scottish cities.  Really.  Two dudes dig up a recently-buried body from a cemetery.  They take it to Dr. Knox (Peter Cushing), a renowned lecturer on medicine, and he promptly buys the body!  (He needs the corpse for teaching purposes; he’ll dissect it to teach his students human anatomy.)

The dudes who dug up the body are called “resurrection men.”  They go the tavern and spend their money, and two bullies and scoundrels, Burke and Hare, watch them.  They return to Burke’s boarding house and discover that one of the boarders has died!  They take the body to Dr. Knox, who buys it from them.  Next, they escort a drunk older woman to their house, and Burke suffocates her to death.  Dr. Knox buys her body.  Hare buys himself a fancy new vest with the money.  An old man arrives at the boarding house, looking for a bed.  He explains that he’s come to find some work and earn money so that he “can end his days in peace.”  We next see him in a box at Dr. Knox’s house.  Dr. Knox isn’t there, but his assistant, Dr. Mitchell, looks over the body.  He says that the man “died only a few hours ago,” and he notes a bruise on the head.  Hare feigns ignorance, but Mitchell demands, “Where did he get that bruise?”  Then Knox appears.  He is nonplussed about how the man died and buys the corpse.  Afterwards, Mitchell presses Knox, “Are you satisfied that man died a natural death?” and he asks, “You’ll continue to accept subjects from them without question?”  Knox says, “I will continue to teach anatomy, using the best specimens available, to turn out doctors who will replace quacks!”

Meanwhile, we’ve also met Chris Jackson, one of Knox’s students.  He’s met Mary Patterson, a local woman, and despite their different backgrounds, begin a relationship.  Chris is quiet and studious, and Mary has a temper and likes to drink.  He asks her not to spend time at the brothel (where she gets free booze), but one night she goes anyway.  Chris returns to his flat and sees that Mary isn’t there, so he finds her at the brothel, sitting in another man’s lap.  Chris says, “You’re drunk, Mary.  Let me take you home.”  Mary mocks him.  “If you were half a man you’d drag me out of here by the roots of my hair.”  She says, “I’m not gonna be bored any more by your mealy mouth talk.”  Chris leaves, but, after a moment, Mary runs after him.  Chris is not outside, but Burke and Hare are there.  With the promise of more booze, they lead her to the boarding house, but Mary’s friend, Maggie, sees them.  At the boarding house, Hare begins to sexually assault Mary.  “No, please,” she cries as she tries mightily to resist him.  He chokes her to death.  Mrs. Burke returns home and is more perturbed by the presence of the dead woman than by the fact that Hare killed her.

The next morning Chris is studying at the academy.  Someone rolls in a covered corpse.  “This one’s the best we’ve had so far.  Doctor wants some drawings taken before we put her in the brine.”  Uneasy, Chris removes the cover and sees the dead Mary.  He runs out the building.  Knox is confused, but Mitchell explains that “Burke and Hare have just brought in the body of a woman … she was Jackson’s girl.”  Knox seems slightly concerned, but says nothing.

Chris goes to the boarding house and attacks Burke, but Hare sneaks up behind Chris and stabs him.  That night, they walk the corpse out of the building.  A young man named “Daft Jamie” sees him, thinking that Chris is still alive, and Hare gives him some money to go away.

By the next morning Chris’s body has been discovered.  Knox and Mitchell identify it for the local police.  They don’t say anything about Hare or Burke.  Later, Knox asks Mitchell why he didn’t mention the men.  Mitchell explains that he’s trying to protect Knox’s reputation.  Knox tells Mitchell that he should tell the police if he feels that he must, but “if you really consider that the life of a street woman is more important than the advance of surgery, then stand in the market square and scream ‘murder’ to the mob.” 

Back in that market square, Daft Jamie approaches Burke and Hare and mentions that he found a ring off a corpse.  The murderers sense that he’s trying to shake them down, so they tell him to come to the boarding house that night so they can buy the ring from him.  Daft Jamie then speaks to Maggie, Mary’s friend, who’s been looking for Mary for two days.  Daft Jamie goes to the boarding house as requested, and when he enters Burke tries to kill him.  Jamie resists to the best of his ability, and he makes it outside, but Burke and Hare catch him and Burke smothers him in the mud of a pigsty.  Fortunately, Maggie is hiding nearby and sees the act!  Burke and Hare take the body inside and find the ring, and Maggie runs away, shouting, “Murder!”

She runs to the square.  Mitchell is there and asks her what happened.  She explains that Burke and Hare killed Daft Jamie.  He quickly moves away.  Maggie goes to the police station, and she leads an inspector to the boarding house.  Burke and Hare are already gone, so Maggie then says to look at Dr. Knox’s place. 

Mitchell arrives at Knox’s house and begs the doctor to not buy any body that Burke and Hare might try to sell him, “because the police know it was murdered.”  Knox, however, reveals that he’s already purchased the body.  He shows Mitchell the body of Daft Jamie.  Mitchell explains that Burke and Mitchell know that Knox has more to lose than they do.  “They’re relying on you to cover their traces.”  Mitchell asks Knox to dispose of the body, but then the inspector and Maggie arrive.  Maggie identifies Daft Jamie, and Knox confirms that he died a violent death. 

Maggie runs to the town square and whips up a mob to find Burke and Hare.  “They’ve been murdering right under our noses,” a man says.  Maggie adds, “And what’s the law doing about it?”  Burke and Hare flee to a warehouse, but the mob quickly breaks in.  They grab Burke, and then they grab Hare.  The camera floats over a huge crowd celebrating their capture.  They are quickly put on trial, and Hare turns on Burke and testifies against him!  Burke is found guilty, but neither Hare nor Knox are charged.  Maggie shouts, about Knox, “But why should that old scoundrel get away free as air?”  Knox attempts to continue his normal routine of teaching, but his number of students have dwindled, and the mob shouts outside his house.

Burke is hanged to death.  Hare is free to leave the police station, but the mob is waiting for him outside.  The police toss him out the rear door.  Two men are waiting for him.  One holds him from behind while the other presses a torch against his eyes, blinding him.  For his own part, Knox is summoned by the medical council.  He has to walk through the mob to get to his carriage.  He faces the council, a group of fellow doctors whom he has insulted and belittled throughout the movie.  “This is a heaven-sent opportunity,” he tells him.  “Make the most of it.”  He leaves the room, but Mitchell arrives.  He faces the council and essentially accuses all of them of doing the same as Knox, in buying corpses when maybe they weren’t sure of the cause of death.  The council erupts into shouting.

Knox walks home.  In the central square, a little girl asks him for some coins so she can buy candy.  Knox says that he has no money, “but if you come to my house I’ll give you some there.”  “No, thank you,” the little girl says, “you might sell me to Dr. Knox.”  Knox is suddenly crushed.  He’s not a renowned doctor; he’s a monster.  He arrives home and speaks to his niece: “It took a child to show me what I am now.”  Knox admits that, despite his statements of working for the betterment of medicine and society, he’s been driven by “achievement, ambition.”  He says that he knew how all the people died when Burke and Hare brought in their bodies.  Mitchell arrives and says that the medical council has exonerated Knox, and he scoffs, “So, they’ve decided to let the world judge me.”  He heads to teach his next class, which he expects will be empty, but instead the hall is packed with students (all men).  He receives a standing ovation.  Knox begins to talk about the Hippocratic Oath, ending with the promise to “never do harm to anyone.”

This was surprisingly good.  The film was panned when it first came out, but now it’s starting to receive some notice and acclaim.  I think it’s a masterpiece.  The film was just … morbid, both in subject matter and tone.  Burke (George Rose, a mean bully) and Hare (Donald Pleasance, conniving and greedy) were effectively portrayed as true monsters, amoral murderers.  The murders were violent and brutal, long extended takes where the victims fought back as best they could before succumbing.  (Before their deaths, we did get to learn a little about the victims, poor people simply trying to survive.  We spent a lot of time with Charlie and Mary, both flawed in their own ways, and watch as they are killed.)  On the other hand, Knox (Cushing) was cold and dispassionate, appearing to care little for the dead, removed as he was by his wealth and education.  Even at the end, when he realized that these were dead people he was dissecting, he again viewed their loss only in abstract terms.  He was only remorseful because his own reputation was suffering.  Like the little girl said, he was a monster, too.  As terrible as it may sound, the real Burke and Hare and Knox were probably even worse than these film versions.  Burke and Hare killed at least sixteen people.  When Knox purchased the corpse of the real Mary Paterson, she had been smothered to death by the men after passing out from drinking.  Knox kept her body in a barrel of whiskey.

[downtoithaca]

WIP Intro:

LAST RITES

tw: disease/pandemic, gore, violence, psychological abuse, detailed medical imagery,

About

MEXICAN GOTHIC X DRACULA X THE STORY OF BURKE & HARE

A queer Gothic Historical Horror set in Victorian Edinburgh ft. mushrooms, cults, the cutting edge of (1800s) medical science, spooky manors and bodysnatchers.

Synopsis

Dr Ernest Mayweather is the only patient he can't treat. He's dying, and he's looking desperately to find a way to stop it. When a colleague of his at the prestigious University of Edinburgh Medical College discusses the avant-garde idea of using one disease to cure another, he begins a pursuit of the thing that will save his life. It leads him to a strange illness wherein strange flowers and funghi grow within the body. Curious, and keen to study it, he visits Auchindrain House, a sanctuary for the illness run by two mysterious aristocrats and their Italian acquaintance. When the horrifying nature of the house and its occupants come to light, Ernest must soon choose between accepting a quick and quiet death or chasing something potentially endless, with all the blood and horror that might come with it. What will Ernest's conscience allow him to do to survive?

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Status

It currently stands at around 69k, though by the end of this draft I think we'll be looking closer to 120k.

As of October 2023 I'm currently working on the second draft! I did a detailed re-outline after the first draft which I completed in April 2021 for Camp, and now I'm filling in all the extra scenes I need before I rewrite the novel again following the comprehensive developmental editing plan I've made, focussing on adding extra detail and coherence, especially in terms of the plot. I was initially hoping to finish this by the end of October, but at this rate, it's looking like that's not going to happen, so I'll probably pick this up again in February. (One thing you have to know, is that each month I shift projects to another one of those in rotation. I aim to always have one new project, one dev edit project and one later-stage project in rotation at all times to reduce fatigue!)

[thecrimecrypt]

Crimes That Shocked Britain (Edinburgh)

Child Killer Robert Black On 8 July 1988, Caroline Hogg, 5, was playing at the fairground on Portobello Promenade. Only, after riding the carousel, the little girl disappeared. Playmates had spotted her walking away with a 'scruffy' man who had paid the 15p for her carousel turn. Ten days later, her naked body was found in a Leicestershire ditch.

Susan Maxwell, 11, had been killed in similar circumstances a year earlier. Police linked the cases and in 1990, they got a breakthrough.

Delivery driver, Robert Black was caught with a 6-year-old in his van in a Scottish borders village. Detectives then spent four years piecing together his past movements.

It turned out that the day Caroline vanished, Black had been delivering posters nearby. In 1994, Black was jailed for life for the abduction and murder of Caroline, Susan, and Sarah Harper, 10, in 1986.

In 2011, he was convicted of the 1981 sexual assault and murder of nine-year-old Jennifer Cardy. Police suspected that he'd actually murdered many more, but they will never know for sure. Black died at the age of 68 behind bars in January 2016.

Burke and Hare Irishmen William Burke and William Hare met in 1827 when Burke moved into Hare's Edinburgh boarding house. On 25 November 1827, an elderly lodger died owing Hare £4. Burke and Hare stole his body and sold it to anatomist Dr Robert Knox st the Royal College of Surgeons.

In early 1828, another lodger was dying of a fever. The men smothered him, selling his corpse to Dr Knox for £10. Burke and Hare murdered 16 people over the following year, selling their corpses.

The body of their final victim, Mrs. Docherty, was discovered before Burke and Hare sold it. In court, Hare blamed Burke, in return for his freedom. Burke was hanged in January 1829. Hare fled Scotland and Knox was cleared.

Murder of Suzanne Pilley On 4 May 2010, Suzanne Pilley, 38, vanished while making her way to work in Thistle Street, Edinburgh.

A murder inquiry was launched police suspected Suzanne's ex-lover and colleague David Gilroy, Suzanne had recently ended their affair. Officers believed jealous Gilroy lured her into the office's underground car park as she arrived for work, then dumped her body in the countryside.

In June 2010, Gilroy was charged with murder, later convicted, and jailed for life. In 2012, his appeal against the sentencing was rejected. Despite searches, including an area near Loch Long, Suzanne's body has never been found.

Donald Forbes In 1958, Donald 'Ginger' Forbes was sentenced to death for murder. He'd bludgeoned nightwatchman Alan Fisher, 66, to death while robbing a fishing factory.

Only, public letters of support for Forbes poured in, and his sentence was reduced to life. He was released in May 1970. Weeks later, he stabbed ex-soldier Charles Gilroy, 27, to death during a pub brawl.

With the death penalty now outlawed, Forbes was convicted of murder, sentenced to life again. He was released in 1998, only to be jailed for 12 years in 2003 for running a cocaine and cannabis factory. Forbes, 73, died in 2008, handcuffed to a hospital bed.

World's End Murders In October 1977, Helen Scott and Christine Eadie, both 17, were raped and killed after a night at Edinburgh's World's End pub. For decades, the case went cold - until a forensic review found a DNA profile, matching Angus Sinclair.

Sinclair had been serving life since 1982 for raping and indecently assaulting 11 girls. He'd received another life sentence in 2001, after DNA matched him to the 1978 murder of Mary Gallacher.

In 2007, he stood trial accused of murdering Helen and Christine, with his late brother-in-law Gordon Hamilton, who'd died in 1996. The case collapsed, Sinclair was acquitted. However, in November 2014, Sinclair was re-tried, finally convicted, and jailed for life.

[sister-lucifer]

ok when i’m stressed i have weird dreams so here’s another edition to the dream log

from 06/17/2023

ok so stay with me on this one

you know those shitty anime yandere x listener audios? yeah i absolutely DESPISE those. in the dream for whatever reason i was listening to one but it wasn’t like a “normal” one, like the weird yandere anime boy wasn’t talking to me. the audio was titled “Yandere Covers Up Your Murder! ASMR” and it was just ten minute of this random guy who presumably just murdered me talking to two police officers who came to his door to ask him some questions. literally just ten minutes of this guy being like “no i haven’t seen him, he left last night. no i have no idea where he couldve gone. yeah that’s terrible.”

i could tell just by the way the audio was that i was listening to him talk from inside his house so presumably the listener is supposed to be like…a ghost?? i think??

AND the officers he was talking to were named officer burke and officer hare. as in william burke and william hare, the famous scottish serial killers from the 1800s.

so much going on. what does this mean. what the hell is happening

[starman-waiting-in-the-sky07]

Benjamin Franklin

The jetsons

Yogi bear

Boxtrolls

Nightmare before Christmas

A land before time

Octodad

katamari prince

Madagascar

Robot devil

Disenchanted

Shadow wizard money gang

Sack boy

Sam and max

Hagrid

Robin Hood

Alvin and the chipmunks

Twitter bird

Triangle factory guy

In the night garden

Octonauts

Baby Jake

Ghost cod

Plato

Isaac newton

The twits

Digdug

Q!bert

Wreck it Ralph

Bfg

Charlie and the choclate factory

Queen Elizabeth the second

Queen Victoria

King Henry VIII

Edmund mcmillen

More Isaac characters, azezeal, cain

More bible characters, beelzebub, cain.

Mary magdelane

Mary (ghosts)

Boudicca

Pride flags

Countries

Vladimir putin

Teddy roosevelt

Kamala Harris

GIMP mascot

Spy x family more

Concepts (music, language, etc)

Fargos mutant mod characters

Hatsune miku

Miku binder Jefferson

Richard ayoade

Peanut butter jelly time banana

Snoop dog

Big brother (1984)

Animal farm characters

Einstein

Midas

Pot of greed

Super greed

More bible characters (Lilith)

Barney

Rev love joy

Kirk van houten

Duffman

Julius hibbert

More hunger games (trainer, sister, villain)

Buccarati

Guido mista

The noid

Ham burgaler

Grimace

Clippy

Kabru (dungeon meshi guy)

The seven deadly sins

Huma kavula

Police officer

Eddie and lou

Cleveland

The UK

French person

Bobo buddy

Van Gogh

The Mona Lisa

Eli (half life)

Barney (half life)

Chase

Rubble

The DM

the other 2 gorgons

Hermes

Achilles

Arachne (spider lady who crossed Athena)

Athena

Aphrodite

Apoim(Pokémon)

Dawn

Lord krump

Olivia

Bobbery

Wolf man

Frankenstein

Frankensteins monster

The creature from the black lagoon

Ed Sheeran

Big Ben

Totoro

Arrietty

Ponyo

No face

Howl

Calficer

Kiki

Witch of the wastes

Porco Rosso

Han Solo

Jack sparrow

Peter Pan

Wendy

Captain Hook

Lego joker

Lego Batman

Alfred

The riddler

Beavis

Butthead

Dorothy

Scarecrow

Cowardly lion

Tin man

The wicked witch of the west

The wizard of oz

Rocky

Barbie

Ken

Tarzan

Jane

George of the jungle

Wally (where’s wally)

Kermit

Fozzie

Animal

Miss piggy

Scooter

Gonzo

Rowlf the dog

rizzo the rat

Pepe

Dr Bunsen honeydew

Beaker

statler and waldorf

Swedish chef

Sam eagle

Sweetums

Walter

Camilla the chicken

Elmo

Big bird

Count countula

Oscar the grump

Professor squackencluck

jeopardy mouse

Count duckula

Nero

Dawn crumhorn

Isambard King Kong Brunel

Quark

Pandaminion

Stanley

The narrator

Micheal Myers

Jason voorhees

Jack the Ripper

The muffin man

The gingerbread man

The runaway pancake

Sweeney Todd

Burke and hare

Mad hatter

Alice

Tweedle dum and tweedle Dee

Cheshire Cat

Queen of hearts

March hare

Generic cowboy

Billy the kid

The lizard cowboy movie rango

Dust papyrus

Red dead redemption guy

Zombie

Cotl angel guy

Ratau

A Crumpet

Caesar

Nero (Roman emperor)

Brutus

Shakespeare

Dr. House

Billy Joel

Ziggy stardust

Major Tom

Lord snooty

Bash street kids

Paddington

Rabbit (whinnie the Pooh)

Heffalump (Winnie the Pooh)

Elvis Presley

Hong Kong phoeey

Dick dastardly

Inspector gadget

Lady Gaga

Labyrinth

Davy Crockett

John Lennon

Superpets the hamster thing

Malcolm X

Martin Luther king

Jamie Oliver

Moomins

Pied piper

Little red riding hood

Bjorn (peggle)

Erina

Gary charmers

Catgirl

Mary(had a little lamb)

Nimona

The tortoise and the hare

Charlie (bit my finger)

Shy guy

Booster

Teddy bear

Dracula

Shaun the sheep

Timmy time!

Megamind

Kung fu panda

Tangled

Alan turing

Charles Babbage

Picasso

Jan misali

princess Diana

Walt Disney

Steven after not surviving

David Attenborough

James cordon

More lego movie

More toys

Jack in the box

Star signs (Virgo etc)

Apollo

Emojis

Donkey Kong jr

Psycho cannibal guy

Flork of cows mr rich

Petaly

Mike

Pearl

Mrs puff

Pain girl

Ramshackle

Nigel and marmalade

The one with the three eyed guy

Gloink king

Pikit

Gooseworx bounty hunter girl and that series in general

Goncharov

Destiel

Hamlet

Ood

Mars rover

Elon musk

Buzz aldrin

Neil Armstrong

Danny devito

Rory pond

Gummy bear

Smaug

Bard the bowman

Beorn

Big hero six

King of the hill

moral Orel

Rocky horror picture show

Death note

Starman earthbound

More Star Wars

Leia

Droids

Jabba the Hutt

Boba fett

Baby yoda

Palpatine

Lotr orc

Beaty and the beast

Douglas adams

Jimminy cricket

Winston Churchill

Even older Joseph

Duolingo bird

Pinky and the brain

Orson wells

KEKW guy

Animaniacs

Captain caveman

Risk of rain

Steve Harley

Chess peices

Rosa parks

Super paper Mario

Newer paper Mario partners

Koopalings

Red dwarf

Ghengis khan

Matt groening

Pandora

Sontaran

The silence

More futurama- Sal, old lady, roberto, bird lawyer, cops,

Crash bandicoot villains and girl

Monsier bloque Mario and Luigi

Oddish

Gary

Arceus

Wonder over yonder

The office

More roald dahl characters

Roald Dahl

Mariah Carey

Hansel and gretel

The three little pigs

Star Trek

Monster prom

All the doctors

The man who sold the world

Professor oak

More ut yellow

Harambe

David tennant

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THE SHADOW OF THE CAT (1961) – Episode 188 – Decades of Horror: The Classic Era

“You mean to tell me that an ordinary domestic cat is terrorizing three grown-ups?” Well, yes. Is that surprising? Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Jeff Mohr, and guests Bill Mulligan and Michael Zatz – as they follow the cat everyone worries about in BHP Production’s The Shadow of the Cat (1961). Pssst! It’s really a Hammer Film. Really.

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 188 – The Shadow of the Cat (1961)

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A house cat sees her mistress murdered. The cat becomes ferociously bent on revenge while the murderers try to kill her, the only witness.

Directed by: John Gilling

Writing Credits: George Baxt

Production Design by: Bernard Robinson

Music by: Mikis Theodorakis

Cinematography by: Arthur Grant (director of photography)

Selected Cast:

André Morell as Walter Venable (as Andre Morell)

Barbara Shelley as Beth Venable

William Lucas as Jacob Venable

Freda Jackson as Clara

Conrad Phillips as Michael Latimer

Richard Warner as Edgar Venable

Vanda Godsell as Louise Venable

Alan Wheatley as Inspector Rowles

Andrew Crawford as Andrew

Kynaston Reeves as The Grandfather

Catherine Lacey as Ella Venable

Henry Kendall as The Doctor (uncredited)

Even though The Shadow of the Cat (1961) is never identified on screen as a Hammer Film (B.H.P. Productions is credited), it is most definitely Hammer! All the ingredients are there: it’s filmed at Bray Studios, most of the cast and crew are Hammer regulars, and Hammer handles the money management. The one obvious exception is the presence of Hammer’s standard bright red Kensington Gore (the film is shot in black and white). The presence of the wonderful Barbara Shelley and a menacing André Morell seal the deal.

Much to our dismay, Doc and Chad are absent-with-leave. In their stead, Daphne and Jeff are joined by Bill “Cats ’r’ Us” Mulligan and Michael “The Shadow of the” Zatz. Let the feline shenanigans begin!

At the time of this writing, The Shadow of the Cat (1961) is available on physical media as a Blu-ray formatted disc in Scream Factory’s “Universal Horror Collection: Volume 6” along with The Black Castle (1952), Cult of the Cobra (1955), and The Thing Couldn’t Die (1958).

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Next in their very flexible schedule – this one chosen by Daphne – is The Flesh and the Fiends (1960), directed by John Gilling and featuring Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence, George Rose, and Billie Whitelaw. Ah, yes. Burke and Hare strike again!

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[hitchell-mope]

(Before The Funeral)

Samantha: does anyone else feel weird about this?

Andrea: a little bit yeah.

Winn: just remember. You helped save the world. She saved the children.

William: have you decided what to do with it yet?

Samantha: no. Not yet. The will says Andrea and I own the house and surrounding property. We can clear out the house and grounds but the house itself has to remain standing so we can’t burn it down.

Andrea: no matter how much we might want to.

William: we could all live here. The five of us.

Winn: new sitcom idea right there. The Journalist And His Government Roommates.

Samantha: that’s sweet. But I sing think I could live here after what Lena did. I wish I killed her myself.

Winn: same here. But she’s dead. She’s dead and gone. And she can’t anyone anymore.

Andrea: OH! IDEA!

Winn: okay....

Andrea: Nia.

Winn: what about her?

Andrea: she’s starting this foundation for at risk alien and lgbt youth right?

William: yes!

Winn: there’re are what fifty bedrooms?

Andrea: and thirty bathrooms. Not counting the en-suites.

Winn: and the servant quarters could be used as a school.

Andrea: at least two kitchens.

William: so much baking!

Samantha: I am very lost right now. What are you guys talking about?

Winn: Andrea thinks that Nia can use the estate as a base of operations for her charity foundation.

Samantha: ohhhh. Now why didn’t you just say that in the first place?

(At the loft)

Nia: pardon?

Samantha: something good should come from that family at least once. We’ve talked it over with Mr Burke and Mr Hare and they’ve okayed it.

William: Burke and Hare? Seriously?

Winn: Lillian had a warped sense of humour.

Andrea: so. If you accept it. We can sign over the deed, house, property and trust funds to you and the foundation can make headway in about a month.

Kara: holy shit.

Mon El: that’s amazing.

Brainy: and a perfect example of recycling.

Andrea: heh?

Brainy: I’m still doing the Public Service Announcements. Only ten more to go then I’ll be able to stop.

Andrea: be quick about it hm?

Brainy: affirmative.

Mon El: Nia? You okay? You haven’t spoken in like three minutes.

(Nia nods silently)

Samantha: this is being recorded. We kinda need verbal confirmation.

Nia: y-yes. Yes I accept the offer.

Andrea: great! All I ask is if I can have King Midas?

Nia: who?

Samantha: a human sized king chess piece on a remote controlled Roomba that she’s got an obsession with.

Nia: only if you donate a replacement so the set stays complete

Andrea: deal.

Nia: I HAVE A CHARITY FOUNDATION!!!!

(Everyone cheers)

Mon El (picking up a fussy Eddie and twirling him around): you hear that buddy? You’re Auntie Nia’s gonna be a CEO! Wait. Is that the right word? Or is it caretaker? Or organiser?

Nia: founder.

Mon El: founder! Even better!

(End of Before The Funeral)

[maxdemianfangirl]

I just realized the new LCB syndicate is probably the Dead Rabbits, not only as a reference to the irl Irish New York gang, but because in Wuthering Heights Lockwood did ask about a pile of dead rabbits in the house. And furthermore the syndicate seems to be made up of grave robbers because the most notable Irishmen of the Victorian era were Burke and Hare, aka the men who killed people to sell their corpses to anatomists, often associated with grave robbers because they essentially expedited the process. I really hope my grave robber impression is right then because G-D is that all good.

[kloppinthekop]

🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

🪲 ⇢ add 50 words to your current wip and share the paragraph here

🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

Oh gosh, I sure have researched very weird things from back when I was a grad student (Victorian charnel houses, Burke & Hare, menstruating in space, the origin of the word “cyborg,” etc…), but I’m sure this isn’t asking about that lol. For fic writing, nothing quite as weird as that yet… at least, I don’t think lol. But I guess the most recent weird Google search I did was “what are the actual components of a condom” (haha… because, as an asexual, I realized I don’t actually know if the different parts of a condom had proper names or whatever 🫣). Other than that, I guess just being obsessive about getting details right, even down to the temperature on a certain day (even if I know it’s an alternate universe/it’s all made up).

🪲 ⇢ add 50 words to your current wip and share the paragraph here

“From the moment he first met Virg, he had always wanted to impress him.

How could he not?

As Jarell quickly learned, Virgil is not only the best defender in the world—he is also the best mentor.

It’s the way that Virg will talk him through a game, his words like a firm hand guiding Jarell where he needs to go. Sometimes, an actual hand on the back, or gripping his shoulder.”

(Hehe thanks for sending these, Kris! 💜🙏)

[scotianostra]

On October 26th 1779, Henry Thomas, who became known as Lord Cockburn was born at Cockpen, Midlothian.

Although primarily associated with Edinburgh, Lord Cockburn was also Rector of the University of Glasgow. He was a prominent Whig lawyer who wrote for the influential Edinburgh Review and was a friend of fellow University of Edinburgh alumni Francis Jeffrey and Henry Brougham (both of whom became Rectors of the University of Glasgow). Henry was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland in 1830 and in 1834 took his seat as a judge in the Court of Session.

His Memorials of his Time, published posthumously in 1856, brings vividly to life the personalities and politics of early Victorian Scotland.

Cockburn Street, built in the 1850s to connect the High Street with the North British Railway’s Waverley station, is also named after him. The building at the foot of the street, formerly the “Cockburn Hotel”, bears his image in profile in a stone above the entrance.(as seen in the pics)The street was briefly called Lord Cockburn Street, when the Lord was dropped I have no idea.

Cockburn had an interest in architectural conservation , particularly in Edinburgh, where several important historic buildings such as John Knox’s House and Tailors’ Hall in the Cowgate owe their continued existence to the change in attitude towards conservation which he helped bring about. The Cockburn Association (Edinburgh Civic Trust), founded in 1875, was named in his honour.

A couple of little known facts about Lord Cockburn is he successfully defended Helen McDougall, common law wife if William Burke, of Burke and Hare infamy. He was known for the comment, ‘Except that he murdered, Burke was a gentlemanly fellow.’

The late actor Russel Hunter played Cockburn in Cocky, a one-man play which was effectively a dramatization of his memoirs.

Henry Thomas died at the age of 75 at his estate in Bonaly in the Pentland Hills on 26th April 1854.

[mourningcrypt]

Funeral Friday: Burke & Hare

In the 19th century the act of graverobbing was rampant, and with a monetary gain. Graverobbers, or resurrection men- would dig up bodies and sell them to medical schools. But it was more sought after for fresher bodies, and with the public being more alert to these dark dealings, the restrictionists took matters into their own hands. 

William Burke and William Hare are two of the most infamous grave robbers to come out of this time. in Edinburgh, Scotland on November 29, 1827- while Hare was a keeper of a lodging house, an tenant passed away of natural causes. At the time of his passing, he owed Hare £4 as rent payment- to which after talking to Burke, his friend and other tenant, the two came up with an idea for the man to pay his dues from beyond the grave.

Before the funeral, the two would steal the body and weigh down the coffin with wood. Once the body was in their possession the two took it to Edinburgh University’s medical school, and sold it to the professor- Robert Knox for £7 and 10 shillings.

Despite their first victim dying on his own, their next was not as lucky. In 1828 when another tenant became sick, they decided to not wait around for him to pass. Instead they  coaxed him with alcohol and once he was within grasp- the two restrained and suffocated him. This would become their method as it left no marks or sign of the murder. Unfortunately, it’s likely a total of 16 people perished by their hands, all lodgers staying under Hare. When the two bright this body in, Dr. Knox paid them £10.

It’s believed that the medical students, who had no knowledge of the disgusting acts of the duo- recognized a few of the bodies that showed up in their class. One of which was a well known local man by the name of James. Of course, Dr. Knox swiftly denied the identity of the man and quickly prepared the body for direction. At this point, gossip swirled of the two, but nothing was done quite yer.

Their much needed downfall wasn’t until October 31, 1828, when they killed Margaret Docherty. The two would hide her body under a pile of hay until they could take it to the doctor, but their secret would be seen by other lodgers and reported to the police, where her body would be found lying on the dissection room table.

In the aftermath Hare would be granted immunity if he turned on Burke and confessed to everything. This saved him from execution, But Burke was hung on January 28,1829. Dr. Knox was never charged with any crimes, though his public reputation was tarnished.

Sources: The Story of Burke and Hare- infamous grave-robbers and murderers in 19th century Edinburgh, William Burke and William Hare, The Story of Burke and Hare, Take a grisly tour of Edinburgh in the footsteps of its two famous body snatchers