You'll need a large black robe or cape. Button or tie it down the middle, so what you wear underneath doesn't matter. You can use DIY Fashion's tutorial to Make a Hooded Cape. You can make a Death ...

Death masks are fascinating but slightly terrifying relics from an age before photos. Until cameras rendered them redundant, it was common for notable people to have metal, wax or plaster applied to ...

*This article contains details and images that some readers might find distressing. On 7 May 1821, two doctors were engrossed in a frantic search. There was a decomposing body at stake – and if they ...

The Western world was once obsessed with these macabre memorials. *This article contains details and images that some readers might find distressing. On 7 May 1821, two doctors were engrossed in a ...