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photograph of a metal coffin plate labeled "The Sad Hour" with a clock face with Roman numerals and moveable hands. The clock face is surrounded by a wreath of ferns (or laurels) and lilies.

A black and white drawing showing a coffin surrounded by flowers, with a cross on the cover, as well as a sad hour coffin plate with a skeleton hand turning the hands.

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This Sad Hour coffin plate, with moveable hands for the time of death, was the inspiration for this fantastic illustration by @landisblair.bsky.social for the entry "Death Token" in my book A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death.

Hah! I have that book, so perhaps it was inevitable.

R is for Resurrection Men. #CemeterySaturday An illustration from @chriswoodyard.bsky.social's book, "A is for Arsenic."

First I'll have to get him to the barber.

Anxiety #13.

Cover of A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death. Blue-grey background. A couple in black Victorian mourning clothes stand in postures of despair on either side of a greyish tomb topped with a skull and backed by a weeping willow tree. The tomb is the background for the title.

A list of the contents included in A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death

A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death is my guide to the basics of Victorian mourning, gorgeously illustrated by @landisblair.bsky.social.
ISBN: 978-0-9881925-4-6, 208 pp. 6×9” trade PB.
Please ask your bookstore, library, or museum shop to order it.
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Scratching instead of scritching.

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Maud Munn in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, NJ. #CemeterySaturday ▪️ Special thanks to @cwpalomba.bsky.social for the commission.

Leopold and Loeb. ▪️ An illustration from The Hunting Accident.

An illustration from my small book, Whetting Engines.

Walkabout.

A black and white drawing of a London churchyard with broken tombstones, exposed bones and skulls, and a distant view of St Paul's dome. A woman mourner stands in the middle of the scene.

Blue-grey cover with black drawing of A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, Chris Woodyard, illustrated by Landis Blair, showing a mourning couple in Victorian clothing--the woman veiled and in a bustle dress and the man in a suit, holding a top hat with a weeper tied to it. The title is on a central tombstone, topped with a skull and backed by a weeping willow.

"Churchyard," from A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, wonderfully illustrated by @landisblair.bsky.social In the entry, an Englishman describes "a soppy churchyard, where the mourners sink ankle-deep in a rank and offensive mould, mixed up with broken bones and fragments of coffins."

The dead within death. #CemeterySaturday Wunders Cemetery, Chicago, IL ▪️ I just listed this drawing in my shop if anyone is interested. www.etsy.com/listing/4459...

This is getting serious.

No, but I keep hearing what sounds like stones moving about on the roof.

Purple profile.

The daily hunch.

Trinket.

Thanks, Tom! Hope it was a nice walk. Next time I'm in London we'll have to visit it and maybe see if we can rope @hayleycampbell.bsky.social in.

Inking… #CemeterySaturday

Black and white illustration of man under cloth of a 19th century camera, photographing a corpse in a rectangular casket, surrounded by flowers. Illustration for A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death.

P is for Post-Mortem photography, beautifully illustrated by @landisblair.bsky.social It is one of the entries in A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, available worldwide. Fun fact: The Victorians never used the phrase "memento mori," to describe these photos; that is a modern inaccuracy.

A drawing of mine in the exhibit "Eternal Echoes" on display at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center through March 29th. pafac.org/gallery-exhi...

A Dull Exorcism. ▪️ Newsletter update: landisblair.substack.com/p/a-dull-exo...

Black and white illustration of a graveyard from A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, showing an obelisk and pyramid-like tombs, as well as other headstones. A magpie sits atop a tomb while a cat watches.

O is for Obelisk, brilliantly illustrated by @landisblair.bsky.social in A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death (available worldwide).
"We have seen a ground so full of pyramids and obelisks, that one could almost fancy it a gigantic cabinet of minerals, being all crystals set on end."

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Sorrow. #CemeterySaturday Bohemian National Cemetery, Chicago, IL. ▪️ I just listed this original drawing in my shop if anyone is interested. www.etsy.com/listing/4453...

Haha! I entirely didn't remember this from the show.