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  • Collection: Fear & Fascination

Black and white image of a woman pulling back a curtain to reveal the body of a man lying draped over the side of a bed.

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Doll, dressed in the ordinary costume of the Vallahadhes, Yanina in Epirus, West Macedonia.

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Front cover of the novel "The Beetle". A blue book cover with the words "The Beetle, A Mystery", "Richard Marsh". An oval image in the centre depicts a man walking towards a bed that contains a bald man staring at him form the side of his eye.

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Video of a house, inspired by M.R. James's "The Mezzotint" for the exhibition "Fear & Fascination: A Gothic exhibition"
M. R. James (1862-1936), the “father of ghost stories”, was a master of quiet horror. He built suspense through the gradual…

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Cabinet belonging to James Grant Bey, containing his scarab collection. Each scarab is mounted and the collection is ordered in chronological sequence.

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Pink box containing the quote "...A poisonous book, the atmosphere of which is heavy with the mephitic odours of moral and spiritual putrefaction..." - Critic's review of The Picture of Dorian Gray in the Daily Chronicle, 1890

A black rectangle with a swirl pattern in one corner, and the words "Fear and Fascination" in pink.
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