Gallery: Fantastically Creepy Images and Tales From The Morbid Anatomy Anthology
Joanna Ebenstein / Order of the Capuchin Friars01palermo
Mummified bodies wear their Sunday best at the Capuchin catacombs in Palermo, Italy.
Joanna Ebenstein02venus
"Little Venus" anatomical model, made in 1782 and on display at the Palazzo Poggi in Bologna, Italy.
Joanna Ebenstein03venus-face
A wax effigy containing the bones and teeth of Saint Vittoria, at the church of Santa Maria Della Vittoria in Rome.
Wellcome Library04hysteria
"Hysteria" patients photographed at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris in the late 1870s.
Thanatos Archive05child
A 19th century post-mortem photograph of a young girl.
Wellcome Library06doll
An 18th century wax anatomical model with removable organs.
The Gordon Museum of Pathology07head
A wax model of the dissected head of a baby, with the brain exposed.
New York Academy of Medicine Library08ruysch-skeleton
An 18th century drawing by the Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch.
New York Academy of Medicine Library09ruysch-face
Ruysch injected molten wax into cadavers to study the vasculature system.
Joanna Ebenstein10human-head
"Bearded lady under bell jar" at the Musée Orfila in Paris.
Joanna Ebenstein / Pat Morris11taxidermy
Anthropomorphic taxidermy by Hermann Ploucquet.
Richard Harris Collection12skull
A postcard from around 1900.
