Blood on the Snow

The Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, a major ...

The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History

In his new collection of essays, Jan Bondeson t...

Murder Houses of Greater London

Which of Greater London's most gruesome murders...

Murder Houses of South London

South London has a long and blood-spattered his...

A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities

In this book of amazing oddities, Jan Bondeson ...

Those Amazing Newfoundland Dogs

Known in Britain at least since the 1730s, Newf...

Buried Alive

Readers of Edgar Allan Poe's tales-just think o...

Doctor Poison

One of the most notorious Victorian murders was...

Strange Victoriana

Meet the Victorians in their strangest forms. A...

Two-Headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels

A successor to his popular book A Cabinet of Me...

The London Monster

A century before Jack the Ripper, another preda...

Queen Victoria’s Stalker: The Strange Case of the Boy Jones