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Blindfolded victims having their throats cut outside a prison while a group of monks avert their eyes from this scene of horror. Etching with engraving.
Reference: 43509i
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The Duke of Wellington and his ministers recoil in horror from the shrouded ghost of George Canning who points to the catholic bill on the table. Lithograph 1829.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: Nov 1829Reference: 651165i
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A young man wearing checked trousers looks in horror at the state of the jacket he is holding up to inspect. Coloured lithograph after J.V. Barret, ca 1860.
Barret, J. V.Date: 1860Reference: 35319i
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A tiger hunt, showing a dismounted hunter being set-upon by tigers (or leopards?), while his fellow exotically-dressed hunters look on in horror. Engraving by J.J. Flipart, 1773, after F. Boucher.
Boucher, François, 1703-1770.Date: [1789/1800?]Reference: 565106i
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The soules alarum-bell : Wherein the sicke soule (through the horror of conscience) being awakened from security by the sight of sinne, hath recourse to God by meditation and prayer. By H. Thompson.
Thompson, Henry, active 1618Date: 1618
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A horse bites the shin of its grimacing rider, in a stable-yard; the stable owner (?) and two other men look on in horror. Coloured lithograph by A. Strassgschwandtner after himself, ca. 1860.
Strassgschwandtner, Anton.Date: [1861?]Reference: 563850i
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A woman dropping her porcelain tea-cup in horror upon discovering the monstrous contents of a magnified drop of Thames water; revealing the impurity of London drinking water. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: [1828?]Reference: 12079i
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A boy has made a vase look like a person on which he can then launch an attack, broken pieces of china lie on the floor and a woman comes rushing in waving her arms in horror. Lithograph.
Reference: 29098i
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A man shoots at a lark that has escaped from its cage on the street: the woman who owns it watches in horror from an upstairs window, while another man watches from the side of the house. Etching, 183-(?).
Date: 1830-1839Reference: 35953i
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A real horror story : the abuse of disabled people's human rights : Disability Awareness in Action Human Rights Database : report on the results of a project to systematically record human rights abuses against disabled people / Richard Light.
Light, RichardDate: 2002
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The martyrdom of seventy Protestants in Rome: a man kneels outside a prison, having the executioner covering his eyes with his hands and is about to have his throat cut while monks avert their eyes in horror. Etching after D. Dodd.
Dodd, Daniel.Date: [1765?]Reference: 43141i
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The suicide of Cleopatra: Cleopatra is shown seated on a chair with the asp wriggling up her left arm while her maid shields her face in a gesture of horror and grief. Line engraving by J.G. Wille, 175-, after C. Netscher.
Netscher, Caspar, 1635 or 1636-1684.Date: [between 1750 and 1759]Reference: 42962i
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New lights from the world of darkness; or the midnight messenger; with solemn signals from the world of spirits. Containing wonderful evidences of the visits of ghosts, apparitions, &c. ... and notices of death ... The whole forming a constellation of horror!!!
Date: 1800
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A woman seated at a table, and underneath a parrot in a cage suspended from the ceiling, unaware that her wig has been set alight by a mischievous monkey; another woman screams in horror as she enters through a door, in the right foreground a cat shields her kittens from a barking dog. Etching.
Date: [c.1780]Reference: 31650i
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Nos el Dr. D. Alonso Nuñez de Haro y Peralta ... Entre las graves obligaciones de nuestro ministerio pastoral, consideramos ser la primera velar cuidadosamente, para que las almas de nuestros subditos consigan la salvacion eterna: y habiendo llegado á nuestra noticia, que se mira comunmente con horror la operacion llamada parto cesareo [&c.].
Mexico. Archbishop.Date: 1772
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Thesaurus of horror; or, The charnelhouse explored!! : being an historical and philanthropical inquisition made for the quondam-blood of its inhabitants! by a contemplative descent into the untimely grave! shewing, by a number of awful facts that have transpired as well as from philosophical inquiry, the re-animating power of fresh earth in cases of syncope, &c. and the extreme criminality of hasty funerals: with the surest methods of escaping the ineffable horrors of premature interment!! The frightful mysteries of the dark ages laid open, which not only deluged the Roman Empire, but triumphed over all Christendom for a thousand years! Entombing the sciences, and subsequently reviving all the ignorance and superstition of Gothic barbarity! / by John Snart.
Snart, John.Date: 1817
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An address to the people of Great Britain and Ireland, exhorting, from the recent instances of disaffection, and the horror to which they were exposed, to continue peaceable: 1. From the difficulty of effecting a Revolution, under circumstances which attach the nation to its government, notwithstanding of some real evils admitted on all hands. 2. From the uncertain issue of such an experiment. 3. From the folly of contending for what we already possess in the most perfect degree, Liberty and Equality; and of allowing others to impose upon us the belief of being oppressed by evils which we do not feel, and which do not exist. 4. From the consideration that the taxes in general fall upon that part of the community which is best able to bear them; at least, that they do not affect the Labourer, the Mechanic, the Manufacturer, nor the Merchant. By a tradesman.
Tradesman.Date: 1793
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Disputatio solennis, de rigore, horrore, refrigeratione, oscitatione, pandiculatione, palpitatione, tremore et stridore dentium ... / Respondente Johanne Ulrico Müller.
Müller, Johann Ulrich.Date: 1653
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History of the yellow fever in New Orleans, during the summer of 1853 : with sketches of the scenes of horror which occurred during the epidemic : descriptions and beautiful illustrations of Charity Hospital and the public cemeteries, and especially of Potter's Field, and the method of burying the dead in Cypress swamp : to which is added the names of all persons who contributed to the funds of the Howard Association, in all parts of the United States, and the amount contributed by each person, with the official report of the doings of that society, &c. / by a physician of New Orleans who was present during the fatal epidemic of 1853.
Date: 1854
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Screams of reason : mad science and modern culture / David J. Skal.
Skal, David J.Date: [1998], ©1998
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Histoires Prodigieuses; the Monster of Cracow
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The sisters Dietl / Vojtěch Mašek ; translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood.
Mašek, Vojtěch, 1977-Date: 2022
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El fabrcante de honradez / Santiago Ramon Y Cajal.
Ramón y Cajal, Santiago, 1852-1934Date: [19??]
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The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey. A romance.
Carver, Mrs.Date: 1799
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More minor horrors / by A.E. Shipley.
Shipley, A. E. (Arthur Everett), Sir, 1861-1927.Date: 1916

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Blindfolded victims having their throats cut outside a prison while a group of monks avert their eyes from this scene of horror. Etching with engraving.

The Duke of Wellington and his ministers recoil in horror from the shrouded ghost of George Canning who points to the catholic bill on the table. Lithograph 1829.

A young man wearing checked trousers looks in horror at the state of the jacket he is holding up to inspect. Coloured lithograph after J.V. Barret, ca 1860.

A tiger hunt, showing a dismounted hunter being set-upon by tigers (or leopards?), while his fellow exotically-dressed hunters look on in horror. Engraving by J.J. Flipart, 1773, after F. Boucher.

The soules alarum-bell : Wherein the sicke soule (through the horror of conscience) being awakened from security by the sight of sinne, hath recourse to God by meditation and prayer. By H. Thompson.

A horse bites the shin of its grimacing rider, in a stable-yard; the stable owner (?) and two other men look on in horror. Coloured lithograph by A. Strassgschwandtner after himself, ca. 1860.

A woman dropping her porcelain tea-cup in horror upon discovering the monstrous contents of a magnified drop of Thames water; revealing the impurity of London drinking water. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828.

A boy has made a vase look like a person on which he can then launch an attack, broken pieces of china lie on the floor and a woman comes rushing in waving her arms in horror. Lithograph.

A man shoots at a lark that has escaped from its cage on the street: the woman who owns it watches in horror from an upstairs window, while another man watches from the side of the house. Etching, 183-(?).

A real horror story : the abuse of disabled people's human rights : Disability Awareness in Action Human Rights Database : report on the results of a project to systematically record human rights abuses against disabled people / Richard Light.

The martyrdom of seventy Protestants in Rome: a man kneels outside a prison, having the executioner covering his eyes with his hands and is about to have his throat cut while monks avert their eyes in horror. Etching after D. Dodd.

The suicide of Cleopatra: Cleopatra is shown seated on a chair with the asp wriggling up her left arm while her maid shields her face in a gesture of horror and grief. Line engraving by J.G. Wille, 175-, after C. Netscher.

New lights from the world of darkness; or the midnight messenger; with solemn signals from the world of spirits. Containing wonderful evidences of the visits of ghosts, apparitions, &c. ... and notices of death ... The whole forming a constellation of horror!!!

A woman seated at a table, and underneath a parrot in a cage suspended from the ceiling, unaware that her wig has been set alight by a mischievous monkey; another woman screams in horror as she enters through a door, in the right foreground a cat shields her kittens from a barking dog. Etching.

Disputatio solennis, de rigore, horrore, refrigeratione, oscitatione, pandiculatione, palpitatione, tremore et stridore dentium ... / Respondente Johanne Ulrico Müller.

Screams of reason : mad science and modern culture / David J. Skal.

Histoires Prodigieuses; the Monster of Cracow

The sisters Dietl / Vojtěch Mašek ; translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood.

El fabrcante de honradez / Santiago Ramon Y Cajal.

The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey. A romance.

More minor horrors / by A.E. Shipley.