Prepare for Terror: Haunted Library Screamfest II

Date: October 31, 2013
Time: 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Location: Perkins Library, Room 217
Contact: Rachel Ingold, 919-684-8549 or rachel.ingold(at)duke.edu

Stop by for a special Halloween “eeeks”-ibit and open house featuring some of the creepiest and most macabre items from the shadowy depths of the Rubenstein Library’s vaults. Will you dare to:

Gaze in awe at a box full of glass eyeballs?

Feel your head spin as you read letters describing the case that inspired The Exorcist (from the Parapsychology Laboratory Records)?

Quoth nevermore after experiencing Gustave Doré’s illustrations for The Raven?

Steel yourself to view a medieval amputating saw?

Cackle frightfully at seventeenth-century accounts of witchcraft?

Sink your teeth into images of vampires, werewolves, the living dead, and Frankenstein’s monster?

These and many other spook-tacular books, photographs, comics, diaries, letters, artifacts, and more will be on display!

Oh, and did we mention that there will be free candy?

A man holding his own flayed skin will be there. Will you? (From Juan Valverde de Amusco, Anatomia del Corpo Humano, 1560, in the History of Medicine Collections.)