Two Doctors
Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1919, about the mysterious death of one of the two doctors practising medicine in Islington during the early 18th century.
Emily Addis Fawcett
English sculptor (1852–1947).
An Episode of Cathedral History
Horror story by M. R. James, first published in 1914, about a demon that escapes frpm a hidden tomb in the fictional Southminster Cathedral.
Infra-draw method
Scheme to profit from the results of football matches, invented by Horace Batchelor.
St Antony of Padua
Tin tabernacle in the Trafford Park industrial estate in Manchester.
Regent House
Grade II listed 16th-century timber-framed house in Nantwich, Cheshire.
Sass’s Academy
Academy founded by the English artist Henry Sass (1788–1844), to provide training for those seeking to enter the Royal Academy.
The Incubus Leaving Two Young Women
Oil painting by the Swiss-born Romantic artist Henry Fuseli, c. 1794, like much of his work exploring the relationship between sex and fear.
Joan Wytte
Alleged Cornish witch whose skeleton was put on public display.
Elizabeth Mary Watt
Scottish painter and decorator of pottery (1886–1954).