Quigley's Cabinet

Being a visual and verbal chronologue of my peculiar life, foremost my research interests—death and the anatomical body—and travels and people I've met in pursuit of same; my collecting interests—fossils, postmortem photographs, weird news, and new acquisitions to my “museum”; and (reluctantly) my health, having been diagnosed with MS in 1990. "Satisfying my morbid curiosity and yours..."

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Friday, July 31, 2009

Cenotaph

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What do these 3 seemingly disparate images have in common? Cenotaphs. A cenotaph is a memorial - often in a cemetery - that does not mark a ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Jack Kerouac's house

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The house where American writer Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) lived when On the Road was published and while he wrote The Dharma Bums is right ...
Saturday, June 13, 2009

Knitting with hair

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A few years ago, my friend Cris's dog groomer saved the trimmings so she could give each client a clear Christmas tree ornament containi...
Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Bird Girl

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The "Bird Girl" is the eerie sculpture featured on the cover of the novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil , which was then...
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Monday, March 2, 2009

Jan Karski statue

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Georgetown University didn't open until noon today, because of snow, so I took advantage of the "liberal leave" policy also in...
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Chris Quigley has been reviewing morbid books since receiving an MA in 2007 from Georgetown University, where she has worked since 1986. As of June 2009, she is on long-term disability leave. She delivered the keynote address at the first Museum of Funeral Customs symposium (Springfield, Illinois), consulted with the producers of the National Geographic Channel’s Mummy Road Show, and authored 6 morbid books of her own - Death Dictionary, The Corpse, Modern Mummies, Skulls and Skeletons, Conjoined Twins, and Dissection on Display - all published by McFarland & Co.
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