A Haunting Victorian-Era Photography Trend Known as Memento Mori

It’s no secret that the victorians were into weird practices. Memento mori (pictures of the dead posing as the living) for example. When I discover the art of these victorian Christmas postcards, I knew I had to bring them back to the modern day with a special twist. This pack of 7 peculiar postcards depicts witches, a vegetable gentleman, talking candles, dancing beetles and more. They feel as though they were plucked straight from the victorian times. Printed on thick postcard paper, they are

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