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sonyavatomsky

Sonya Vatomsky is a Russian American non-binary artist with too many feelings on the inside and too much cat hair on the outside. They are a staff writer at Haute Macabre, where they've covered everything from literature to music to dinnerware made out of human ashes, as well as the author of Salt Is For Curing (Sator Press, 2015). Get in touch by saying their name five times in front of a bathroom mirror or at sonyavatomsky.com.

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Clearing Up Some Myths About Victorian 'Postmortem' Photographs

Stories abound of dead people being propped up on stands to seem alive. The reality was different.

October 11, 2021

The Modern Movement to Exonerate a Notorious Medieval Serial Killer

Gilles de Rais inspired the tale of Bluebeard. But was he really a murderer?

Debunking the Myth of 19th-Century 'Tear Catchers'

It’s hard to keep a good story down when there’s money to be made.