For my final day of Blogtober, I look back at another fascinating novel of horror that most people have never heard of! Richard Le Gallienne’s “The Worshipper of the Image” is a short 1899 novel that is about a man’s growing obsession with… a death mask! But not just any death mask: L’Inconnue de la Seine, the famed death mask of an anonymous beautiful woman who allegedly drowned in the Seine. The mask became the face of Resusci Anne, the CPR dummy, and is thus often referred to as “the most kissed face of all time!”

Happy Halloween, and I hope you’ve enjoyed this look at horror fiction and blog posts, old and new!