Undertaker Of The Mind

As visiting physician to Bethlem Hospital, the archetypal "Bedlam" and Britain's first and (for hundreds of years) only public institution for the insane, Dr. John Monro (1715–1791) was a celebrity in his own day. Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull call him a "connoisseur of insanity, this high priest of the trade in lunacy." Although the basics of his life and career are well known, this study is the first to explore in depth Monro's colorful and contentious milieu. Mad-doctoring grew into a recognized, if not entirely respectable, profession during the eighteenth century, and besides being affiliated with public hospitals, Monro and other mad-doctors became entrepreneurs and owners of private madhouses and were consulted by the rich and famous. Monro's close social connections with members of the aristocracy and gentry, as well as with medical professionals, politicians, and divines, guaranteed him a significant place in the social, political, cultural, and intellectual worlds of his time. Andrews and Scull draw on an astonishing array of visual materials and verbal sources that include the diaries, family papers, and correspondence of some of England's wealthiest and best-connected citizens. The book is also distinctive in the coverage it affords to individual case histories of Monro's patients, including such prominent contemporary figures as the Earls Ferrers and Orford, the religious "enthusiast" Alexander Cruden, and the "mad" King George III, as well as his crazy would-be assassin, Margaret Nicholson. What the authors make clear is that Monro, a serious physician neither reactionary nor enlightened in his methods, was the outright epitome of the mad-trade as it existed then, esteemed in some quarters and ridiculed in others. The fifty illustrations, expertly annotated and integrated with the text, will be a revelation to many readers.

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They killed his wife! His assistants are undead! Is it myth or monster that plagues this peculiar place?If you have a macabre sense of humor, why not give a listen to this Burtonesque tale and see if the undertaker does indeed get his revenge!It was a land and time far, far away, or so the story goes. Hear the notable narrator tell the tale of the undertaker and his race for revenge and retaliation. Meet the campy and capricious characters that occupy the quaint town along the way. But do be careful to keep an eye out for those double-headed dogs, mind you. Even the deviant doctor couldn't keep the town, teeming with those twisted types safe from harm. Will the undertaker find the fiends or will he merely go mad? More importantly, will you be brave enough to make to the end of the freakish fable?

Explore the actions of a flawed character confronting a love/hate relationship with his mother. Experience the conflict of her death, his father's remarriage and then his father's death with his loss of inheritance. Future plans change dramatically when he meets a real father figure. When this mentor dies, his grip on reality is a struggle until rage drives his first murder. Rationalizing this act as being positive, he now has a hobby with benefits. His mind quickly elevates the murders to the level of art. Dark humor allows the reader to experience a mind on the edge...a character you can both love and hate. Shadows from his youth provide insight into a personality capable of viewing the world on multiple levels...some real and some fantasy. It appears the person he loves and trusts most is his brother, a homicide detective. Their lives weave together in a complex dance between reality and insanity, with the balance broken by the love of a woman. The result is one individual in the grips of a split personality driven by the desire to kill his past. Reality is definitely a state of mind, not a place.

A cold-blooded murder. A beautiful suspect. An honest judge forced to do the unthinkable. New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin is a master of legal suspense. In this explosive novel, a simple case of self-defense becomes a nightmare in which justice itself is held hostage. Judge Richard Quinn is young, idealistic, and honest to a fault. That's why he's handed the most sensational homicide case in Oregon history. Locked in a race for the U.S. Senate, Ellen Crease gunned down the intruder who murdered her wealthy husband. In a single, brutal instant she became a widow, a victim, and a hero. Yet disturbing questions remain. What secrets did the man who started his fortune running mortuaries keep that might have cost him his life? What about the son frozen out of his will? Or his wife's political enemies? And what about Ellen Crease herself? Soon it becomes clear that a deadly plot of murder, blackmail, passion, and double cross is unfolding around Judge Richard Quinn. And unless he breaks the rules, justice will not only be blind, it will be the final victim.

A graveyard feast beneath the summer moon … The rural town of Old Hickory. Tennessee was a quiet, picturesque community … until the O'Sheas came to town. Becoming the new proprietors of the town's only funeral parlor, with the help of their charming patriarch, Square McManus, the Irish family was wholeheartedly accepted by the local townfolk. The thing began to happen. Strange things … horrible, unspeakable things … in the dead of night. The sighting of wolfish beasts congregating around an open grave in the town cemetery. Frightening changes in several of Old Hickory's less desirable residents. And the brutal murder and devouring of a varsity football player in the wooded wilderness outside of town. Soon, what was once concealed in shadow and secrecy was now starkly revealed, in all its ravenous fury, by the silvery light of the full moon. As the residents of Old Hickory, as well as the local police, begin to fall victim to an unknown evil, four individuals—the town nerd, a high school jock, a widowed gunsith, and a mysterious transient from a distant shore—find themselves facing what could possibly be a hellish lycanthrope from ancient Ireland … the legendary Arget Bethir … the Silver Beast.