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Spooky season

To mark Halloween, we dug up some of our favorite Yale News content centered around the supernatural, macabre, and strange. Reader beware!

(Photo by Michael Marsland)

Blood lust: Explaining our obsession with the living dead

Why do we find stories about vampires, from “Dracula” to “Twilight,” so compelling?

Southern Cavefish

Dark ages: Genomic analysis shows how cavefish lost their eyes

From the Collections

The ‘King of Horror’ as arts advocate: The Vincent Price papers at Yale

Carlos Eire in front of an old oil painting.

Would you believe? A Yale historian reconsiders the seemingly impossible

Susan Ely

‘A SIMILAR KIND OF RIDDLE’

Beyond CSI: A veteran forensic pathologist brings her skills to Yale

Hex files: ‘Curse’ tablet recalls an ancient mode of score-settling

An ancient object that Jessica Lamont uses in her Yale classes may not appear menacing, but in Greek antiquity it was used for malevolent purposes.

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In conversation: Historian John Putnam Demos on the ‘ubiquitous’ nature of witchcraft

Fitting room: Watching the costumes take shape for ‘Kilele’

Yale student Sarah Brownlee and biological anthropologist Gary Aronsen, examine the skeletons

Uncovering history

Skeletons yield clues about 19th-century immigrant life in New Haven

From the Collections

Zombies and monsters in the basement of Sterling Library

Gallery

Ghoulish grotesques on the Yale campus

For Halloween in 2012, university photographer Michael Marsland offered up an assortment of spooky, creepy, and downright scary sculptures lurking amidst Yale’s architecture.

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Davenport College.

(Photo by Michael Marsland)
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Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall.

(Photo by Michael Marsland)
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Sterling Law Building.

(Photo by Michael Marsland)
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Hopper College.

(Photo by Michael Marsland)
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Bingham Hall.

(Photo by Michael Marsland)
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Sterling Memorial Library.

(Photo by Michael Marsland)
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Trumbull College.

(Photo by Michael Marsland)
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Sterling Memorial Library.

(Photo by Michael Marsland)
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Sterling Law Building.

(Photo by Michael Marsland)
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Leigh Hall.

(Photo by Michael Marsland)