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The Macabre McManus

It’s spooky season and to inspire your Halloween costumes here are some objects drawn from our creepy collections! Did you know that trick-or-treating was originally a Scottish and Irish tradition? Known as ‘guising’, children (and adults) would dress as ghouls so they could blend in with the spirits that roamed the earthly plane on All Hallows Eve, thus remaining undetected and unharmed…All of these items are on display so come and see just how Macabre the McManus can be!

Between 1812 and 1814 Mary Shelley, author of the classic novel ‘Frankenstein’, spent 14 months in Dundee with the family of William Thomas Baxter. First published in 1818, it was in a later edition of the book that Shelley…

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