Silver Kane: Mortuary Show

Catalog Note "Mortuary Show" by Silver Kane (1976) is a horror anthology presented in Spanish translation. The opening chapter, "The Case of the Beheaded Bride," is set in a Dublin cemetery during a violent storm. Monty, a journalist fleeing political enemies in Ireland for exposing violence by both Protestant and Catholic extremists, takes refuge with Simmons, the cemetery caretaker. Simmons recounts local legends of brides who died tragically on their wedding nights, noting statistical patterns suggesting deaths occur on the 13th-14th of months. That night, a severed female head in a bridal veil is discovered near the railway tracks, the body below similarly dressed. The second chapter shifts to London's exclusive Pall Mall Club, where the same Monty (traveling under false identity as American journalist "Daniels") encounters Sir Percy Nobel, who reveals the club maintains a portrait gallery of members' wives who died on their wedding days—seven paintings spanning 1820 to 1945. The narrative establishes a recurring motif of brides meeting violent ends.