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The Mortician's Daughter The Mortician's Daughter brings you a monthly meditation on the macabre in podcast form. Face your existential crisis head-on!

Hey! It's been a minute, but we're back! -- On this episode, we uncover the surprisingly dark origins of some favorite f...
26/08/2025

Hey! It's been a minute, but we're back! -- On this episode, we uncover the surprisingly dark origins of some favorite fairy tales, where happily ever after wasn’t always guaranteed. Stories like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty trace back to creepy fireside fables rather than the technicolor versions most of us are familiar with today. Our dear Dana has the scoop!

16/12/2024

Dour: severe, stern, humorless, or gloomy in manner or appearance

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a ...
15/12/2024

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish." -Herman Hesse

"Birth was the death of him." -Samuel Beckett
11/12/2024

"Birth was the death of him." -Samuel Beckett

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Robert Frost ...
07/12/2024

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Robert Frost

04/12/2024

Labyrinth: a maze or complex, irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one's way.

29/11/2024

DUAT: the "underworld" or "afterlife" that ancient Egyptians believed their spirit would journey to after their passing.

"A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water" - Eleanor Roosevelt ...
28/11/2024

"A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water" - Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti ...
23/11/2024

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti

21/11/2024

Deadpan: deliberately impatient or expressionless.

"Beauty is a short lived tyranny." -Socrates
21/11/2024

"Beauty is a short lived tyranny." -Socrates

14/10/2024

The curtains closed on French actress and novelist Anne Wiazemsky on Oct 5, 2017 when she was 70 years old.

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The Mortician’s Daughter

Greetings to all you Nyctophiles and Macabre children of the 21st Century. I am the Mortician's Daughter and I will be bringing you true tales of untimely ends and morbid facts to fascinate the inner weirdo that lives inside all of us... Well, some of us, anyway. Join me each month starting in 2018 and face your existential crisis head on as we discuss grim and occasionally gruesome topics from the stages of rigor mortis to dark goddess of the graveyard.