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Does beheading call to mind the grim excesses of state power or contemporary terrorism? Think again. For a small but dedicated group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century suicides, the construction of a home-made guillotine offered not only a quick, clean way out, but also a way to test their engineering skills quite literally to the limit, in a culture that celebrated ‘Yankee ingenuity.’

Tonight, join writer Robert Damon Schneck for an evening dedicated to hinged axes, weighted blades, and even – gulp – the odd chainsaw.

Robert Damon Schneck specializes in strange, obscure, and Fortean, American history. His books include The Bye Bye Man (2005) and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist (2014); his story, “Bridge to Body Island” was adapted into the 2017 horror movie, “The Bye-Bye Man”. Follow and contact him at “Historian of the Strange” on Facebook.