“A Mass of Fetid Jelly:” The Ghost of a Germ: The first in a series of Things That Scare Us begins with a bizarre story about the fear of disease and of fungoid things with invisible tentacles. Elementals may also enter into it.
he Chignon Horror: Dis-tressing News about False Hair (part 1) Fashionable ladies in the 1860s and 1870s wore their chignons and waterfalls proudly. They would have been shocked by the horrors that lurked in their modish hairdos.
