Join author Paul Gambino to celebrate the release of Beyond the Veil: The Victorian Obsession with Mourning and Death, a richly illustrated exploration of how disease, ritual, and remembrance profoundly influenced Victorian life on both sides of the Atlantic. Attendees will learn how black crepe and jet jewelry became symbols of status and sorrow, how séances and spiritualist practices promised communication with the departed, and how Gothic literature—from Frankenstein to Dracula—mirrored society’s obsessions with mortality and the afterlife.