They’ve All Lost Their Heads

A literary romp through decapitations real and imagined from the spooky but relatively tame “The Man Who Lost His Head”, which sees a man replace his missing head with a parsnip, to the altogether more sinister “Head Lopper” and the galloping headless horseman in Washington Irving’s classic tale. And then of course there’s Frances Larson strangely compelling and worryingly exhaustive history of noggin detachment.