Bloody Mackenzie & Greyfriars Kirkyard - A Tombstone Tale

What if ...someone thoughtfully woke an angry, vicious spirit from its cozy slumber… and it was waiting to meet you? Well then, perhaps you’d better hurry along to The Reading Room to mingle with George “Bloody” Mackenzie fresh from his Black Mausoleum in Greyfriars Kirkyard! It’s not all terror though, there’s also fire, an explosion, plague pits, Harry Potter connections, and one Good Boy! (No, not Mr. Darling) Come, Dear Guest, and tiptoe through the tombstones with us!

Portrait of friends in Greyfriars Kirkyard

: photograph by the pioneers of photography en:David Octavius Hill and en:Robert Adamson (photographer), from the frontispiece of an album dated 1848.

Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Greyfriars Kirkyard

Mortsafe (metal cage) over grave. Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Charnel-house in Greyfriars Kirkyard

Tombs for the dead back onto houses for the living. The odd-looking object behind the tower of the Central Library is a crane on a nearby building site on George IV Bridge.

The Trotter vault, Greyfriars Kirkyard

A photo taken inside Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh

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