• “A thousand-year-old gold burial mask excavated in Peru is covered with paint containing human blood, according to new research.” (Vice)

• Meet Anton Pannekoek. (The Public Domain Review)

• A history of the anxieties that powered a century of horror movies. (Vox)

• “But it’s not all earls sitting in turrets”—on seventeenth-century book collectors. (London Review of Books)

• “The Medieval Origins of Pumpkin Spice.” (Medievalists.net)

• “Ancient human visitors complicate the Falkland Islands wolf’s origin story.” (Science News)

• The original anti-rent wars. (The New York Review of Books)

• “Egyptians were using advanced embalming methods one thousand years before assumed date.” (The Guardian)

• “The revolving door and entangled history between the prosthetics and orthotics industry and the military has forced patients like me into a cycle of design that creates high-tech arms for American veterans on one side and death and mutilation on the other.” (Wired)

• “Amazingly Preserved Mummies in China Yield New Clues to Bronze Age Life.” (Gizmodo)

• This week in obituaries: Viktor Bryukhanov, Mort Sahl, Bernard Haitink, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Martha Henry, Anthony Downs, Sonny Osborne, Jay Black, Dorothy Steel, Peter Scolari, George Butler, Dee Pop, Lorli von Trapp Campbell, Diane Weyermann, Arnold Hano, Roh Tae-woo, and James Michael Taylor.