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Appropriate to the theme of Beetlejuice, the man who wrote the original screenplay, Michael McDowell, was both personally and professionally fixated on death and dying. When he received a doctorate in English literature from Brandeis University, his PhD dissertation was titled "American Attitudes Toward Death, 1825-1865." He was a prolific novelist in the mystery, thriller, and horror genres (especially southern gothic horror). He also (with his longtime romantic partner, theater professor Laurence Senelick) amassed a large personal collection of historical death memorabilia--including memorial and funeral cards, sheet music for songs about death, postmortem relics (such as human hair art and memento mori jewelry), ads for funeral gowns and headstones and other documents related to the funerary industry, and photographs running the gamut from so-called "spirit photography" scams to postmortem images of deceased children and adults to police departments' photos from grisly crime scenes. After McDowell died (in 1999 at the age of 49, of AIDS-related causes), the Northwestern University special collections library purchased the death memorabilia from Senelick; an exhibit of the collection went on display in 2013.

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