John Jasper, a brooding, moody choirmaster at a finishing school in Victorian England, maintains a secret life that includes frequenting an opium den. His tortured mind becomes obsessed with a ...

Is the skull a reminder of the transitory nature of life? I also think of the Victorian Opium dens in London and the influence of and trade with the Chinese people who ran the dens. It makes me ...

From Deadwood, South Dakota, to Bottineau, North Dakota, and east to Duluth and St. Paul, opium lured many toward illicit ...