Great novel, spooky character. Most "bride" models are more ghost than corpse - young and insufficiently grotesque. There's an old GW Banshee that is in the neighborhood but thinking more of something like this - and sure a banshee screaming mouth would be neat too:
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The cane would be cool I guess or just pointing and looking ahead instead of down. Pip unnecessary.
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"She was dressed in rich materials,—satins, and lace, and silks,—all
of white. Her shoes were white. And she had a long white veil dependent
from her hair, and she had bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was
white. Some bright jewels sparkled on her neck and on her hands, and
some other jewels lay sparkling on the table. Dresses, less splendid
than the dress she wore, and half-packed trunks, were scattered about.
She had not quite finished dressing, for she had but one shoe on,—the
other was on the table near her hand,—her veil was but half arranged,
her watch and chain were not put on, and some lace for her bosom lay
with those trinkets, and with her handkerchief, and gloves, and some
flowers, and a Prayer-Book all confusedly heaped about the
looking-glass.
It was not in the first few moments that I saw all these things,
though I saw more of them in the first moments than might be supposed.
But I saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had
been white long ago, and had lost its lustre and was faded and yellow. I
saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress,
and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of
her sunken eyes. I saw that the dress had been put upon the rounded
figure of a young woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung
loose had shrunk to skin and bone. Once, I had been taken to see some
ghastly waxwork at the Fair, representing I know not what impossible
personage lying in state. Once, I had been taken to one of our old marsh
churches to see a skeleton in the ashes of a rich dress that had been
dug out of a vault under the church pavement. Now, waxwork and skeleton
seemed to have dark eyes that moved and looked at me. I should have
cried out, if I could."
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