Spontaneous Human Combustion. Somebody living alone gets drunk/has stroke/heart attack spills alcohol/perfume on themselves and a cigarette ignites a fire.
Ignition via an accellerant and an existing fire seems to make a lie of the ‘Spontaneous’ part of the name! Which isn’t to say “Human Candles’ don’t sound kind of awesome in their own right.
Ignition via an accellerant and an existing fire seems to make a lie of the ‘Spontaneous’ part of the name! Which isn’t to say “Human Candles’ don’t sound kind of awesome in their own right.
The mystery was its spontaneity. Once you realize that all the cases had an accelerant and ignition source, it’s no longer mysterious.