This article contains spoilers for tonight’s Coronation Street, which has not yet aired on TV but is available to watch now on ITVX.

Mary Taylor (Patti Clare) sparked horror in tonight’s Coronation Street when she told the gruesome story of how her grandmother died.

With the Rovers still buzzing after Daisy Midgeley’s (Charlotte Jordan) baby bombshell, conversation turned to the cheery subject of death.

Brian Packham (Peter Gunn) and Kirk Sutherland (Andrew Whyment) were engaged in a heated debate about whether or not someone’s hair can continue to grow after they die.

Kirk was insistent that it could, while Brian was adamant that it was just a myth.

Amid the debate, Mary couldn’t resist revealing how her Gammy Taylor – that’s grandmother to you and I – had been found with ‘every hair on her head standing on end’ after she passed.

Brian and Kirk could hardly contain their shock as they asked how she died, with Kirk suggesting that perhaps she’d seen a ghost.

Mary amped up the drama as she revealed that her Gammy had actually been electrocuted.

She explained how she had reached for her heated curlers with damp hands, and that had been the end of her.

Mary went on to lament how it had taken the embalmer almost two days to return her hair to its normal perm and set style.

Luckily for the Rovers punters, their drinks came without charge – unlike Gammy Taylor’s heated curlers – as Mary had been left to man the bar.

While Adam Barlow (Sam Robertson) was ex-static (Was that one pushing it?) to receive a free drink, Brian questioned whether Mary had been instructed to hand out drinks on the house.

Not wanting to admit that she was making the most of her power, Mary pulled the plug on the conversation.