by Maledicta | Feb 7, 2019 | Interesting People, Maledicta's Movie Corner
Last week marked the 50th anniversary (February 2, 1969) of the passing of Boris Karloff, one of the most significant figures in horror film history. But despite his menacing demeanor, vaguely Eastern-European-sounding name, and penchant for playing monsters,...
by Maledicta | Jan 8, 2019 | Interesting People, Oddities and Curiosities
You might say things are looking up for the late Dr. Smith… The fear of being buried alive was not uncommon in the 19th Century. Though it’s the stuff of horror novels, most of those tales are nothing more than urban legends. Yet sometimes truth...
by Maledicta | Nov 12, 2018 | Halloween 365, Interesting People
In the late 1920s, not long before his death, Thomas Edison reportedly gathered with other scientists in a secret laboratory to record the voices and presence of the dead using “speakers, generators, and other experimental equipment.” Several years later, an...
by Maledicta | Nov 5, 2018 | Books, Interesting People
Bram Stoker’s descendant is writing new chapters in Dracula’s story Earlier this year, I wrote an article about the Frankenstein bicentennial, the 200th anniversary of its publication, where I referred to Mary Shelley as “Frankenstein’s...
by Maledicta | Oct 29, 2018 | Interesting People, Oddities and Curiosities
Elvira Mondragón Garcia’s cranial creations range from the size of a gumball to the size of an actual human head! In the atrium of the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, behind a row of stanchions, is an array of skulls made of compressed sugar....
by Maledicta | Oct 22, 2018 | Interesting People
“The Founder” Donnie Hoover juggles a full-time job and a growing family, yet still finds the time to build his own businesses where he expresses his true passions… Horror and Wrestling! On the surface, Donnie seems like your typical...
