by Maledicta | May 22, 2019 | Books, Macabre Amusements
“He smiled with all the warmth of a dollhouse oven.” ― Jonathan L. Howard, Johannes Cabal the Necromancer As the proprietress of a Halloween Lifestyle website, you probably would expect horror to be my favorite literary genre – and you’d be right. You would also be...
by Maledicta | Mar 15, 2019 | Books, Macabre Amusements
St. Patrick’s Day celebrations are usually boisterous and cheerful affairs with freely flowing alcohol and merriment. But there’s a darker side to Irish culture, a penchant for the macabre and mysterious. Remember, Halloween itself was brought to us by the...
by Maledicta | Feb 7, 2019 | Books, Macabre Amusements
If you think working retail is torture… you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. One of the great tropes of horror literature is the Haunted House, or as Stephen King describes it in Danse Macabre, The Bad Place. The Bad Place can be anywhere that a familiar or benign space...
by Maledicta | Jan 20, 2019 | Books, Macabre Amusements, Video
As seen in the new Sundance Now/Shudder series, A Discovery of Witches. The expected snowstorm this weekend pretty much fizzled out, but I was prepared nonetheless… I had planned ahead and was ready to ride it out with the help of comfort food, adult...
by Maledicta | Nov 19, 2018 | Books, Macabre Amusements
“A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves.” – author Caitlin Doughty What if I told you that you don’t think enough about your own death? Or the deaths of the people you care about? You’d probably be shocked, or maybe even offended. The...
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...
