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 | Mar 6, 2018 | Video
Get ready for the greatest binge-watching opportunity ever! I recently found out that Amazon Prime is streaming one of my favorite childhood TV shows – the 1960s supernatural soap opera, Dark Shadows. All 1225 episodes of it! I may not leave the house for...
by Maledicta | Feb 5, 2018 | Halloween 365, Oddities and Curiosities
There’s a pretty clear, well-defined set of traits that make up a ghost in the Western world—from the mushy green slimers of Ghostbusters to translucent, pudgy Casper to the myriad diaphanous denizens of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts. They’re immaterial, legless...
by Maledicta | Dec 5, 2017 | Macabre Amusements, Maledicta's Movie Corner, Video
I have a confession to make. You already know I love Halloween. Well, I also happen to love Christmas, but in a different way (completely platonic). Yes, you heard that correctly. I love Christmas! The trees, the lights, the giving and receiving, and all the...
by Maledicta | Dec 5, 2017 | Books, Macabre Amusements
The notion that cold, snowy days are the best for stories designed to frighten and appall us goes back at least to the early 17th century. In Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, written in 1611, Mamillius says: “A sad tale’s best for...
