by Maledicta | Jun 5, 2019 | Halloween 365
I recently started a new job, so that’s my excuse for overlooking the observance of World Goth Day on May 22nd. Heaven forbid I should miss an opportunity to celebrate the only holiday devoted to those of us who are pale, morbid, and favor the color...
by Maledicta | Jun 11, 2018 | Books, Interesting People
This is a true story about fabrications that improbably became common knowledge. The protagonist is a poet whose name you’ll recognize, but whose life is still widely mischaracterized. The story’s villain is a poet whose name you won’t recognize, but is...
by Maledicta | Sep 21, 2017 | Books, Interesting People, Macabre Amusements
By Catherine Babb-Muguira A lot of fans know Edgar Allan Poe earned just $9 for “The Raven,” now one of the most popular poems of all time, read out loud by schoolteachers the world over. What most people don’t know is that, for his entire oeuvre—all his fiction,...