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 | Apr 30, 2018 | Macabre Amusements, Maledicta's Movie Corner, Video
Horror movies have actually been around since the 19th century, all the way back to when George Melies made House of the Devil in 1896. European filmmakers dominated horror cinema in the early 20th century… but all that changed when Universal Studios launched...
by Maledicta | Mar 26, 2018 | Books, Macabre Amusements
This pre-Dracula novella about a female vampire thrilled repressed Victorian readers with fangs, stakes, and Sapphic undertones. When thinking of the origins of Vampire literature in the Western world, chances are you think of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. This...
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 | Jan 29, 2018 | Oddities and Curiosities, Weird Tourism
St. Nicholas Cathedral in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne is guarded by a most unusual gargoyle – the figure of a demonic rabbit with red fangs and claws. (He started out the same color as the surrounding stone and was given a scary paint job later on.) No one knows...
