by Maledicta | Jan 29, 2018 | Halloween 365, Interesting People
Aleister Crowley, one of the most controversial figures of the 20th century, never missed an opportunity to be a provocateur. He either impassioned those around him with a sense of freedom or enraged his more conservative contemporaries, who called him “The...
by Maledicta | Jan 7, 2018 | Interesting People, Macabre Amusements, Uncategorized, Video
There’s a lot more to Roald Dahl than Charlie and the Chocolate Factory… Roald Dahl was many things… including a fighter pilot, a renowned author, and a spy. But few people know that he was also the host of his very own Twilight Zone–style sci-fi/horror...
by Maledicta | Jan 2, 2018 | Interesting People, Video
After 80 years of resting in relative peace, Friedrich Wilhelm (FW) Murnau, the acclaimed director who brought Nosferatu to life, made the news once again in 2015 when grave robbers broke into his tomb and stole his head. After his untimely death in a 1931 car...
by Maledicta | Nov 20, 2017 | Halloween 365, Interesting People
“I could not help the fact that I was a murderer no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing – I was born with the Evil One standing as sponsor beside the bed where I was ushered into the world, and he has been with me since.” – HH Holmes When...
by Maledicta | Nov 13, 2017 | Halloween 365, Interesting People
Anyone who hasn’t been living in a cave for the last thirty-or-so years knows about Ghostbusters (1984), the hit movie where paranormal scientists Venkman, Spengler, and Stantz took on the ghosts of New York City. What you probably didn’t know is that a...
by Maledicta | Sep 29, 2017 | Halloween 365, Interesting People
Please enjoy this guest article contributed by our friends at Haunted Pittsburgh, curators of Pittsburgh’s supernatural history. I know what you’re thinking, “Next thing you’re going to tell us is that the Seven Years War started in...
