Halloween 365
This Just In: Halloween is Good for Your Mental Health!
by Maledicta | Sep 23, 2018 | Categories: Halloween 365. Tags: emotional fitness, Halloween, and mental health.
Halloween… It’s not just for kids anymore! It’s official! Mental health experts are encouraging adults to celebrate Halloween because it’s good for your “emotional fitness” – the perfect excuse to indulge yourself, play pretend, and be who you want...
Welcoming the Autumnal Equinox
by Maledicta | Sep 16, 2018 | Categories: Halloween 365. Tags: autumnal, equinox, fall, and solstice.
Here are a few creative ways to celebrate the changing of the seasons Once Labor Day is behind us, we Halloween Lifestyle people naturally become focused on Halloween. But astronomically speaking, another very significant event will take place this...
Attention, Basic Witches! 11 Ways to Prepare for the Best Fall Ever
by Maledicta | Sep 1, 2018 | Categories: Halloween 365. Tags: basic witch, fall, Halloween, planning, snacks, and witches.
(Even if your normie friends say it’s too early) In America, the first day of autumn is September 22. And even then, the weather outside usually reeks of summer until at least October. But if you’re the most basic of witches, you don’t care about...
The Artificial Man: The Myth and Magic Behind Frankenstein’s Monster
by Maledicta | Sep 1, 2018 | Categories: Halloween 365. Tags: alchemy, automaton, frankenstein, golem, homunculus, and Mary Shelley.
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the titular character develops the means to instill the spark of life into an artificial being. While the 1818 novel certainly broke new literary ground, the notion of synthetic life hails back to the earliest stirrings of...
All You Need is a Gourd and Some Candy – How Halloween Brings Out the Best in Us
by Maledicta | Aug 5, 2018 | Categories: Halloween 365. Tags: celebration, Halloween, and social.
Why does Halloween remain the occasion upon which we Americans actually have most fun as a group? It’s not like Halloween has inspired great art. Most of your other major holidays, for example, can claim Handel, or Mozart, or Cole Porter as their balladeers....
Halloween Pop-Up Stores – Real Estate “Re-Animators”
by Maledicta | Jul 30, 2018 | Categories: Halloween 365. Tags: pop-up store and Spirit Halloween.
Seasonal Halloween stores flourish in empty strip malls and abandoned big-box stores In the early 1980s, Joseph Marver had a problem. The San Francisco-based dress retailer couldn’t for the life of him convince anyone to buy his dresses. But he did see that...
The Cecil – Downtown LA’s Creepy Hotel of Horrors
by Maledicta | Jul 30, 2018 | Categories: Halloween 365 and Weird Tourism. Tags: American Horror Story, Black Dahlia, Elisa Lam, ghosts, hotel, Hotel Cecil, Los Angeles, Night Stalker, serial killer, and suicide.
The Los Angeles landmark that inspired American Horror Story: Hotel! The Hotel Cecil in downtown Los Angeles has seen more than its fair share of suicides, murders and mysterious disappearances since its opening in 1927. Built on Main Street, an up-and-coming...
Bela Lugosi’s Dead (Allegedly)
by Maledicta | Jul 23, 2018 | Categories: Halloween 365 and Weird Tourism. Tags: Bela Lugosi, Budapest, Hartmut Zech, sculpture, and Vajdahunyad Castle.
… but you can still visit him in Budapest! Though Bela Lugosi died (or DID HE?) in 1956, he was immortalized by his iconic turn as Count Dracula, Hungarian Homeboy. The Kinks, Bauhaus, and Andy Warhol have all paid homage to Bela. And now he can...
History Bones: Tiny Skeleton Dioramas Bring Morbid History to Life
by Maledicta | Jul 23, 2018 | Categories: Halloween 365. Tags: diorama, history, History Bones, Lee Harper, miniatures, and skeletons.
Artist Lee Harper’s miniature skeleton dioramas depict dark scenarios from history! Not since the forensic crime scene models known as the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death (AKA Dollhouses of the Dead!) have there been such deranged dioramas. Like rooms in...
Haunted Pittsburgh: The Steel City’s Premier Ghost Hosts
by Maledicta | Jul 17, 2018 | Categories: Halloween 365. Tags: ghost tour, Haunted Pittsburgh, Henry Clay Frick, Michelle Smith, Tim Murray, and William Penn Hotel.
Apparently, Pittsburgh – my hometown – is full of ghosts. Pittsburgh has only been around for about 300-odd years, making it a relative youngster as far as cities go. Yet where paranormal occurrences are concerned, Pittsburgh is off the charts when it...