Macabre Amusements

Update: “America’s Creepiest Motel” Stars in Its Own Horror Movie!

Update: “America’s Creepiest Motel” Stars in Its Own Horror Movie!

by | May 23, 2019 | Categories: Macabre Amusements, Maledicta's Movie Corner, and Video. Tags: cemetery, clown motel, clowns, ghosts, haunted motel, horror film, and nevada. | 0 Comments

  Yes, it’s true! Last year I posted an article about the Clown Motel in Tonopah, Nevada, when it was named the “scariest motel in America.” Now I’m happy to report that this terrifying haunted landmark is about to be the subject of its own horror movie,...

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Book Review – Johannes Cabal the Necromancer

Book Review – Johannes Cabal the Necromancer

by | May 22, 2019 | Categories: Books and Macabre Amusements. Tags: carnival, Johannes Cabal, Jonathan L Howard, necromancer, necromancy, Satan, and vampire. | 1 Comment

“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...

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Rediscovering Obscure Horror Films of the 1970s

Rediscovering Obscure Horror Films of the 1970s

by | May 5, 2019 | Categories: Macabre Amusements, Maledicta's Movie Corner, and Video. Tags: 1970s, asphyx, blind dead, blood on satan's claw, devil's rain, frightmare, horror films, and horror movies. | 0 Comments

  The 1970s was one of the finest decades in cinema history, and the horror genre was no exception. Everyone is familiar with the classics from that era –The Exorcist, The Omen, Halloween, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, Dawn of the Dead, and...

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Plan 10 From Outer Space: Phantasm Turns 40!

Plan 10 From Outer Space: Phantasm Turns 40!

by | Apr 2, 2019 | Categories: Macabre Amusements, Maledicta's Movie Corner, and Video. Tags: coffin, Coscarelli, flying spheres, mortuary, and tall man. | 0 Comments

  Every one of us can remember certain horror films that stayed with us long after we left the theater. Sometimes a movie just grabs you by the imagination and pops up again in your nightmares when you least expect it.  Like when you’re walking on a dark, lonely...

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Seven Great Irish Horror Authors to Read on St. Patrick’s Day

Seven Great Irish Horror Authors to Read on St. Patrick’s Day

by | Mar 15, 2019 | Categories: Books and Macabre Amusements. Tags: Bram Stoker, Dracula, ghosts, horror literature, Irish literature, Oscar Wilde, Sheridan LeFanu, and St Patrick's Day. | 0 Comments

  St. Patrick’s Day celebrations are usually boisterous and cheerful affairs with freely flowing alcohol and merriment. But there’s a darker side to Irish culture, a penchant for the macabre and mysterious. Remember, Halloween itself was brought to us by the...

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Groundhog, Schmoundhog… 16 Winter Horror Movies

Groundhog, Schmoundhog… 16 Winter Horror Movies

by | Feb 21, 2019 | Categories: Macabre Amusements, Maledicta's Movie Corner, and Video. Tags: 30 Days of Night, Dead Snow, horror films, Let the Right One In, shining, The Thing, and winter. | 0 Comments

  Our Pennsylvania homeboy – Punxsutawney Phil, the famous weather prognosticating rodent – made his annual appearance earlier this month. Apparently he didn’t see his shadow, and folklore tells us that means there will be an early spring this year. You wouldn’t...

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Macabre Magical Treasures of the Ashmolean Museum

Macabre Magical Treasures of the Ashmolean Museum

by | Jan 20, 2019 | Categories: Books, Macabre Amusements, and Video. Tags: Ashmolean, Deborah Harkness, demons, Discovery of Witches, Oxford, and vampires. | 1 Comment

  As seen in the new Sundance Now/Shudder series, A Discovery of Witches.    The expected snowstorm this weekend pretty much fizzled out, but I was prepared nonetheless… I had planned ahead and was ready to ride it out with the help of comfort food, adult...

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