Macabre Amusements
Dreams in the Witch House: Real-World Locations that Inspired Lovecraft’s Tales
by Maledicta | Jun 17, 2018 | Categories: Halloween 365 and Macabre Amusements. Tags: Arkham, Danvers, horror fiction, Lovecraft, Miskatonic University, Providence, and witch house. | 1 Comment
Down a dark alley, at the corner of your eye something flickers, probably a trick of the waning light, or a stranger up to some banal task. But what hubris leads you to believe that you can understand what happens in and among these haunted buildings much less...
Memento Mori Masterpieces
by Maledicta | Jun 11, 2018 | Categories: Art, Books, and Halloween 365. Tags: art, death, graveyard companion, joanna ebenstein, and memento mori. | 0 Comments
Until the 20th century in America, death was much more a part of everyday life. When death came, people usually died in their own beds, surrounded by their loved ones, and their bodies were cared for and displayed in their own homes. Infant and child mortality...
Fake News! Talking Trash About Edgar Allan Poe
by Maledicta | Jun 11, 2018 | Categories: Books and Interesting People. Tags: Edgar Allan Poe, Poe, and Rufus Griswold. | 0 Comments
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...
Frankenstein’s Mother: The Unconventional Life of Mary Shelley
by Maledicta | Jun 11, 2018 | Categories: Books and Interesting People. Tags: frankenstein, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Godwin. | 1 Comment
It’s hard to believe that the story of Dr. Frankenstein and his monster is now 200 years old. That’s right. In 2018, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus – one of the greatest horror stories in literary history – celebrates its bicentennial year. Since the...
Happy Birthday, Vincent! My Favorite Vincent Price Horror Films
by Maledicta | May 28, 2018 | Categories: Interesting People, Macabre Amusements, and Video. Tags: Dr Phibes, House of Usher, house of wax, House on Haunted Hill, Last Man on Earth, Masque of the Red Death, Pit and the Pendulum, Roger Corman, Theatre of Blood, Tingler, Vincent Price, William Castle, and Witchfinder General. | 1 Comment
Celebrate Vincent’s 107th birthday with some of his classic performances! “I sometimes feel that I’m impersonating the dark unconscious of the whole human race. I know this sounds sick, but I love it.” – Vincent Price If any actor is the face of...
Book Review: Meddling Kids
by Maledicta | May 21, 2018 | Categories: Books and Macabre Amusements. Tags: Blyton Hills, Deep Ones, detectives, kids, Lovecraft, Meddling Kids, Scooby Doo, and sleuths. | 0 Comments
“… and I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids!” — Every Scooby Doo Villain, ever Before Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and 24-hour round-the-clock kids’ programming, we Boomer and Gen X kids had to rely on Saturday morning...
Halfway to Halloween: 10 Ways to Celebrate the Unofficial Holiday
by Maledicta | May 13, 2018 | Categories: Halloween 365, Macabre Amusements, and Websites We Like. Tags: celebrate, half-o-ween, halfway to halloween, Halloween party, horror film, horror literature, and mr and mrs halloween. | 0 Comments
Please enjoy this fun and informative guest article from our friends, Mr. and Mrs. Halloween, with some valuable tips to help you jump start your 2018 Halloween season! ***** It’s Halfway to Halloween! How are you celebrating? The air is warm and breezy....
AMC’s The Terror – a “Monstrous” Twist on a Tragic True Story
by Maledicta | May 7, 2018 | Categories: Halloween 365 and Video. Tags: AMC, cannibalism, Ciaran Hinds, Erebus, Franklin, Jared Harris, Northwest Passge, shipwreck, terror, The Terror, and Tobias Menzies. | 0 Comments
Imagine being trapped in a sea of ice… day after day of bitter, relentless cold… plagued by starvation and illness, with essentially no hope of rescue. Worse yet, knowing that the mission that brought you here was probably a bad idea in the first place. The...
Horrifying Book Curses – Protect Your Library the Medieval Way!
by Maledicta | May 7, 2018 | Categories: Books, Halloween 365, Macabre Amusements, and Oddities and Curiosities. Tags: anathema, book, curse, library, medieval, and scribes. | 0 Comments
“For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand & rend him. Let him be struck with palsy & all his members blasted…Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the Worm that...
Viva los Vampiros! – A Beginners’ Guide to Mexican Classic Horror Movies
by Maledicta | Apr 30, 2018 | Categories: Macabre Amusements, Maledicta's Movie Corner, and Video. Tags: Aztec mummy, Blue Demon, la bruja, luchadores, mexican horror, mexploitation, mummy, Santo, and vampire. | 1 Comment
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...