by Maledicta | Dec 9, 2018 | Halloween 365
For the last hundred years, Americans have kept ghosts in their place, letting them out only in October, in the run-up to our only real haunted holiday, Halloween. But it wasn’t always this way, and it’s no coincidence that the most famous ghost story is a...
by Maledicta | Dec 5, 2017 | Books, Macabre Amusements
The notion that cold, snowy days are the best for stories designed to frighten and appall us goes back at least to the early 17th century. In Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, written in 1611, Mamillius says: “A sad tale’s best for...
