by Maledicta | Feb 7, 2019 | Interesting People, Maledicta's Movie Corner
Last week marked the 50th anniversary (February 2, 1969) of the passing of Boris Karloff, one of the most significant figures in horror film history. But despite his menacing demeanor, vaguely Eastern-European-sounding name, and penchant for playing monsters,...
by Maledicta | Sep 1, 2018 | Halloween 365
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...
by Maledicta | Jun 11, 2018 | Books, Interesting People
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...
by Maledicta | Apr 2, 2018 | Halloween 365
On November 4, 1818, Scottish chemist Andrew Ure stood next to the lifeless corpse of an executed murderer, the man hanging by his neck at the gallows only minutes before. He was performing an anatomical research demonstration for a theater filled with curious...
