by Maledicta | May 13, 2018 | Halloween 365, Interesting People
Harry Houdini is still considered one of the greatest illusionists and magicians in history. In addition to his fantastic escapes and stunts, he was also well known in the 1920s for his debunking of fraudulent Spiritualist mediums. In this, modern information...
by Maledicta | Jan 29, 2018 | Halloween 365, Interesting People
Aleister Crowley, one of the most controversial figures of the 20th century, never missed an opportunity to be a provocateur. He either impassioned those around him with a sense of freedom or enraged his more conservative contemporaries, who called him “The...
by Maledicta | Jan 6, 2018 | Books, Macabre Amusements
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first picked up Colin Dickey’s book, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places. But before long, I was spellbound, caught up in his narrative about haunting in America, from Salem to New Orleans to Detroit and even to...
