by Maledicta | Mar 26, 2018 | Books, Macabre Amusements
This pre-Dracula novella about a female vampire thrilled repressed Victorian readers with fangs, stakes, and Sapphic undertones. When thinking of the origins of Vampire literature in the Western world, chances are you think of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. This...
by Maledicta | Feb 13, 2018 | Halloween 365, In the News
Spiritualism was a big deal in the 19th century – the Victorians really loved their ghosts. Many people routinely attended séances and quite a few even reported supernatural encounters in their everyday lives. This obsession with ghosts and the afterlife was...
by Maledicta | Jan 1, 2018 | Entertaining
Traditionally, the Winter Holidays came to an end on Twelfth Night (January 5), after which Epiphany marked the beginning of the new church year. So there’s still a little time this week to squeeze in a little last-minute old-school holiday fun with Victorian...
by Maledicta | Nov 13, 2017 | Halloween 365, Interesting People
Anyone who hasn’t been living in a cave for the last thirty-or-so years knows about Ghostbusters (1984), the hit movie where paranormal scientists Venkman, Spengler, and Stantz took on the ghosts of New York City. What you probably didn’t know is that a...
by Maledicta | Nov 6, 2017 | Halloween 365, Macabre Amusements
There’s a new subculture out there that I didn’t even know existed, though I feel like I’ve always been a part of it. Dreadpunk is the recently coined label for a relatively new subcultural phenomenon in art and literature embracing Gothic horror, dark fantasy,...
