Darlings, Halloween is just three days away! To usher in this Halloween week, let’s travel back in time to the turn of the century for a few proper Halloween greetings from America’s Golden Age of Postcards. Spanning roughly from 1898… Read More ›
In Memory of the Late Mr. & Mrs. Comfort: A Fable in 24 Episodes. Photographic essay by Richard Avedon for The New Yorker, November, 1995. Model Nadja Auermann, dress by Jean Paul Gaultier. Related Posts: – Silent Sundays: Fool Death, My Playmate (1922) – Silent Sundays:… Read More ›
What is it about chocolate peanut butter treats that screams Halloween, darlings? Is it the collective memories of a generation of trick-or-treaters who knew that they best houses would have Reese’s Pieces or Peanut Butter Cups? Perhaps it’s that the… Read More ›
Darlings, we have 24 days to go until Halloween and I know some of you are, like me, counting down every day til the big event! We’ll be posting something new daily here on TYoH (and don’t forget our big… Read More ›
Kittens, if you suffer from a fear of clowns, best turn away now. Still here? Then don’t say you weren’t warned when you see the grotesque circus bacchanalia of Paradise the Club by Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf. This 2001 photoshoot features explosive, highly-saturated photos… Read More ›
Lovies, what could be better than a little photo tribute to the 20th century’s leading man of horror (and TYoH secret crush), Mr. Vincent Price? This 6’4 star of horror classics such as House on Haunted Hill and The Raven appeared in… Read More ›
My dears, with just 11 days to go, we are in the home stretch for Halloween! I hope you are enjoying a lovely fall weekend and getting through a few of your Halloween preparations. For those of you still searching… Read More ›
There are more questions than answers, even now, several decades after the famous mass murder and claims of a #haunting that followed. Now is a great opportunity to revisit this case. — Read on voicesfromthegrave.wordpress.com/2021/03/24/paranormal-news-ronald-defeo-jr-amityville-killer-dies-in-jail/
Himalayan Buddhists depicting Citipati participate in Durdak Garcham, “Dance of the Lords of the Cemetery,” 1925.
Illustration by Boris Dolgov for the January 1949 Weird Tales horror short story Balu (Vol. 41, #2), via The Odd Side of Me
The Year of Halloween 