The above black and white picture has been making the rounds of social media lately, a startling image of a man with two faces, one handsome, one wizened. The image is occasionally accompanied by text that purports to tell the odd… Read More ›
Kittens, today puts us 66 days from Halloween, a lovely alliteration that signals fall weather just around the corner. In anticipation of those first hints of russet and umber in summer’s greenery, I thought we’d start the week with something… Read More ›
Darlings, when it comes to Halloween decor, there is nothing I find more appealing than a haunted house. There is a certain spooky elegance to places long abandoned, where strange and unsettling things are found in lonely corners: candles half-burned… Read More ›
Deep in the heart of Mexico lies an eerie place, a nightmare of automatonophobia bordered by the Xochimilco canals. (Photo via Through the Viewfinder) La Isla de las Munecas (The Island of the Dolls) is festooned with decaying dolls, hung… Read More ›
This past weekend we got to go to the Monster Mania show in Cherry Hill, NJ (read the show review here) and while we were there we met the fabulous Soska sisters. Jen (left) and Sylvia were genuinely excited to… Read More ›
Think you know your way around slasher films? From their heyday in the late 1970’s to the modern resurgence that began with Scream, here’s a collection of nine facts you may not have known about this classic horror sub-genre.
High atop a crumbling hill sits a collection of decayed Victorian mansions, time-worn facades that loom with knowing menace, who-knows-what lurking behind lacy curtains that seem poised to twitch in a phantom breeze. These ominous relics are not the abandoned homes… Read More ›
Paralleling the growing popularity of photography and the rise of Spiritualism at the turn of the century, the late 1800’s and early 1900’s saw an explosion of so-called “spirit photography.” Photography enthusiasts ranging from dedicated mediums to well-known charlatans used a… Read More ›
Costumed participants in a football match reported in the July 1920 issue of Polytechnic Magazine, via the University of Westminster Archives .
“…Deep dread and loathing of her solitude Fell on her, from which mood was born Scorn of herself; again, from out that mood Laughter at her self-scorn. “What! is not this my place of strength,” she said, “My spacious mansion… Read More ›
