Recent Posts - page 316
-
Chocolate Fig Pumpkins
These elegant fig pumpkins are sinfully stuffed with whiskey-tinged chocolate ganache and covered in an orange candy coating. Created by John and Kira Doyle and featured on the Martha Stewart Show, these delights can be made well ahead of time,… Read More ›
-
Thinking Costume: Medusa
This, our first Thinking Costume post of 2011, is dedicated to the mythical character of Medusa. Medusa brings together my two of my three favorite types of costumes: (1) the use of a complex and interesting character and (2) a… Read More ›
-
“Haunted Houses” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Haunted Houses All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses. Through the open doors The harmless phantoms on their errands glide, With feet that make no sound upon the floors. We meet them at the door-way, on… Read More ›
Featured Categories
Fiction ›
-
Weird Stories: 5 Fiction Writing Tips from H. P. Lovecraft
November 18, 2014
-
31 Halloween Activities #19: Read a Book
September 3, 2014
-
Unimaginable Cosmic Castles: 9 Winter Horror Tales to Keep You Warm
January 23, 2014
-
A Man, Tall and Thin, and Ghastly Pale: Bram Stoker’s Dracula
November 8, 2012
History (Haunted and Otherwise) ›
-
Dancing Skeletons and Troublesome Heads: Joyously Macabre Films of the 1890s
November 10, 2014
-
In a Smile of Peculiar Meaning: Edgar Allan Poe’s “Berenice”
August 25, 2014
-
It Is the Hour of Departure: Turn-of-the-Century Ghost Rides
July 30, 2014
-
20th Century Glamour Ghoul: Honoring Maila Nurmi’s Vampira
March 12, 2014
Paranormal Activities ›
-
Paranormal News: Ronald DeFeo Jr (Amityville Killer) Dies in Jail – What’s YOUR Ghost Story?
March 25, 2021
-
Posts from Beyond the Grave: Hauntings Edition
October 17, 2018
-
The Spirits of the Dead May Walk Again: 5 Chilling Ghost Photos
November 25, 2014
-
Every Stone is Mouldering Slow: The 25 Creepiest Places on Earth
August 21, 2014
TV & Film ›
-
Silent Sundays: Nosferatu (1922)
July 1, 2016
-
Reflecting on the AHS Hotel Finale: Now What Will We Watch?
January 26, 2016
-
I’m A Ghost! American Horror Story Hotel Episode 11
January 13, 2016
-
It’s the Story of Turkey Skin: American Horror Story Hotel Returns
January 6, 2016
The Year of Halloween 