50 of the Scariest Short Stories of All Time
It’s that time of year again, when the pumpkins come out, the fake cobwebs are hung and we feel that dormant urge to be chilled, thrilled and spooked to our bones. Get out your flashlights, because a...
View ArticleGuessing Game: Edgar Allan Poe or Goth Song Lyrics?
Monday marks the birthday of O.G. Edgar Allan Poe — original goth (one of them, anyway). Poe’s morose poems and gloomy short tales populate the annals of gothic literature. The master of the macabre’s...
View Article50 Great Novels About Madness
Not so much into March Madness? Well, perhaps you should look at it another way. March is the perfect month for reading books about madness — it is a transitional time, after all, possessed of both...
View ArticleTatiana Maslany’s Omnipresence and Mike Leigh’s Cinematic Omnipotence: Links...
Some of today’s most interesting stories covered news deeply rooted in history, while other stories were, as usual, unsettlingly current (diet whiskey is now a thing). News of a new Mike Leigh movie is...
View ArticleFlavorwire Interview: Legendary Filmmaker and “King of the B’s” Roger Corman...
Roger Corman has earned his title “The King of the B’s” after making movies for more than six decades. A quick search on IMDb shows that the filmmaker has more than 400 movies to his credit. He’s known...
View Article10 Must-See Movies by American International Pictures
American International Pictures conjures images of bold poster art, outrageous taglines, and weird movie titles. After all, this is the film studio that brought us movies like High School Hellcats, I...
View Article25 Kids in Awesome Literary Costumes
I don’t know about you, but every year on Halloween, my favorite costumes seem to fall into two categories: literary costumes, and whatever costumes little kids are wearing (because awwww). So show me...
View Article30 of the Scariest Moments From Western Literature
Here are 30 of the scariest moments I know of from the ever- controversial “canon” of Western literature — a surely fraught construction that should be perpetually revised, placed in check, and, in...
View ArticleDark Love Poems That Conjure Amour Fou and Give the Sadz
There’s an art to penning the perfect love poem — but we have a special place in our hearts for those writers who effortlessly conjure the dank darkness of their danky doom when it comes to lost and...
View ArticleDelightfully Macabre, Vintage Edgar Allan Poe Book Covers
On this day in 1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic masterpiece “The Raven” was published by the New York Evening Mirror, which helped catapult the macabre writer to fame. The magazine’s editor said the...
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