Maria is the bad ass Mexican heroine you didn't know you were waiting for.
0 There's not much I love more than haunted things and horror origin stories...well, other than puppies and iced coffee. Being that it is Women in Horror month, I started looking into the origin story of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The history is more interesting than you think. The Year Without a Summer The year of 1816 was known as the year without a summer. In April 1815, there was[...]
Today is a special day. Why? Today is Erica's birthday!!! You probably know her as the creative mastermind behind fun crafts and her Etsy store. You can see more of them on her website. Or maybe you know her as an illustrator and freelance editor. She's been killing it with her creations for years. Or maybe you know her the best dog mom. There's a lot of cute pics all over her Twitter,[...]
Seasons one and three of True Detective are among my favorite television stories of all time. It's rare that I find a show that has just the right blend of horror and mystery for me. But I found another one, and it's The Outsider, the new HBO show based on Stephen King's novel of the same name. I haven't read the novel, so I have no idea whether or not the adaptation is faithful, but I wil[...]
Welcome to February and the announcement of which horror movie I will live-tweet this month. Join me for Satan's Slaves on... I might have said that I received the best Christmas present: Shudder TV! I have scratched the surface of this horror-centered service and am loving every minute. Creepshow is a winner, for sure. But there are so many movies! I decided[...]
I have an obsession with buried things. The idea of a found thing long since forgotten. Discovering treasures that have soaked into the soil and become one with the earth. Only to be dug up by curious eyes. There was a headline last week that made my wild heart flutter. A Witch Bottle Was Discovered in Virginia. This happened exactly one week ago. What they found: A glass bottle fille[...]
Little things can be terrifying, stressful, and panic-inducing. Not the miniature demons skittering across the ground or dolls and evil toddlers pitter-pattering over a creaky wood floor, but those tiny mistakes that haunt us. Last fall, my son applied to colleges. Two accepted him, and he waited to hear from the third, before making a final decision. Stressful, right? When we learned tha[...]
I love me some witches, and naturally they came up over the holiday break when I made a Christmas gift list for the witch in your life or when I talked about my failures of 2019. At a book conference in 2018, I received an ARC of it. The cover's deep blue with iridescent writing, the magical description—I was bewitched from the beginning. I was over the moon excited and I devoured it fa[...]
Happy New Year! With the new year comes more Midnight Society Movie Nights! This month I will be watching and live-tweeting The Witch in the Window! Come join in the fun of... Written and directed by Andy Mitton, The Witch in the Window released in November of 2018, and I haven't seen it. BUT I GOT SHUDDER TV FOR CHRISTMAS! I haven't had time to delve into the wonders[...]
Kathy (during the holidays this year had her Twitter profile set to display Krampus Palm) is one of our favorite people in the whole wide world. And today is her birthday! You can also stop by and wish her happy birthday on Twitter. So today we celebrate you Kathy for your wonderful imagination, your thoughtfulness, your great humor, your amazing writing abilities, and your love for movie[...]