"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Adelaide Sophia Claxton was a British painter of ghosts and today we take a look at her work on my Patreon. ...
Do you like Lovecraftian atmospheres where you might be either going insane or possessed by the source of all evil? This videogame is for you, provided you like investigative plots. Developed by the Ukrainian studio Frogwares, who recently published a similarly-themed Sherlock Holmes game called The...
There's a high chance you will hate me for this recommendation, so let me warn you in advance: the show was never finished and the "ending" will leave you standing like an idiot. Regardless of that, this 8-episode 2010 tv series really does the trick for...
There aren't many places that spell "Halloween" more than Gotham City and, in Gotham, the crown piece has to be Arkham Asylum. Whether you're a DC fan or not, I suggest you give it a chance this October and, if you don't know where to...
It's a weird movie, and I like the story behind it as it was spanning from a broader worldbuilding project and it was basically croudfunded. Autumn Vine is a fixer for his brethren demons and what he provides is misery. By slowly influencing humans around them,...
Probably not the best song from Nightwish, certainly not my favourite though I like this a lot, it's possibly the most haunting. Ghost River is part of the underrated album Imaginaerum, composed for a generic vocalist during a transition period in the life of the...
It's Sunday again, which means we take a look at a book on spooky stuff. The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts by Delyth Badder and Mark Norman recently dropped in both paperback and digital edition, and it's a delight to read. After an introduction, the book analyses...
Today we talk about this painting: drop by at my Patreon to take a look, if you can spare a dime! ...
I don't like jump scares, as I already said, and this means that most of the horror videogames have me rolling my eyes. Every once in a while, however, a genuinely haunting piece of narration occurs and this often happens within a videogame of a...
One of my favourite tv shows when it comes to the Gothic, with a stunning Eva Green as the mysterious and haunted Vanessa Ives, and a hauntingly intense Rory Kinnear as the Frankenstein Monster (though he would resent the definition). Vanessa's stance and demeanour has...
