"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."
In Austrian and German folklore, the Drudenmesser is a decorated knife meant to guard off an evil spirit called Drude or Trude. It's today's Object of the Day on my Patreon. ...
When it comes to spooky mermaids, there's very little stuff that can match Elizabeth Jerichau-Baumann's paintings. We take a look at them today on my Patreon. ...
The Jikininki is a human-eating Japanese ghost who features in Lafcadio Hearn's collection of spooky stuff called Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. For those of you who follow the blog, I have written about him here and particularly I talked about three of his...
The Vetala Panchavimshati, also known as The Twenty-five Tales of Baital (Baital Pachisi) is a collection of Sanskrit tales and legends placed within the frame story of king Vikrama who promises a sorcerer (vamachari) that he will capture a creature. The collection of tales has...
For many of us, fall is the best season and October is the best month, leading up to all things spooky. Many people out there are creating prompts for artists and all people creative (check this out from WorldAnvil last year, for instance) and prompts are...
Well, since we're about to enter the spookiest season and since I'm after all writing a Gothic novel, I thought I could start with one of the oldest tropes in the world: the story in which the hero overcomes a hideous monster. According to Christopher Booker...
