Love Bites: Horror’s Cutest and Creepiest Couples
Here’s a Valentine’s Day special for those who like their romance with a side order of blood. Valentine’s Day is all hearts and roses until…
Friday the 13th: Why This Date Still Gives Us the Chills
For some people, Friday the 13th is just another square on the calendar. For others, it is a day to tread carefully, avoid ladders, and…
Favourite Horror Video Games 2 – Silent Hill (1999)
Survival horror has had many milestones, but few are as quietly influential as Silent Hill. Released in 1999 for the original PlayStation, it traded bombast…
Tecumseh’s Blood Debt: The Curse That Stalked the White House
In the spring of 1841, the White House gained a notable ghost. William Henry Harrison was born, February 9th 1773. He was president for just…
How The Elephant Man and a Werewolf Created a New Oscar
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Hollywood was quietly wrestling with a problem it hadn’t expected. Film make-up had become so sophisticated, so central…
Dark Vocations 19 – Victorian Wet Nurses
In popular history, the Victorian wet nurse appears as a kindly rural woman, calm and maternal, lending her wholesome milk to a fragile infant. Hey,…
The Jonestown Massacre: Jim Jones and the Tragedy of a Cult
On November 18, 1978, the world witnessed one of the most horrific events in modern history – the Jonestown Massacre. Deep in the Guyanese jungle,…
Notable Ancient Symbols with Dual Meanings
Symbols have been a fundamental part of human culture, serving as representations of ideas, values, and historical narratives. Many ancient symbols carry dual meanings, often…
EVENT: Tynemouth Station Book Fairs 2026
In 2026, the Tynemouth Station Book Fairs will once again turn a beautiful station into one of the liveliest book-hunting spots in the North East….
Love in the Shadows of Death: Women Who Fall for Serial Killers
It starts with a letter, maybe a photograph, sometimes just a name in a headline. For most of us, that name means “monster.” For a…