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History, Occult, Philosophy

This is the end of one road, but not goodbye

January 19, 2023 — 19 Comments

The Murder of John Gamble: Contempt of Corporeality

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Occult

The Murder of John Gamble: Contempt of Corporeality

November 14, 2022 — 1 Comment

Seraphim of Sarov: Patron Saint of Nuclear Weapons

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Philosophy, Technology

Seraphim of Sarov: Patron Saint of Nuclear Weapons

December 15, 2021 — 0 Comments

Terror Management Theory and the Headless Nun of Watton Priory

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Philosophy

Terror Management Theory and the Headless Nun of Watton Priory

January 28, 2021 — 6 Comments

The Curse of the Lawrenceburg Ferry

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult

The Curse of the Lawrenceburg Ferry

January 17, 2021 — 1 Comment

The Unbreakable Mister Talkington

Anthropology, Folklore, History

The Unbreakable Mister Talkington

September 10, 2020 — 1 Comment

Jacopo Donati and the Bored Banshee

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Jacopo Donati and the Bored Banshee

April 20, 2020 — 7 Comments

Bertholi is Burning: Deliberate Human Combustion

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

Bertholi is Burning: Deliberate Human Combustion

April 11, 2020 — 4 Comments

Mommy Dearest: Portable Consciousness and the Near Death Experience

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult, Philosophy

Mommy Dearest: Portable Consciousness and the Near Death Experience

August 5, 2018 — 0 Comments

Be Nice to Dead People: Professor Junker and the Reanimated Corpse

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Be Nice to Dead People: Professor Junker and the Reanimated Corpse

April 24, 2018 — 4 Comments

Dreaming a Dream of Death: Mrs. Wilkie and Mr. Esdaile

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

Dreaming a Dream of Death: Mrs. Wilkie and Mr. Esdaile

April 6, 2018 — 1 Comment

Dead Men Tell No Tales and Corpses are Rotten Witnesses

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Dead Men Tell No Tales and Corpses are Rotten Witnesses

March 25, 2018 — 0 Comments

The Wakulwe Theory of Ghosts

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

The Wakulwe Theory of Ghosts

March 15, 2018 — 0 Comments

The Devil Went Down to Dartmoor: Remedial Tort Law for Imps

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Devil Went Down to Dartmoor: Remedial Tort Law for Imps

February 18, 2018 — 2 Comments

Love and Longing in Ancient Amphipolis: Dating the Dead

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Love and Longing in Ancient Amphipolis: Dating the Dead

November 13, 2017 — 1 Comment

Forsaking Zalmoxis: Where do Broken Gods Go?

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

Forsaking Zalmoxis: Where do Broken Gods Go?

October 29, 2017 — 2 Comments

Internship of the Undead: Christopher Monig, Afterlife Apothecary

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Internship of the Undead: Christopher Monig, Afterlife Apothecary

September 29, 2017 — 5 Comments

Dame of Doom: The White Lady of the Hohenzollerns

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Dame of Doom: The White Lady of the Hohenzollerns

July 10, 2017 — 0 Comments

The Doppelganger is Ready for His Close-up

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Doppelganger is Ready for His Close-up

January 31, 2017 — 0 Comments

I’ll See Your Fear of Death and Raise you Some Existential Anxiety

Anthropology, Folklore, Mythology, Philosophy

I’ll See Your Fear of Death and Raise you Some Existential Anxiety

September 21, 2016 — 2 Comments

Ghost Morality and Celestial Bureaucracy: What Would Casper Do?

Anthropology, Folklore, Monsters, Mythology, Occult, Philosophy

Ghost Morality and Celestial Bureaucracy: What Would Casper Do?

August 10, 2016 — 0 Comments

Smellie and Greenlaw: Heaven Ain’t All Harps and Hosannas

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Smellie and Greenlaw: Heaven Ain’t All Harps and Hosannas

June 2, 2016 — 1 Comment

Unrest in Peace: The Unpopular Dead and Zombie Mean Girls

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Unrest in Peace: The Unpopular Dead and Zombie Mean Girls

May 23, 2016 — 1 Comment

Mother Knows Best: The Apparition of Lady Lee

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Mother Knows Best: The Apparition of Lady Lee

May 19, 2016 — 3 Comments

The Not So Spontaneous Combustion of John Hitchell

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology

The Not So Spontaneous Combustion of John Hitchell

May 11, 2016 — 3 Comments

The Four World Theory: Not to Alarm You, but You’re Going to Die

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

The Four World Theory: Not to Alarm You, but You’re Going to Die

April 27, 2016 — 2 Comments

Dead Letters: The Haunting of Captain Sherbrooke and Lieutenant Wynyard

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Dead Letters: The Haunting of Captain Sherbrooke and Lieutenant Wynyard

April 12, 2016 — 0 Comments

Afterlife Accounting: Haunted by Debt?

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Afterlife Accounting: Haunted by Debt?

January 14, 2016 — 7 Comments

My Brother’s Reaper: Ling Look and Yamadeva

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult

My Brother’s Reaper: Ling Look and Yamadeva

July 13, 2015 — 1 Comment

Democratic Devils in a Rival Universe

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology

Democratic Devils in a Rival Universe

July 4, 2015 — 1 Comment

Brittia, the Austrasian Dumpster of the Dead

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology

Brittia, the Austrasian Dumpster of the Dead

July 2, 2015 — 0 Comments

My Barista was a Rosicrucian Necromancer

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

My Barista was a Rosicrucian Necromancer

May 23, 2015 — 2 Comments

Dead Daddy Dearest: The Ghost of Major Blomberg

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Dead Daddy Dearest: The Ghost of Major Blomberg

May 20, 2015 — 0 Comments

Dead Man Working: Orthon and the Lord de Corasse

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult

Dead Man Working: Orthon and the Lord de Corasse

April 16, 2015 — 1 Comment

Afterlife Anonymous: Raise a Toast to the Ghost

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Afterlife Anonymous: Raise a Toast to the Ghost

March 17, 2015 — 2 Comments

Best Friends Forever: The Afterlife Experiment of Marsilio Ficino and Michael Mercato

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult

Best Friends Forever: The Afterlife Experiment of Marsilio Ficino and Michael Mercato

February 25, 2015 — 4 Comments

Puns Kill: The Murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology

Puns Kill: The Murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey

February 18, 2015 — 0 Comments

Rapture ‘Rithmetic: The Other Side of the Eternal Velvet Rope

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult

Rapture ‘Rithmetic: The Other Side of the Eternal Velvet Rope

February 8, 2015 — 8 Comments

Haunt Couture: Death Be Not Unfashionable

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Haunt Couture: Death Be Not Unfashionable

January 23, 2015 — 1 Comment

The Unfinished Business of James Haddock: Ghostly Legal Grievances

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Unfinished Business of James Haddock: Ghostly Legal Grievances

January 15, 2015 — 0 Comments

“It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry ‘Monster!’ and looked behind him.”
-Laini Taylor

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
-Oscar Wilde

“Life is Hard. After all, it kills you.”
-Katherine Hepburn

“Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.”
-Theodor Adorno

“All would be well. All would be heavenly–If the damned would only stay damned.”
-Charles Fort

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”
–Jerry Garcia

“You can’t create a monster, then whine when it stomps a few buildings.”
–Yeardley Smith

“Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.”
–Robert Anton Wilson

“The earth, it has been said, is one vast graveyard, and man can nowhere put down his foot without stepping on the remains of a brother.”
–M. Schele de Vere

“Even from the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.”
–H.P. Lovecraft

“If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?”
–Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“The problem with people who say monsters don’t really exist is that they’re almost never saying it to the monsters.”
— Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon

“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean there isn’t an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
–Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.”
–Eric Hoffer, American Social Philosopher

“The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.”
–Günter Grass, German Novelist