Poetry In The Graveyard
It is a privilege to be the keeper of a historic, quaint cemetery in my small Maine town—a magical place hidden within the forest,...
Gothic Fairy Tales
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Illustration by Joseph Urban and H. Lefler for Märchen-Kalendar (1905)
A young girl lies in a glass coffin, alone in the woods, her black...
Eight Ways to Tell You’ve Been a Gothic Heroine
Featured Image: The Nightmare (1790−1791) by Henry Fuseli
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• You appreciate the beauty in time’s passing, whether it shows in a bare winter branch, a...
All Saints House
Imagine living in a Gothic church turned home! When we read about a family—Anastasiia, Gunther, and their three children—in Maryland doing just that, our...
Bringing the Macabre Into Your Fiction
Be it tales of wicked fairies, necromancers in their bone palaces, or demons waiting by the roadside to bargain for souls, the macabre has...
The Woman Who Could Talk To Bees
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Models: Jo Maldonado and her service dog Baruh
There once was a small village tucked deep within a forest that seemed made for the...
A Love Letter to Ladies Accused of Witchcraft | Pt. 2
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The Witch of Endor Raising the Spirit of Samuel (1783), by William Blake
Photo ©Ken Welsh. All rights reserved 2022 / Bridgeman Images
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A Love Letter to Ladies Accused of Witchcraft | Pt. 1
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Anne Boleyn in the Tower of London (1835), by Édouard Cibot
Bridgeman Images
When I was in high school, I had pointy features and big...
Seductive Subversive Saucery
For the Victorians, witchcraft was a thing of both fantasy and all too real fact. As late as 1895, there was the terrifying case...
The Witch Behind the Witches
Feature Image: Major Andre’s Tree, from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1928), by Arthur Rackham
A confession is required before we begin. Although I spent...