The first of three disastrous performances of Shakespeare’s Macbeth that partly lead to the Aster Place Riot in 1849, the...
Black Sabbath opens in the U.S. in 1964. Mario Bava’s anthology horror film stars Boris Karloff, who contracted pneumonia during...
Interview With A Vampire is published in 1976. The first novel by Anne Rice receives mixed reviews but slowly grows...
Richard Jenkins is born in DeKalb, Illinois in 1947. The award-winning actor’s work includes Wolf, The Witches of Eastwick, Let...
The Vulture opens across the U.S. in 1967. The bare budgeted B-movie features a gigantic bird and unintended laughs. 1...
Clairvius Narcisse is buried in 1962. His apparent death a few days earlier and self exhumation shortly after, led to...
The Masque of The Red Death is published in Graham’s Lady’s and Gentlemen’s Magazine in 1842. Edgar Allan Poe’s short...
Hexennacht, a variation of Walpurgis Night, is held in Germany. While Walpurgis Night is a feast day of 8th Century...
The Hunger opens in the U.S. in 1983. The film stars Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, and Susan Sarandon in a...
Penny Dreadful premieres on Showtime’s web site in 2014. The horror series named after the cheap, sensationalistic 19th-Century British publications,...