The end of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is where Sweet Sorrow: A Zombie Ballet begins. In its second annual production, creator and choreographer Leigh Purtill and her company bring the zombie-loving hordes to high art for a feast of high...
Billed as the nation’s first r-rated escape room when it opened in March, Black Market Escape Rooms did not let us down. With professional design, acting and lots and lots of gore, its first game theme – Murder Co –...
In the wee small hours of Aug. 31, 1888, the body of Mary Ann Nichols was found. Her mutilated remains laid in a puddle of blood in Buck’s Row, a particularly unsavory corner of the poor, downtrodden Whitechapel district of...
The series of unsolved bloody murders of poor women left smokey, Victorian London terrified and transfixed 130 years ago. The obsession also made for great fiction and wild speculation as to who the killer was and his reason for the...
The publishing world has always been the most fertile for Ripper-related works. Though flooded with bargain basement accountings of the murders and speculative works on the killer’s identity, there’s quality fiction and nonfiction to be had. Here’s some of the...
It’s not always the big, loud and splashy that are terrifying. Sometimes the creepy, crawly feelings come from nuance and subtlety – from the gray area between light and dark. It’s in this space where the latest Force of Nature...
