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The song “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” is released as the first single by the band Bauhaus in 1979. The nine-and-a-half minute...

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An American Werewolf in London opens across the U.S. in 1981. The horror comedy directed by John Landis was the...

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Aug. 4, 2022

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The legendary Black Shuck kills two people at Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh, England in 1577. The creature, said to be...

Aug. 30, 2020

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Author Mary Shelley is born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in London in 1797. Though she wrote several novels during her career,...

Aug. 29, 2020

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William Friedkin is born in Chicago in 1935. The Oscar-winning director’s long career includes The Exorcist, The Guardian, Bug and...

Aug. 28, 2020

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The Haunted Palace premieres in Cincinnati in 1963. Though billed as an Edgar Allan Poe story, the Roger Corman film...

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Johnny Eck is born in Baltimore in 1911. The sideshow performer — born without his lower torso — and actor...