The third and final day of Lemuria, the Roman festival of purging evil spirits from the home. A precursor, like...
The second day of Lemuria, the Roman festival of purging evil spirits from the home. A precursor, like the Celtic...
Magician, actor, and debunker Harry Houdini is born Erik Weisz in Budapest, Austria-Hungary in 1874. Perhaps the most famous magician...
Musician, voice actor, filmmaker Rob Zombie is born Robert Bartleh Cummings in Haverhill, MA in 1965. The son of carnival...
In the midst of the tragedy, tumult and anxiety that seemed to characterize a good part of 2020, there existed...
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is born in Santa Monica, California in 1958. Nicknamed “The Scream Queen” for her roles in...
Even Michael Myers is sad about Halloween 2020. Horror short filmmaker Andrew Kasch, of Burbank, captures this sadness — and...
Robert Burns’ “Halloween” is published in 1786. The poem is part of a collection published as the Kilmarnock volume or...
House of Usher premieres in Palm Springs, Calif. in 1960. The first of director Roger Corman’s eight Edgar Allan Poe-based...
Vlad III of Wallachia becomes Vlad the Impaler in 1462. After a surprise attack on an Ottoman Turk army fails...