Paranormal investigator Dave Schrader and a team of paranormal experts hold a seance at the Lizzie Borden house

The Curse of Lizzie Borden, the next installment in the Shock Docs series, premieres on discovery+ on Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. Paranormal investigator Dave Schrader assembles a team of paranormal experts to investigate whether a dark entity helped facilitate one of the most infamous ax murders of all time. TheContinue Reading

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April has definitely seen its share of tragedies. Does it mean it’s cursed? I used to think so, but Cursed Films explained why that’s unlikely. Last year fellow writer Keith Langston introduced me to Shudder’s five-part series. If you haven’t seen it and are a horror movie cinephile, I highlyContinue Reading

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In “April, Saturn, & Mercury Retrograde: Something Wicked This Way Comes,” I shared a theory that April is a cursed month. People with birthdays, anniversaries, or other happy April dates didn’t take kindly to the supposition. Understandably. But what they didn’t understand at first was the theory doesn’t speculate thatContinue Reading

A few weeks back, HorrorAddict.net’s Horror Hostess, Emerian “Emz” Rich, joined me on the podcast. We talked about what’s coming in Horror Addicts 15th season of their podcast, new book releases they’ve got planned, and more. But Emerian also had some work to do. Namely, unboxing the Gothic horror mysteryContinue Reading

A couple of year’s ago I published an anthology via Haunt Jaunts called Shadow People and Cursed Objects: 13 Tales of Terror Based on True Stories…or are they?. One of the stories was “Bye, Bye Blackbird” by Emerian Rich. That’s how I met the Horror Hostess for HorrorAddicts.net. Since thenContinue Reading

In July of this year, the Smithsonian posted a call for help in translating and transcribing three ancient texts, all of which revolve around witches. The first, Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits, is a documentarian novel by Increase Mather, a Puritan minister who, though he understood and championed burningContinue Reading

What is it with April? I’ve shared my theory here before (we’ll get to those links later) that I believe it’s a cursed month. It’s been a while since I went there though. But every April I can’t help but wonder, “What, when, where, and how will disaster strike thisContinue Reading

I’m not much of a baseball fan, but my neighbor and his wife are. Big time. Their son even played in the majors once upon a time. With baseball season just having gotten underway and so many of my friends posting about it on their Facebook pages, it got meContinue Reading