I am forever being confronted by those 100 AWESOME THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE!!!! lists. But rarely, if ever, do they contain something that I would actually want to do before I stagger from this mortal coil. I would not, for example, like to drive a Porsche stupidly fast around a race track. Nor… Continue reading 50 Macabre & Unusual Things To Do Before You Die : Part I
Tonight's watching is a documentary about one of the most disturbing witch trials in British history.
I've been pouring over these images of Victorian ladies with floor length hair for...I don't know how long now. But can you blame me? They're beautiful and mysterious and sad. I don't know why I feel this surge of emotion for a collection of women, of strangers...but I do. I find it morbidly fascinating that… Continue reading The Hair Of The Dead
I have always found fear exhilarating, and would greatly enjoy it when my mother would tell me tales of actual hauntings that she and her grandparents experienced. I wanted to hear these stories over and over again, so would ask her to repeat them on a regular basis. I never tired of hearing the same… Continue reading Trail Camera Discoveries
If I had a spare grand lying around I would immediately snatch up this goat mask by High Noon Creations.
I like to adorn my home in the weirdest kind of stuff...and if I had the cash to hand, I would be throwing it in the direction of Gloom Matter. I would take one or two of their rib cage lamps, one of their torso inspired soap holders, several bars of their human tongue soap...… Continue reading Gloom Matter
Mythic Articulations has to be one of the strangest Etsy stores I've ever come across. Artist and store owner Brian Richardson set up shop in 2013 with one goal - to create what nature won't. He provides 3D replicas of mythical creatures and cryptic skeletons, as well as a host of other fantastically weird stuff.… Continue reading Mythic Articulations
Not sure what you want to do this weekend? Take twenty minutes out and watch this excellent Vice documentary on Vampirism. Vice reporter Gianna Toboni headed to New Orleans to get to know those involved in modern day vampire covens. If you need more encouragement, well, there's a segment with Anne Rice, the queen of… Continue reading The Real Vampires Of New Orleans
These portraits were captured at The West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum in Yorkshire in the 1800's. Built to keep the patients isolated from society, the hospital was self-sufficient with its own bakery, butchery, dairy, shop and laundry. I think these portraits have to be some of the most intriguing yet upsetting images my 28 year… Continue reading Portraits From An English Lunatic Asylum
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 