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Independent films
fromInverse
6 days ago

60 Years Ago, Two Bizarre Horror-Westerns Kicked Off A Hybrid Genre

Billy the Kid vs. Dracula and Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter are poorly made films that contributed to the horror Western genre.
Video games
fromGameSpot
1 week ago

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse Is Twisting French Legends Into Nightmare Bosses

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse returns to classic 2D action, set in 1499 Paris, featuring new enemies and gameplay elements.
Podcast
fromKotaku
1 week ago

Podcast Based On Horrors Of Lovecraft Is Your Next Obsession

The Lovecraft Investigations is a unique podcast blending true crime and Lovecraftian themes, recently launched its latest series, Crowley.
History
fromMedievalists.net
1 week ago

12 Strange Magical Beliefs from the Middle Ages - Medievalists.net

Medieval beliefs included magic practices like love potions, storm conjuring, and superstitions surrounding death and health.
Board games
fromGame Informer
1 week ago

Arkham Horror: The Card Game Designers Highlight The New Jumping On Point

Arkham Horror: The Card Game's new core set offers a fresh starting point for new players while continuing its legacy in tabletop gaming.
fromKotaku
2 weeks ago

Dimension 20 Is Finally Doing A Vampire: The Masquerade Campaign

Dimension 20 has primarily used Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition across its campaigns, with occasional side quests using other systems. The main cast has only deviated from D&D for the sixth campaign, A Starstruck Odyssey, which utilized an unofficial Star Wars system.
DC food
fromArtnet News
3 weeks ago

Guillermo Del Toro Scored a Different Prize at the Oscars: A Rare Frankenstein Painting

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein earned nine nominations ahead of the 98th Academy Awards, but he did not win the Best Picture award despite the film's success in other categories.
Arts
Artificial intelligence
fromMail Online
1 month ago

Priests, imams and rabbis warned of rise AI-fuelled SATANISM

Religious leaders are attending a Vatican-affiliated exorcism course in Rome to address concerns about AI-enabled satanism and devil worshippers using artificial intelligence for rituals and child exploitation.
Video games
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Esoteric Ebb Has A Lot Of Hilarious Ways In Which You Can Die

Esoteric Ebb is an isometric RPG combining Baldur's Gate 3 and Disco Elysium elements, released March 3, where character stat allocation significantly impacts gameplay difficulty and survival.
Board games
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Our Dark Lord Cthulhu Awakens In This Lovecraftian Adventure

The Dark Rites of Arkham is a point-and-click adventure game set in Lovecraft's fictional city of Arkham, where Detective Jack Foster investigates ritualistic murders linked to mystical cults and ancient gods.
Independent films
fromInverse
1 month ago

Universal's Most Troubled Franchise Is Getting A YA Reboot From A Horror Icon

Kevin Williamson is returning to television after directing Scream VII, developing an adult-oriented Universal Monsters series that blends his signature melodrama with mature storytelling.
Film
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

An undying trend: How vampires hold a mirror to society

Vampires in storytelling symbolize societal fears and reflect historical social and racial violence, as shown by a 1930s-set horror about community-targeted vampires.
World news
fromMail Online
2 months ago

The bone-chilling exorcism cases that PROVE hell is real

An Anglican reverend experienced repeated exorcism events in Tanzania, witnessing violent possession-like phenomena and treating prayer and faith as active authority against spiritual intrusion.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

I don't like organised fun, but Dungeons and Dragons is my shining nerdy light amid the darkness | Patrick Lenton

I wish this was a one-off blip in my regimented friendship schedule, but all through 2025 I played the world's slowest game of message tennis. I'd invite a pal for dinner, only for the world to turn, the seasons pass, grey hairs gather at my temples, before a date was finally locked in. This sentiment seems to be common among my circle.
Relationships
Film
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

An undying trend: How vampires hold a mirror to society

The vampire figure personifies societal anxieties and mirrors social and racial violence, sustaining enduring cultural relevance across myth, literature, and film.
fromMedievalists.net
2 months ago

New Medieval Books: A Demon Spirit - Medievalists.net

Abū Nuwās's poetry is sheer joy: it never fails to delight, surprise, and excite. His diwan, his collected poems, encompasses the principal early Abbasid poetic genres: panegyrics ( madīḥ), renunciant poems ( zuhdiyyāt), lampoons ( hijāʾ), hunting poems ( ṭardiyyāt), wine poems ( khamriyyāt), love poems ( ghazaliyyāt) to males ( mudhakkarāt) and females ( muʾannathāt), and transgressive verse ( mujūn).
History
fromNature
2 months ago

A history of hocus pocus: witchcraft down the ages

A book about witches casts a spell, and arguments about whether blue-green algae should be called blue-green bacteria, in this week's pick from the Nature archive.
Science
Higher education
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 months ago

Sorcery, poisons and Dracula costumes: Unique courses found at Ontario universities | CBC News

Ontario post-secondary courses use niche subjects like vampires, witchcraft, and comics to teach critical thinking and engage students.
fromPolygon
8 months ago

New The Witcher board game follows the downfall of Geralt's school

The Witcher 4 won't arrive until at least 2027, but in the meantime, studio CD Project Red is working with Go On Board to create a new board game based on the hit series. A cooperative adventure game for one to four players, The Witcher: Legacy will focus on the events that led to the fall of the School of the Wolf. Players will take on the role of witchers seeking to unravel the conspiracy against their order, fighting monsters and exploring the kingdom of Kaedwen through a branching narrative featuring multiple scenarios.
Board games
Board games
fromBoard Game Quest
2 months ago

Top 10 Boss Battler Board Games

Tabletop boss battlers that allow attacking the boss from round one emphasize immediate cooperative combat, positioning, pattern manipulation, and varied high-stakes mechanics.
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