Sepulchretudinous Love

Clément’s favorite poem, hardly a surprise … it is his invocation, what with all his talk about Dante and Beatrice, about Poe and Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe. Quite the romantic ghoul, Clément, although a romantic ghoul is not exactly appealing. Annabel Lee by E. A. Poe It was...

A Ghoul’s Day Out

Mardi Gras is a ghoul’s day out. Christians have taken to celebrating the lengthy period between the Epiphany (January 19) and Lent (ashes, ashes, it’s Wednesday) with a big blowout that involves gorging on everything they will soon give up. Blowouts are popular, so...

Undead Walking

If you missed it—and you probably did—put it on your calendar for next year and just know that SOME people are paying attention to dead love. At least that is the case in Eugene, Oregon, which hosts a yearly Valentine’s Day Zombie Walk. On Valentine’s day the undead marched...

The Goth Father

2009 marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Godfather of Goth, Edgar Allen Poe, or just plain Edgar Poe as he was christened and as we like to call him. Edgar was born on a cold January day in 1809 and he died in October, 40 years later. We love him because of his creepy short...

Zombie Hunter

Author Zora Neale Hurston’s book, Tell My Horse, is a first-hand account of the weird mysteries and horrors of vodou or voodoo. She was the daughter of a Baptist preacher and she became an authority on black culture. Zora participated in vodou practices in Haiti and Jamaica during...

Zombies in Hollywood

Hollywood Zombies: 1932 The White Zombie: Bela Lugosi plays a vodou master enlisted to zombiefy a young bride. 1943 I Walked with a Zombie: Loosely adapted from Jane Eyre, the movie traces the dark discoveries of a nurse hired to care for a plantation owner’s catatonic wife. 1956 Plan 9...