Patricia Lundy

Culture

The Dark Magic of Dead Bodies

Dead bodies, it seems, have always straddled a strange line between being grotesque and magical.

Culture

The Victorian Séance: The Ultimate Feminist Death Party

The Victorian Séance offered women a way to attain status and create their own space - by communicating with the dead.

Culture

How Modern Women Are Reclaiming the Occult

Femininity and the occult have always been interlinked. Modern women are reclaiming their identities within the Wiccan and Satanic communities.

Style

Hearse Culture: All About Those Dead Sexy Deathwagons

Find out why so many people are dying to drive one. Nyaaaaaaah.

Art

Death’s Heads, Cherubs, and Weeping Willows: A Brief History of Gravestone Symbols

Gravestones reveal just as much about the living and our attitudes toward death as they do our attitudes towards the dead.

Books

The Tragedy of the Black Rock Witch: A Review of HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

What happens when an ancient curse reverberates through a small town? Justice for all results in a new generation of irrevocable curses. And bloodshed.

Books

The Bickering Irish Dead: Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s ‘Graveyard Clay’

Máirtín Ó Cadhain's recently translated novel, Graveyard Clay, explores the complaints and concerns of the deceased of the Irish commonwealth.

Culture

The House of Widow Channels the Fashion of the Widow Windsor

Channel Queen Victoria’s monochromatic wardrobe by choosing from the beautiful selection of black dresses, capes, and shawls at House of Widow.

Perfume Yourself with the Flora of a Spring Cemetery

Channel the lovely smell of a cemetery in spring by dousing yourself - or your home - in these olfactory wonders.

Culture

Noxious Dollops and Opium Tonics: Poisonous Victorian Home Remedies

In the Victorian Era, that which did not kill you made you stronger. At least, your mother would say, as she made you swallow mercury.

Culture

Victorian Post-Mortem Photography: Why We Still Love to Capture the Dead

Victorian post-mortem photography can shed lights on modern attempts to recapture this misunderstood practice.

Culture

How We Mourn the Famous and What It Says About Collective Grief

In western culture, we’re mostly death-phobic. That is, unless you’re talking about the death of a celebrity. Then, we go all out: we send...

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Bangin’ Trashcans New Single Sounds Like Banged Trashcans

Music May 24, 2025 0

Houston’s hottest noise-punk garbage dispenser Bangin’ Trashcans is back with their latest single, "Tetanus Shot” a three-minute tantrum that says "If you buy this trash, I'll let you kiss me where it stinks."