August 2022

  • Elizabeth Siddal | self-portrait

    On May 23, 1934, at 14 Chatham Place, Elizabeth Siddal, better known as Lizzie, was dead. The muse of Dante Gabriel Rossetti was found unconscious after an overdose of laudanum. However, some say that upon Dante’s return home, a note was pinned to his wife’s night-shirt. Reading, “Please look after Harry.” Hi. Welcome to Wicked…

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  • What Everyone Ought To Know About Seguin’s First Serial Killer

    Lovers of the macabre are no strangers to the Magnolia’s hotel’s dark past when on one Texas night a pharmacist butchered a 12-year-old girl and blinded his wife. Mr. Faust had a secret. A scandalous secret and a desire that he reasoned to make into a reality. The truth was he was madly in love…

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  • Book Review: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    It’s New Years day in Camelot and a mysterious figure enters King Arthur’s court. He is a knight but wears no armor. He holds an axe in one hand and a holly in the other. The man is large, and green from head to toe, riding upon a great green horse. He offers a challenge.…

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  • Austin’s Legendary ‘Haunted’ Tavern

    “Emily is here.” a customer mutters as one of the 46 HDTVs flickers for a moment. The Tavern is said to be visited by a murdered prostitute named Emily back in the 1940s, when it was allegedly a brothel.   However, before I go any further, I think I should start at the beginning of this…

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