News
The Most Pawesome Looks From NYC’s Halloween Dog Parade
“Frito Pawlo'' stunned, Mochi struck a pious pose as the Pope, and a “Bodega Cat” pupper took the top prize.
Halloween
Art
The AI Halloween Art of Your Nightmares Is Here
We asked the AI image generator Dall-E to reimagine famous artworks at their spookiest. We really wish we hadn’t.
Art
How Witches Cast Their Spell on Art History
From Remedios Varo to Francisco de Goya, artists have long turned to witchcraft as subject matter.
Comics
Halloween, When Everyone Dresses Like Clichés
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News
The Competition for This Year’s Creepy Doll Contest Is More Horrifying Than Ever
These horrifying dolls definitely won’t murder you in your sleep.
Film
Spooky, Sensual, and Nostalgic Halloween Shorts
Amid the ups and downs of episodic horror, a few gems stick out from the rest in Hulu’s Bite-Size Halloween collection.
Art
Happy Doll-o-ween! Museum Displays Its Creepiest Haunted Dolls
The History Center of Olmsted County is embracing the Halloween holiday season with a showcase of nothing but the creepiest dolls from its collection of historical and clearly damned objects.
In Brief
Art History Parades Around the Streets of Japan Ahead of Halloween
"Beast Jesus" is finally getting his due alongside works by Picasso, Vermeer, and Munch.
Art
From Bosch's Bird to Kusama's Spots, Arty Halloween Costumes
Halloween brings out the creative spirit in everyone but the art community may very well do the day of dress-up the best.
Books
A 19th-Century Guide to Seeing Ghosts Everywhere
The 1864 Spectropia used optical illusions to manifest ghosts in Victorian homes, and was designed to attack the quackery of Spiritualism.
History
Vintage Halloween Cards Are the Stuff of Nightmares
Anthropomorphic pumpkins, mirror divination, and space-traveling witches all appear in the curious collision of imagery on vintage Halloween cards.
History
A 1903 Proposal to Preserve the Dead in Glass Cubes
In 1903, an inventor patented a method of preserving corpses in glass, one of a number of radical inventions that has sought to resist death's decay.