by Samantha Almeida | Jan 8, 2026 | Horror
Hunger, Faith, and Monstrous Women: My 2025 Reading Year In 2025, I gravitated toward stories about starvation, cannibalism, witchcraft with consequences, religion as horror, and women who are allowed to be monstrous, morally compromised, or feral without apology. A...
by Samantha Almeida | Oct 23, 2025 | Horror
Beware the Tik-Tik: The Aswang and Other Monsters of the Philippines Image from Young Philipinas Let’s talk about one of the most chilling creatures ever crawling out of Filipino folklore: the Aswang. This monster is a shapeshifter, a deceiver, a hunter that slips...
by Samantha Almeida | Oct 21, 2025 | Horror
Curtain Calls from Beyond: Broadway’s Most Haunted Theatres for Halloween New Amsterdam Theatre in New York A different kind of light lingers in the heart of the Great White Way (the glittering nickname for New York City’s Broadway theater...
by Samantha Almeida | Oct 21, 2025 | Horror
Entering the Halloween Season: Beware the Pleas of the Black-Eyed Kids Image from Morbidly Beautiful ‘Tis the season to unlock a modern urban legend as unsettling as it is mysterious: the Black-Eyed Kids, often called BEKs. Who are they? What do they want?...
