Walter Sickert: the man who painted murder
The dark side of life.
Murder
The song and the book that made Mark Chapman murder John Lennon
The limits of what we can understand.
How Frances Glessner Lee’s blood-splattered studies of death changed the world of forensic science
Nicknamed the ‘Mother of Forensic Science’.
‘The Last Sacrifice’: Rupert Russell’s New Film Examining the Murder That Inspired ‘The Wicker Man’
Scene: Lower Quinton in South Warwickshire, England. Population 493. A quiet village, settled in its ways, where everyone knows each other and strangers are not…
It’s Murder on the Dancefloor: Incredible Expressionist dance costumes from the 1920s
Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt were a wife and husband partnership briefly famous in Germany during the early 1920s for their wild, expressionist dance performances…
Ladykillers: Murder ballads and the country women who sang them
Country music is my favorite genre to listen to if I want to hear really dark shit. My favorite tunes should probably come with warning…
Horror Scope: Manly P. Hall’s occult murder mystery, ‘When Were You Born?’
One of Elvis’ favorite books, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, was the work of Manly Palmer Hall, a Los Angeles-based esotericist who tried to…