The bestselling author’s new book weaves together real-life locations, historical events, and organizations even as it blurs ...

In his new book, Stav Appel points out Jewish symbols, objects and references in one of the earliest tarot decks.

A spate of 2025 shows points to wider institutional interest not only in art that engages mystical or occult frameworks but ...

Cobalt Lane, a team of veteran game developers headquartered in Munich, has announced Imprinted, a psychological horror audio ghost story game. It will launch for PC via Steam in 2026.

Every May 8, thousands of people celebrate White Lotus Day, commemorating a remarkable and controversial Russian American woman: spiritual leader Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, who died in 1891. HPB, as ...

In 1899, Aleister Crowley purchased Boleskine House in an effort to seclude himself as he perfected the dark arts.

Built for the Fraser clan in the 18th century, Boleskine House's history has been shrouded in beheadings, hauntings and the ...

Alissa Quart's mom was sick and her job kept her tethered to a nonstop news cycle. "The pain and desperation I felt when I ...

Batman almost became the victim of a ritual sacrifice in a comic book story that revealed a dark, demonic secret at the heart ...

1960s San Francisco is remembered as the capital of gay liberation, but it also saw the birth of conversion therapy.

In 1975, the old Princeton University Art Museum debuted an unusual exhibit from British artist Pamela Colman Smith that unearthed the pioneering occult artist out of obscurity. Titled “To All ...

There’s a place in Cleveland where black cats aren’t bad luck – they’re practically the welcoming committee. The Buckland Museum of Witchcraft & Magick sits unassumingly in the city’s Old Brooklyn ...