The Victorian tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas has been celebrated by Bone and Sickle since 2018. This year is no exception as we share two stories in this episode, one comic, and one

A short extra episode on Befana, the gift-bringing Italian witch associated with Twelfth Night, the end of the Christmas season. Included in the show is material from the book, The Krampus and the O

A figure of mythic proportions during his lifetime, Vlad the Impalers notoriety receded over the centuries only to be resurrected in the 1970s, when a pair of Boston University scholars went public w

The devilish reputation Ouija boards enjoy in horror films is a relatively new phenomenon. In the Victorian era, they were regarded by psychical researchers as something to be embraced in a spirit

Apparently, I clipped off the beginning of the show during the initial upload. Its been fixed, so this would only effect those downloading yesterday, but for those who missed it, here it is..

Ouija boards, or more generally, spirit boards have antecedents going back to the very first days of the Spiritualist movement. We begin our show with a seasonally spooky visit to the cottage of th

A special short announcement regarding the October 20 deadline for Trick-or-Treat-by-Mail for listeners joining our Patreon. Find out how you can receive a hand-packed candy bag from the home of Bon

Were getting into the spirit of the season with a classic tale of witchcraft set in 17th-century Salem Village, Nathaniel Hawthornes short story, Young Goodman Brown. Written in 1835 for New Engla

Agartha, Shambhala, and Hyperborea are all names for a a mythic spiritually and scientifically advanced kingdom, always in some hidden location, sometimes within the earth, a legend which became an o

Borrowed from fairy lore, thenotion of a hollow earth peopled by superior beings became a theme of literary fantasies as early as the 17th century and went on to influence fringe theories of the eart