Witchcraft still fascinates and repels. Hundreds of years after England’s witch trials in the Puritan mid-17th century, ...

Halloween traces its origins back to the Iron Age and a feast of fire known as Samhain. Also included are the historical ...

A circle of figures, cloaked in ritual robes, stands in a clearing as the last light of day disappears behind the trees. A ...

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"Double double toil and trouble" is a quote from Shakespeare's Macbeth that conjures images of evil witches making potions in ...

Jewish tradition may tell Jews to avoid the festivals of other cultures, especially any with religious origins. But it’s not ...

This Halloween, we revisit Rhidian Davis’s reckoning with the gothic’s many monstrous manifestations, from silent film to Hammer horror to Twilight. From our November 2013 issue.

Taking as many guises as his names, the Prince of Lies turned at times into a man-devouring ogre, a mutant medley of claws, ...

Florence Welch delivers a torrential and shadowy record that’s anything but lacking in big choruses and brutal confrontation.

Trunk-or-treating — aka Halloween tailgating — is a growing trend in houses of worship and elsewhere. Plug-in delves into the history of the events as well as why not everyone is a fan.

Nowadays, Halloween is a night synonymous with ghouls, gore, and scares—but not very long ago at all, it was a holiday for heart-eyed lovers looking for their spouses ...

While the women accused in the infamous Salem witch trials in colonial America have long since been pardoned, the convictions of hundreds of British women executed under similar laws officially still ...