Category: Mistress of Death

If you’ve attended a United States’ high school in the past 50 years, chances are you were given a copy of Harper’s Lee novel To Kill a Mockingbird. For many of us, this was the …

Cannibalism is an uncomfortable topic for most of us. It stirs up images of Hannibal Lecter stalking his victims and turning them into brain omelettes. As a culture, we’ve relegated it to horror movies and …

While mortality isn’t necessarily a fun topic to think about, sometimes there’s a book that makes it just a bit more fascinating and a touch less macabre. In the new book Spoiler Alert: You’re Going …

What causes countless men and women to spend thousands of dollars and their free time hunting for Bigfoot? In the new book by Joe Gisondi, Monster Trek: The Obsessive Search for Bigfoot,  readers are treated …

Back in May, I attended Contact in the Desert. For the uninitiated, it’s a fantastic weekend of Extraterrestrial research and interesting guests and speakers, regardless of whether you believe in alien life.  At a Meet …

Amelia Earhart’s legend is something that has grown larger than her actual time flying. Though by all accounts she was an average aviatrix, the fact that she was flying at all was what made her …

You’ve no doubt recently heard the ancient legend of Krampus. Over the past few years, the sinister assistant of St. Nick has become more and more popular in popular culture. Legend serves that those naughty …

Well, creepy kids, it’s that time of year again. When you like some weird stuff, Christmas can be a lot more like Halloween. Don’t we all need more Halloween? The Mistress of Death is back …

Do you know your lipstick probably has lead in it and there’s a pretty high chance our clothes could light on fire? Neither did I, until I read Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past …

Jinx Strange is the wickedly charming Editor in Chief of Dirge Magazine, an online magazine focusing on “dark culture.” In between editing and life, Jinx allowed our Mistress of Death to ask a few questions …