+ Dark stuff for Halloween

* An invitation to a ZOOM about vampires, werewolves & serial killers, O My!

* An essay with more about the blood-drinking undead at Catholic World Report

* An EWTN interview with K.V. Turley and Fiorella De Maria about their novel about Bela Lugosi

* An article by Turley about the real horrors lived by Lugosi

* Ghost stories collected by Gerard Manley Hopkins

* Thirst: A Novel: Death of a priest

* The first horror moving picture—in 1896 (it really was scary!)

+ A round-up of print and online essays in DT’s “Symposium on Motherhood and Art”