Welcome back to another edition of Monique Snyman’s Hall of Horror! This week, we’re covering the Hinterkaifeck Murders from 1922, and I have a theory about what may have happened … The Hinterkaifeck Murders Deep in the Bavarian countryside, in late March of 1922, something terrible happened. It was something so brutal, so inexplicable, it…
In Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur, Dean Van Nguyen tears the gloss off hip-hop’s commercial veneer and exhumes the revolutionary fire buried beneath it — a fire that still burns with the legacy Tupac Amaru Shakur has left. This is no sanitized celebration of a multi-platinum rapper or a crime-saga…
In South Africa, one of the most interesting monsters you’ll ever encounter lives in the sky — and when it’s angry, the heavens split open. The Inkanyamba isn’t just a beast. It’s a force. A massive, serpent-like creature said to live in deep waterfalls near Pietermaritzburg and the Howick Falls in South Africa, its wrath…
There’s a particular breed of thrill-seeker who finds comfort in the macabre. You know the type — wide awake while the rest of the world sleeps, earbuds in, diving deep into decades-old cold cases, unreliable narrators, and killers who seem too smart to catch. Me … It’s me. I’m that type. It’s the 2AM true…
Christina Li’s The Manor of Dreams is the kind of novel that will haunt you in ways you didn’t think possible. On the surface, it’s about a former Hollywood starlet’s death and a mysterious inheritance that throws two families into uneasy proximity. The story digs deep into cultural identity, ambition, resentment, generational grief, and the…
For the ones who mother quietly, fiercely, and in unexpected ways … It’s not all roses and tearjerkers this week. The stars are leaning into complexity: care that hurts, silence that protects, and love that lingers long after it should’ve let go. Whether you’re a mother, had one, lost one, or walked away from one…
There’s something deeply unsettling about the black-eyed children, and it has less to do with what they are and more to do with what they almost are. They’re polite. Well-mannered. Soft-spoken. They usually appear in pairs, somewhere around the ages of six to sixteen, and they always seem to be in need of help. One…
Forget what you think you know about monsters. The Bunyip doesn’t stalk forests in the dark or come crawling through your window. Why? Because it doesn’t need to. Instead, it waits in the murky waters of Australia’s creeks, swamps, and billabongs … It is silent, watching, ancient, and when it strikes, there may be a…
