Burial Day Books brings you a weekly supernatural horror blog by The Gravedigger that explores the world of superstition. Scary relics of the past and some new superstitions that haunt today.
This past weekend the Undertaker and I spent some time in the reportedly most haunted city in America, New Orleans. We strolled through St. Louis Cemetery Number 1, left some mementos at the tomb of Marie Laveau, the great Voodoo priestess, and walked through the French Quarters at night listening to ghost stories, talks of…
Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe, an American Literary Master! A very happy birthday to Edgar Allan Poe who was born this day, January 19, in 1809. For the past three years we have made the pilgrimage to Baltimore to stand at the gates of Westminster Hall and Burying Ground waiting for the famed, but mysterious,…
Interview with a Ghost Hunter: Alex Matsuo 1. How did your interest in the paranormal begin? I had my own experiences as a child that I couldn’t explain. When I talked to my family about it, there was an acknowledgement of my experiences along with their own experiences, but it didn’t go much further…
There are so many Christmas traditions, superstitions and customs that vary from country to country and varying regions as well.
I was invited by John Everson to participate in a blog chain titled “The Next Big Thing.” The premise is that each writer answers a series of questions about their next big project and lines up five other authors to do the same, in the hopes of encouraging people to discover the books and blogs…
The Stickney Mansion was created with no corners to keep the ghosts in. Perhaps they’ve never left?
Types of Zombies With the impending zombie apocalypse upon us, I thought that this would be a good time to go over all the different type of zombies that are out there. Knowing what kind of zombie you are up against will greatly increase your odds of survival. Night of the living dead zombies: This…