The Vault

Dispatches directly from our editorial desk: opinions, reminders, house-keeping notes, and an occasional article exhumed from the archives.

Google A.I. garbage regarding Dracula, Wolf, Skal, and Me

Hey, you know what? Fuck Google A.I. I was just doing a quick search to see where I might have…

2 months ago

Big Ugly Fish

"Big Fish swimming down low, down on the bottom where nobody goes..." This souvenir "Frownder Mug," available at the Black…

2 months ago

15 Years Later (well, 8 really)

It's always fun when an old article pops up in the Hot Topics widget of our website, suggesting a sudden…

5 months ago

Dark’s Pandemonium Carnival will be a Halloween Haunt

We asked for it. We got it! Back on November 21, 2023, we posted the suggestion that someone should present…

8 months ago

Monster Tattoo Skeletons dislocated by Santa Ana winds

This post has been updated. The original post is below the update. It is probably the least significant damage related…

11 months ago

Long Live Beetlejuice!

Not that anyone else is counting, but Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: The Afterlife Experience is set to become the longest running attraction…

1 year ago

Haunted Magic in the Beetle House

We were lucky enough to see the final performance of Michael Campion's Haunted Mystery of Show at the Beetle House…

1 year ago

Get your prescription filled at Haunted Hollywood

Our review of Haunted Hollywood is currently in the works. Meanwhile, here's a glimpse of the event's "Pharmacy," which fulfills…

1 year ago

Checking in with Ghosts

As you can see, we recently checked in at the Woodstone Bed & Breakfast to experience Creep LA's Halloween 2024…

1 year ago

No clowns, please

After our negative comments about this Halloween's Unhinged Hotel at Winchester Mystery House, our plan had been to wrap up…

1 year ago