‘Nosferatu,’ starring Lily-Rose Depp, pays tribute to the occultism of the original 1922 film, which is filled with esoteric themes and has an unusual story behind its creation. Robert Eggers’ ...

The nine-week voyage of the Puritan ship the Arbella in 1630 is almost as mythologized as the Mayflower landing at Plymouth Rock. The Arbella was the ship on which Massachusetts Bay Colony’s governor ...

Occultus, the Latin root for “occult,” points to the hidden and the obscured—an apt source for a word steeped in mystery. For centuries after the term’s wider adoption, it has continued to suggest the ...

The city at the foot of the Alps in Northern Italy is a centre of great religious significance — as well as a haven for ...

Back in 1922, German Expressionist filmmaker F. W. Murnau wanted to make his own horror picture based on Bram Stoker's Dracula. Because Dracula was copywritten material, Murnau and company were forced ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Raphael Cormack about his new book, "Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult." In times of great turmoil, we tend to look to the spiritual, ...

The term "occult" typically refers to anything involving supernatural powers or beings from beyond. This includes, angels, demons, witchcraft, or any form of magic. It's a term that lends itself quite ...

In the fourth century BC, an unknown – but clearly disgruntled – schemer from the Greek city of Antioch had a curse tablet made. Inscribed on a thin piece of lead and deposited in a well, the tablet ...

Mark has been thinking and writing about games since a Gameboy Pocket and a copy of Link's Awakening was first placed into his tender, seven-year-old hands. Since then, he snagged a creative writing ...

Deep in northwestern Westphalia, Germany, stands a twelfth-century castle conceived by Heinrich Himmler, leader of the paramilitary Schutzstaffel, as a kind of “Camelot” for the triumphal knights of ...