Author: Alex de Borba
Alex de Borba
Bogotá, Colombia
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Blasphemous Shadows: Unveiling the Sacred Profaned in Gothic Lore
Gothic horror merges faith and fear, casting religion as both a sanctuary and a harrowing reminder of humanity’s darkest anxieties.…
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The Shadowed Bride: Victorian Black Widows and the Gothic Femicide Mythos
Victorian Black Widows were women who murdered their husbands for financial gain while maintaining the guise of domestic respectability, subverting…
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Anatomy of Dread: The Victorian Obsession for Blood, Disease, and the Gothic Revival
Victorian England’s fascination with blood symbolized both life and corruption, merging medical science with Gothic horror. Bloodletting, early transfusions, and…
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The Borgias: Poison, Power, and the Gothic Renaissance
The Borgias were Renaissance Italy’s shadowy power brokers, weaving a web of betrayal, poison, and scandal that stained the very…
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Graveyards of Heresy: The Clergy’s Sinisterly Concealed Mass Graves
The clergy wielded fear as a potent tool, employing torture and execution to deter heresy and enforce conformity. Secret burials,…
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Matriarchs of the Macabre: Women in Occult Crimes Throughout History
Throughout history, women in occult practices have been perceived as wielders of esoteric power or dangerous deviants challenging social norms.…
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Illuminating the Shadows: Why We Must Confront Our Darkest Histories
Understanding humanity requires confronting uncomfortable histories—acknowledging not only our triumphs but also our moral failings and atrocities. By shedding light…
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The “Vampire Priest” Myths and Clergy Alleged to Consume Human Blood
The myth of the “vampire priest” embodies humanity’s deepest fears about authority’s corruption, transforming blood from a sacred symbol to…
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The Hellish Reign of Pope John XII: Vice, Violence, and Veneration
At eighteen, Pope John XII turned the Vatican into a center of vice, conducting pagan rituals, sexually abusing nuns, committing…
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Catherine Monvoisin (La Voisin): The Sorceress Behind the Shadows of the Sun King
La Voisin’s influence exposed the dark side of Louis XIV’s court, where ambition drove the elite to poison and dark…
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The Affair of the Poisons: Murder and Black Magic in Louis XIV’s Court
The Affair of the Poisons exposed a macabre underworld in Louis XIV’s court, where an aristocracy obsessed with power turned…
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The Black Widow of Victorian England: Mary Ann Cotton’s Reign of Arsenic Killings
Mary Ann Cotton shattered Victorian ideals of femininity and domesticity, using poisoning to turn household trust into a tool of…
