Arkham Asylum Files, Experts, OCD Vampire, Psychology

The Riddler Arkham File: The Dark Psychology Behind Gotham’s Greatest Ego

Edward Nygma enters our Arkham Files with his intellect and obsession with puzzles. Explore the dark psychology behind his fixation on admiration, his need to outsmart Batman, and his profound grandiosity.

The Riddler is one of Arkham Asylum’s most underestimated villains. Unlike Gotham’s most eccentric sociopaths or grief-driven criminals, Edward Nygma is the enigmatic brain, the one who incriminates himself with every crime he commits and is proud to be its creator.

OCD VampireJuly 30, 2026July 7, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, Gothic Fairy Tales, OCD Vampire, Paraphilias

Retifism: The Shoe Fetish Psychology Behind Cinderella

For centuries, Cinderella has been celebrated as one of the world’s most beloved fairy tales. Yet beneath the glass slipper and happily ever after lies symbolism that modern psychology finds surprisingly intriguing.

The Origins of Cinderella

The earliest known Cinderella fairy tale appeared in Ancient Egypt during the 1^st century BCE in the form of Rhodopis.

Ye Xian is a Chinese tale dating to around AD 850 and is widely regarded as one of the earliest versions of the Cinderella story. It was written by Duan Chengshi and was published by the Tang dynasty in the compilation Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang.

OCD VampireJuly 23, 2026July 9, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, Middle Ages, OCD Vampire

Dunnottar Castle: The Dramatic Cliffside Fortress Behind Brave

Scotland is home to many magnificent landscapes and medieval castles. With a history stretching back to the Early Middle Ages, it is also home to one of the fortresses that helped inspire the iconic Castle DunBroch from Brave.

The History of Dunnottar

Dunnottar Castle, or Dùn Fhoithear in Scottish Gaelic, meaning “fort on the shelving slope,” is a fortress built on a rocky headland located on the northeast coast of Scotland.

Its history is believed to date as far back as the 5th century. Although it is unknown when the site was first fortified, its earliest written reference appears in the Annals of Ulster. Two sieges were recorded in the annals, one in 681 and the other in 694.

OCD VampireJuly 16, 2026July 12, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, NZGeekChic, Medicality

Morbid Curiousities – Mellified Mummy

The ancient art of marinating yourself in honey for the good of mankind, naturally.

Honey has long been celebrated for its preservative powers, jars of the stuff have been found intact in Egyptian tombs, still perfectly edible after three thousand years. But somewhere along the way, certain medieval minds decided that simply eating honey wasn’t ambitious enough. Why not become the honey? Why not dissolve, entirely and posthumously, into a golden elixir of healing? And so, dear reader, the mellified mummy was born.

NZGeekChicJuly 14, 2026July 13, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, Gothic Fairy Tales, OCD Vampire

Necrophilia: The Death Fetish Psychology Behind Snow White

For centuries, Snow White has been celebrated as one of the world’s most beloved fairy tales. Yet beneath the poisoned apple and happily ever after lies imagery that modern psychology finds surprisingly unsettling.

The Brothers Grimm Fifty-Third Fairy Tale

The German fairy tale of Snow White was first written in the early 19^th century. The first edition was published in 1812 by the Brothers Grimm as part of their collection, Grimms’ Fairy Tales and was the fifty-third entry.

OCD VampireJuly 9, 2026July 7, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, NZGeekChic, Haunted

When the Set Became a Killing Ground

The Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) A night shoot in the canyons above Los Angeles ended with three dead and Hollywood changed forever.

Before the first reel of Twilight Zone: The Movie ever reached a theatre, the production had already claimed three lives. The night of July 23, 1982, began like any other night shoot, generators humming, walkie-talkies crackling, the smell of smoke machines threading through the Santa Clarita scrubland. It ended in blood, wreckage, and decades of unanswered questions about who was truly responsible for the most catastrophic on-set accident in Hollywood history.

NZGeekChicJuly 7, 2026July 5, 2026Leave a comment

Anika Luna LeFay, Experts, Musicians, Reviews

Review of the song Afterlife by Addy

This review covers independent artist Addy and his latest 2026 single, Afterlife. His music carries influences reminiscent of HIM, The Cure, and, to a lesser extent, She Wants Revenge.

Who Is Addy?

After listening to Addy‘s music, I can definitely hear elements of The Cure, though I don’t get as much of a She Wants Revenge vibe. To me, his sound leans more toward a relaxed, ’90s-inspired goth style while still feeling modern enough for today’s audience.

Anika Harley LeFayJuly 3, 2026June 30, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, OCD Vampire, Vampires

Vrykolakas: The Vampires of Greek Folklore

Vampires have existed in folklore across the world for centuries, captivating people with their immortality, their hunger, and the mysteries surrounding the undead. While many immediately think of Dracula, Greece has its own terrifying vampire: the vrykolakas.

The vrykolakas comes from Greek folklore and is a terrifying undead creature. It shares many similarities with the vampire folklore of Slavic countries. However, unlike vampires, the vrykolakas does not primarily consume blood but instead feeds on human flesh, particularly the liver. With its appearance among other factors, the vrykolakas, in fact, resembles more the concept of a zombie or ghoul.

OCD VampireJuly 2, 2026July 2, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, Haunted, Kaylee Fowler, Paranormal, Witch History

The Bell Witch Cave of Adams, Tennessee

America has no shortage of ghost stories, but few have the documented pedigree of the Bell Witch. Unlike most hauntings, the Bell Witch was witnessed by hundreds of people and investigated by a future president of the United States.

The haunting began around 1817 on the farm of John Bell, a prosperous farmer and devout Baptist who had settled his family on 320 acres along the Red River in Robertson County. At first, the disturbances were subtle: strange knockings on the walls of the farmhouse, chains dragging across the floor in the dead of night, the sound of stones being hurled against the exterior. John Bell initially kept the occurrences to himself, fearing ridicule, but the entity soon made that impossible. It began pulling the bedcovers off his children as they slept. It slapped his daughter Betsy hard enough to leave marks on her face. It whispered, then spoke, then sang hymns.

Kaylee FowlerJuly 1, 2026June 30, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, NZGeekChic

Space’s Creepiest Mystery

On a muggy August night in 1977, a strip of computer printout rolled out of a machine at Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope, and astronomer Jerry Ehman did something almost no scientist ever gets to do.

He grabbed a red pen, circled six characters on the page, and wrote a single word in the margin that would echo across decades: Wow!

“1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 4 6 E Q U J 5 4 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 Wow!” — J. Ehman Aug 1977

Those six alphanumeric characters 6EQUJ5 represented a 72-second blast of radio energy arriving at exactly 1420.405 megahertz, the so-called hydrogen line. This is the frequency that scientists had long theorised an intelligent civilisation might use to broadcast across the cosmos, because hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and any space faring species would know it. The signal was precisely what the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence had dreamed of finding. It arrived. It dazzled. Then it was gone.

NZGeekChicJune 30, 2026June 30, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, Indie Community, OCD Vampire

Between Worlds Photography by Kelsey Milsap

At Gothic Bite Magazine, we are proud to showcase the work of artists and photographers whose creativity helps bring the strange, beautiful, and unexplained to life. This week, we are pleased to welcome photographer Kelsey Milsap and share her work with our readers.

These photographs were taken on my birthday, a date that has always carried a deeper significance for me because it falls during the season of Día de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. While many celebrate birthdays as a time of personal reflection and new beginnings, I have always felt mine exists at a unique intersection between life, death, memory, and spirit.

OCD VampireJune 27, 2026June 22, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, James Vaughan, YouTube

The Backrooms Origin and Tales

Biters it’s been far too long… But I am back once more with a new topic and some personal anecdotes to go with it. The tail end of May a movie of the backrooms came out so what say you biters shall we get lost in the internet’s endless yellow hellscape that is the backrooms?

Now for the uninitiated like myself the backrooms is a piece of digital folklore that went viral from two posts back in 2019. One was this random photo of an emptied out office building; no people, no doors or windows just yellow walls and fluorescent lights. The other was a reply to that post: “If you’re not careful and you noclip out of reality, you’ll end up in the backrooms.” Now the thing about this is the lore is communal there is no one true author or definitive rules so the backrooms are ever growing and ever changing.

James VaughanJune 26, 2026June 22, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, Indie Community, OCD Vampire, Vampires

Born for the Night: How I Became a Vampire and a Vampirologist

There are two things I have always been certain of: I was never meant for the daylight, and I was born to know vampires.

While vampires in the True Blood sense do not exist, vampirologists do, and I am proud to be both: a vampire in spirit and a vampirologist in title.

One is about who I am, and the other is about why I am. But how, you might ask, can someone be both the monster and the scholar? Let me take you to the shadows where this all began.

OCD VampireJune 25, 2026June 22, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, Haunted, Kaylee Fowler, Paranormal

Poveglia Island: Italy’s Most Haunted Place

Sitting in the Venetian Lagoon between Venice and Lido, Poveglia Island has been called the most haunted place in Italy—and quite possibly the world. Today, the Italian government keeps the island closed to visitors. But why? The answer begins with a plague.

The Romans first settled Poveglia sometime around the 5th century CE, as people from the mainland fled barbarian invasions. Its population grew steadily over the following centuries, thriving on agriculture and fishing. But in 1380, following a naval battle between Venice and Genoa, the Venetian government relocated the island’s residents to the mainland and converted it into a military outpost. Poveglia sat mostly deserted for the next few hundred years—and that quiet stretch of emptiness was about to become very important.

Kaylee FowlerJune 24, 2026June 22, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, NZGeekChic

Weird and Wacky – The Toynbee Tiles

Somewhere beneath the feet of commuters crossing Philadelphia’s busy intersections, a secret is buried in the asphalt.

You might walk over it every single day without knowing. But if you stop, look down, and catch it at just the right angle, you’ll find a linoleum tile, roughly the size of a doormat pressed into the road’s surface and bearing one of the strangest phrases ever embedded in urban infrastructure: TOYNBEE IDEA IN MOVIE 2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPITER. Welcome to the mystery of the Toynbee Tiles.

NZGeekChicJune 23, 2026June 22, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, Indie Community, OCD Vampire, Paranormal, Vampires

Vampirology: The Gothic Science of the Night

What is vampirology? Explore the folklore, history, psychology, and cultural significance of vampires through the eyes of a certified vampirologist.

A Child of the Night: Where It All Began

Before I was a vampirologist, before I was an author, even before I was diagnosed with OCD and photosensitivity, I was a girl haunted by the night.

Other children feared the dark. I was drawn to it.

OCD VampireJune 18, 2026June 18, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, Haunted, Kaylee Fowler, Paranormal

The Queen Mary’s Ghosts

She once carried the Allied war effort across the Atlantic. Now, the RMS Queen Mary sits permanently docked in Long Beach, California, and she may not be as empty as she looks.

The RMS Queen Mary was launched in 1934 by the Cunard White Star Line and entered service in 1936. At the time, she was the largest ocean liner in the world, stretching over 1000 feet from bow to stern. Her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York was a cultural event, and she held the Blue Riband, the informal prize for the fastest transatlantic crossing, from 1938 until 1952.

Kaylee FowlerJune 17, 2026June 15, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, NZGeekChic, Psychology

Creepy Towns of America – Behind the Tulip Curtain

Every spring, the town of Pella, Iowa erupts in a riot of tulips, tens of thousands of blooms in cheerful red, yellow, and white, drawing tourists from across the Midwest to its Tulip Time Festival. Windmills creak pleasantly in the breeze. Church spires pierce a wide, flat sky. On the surface, Pella looks like a Hallmark movie set, scrubbed clean and picture-perfect.

But linger past the festival weekend, and a different kind of atmosphere settles in one that feels less like small-town charm and more like the opening act of something you can’t quite name.

NZGeekChicJune 16, 2026June 15, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, Haunted, Kaylee Fowler, Paranormal

The Haunting of Thai Lemon Foods Factory

Dark-haired onryo. Kuchisake-onna. Hanako-san of the toilet. Japanese folklore has long dominated the Western horror world, but Thailand’s haunts may just be able to compete. Continue reading The Haunting of Thai Lemon Foods Factory

Kaylee FowlerJune 10, 2026June 8, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, NZGeekChic, Serial Killers & Murders

The Truck, the Scream, the Telephone ( The Night Angela went Missing)

Picture it: a spring night in small-town Missouri, April 1991.

Angela Hammond, twenty years old, four months along, ring on her finger, whole life ahead of her like a long country road with the porch light on at the end. She drops her fiancé Rob at his folks’ place, swings by a payphone because that’s how you stayed in love before the internet, eh and rings him up just to keep talking a little longer.

NZGeekChicJune 9, 2026June 8, 2026Leave a comment

Edward Nygma enters our Arkham Files with his intellect and obsession with puzzles. Explore the dark psychology behind his fixation on admiration, his need to outsmart Batman, and his profound grandiosity.

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For centuries, Cinderella has been celebrated as one of the world’s most beloved fairy tales. Yet beneath the glass slipper and happily ever after lies symbolism that modern psychology finds surprisingly intriguing.

The Origins of Cinderella

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Scotland is home to many magnificent landscapes and medieval castles. With a history stretching back to the Early Middle Ages, it is also home to one of the fortresses that helped inspire the iconic Castle DunBroch from Brave.

The History of Dunnottar

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The ancient art of marinating yourself in honey for the good of mankind, naturally.

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For centuries, Snow White has been celebrated as one of the world’s most beloved fairy tales. Yet beneath the poisoned apple and happily ever after lies imagery that modern psychology finds surprisingly unsettling.

The Brothers Grimm Fifty-Third Fairy Tale

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The Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) A night shoot in the canyons above Los Angeles ended with three dead and Hollywood changed forever.

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This review covers independent artist Addy and his latest 2026 single, Afterlife. His music carries influences reminiscent of HIM, The Cure, and, to a lesser extent, She Wants Revenge.

Who Is Addy?

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Vampires have existed in folklore across the world for centuries, captivating people with their immortality, their hunger, and the mysteries surrounding the undead. While many immediately think of Dracula, Greece has its own terrifying vampire: the vrykolakas.

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America has no shortage of ghost stories, but few have the documented pedigree of the Bell Witch. Unlike most hauntings, the Bell Witch was witnessed by hundreds of people and investigated by a future president of the United States.

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On a muggy August night in 1977, a strip of computer printout rolled out of a machine at Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope, and astronomer Jerry Ehman did something almost no scientist ever gets to do.

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At Gothic Bite Magazine, we are proud to showcase the work of artists and photographers whose creativity helps bring the strange, beautiful, and unexplained to life. This week, we are pleased to welcome photographer Kelsey Milsap and share her work with our readers.

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Biters it’s been far too long… But I am back once more with a new topic and some personal anecdotes to go with it. The tail end of May a movie of the backrooms came out so what say you biters shall we get lost in the internet’s endless yellow hellscape that is the backrooms?

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There are two things I have always been certain of: I was never meant for the daylight, and I was born to know vampires.

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Sitting in the Venetian Lagoon between Venice and Lido, Poveglia Island has been called the most haunted place in Italy—and quite possibly the world. Today, the Italian government keeps the island closed to visitors. But why? The answer begins with a plague.

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Somewhere beneath the feet of commuters crossing Philadelphia’s busy intersections, a secret is buried in the asphalt.

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What is vampirology? Explore the folklore, history, psychology, and cultural significance of vampires through the eyes of a certified vampirologist.

A Child of the Night: Where It All Began

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She once carried the Allied war effort across the Atlantic. Now, the RMS Queen Mary sits permanently docked in Long Beach, California, and she may not be as empty as she looks.

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Picture it: a spring night in small-town Missouri, April 1991.

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