Editorial attribution
Daniel Storm covers demons, monsters and horror lore for Morbid Index — grimoire and folklore figures, cryptids and the fictional universes built around them — with a focus on naming primary sources and keeping documented tradition separate from modern invention.
This is an editorial byline. Read our attribution policy and sourcing standards.
150 entries
Lore & Explained · Folklore
Halloween is All Hallows' Eve, not a single surviving Celtic rite. What Samhain, All Saints, souling and trick-or-treating each actually document.
Oct 28, 2026
Lore & Explained · Folklore
What is a witch bottle? Explore genuine English archaeological finds, seventeenth-century counter-magic and the limits of what the evidence can prove.
Oct 28, 2026
News · TV & Streaming
HBO is developing The Birds with Sarah Snook. Compare the Alaska murder-mystery premise with Daphne du Maurier's 1952 story and Hitchcock's 1963 film.
Oct 27, 2026
News · Games
Chucky leaves Dead by Daylight stores on November 24, 2026, but owners keep him. Here is what changes for skins, perks, discounts and cross-progression.
Oct 27, 2026
Lore & Explained · Folklore
Jack-o'-lanterns began with more than pumpkins. Trace carved turnips, Irish wandering-light folklore and the pumpkin's American history through museum and archive records.
Oct 27, 2026
News · TV & Streaming
Bill Nighy joins Apple TV’s Ascension. Compare Rose and the Church of Ascension with Kyle Freeman and the Temple of the Last Days in Adam Nevill’s novel.
Oct 27, 2026
News · Games
Bloodious Games confirms a MADiSON film with Story Kitchen. Here's what the 2022 horror game's possessed instant camera establishes—and what the film hasn't announced.
Oct 27, 2026
Lore & Explained · Games
How Red Nun's Legacy connects the Remothered timeline, the Cristo Morente convent and the Italian horror roots of its survival mechanics.
Oct 27, 2026
News · TV & Streaming
MGM+ has ordered The Black Tapes with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Strand and Sosie Bacon as physicist Alex Regan. Here is what the series changes from the podcast.
Oct 27, 2026
Lore & Explained
Are Abaddon and Apollyon the same figure? Read Revelation 9 in context and separate its angel of the abyss from Bunyan's later dragon-like adversary.
Oct 26, 2026
Lore & Explained
Why does Buer have five legs? Trace his grimoire descriptions, healing claims, seal and the famous nineteenth-century illustration by Louis Le Breton.
Oct 26, 2026
Lore & Explained · Literature
Understand Carmilla's identity, her destruction and Laura's unsettling final memory in Le Fanu's 1872 novella, including its relationship with Dracula.
Oct 26, 2026
Lore & Explained · Literature
Does the Colour leave Earth? Examine the meteorite, Gardner farm, well and final remnant in Lovecraft's 1927 story, distinct from its film adaptations.
Oct 26, 2026
Lore & Explained
Understand Dantalion's many faces, book and powers over thoughts in the Goetia, including what the short entry does and does not say about this duke.
Oct 26, 2026
Lore & Explained · Literature
Why does Dorian Gray die when he stabs his portrait? Explore the 1891 novel's ending, Basil's murder, Hetty Merton and the painting's final restoration.
Oct 26, 2026
Lore & Explained
Meet the returning dead of Grettir's Saga: Karr's burial mound, Glam's haunting and the curse that survives the fight. Compare saga lore with fantasy.
Oct 26, 2026
Lore & Explained · Literature
Who is the Dunwich Horror? Follow Wilbur Whateley, his invisible twin, Yog-Sothoth and Armitage's final confrontation in Lovecraft's original 1929 story.
Oct 26, 2026
Lore & Explained
Was the Prague golem a real creation of Rabbi Loew? Trace the older Jewish motif, later Prague stories and the 1909 version behind its protector role.
Oct 26, 2026