Take a look inside the bizarre and beautiful world of Life Magazine photographer Nina Leen, aka "The Lenslady."

Lugosi on stage-late 1940′s

As a retrospective dedicated to Anna Sui opens in London, we look to Blithe Spirit, the 1945 Noel Coward-penned comedy which inspired the designer's dark and glamorous A/W17 collection

‘50s Portland horror hostess, Tarantula Ghoul Everyone knows about Vampira, the 1950s TV horror movie hostess whose iconic character drew influence from the Morticia character of Charles Addams’ New Yorker cartoons, the Dragon Lady from the comic strip Terry and the Pirates and the evil Queen Grimhilde from Disney’s Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs. She is considered to be the first “television horror host.” Vampira’s highly successful show was cancelled after only a year in 1955 when she refused to sell the rights to the character to ABC. The popularity of the Vampira character spawned imitators all over the country. It seems that at some point every major television market has had at least one ghoulish horror host or hostess. One of these was Portland, Oregon’s Tarantula Ghoul—known as “Taranch” to her fans. From the March 29, 1958 issue of TV Guide. Tarantula Ghoul was a vampy “monster of ceremonies” for KPTV’s House of Horror from 1957 to 1959. Played by Suzanne Waldron, the Vampira-like character bears a striking resemblance to Wynona Ryder’s Lydia Deetz character from Beetlejuice. House of Horror followed the standard format of showing z-grade movies with comedy bumpers. The cast members...

Homosexuality was still taboo in 1943, but that didn't stop long-forgotten noir film "The Seventh Victim" from boldly tackling female desire onscreen.

Actress Marian Martin in a Satan-themed burlesque cape. Martin actually played a dancer named ‘Pinky Lee’ in the 1943 film, ‘Lady of Burlesque’ which was based on the novel ‘The G-String Murders’ written by strip tease queen Gypsy Rose Lee. Martin was not a burlesque performer, but her costume is in the satanic burlesque spirit of this post. Of the many fun things that comes along with being a part of the diverse compendium that is Dangerous Minds, those rare days when my feet hit the floor, and I have no idea what I’m going to write about that day, are not among them. Which is why I try to stockpile posts concerning the guy who should have built my hotrod, Satan, for those kinds of days. Because let’s face it—Satan is a big crowd pleaser among DM’s readership. Burlesque performer Diane de Lys in a publicity photo for her show ‘The Devil and the Virgin,’ 1953. I hate to admit it, but sadly I know very little about the world of burlesque despite having a few friends who actually work in the field professionally. So the discovery that dancers back in the 1920s and 193...

Basic Plot: Death by fear + Magicians + Nazis = Scared to Death.Fun Fact: This film is the only color film Bela Lugosi starred in.

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I love all the early photos of Joan Crawford from the 1920s and early 1930s. They’re so different from the severe studio shots from the late 30s and 1940s and she looks like a completely different person. This photo was taken in 1930. Source and copyright: This work is in the public domain in the(...)

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Take a look inside the bizarre and beautiful world of Life Magazine photographer Nina Leen, aka "The Lenslady."

Somewhere between the world's greatest inventions are some offbeat and rather bizarre ones. Yes, we know that every single idea and invention, no matter how weird, is all part of the large-scale innovation process.

These photographs of pop culture and historic events of the past will give you a wave of nostalgia and a look into our history. Our present is built on a foundation of the past, therefore understanding what life was like a decade or a millennium ago is vital to learning what was considered important to people of the past.

For a genre that loves nothing more than a final girl trope, horror always seems to be incredibly saturated by men. Don’t get me wrong, I loves me some Stephen King and John Carpenter, but ho…