Mocha Dick Could Have Been Assigned Reading

Good thing he changed his name.

I didn’t look up the names of the real-life sea animals that inspired Herman Melville’s Moby Dick outside of this historical facts page. Because the Google search results were scary. But someone decided that Mocha Dick was the perfect name for the understandably destructive albino sperm whale that attacked more than 20 whaling ships in the 19th century. that’s it. That’s it, you’ll never see the same title again.

Read the cards and read about this forgotten occult fam

Today’s Halloween feast has a delicious occult flavor because of the deep connections that remain between bookworms and the occult. In both real life and fiction, there are quests for rare occult books. read card. The cards I will be talking about are Tarot, the most famous of which is the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. But do you know the woman behind these cards? Occult scholar Arthur E. Waite commissioned Pamela Colman Smith (Pixie to her friends) to illustrate a tarot deck, and 80 tarot illustrations were completed. Colman-Smith’s life is the stuff of novels, with the sad ending typical of female creatives living in the early 20th century, and her race and sexual orientation a point of study and mystery. Coleman-Smith had a more direct connection to the world of books and publishing as an illustrator of children’s books and folk tales. Read more about this artist who deserves more attention.

6 Best New Books Released on October 28, 2025

In the news of an even bigger book release, Harper Lee’s latest posthumous work is now in stores. This is a collection of stories and essays, and since they are complete works, they are probably less controversial than Go Set a Watchman. Learn more about Lee’s latest and this week’s new books.