If you saw my aliens post, you know it's been raining a lot here lately. The fun part? I'm reading IT by Stephen King, so all this rain freaks me out sets the mood. There's a creek near my house that's been much higher than usual, and the other day when I drove over the … Continue reading Spooky Shot: What the Rain Washes Away
Watch or Don’t: Return to Horror High
George Clooney's film debut, Return to Horror High bills him second on Netflix, but don't get too excited. If you really want early Clooney, go watch The Facts of Life.SummaryA crew is at Crippen High School making a film about the string of murders that were carried out a few years earlier. As people begin … Continue reading Watch or Don’t: Return to Horror High
Watch or Don’t–The Purge: Anarchy
As a speculative writer, I love a good near-future scenario, and I wrote about how The Purge is one of them. While the first film did a good job of introducing us to the world through the lens of a specific family, the sequel promised to take us on a ride through the mayhem. Summary … Continue reading Watch or Don’t–The Purge: Anarchy
Guest Spooky Shot: Creepy Alley
While Ruth and I were out for lunch, we saw this alley, and Ruth put her photographic skills to work. On the bottom left, in addition to the typical liquor accoutrements, there are about a dozen eggs, some broken, some whole. Not just any eggs, but brown eggs. You know, the fancy kind you get … Continue reading Guest Spooky Shot: Creepy Alley
Spooky Video: Aliens in My Front Yard
This happened the other day. Check it out: So a quick image search revealed that it was not aliens, but that doesn't negate my initial response of awe and repulsion. This fungus looks more like a severed finger. Mine look like...something else. The stinkhorn fungus releases a carrion scent out its tip (yes, folks, … Continue reading Spooky Video: Aliens in My Front Yard
Blog Tour & Giveaway: An Aberrant Mind by Ken MacGregor
When we were little, we listened to stories all the time. As adults, our fiction reading tends to be novel length, even though we enjoy other bite-sized texts, like blog posts or YouTube clips. There is beauty in traveling a narrative in the span of a short story, which Ken MacGregor discusses below as we … Continue reading Blog Tour & Giveaway: An Aberrant Mind by Ken MacGregor
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