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October 26, 2015
You’re losing us, AMC and HBO
Why? Because sadistic showrunners apparently no longer get what made us start watching in the first place. To be assaulted by constant slaughter, unrelenting tragedy and the increasingly disgusting weekly gross-out is not why most of us seek fiction-based programming. “Wake up idiot, it’s only a television show and everyone needs to just lighten up and deal.” Yep, […]
October 15, 2015
Meet Mr. Nightmare
When I discovered these videos at Mr. Nightmare’s YouTube channel I was like a kid at…well, you know, that other holiday. Not for the faint of heart, these tales, because the stories collected here are true. Turn off the lights, grab a large knife, a steaming cup of cocoa, settle in and prepare to be scared out of your wits. […]
For your Halloween Pleasure: Mr. Nightmare
When I discovered these videos at Mr. Nightmare’s YouTube channel I was like a kid at…well, you know, that other holiday. Not for the faint of heart, these tales, because the stories collected here are true. Turn off the lights, grab a large knife, a steaming cup of cocoa, settle in and prepare to be scared out of your wits. […]
October 10, 2015
Old and Creepy
No superheroes here… Filed under: Eerie, Funny, Ghosts, Halloween costumes of years past, scary costumes Tagged: costume, Costumes of Halloweens Past, Creepy Clowns, Halloween, scary pictures
September 6, 2015
6 True Stories from History Creepier Than Any Horror Movie
Originally posted on Greenview Asylum:
“6 True Stories from History Creepier Than Any Horror Movie”. Jacopo della Quercia. 30 December, 2013. Cracked.com. History books are full of grisly details about who got stabbed, what town got burned to the ground, and which kings married their cousins — so imagine the stuff that gets edited out. Or, you…
“6 True Stories from History Creepier Than Any Horror Movie”. Jacopo della Quercia. 30 December, 2013. Cracked.com. History books are full of grisly details about who got stabbed, what town got burned to the ground, and which kings married their cousins — so imagine the stuff that gets edited out. Or, you…
August 10, 2015
GREEN LAKE in print
I noticed that many people who enjoyed the free e-book went looking for a hard copy, and scarcity caused many of the booksellers to charge premium prices for the hardcover, so I’ve made it available in paperback for what I hope is a reasonable cost! Thanks to all of you out there who love the story […]
August 8, 2015
Summer Rain
Beautiful sounds by Evan Epperson and Megan Bracciano. Three of us were sitting in a hotel room somewhere in the south and the opening ceremony of the Olympics was on the television. Evan picked up the guitar, started strumming the first notes of the song, and sang two words ‘summer rain’. Megan hummed along and I […]
August 2, 2015
Edith Channel’s Long Walk
Originally posted on HuffWire:
1. From the Lawrence, KS Daily Journal-World, 2/4/1915 Lawrence, Kansas is 41 miles west of Kansas City. The weather in Lawrence on February 4, 1915, was “generally fair,” though there was a chance of snow in the “west portion” that night. Edith Channel was walking west, into that snow. 2. McPherson…
1. From the Lawrence, KS Daily Journal-World, 2/4/1915 Lawrence, Kansas is 41 miles west of Kansas City. The weather in Lawrence on February 4, 1915, was “generally fair,” though there was a chance of snow in the “west portion” that night. Edith Channel was walking west, into that snow. 2. McPherson…
July 16, 2015
6 Year Old Tried for Murder
Originally posted on Historic Horrors:
In Paintsville, a small eastern coal-mining town in Kentucky, Carl Newton Mahan became the youngest person ever tried for murder. On May 18, 1929 Carl, age 6 and his friend Cecil Van Hoose, age 8, found a scrap of iron that they planned to sell to a junk dealer for…
In Paintsville, a small eastern coal-mining town in Kentucky, Carl Newton Mahan became the youngest person ever tried for murder. On May 18, 1929 Carl, age 6 and his friend Cecil Van Hoose, age 8, found a scrap of iron that they planned to sell to a junk dealer for…
July 10, 2015
The Story Behind To Kill a Mockingbird
Originally posted on TIME:
A few giants towered above the others on the fiction best-seller lists in the early 1960s: James Michener, Irving Wallace, Herman Wouk, Irving Stone, Saul Bellow, John O’Hara, Leon Uris, their titles flashing their authors’ intentions to loosen their ties, put down their bourbons, tamp out their cigarettes or pipes and…
A few giants towered above the others on the fiction best-seller lists in the early 1960s: James Michener, Irving Wallace, Herman Wouk, Irving Stone, Saul Bellow, John O’Hara, Leon Uris, their titles flashing their authors’ intentions to loosen their ties, put down their bourbons, tamp out their cigarettes or pipes and…
