I’m Your Boogeyman

I came to the shocking realization that I've taken a fairly passive role with Halloween this year. As I think I've mentioned before, in year's past I used to write one short story a day for the entire month of October. Since I've decided not to do that anymore, I've been writing about scary things, … Continue reading I’m Your Boogeyman →

Not Scared of a Steadicam

I haven't been scared by a book or movie in a long time. Oh sure, I've managed to scare myself by walking in the woods at night while bears rustle around in the underbrush, but that's not the same thing. If you have to put yourself in danger to scare yourself, it's not as much … Continue reading Not Scared of a Steadicam →

Horror Movie Primer: Monsters

For the uninitiated, finding the proper horror movie can be a difficult and daunting task. You're feeling a dire need to get into a Halloween mood, but you don't know which movie to get and your weird friend that watched too many horror movies and who talked about them way too much went crazy and … Continue reading Horror Movie Primer: Monsters →

Kenmore Station

Kenmore Station sits between two busy roads, hemmed in by a near constant stream of traffic. The buildings (old worn brick and faded paint, towers with rounded sides and pointed tops, renovated, condemned, renovated) line the way, with shops and businesses. They opened under different names a long time ago and closed and reopened again. … Continue reading Kenmore Station →

Slashed

Perhaps the most tasteless and least artistically driven of all horror films are slasher films (ignoring the new torture genre, because I refuse to acknowledge it). The very premise (killer kills people) is not the headiest point to start from, but there have been worthwhile whacks at the genre. Psycho is a proto-slasher movie, the one who … Continue reading Slashed →

The Man Behind the Mask

A blog is often a place for people to vent their secret shames. They can say what they want to say without fear, because the people reading it are, for the most part, complete strangers. It's a way to unburden one's self. That's not really true with my blog. My blog is more read by … Continue reading The Man Behind the Mask →

A Rough Beast Slouches Toward October to Be Born

As Halloween draws ever closer, it becomes clearer to the people closest to me that I'm going completely and utterly insane. I'll spend hours watching the Friday the 13th movies over and over again. I'll leap from unlikely places and frighten old ladies. I'll cover myself in red corn syrup and run through the streets … Continue reading A Rough Beast Slouches Toward October to Be Born →

A Ghost Story: The Lady in Black

It's 1862 and General Burnside has successfully gained control of Roanoke Island. The Confederate soldiers who were captured were sent up to Fort Warren in Massachusetts, a detention center for prisoners of war. Among those captured was Lieutenant Samuel Lanier, a soldier out of Georgia. Lieutenant Lanier manages to smuggle a letter out of the fort to his … Continue reading A Ghost Story: The Lady in Black →

In Search of Ghosts

Since Halloween is now closer than ever, I've been getting interested in the spooky again. This time, what with living in such an old city, my focus has been on haunted places: houses, forts, graveyards and what-have-you. Problematically for me, however, is the fact that I do not believe in the supernatural. This causes an … Continue reading In Search of Ghosts →