31 Days of Spoooktacular: The Haunting of Dylan Charles

I recently talked about the fact that I now live in a haunted apartment. I don't know who or what it's haunted by, I just know that, on occasion, it gets all creepy up in here. There have been new sounds added into the mix. We both heard the sound of something thumping on the … Continue reading 31 Days of Spoooktacular: The Haunting of Dylan Charles →

31 Days of Spoooktacular: Even a Man Who Is Pure in Heart

For 31 Days of Spoooktacular, I wanted to do the occasional spotlight on the monsters that have formed the deep and gristly backbone of pop culture. Through a society's monsters, you can tell a lot about that society. What scares us, helps to define us. It is no coincidence that, in the wake of World … Continue reading 31 Days of Spoooktacular: Even a Man Who Is Pure in Heart →

I Want to Live in a Haunted House

For the first time, I think I can truly understand why people say that their house is haunted. I don't believe in ghosts. I don't believe in the supernatural. I don't believe in anything that can't be proven with the logical, brute force of Science. But.... Late last night, I was in bed reading when … Continue reading I Want to Live in a Haunted House →

Plans Macabre

So Halloween is rapidly approaching and how. I know you're probably not as excited as I am, since most people who get excited about Halloween are under ten and thinking about candy. As someone who indulges in horror year-round (writing it, reading it, watching it), it's always nice when October comes slouching 'round and everyone … Continue reading Plans Macabre →

The Rules of Horror

Horror movies exist primarily to do one thing: scare people. And, for the most part, horror movies fail in that one goal. They shock, they gross out, they startle, but they don't truly scare. There's nothing scary about Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger. There's nothing scary about torture porn like Hostel and the entire Saw … Continue reading The Rules of Horror →

Superstitious

I consider myself a skeptic. I don't believe in things that I can't verify through either my own experience or through the scientific research of people who get paid for that kind of thing. If I can't touch it, taste it, smell it or see it, or if it hasn't been verified in a lab … Continue reading Superstitious →

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 →