2015-10-25 06:00:44Horror industry laymen offer me a standard observation when Halloween rolls around. “This is like your high holy day, isn’t it?” Why, yes, Mr. Joking To Cover Up Your Discomfort, when I’m not carving upside-down pentagrams into my 4-…
2015-10-24 06:00:08From vampires, plague victims, ghosts, golems, and the gate to Hell, some of the best stories are buried in cemeteries. These are some of my favorites. All of these burial grounds are open to visitors. Chinko-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan…
2015-10-23 10:00:16Hallowe’en never really meant that much to me when I was a kid… well, not when I was a teenager, anyway. I was born in late 1961. My childhood, as it turned out, was one of above average mobility…
2015-10-23 06:00:11During the late 1970s and 1980s, the city of Detroit was plagued by Mischief Night or Devil’s Nights riots that saw widescale arson attacks taking place over the Halloween period, kicking off the night before on 30th October). The…
2015-10-22 06:00:19Halloween offers a perfect time to ponder haunting images and innermost fears, probing the question, what scares you? The question “want some candy, little boy?” is the stuff of urban legend, though each Halloween the promise of treats sends…
2015-10-21 06:00:54When one is a child, Halloween is about trick-or-treating for candy. Treats as in Halloween, and not from any other holiday. Except in 1965, I learn the horror of Easter peeps. Those marshmallow treats in shapes of yellow chicks.…
2015-10-20 10:00:01 I’m a proud Dane and we are often considered the “Happiest people on Earth”. Danes, apparently, live a life of bliss in The Fairy Tale Nation of H. C. Andersen. This is mostly true, but growing up here…
2015-10-20 06:00:25Yep, I’m an old guy, so I remember going trick or treating back in the ‘60s (that’s a date, not a temperature) in a housing subdivision in Illinois. The subdivision was plenty big (all pre-fabricated houses; our family watched…
2015-10-19 10:00:14Mr. Crow left me his usual calling card—a lump in my neck—inviting me to a follow-up interview at Doylestown Hospital. That night I lay in my hospital bed only sleeping for moments, desperate just to blank out my mind.…
2015-10-19 06:00:37Horror shows its face (or doesn’t if it’s effective) through a lot of mediums these days, be it via television, movie, or my very favorite, books. There are some common themes that you can find with horror regardless of…
