Author Archives: Gene Stewart

About Gene Stewart

Born 7 Feb 1958 Altoona, PA, USA Married 1980 Three sons, grown Have lived in Japan, Germany, all over US Currently in Nebraska I write, paint, play guitar Read widely Wide taste in music, movies Wide range of interests Hate god yap Humanist, Rationalist, Fortean Love the eerie

Shadowed Life Memoirs

Some Random Creepy Autobiographical Stuff: Small taters but true:  I was in the kitchen preparing the post-pills snack I’m supposed to have.  The floor was clear.  I know this because I’d dropped a fork.  Went into the living room to … Continue reading

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People, Places, or Landscapes?

We have spoken about haunted houses for as long as we’ve had houses. This causes me to wonder if there were haunted caves, tepees, or Viking long houses. In other words, were all human dwellings haunted? Has it to do … Continue reading

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Review: Disappearance At Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay

Disappearance At Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay Wm. Morrow, ©2016 hc, 1st edition, 327pp A Review by Gene Stewart Disappearance At Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay is a delineation of the details of a missing child from the mother’s and … Continue reading

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A Missing Time Incident

My friend Dan and I were talking one summer evening in my living room at 600 W. Lloyd St. in Ebensburg, PA.  We were sitting in the living room but around 11 my mother came partly down the stairs and … Continue reading

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Critics & Especially Horror These Days

Written in response to a writer angry about critics: So someone sneered at your latest work of fiction, calling it “mere horror”. You immediately hate all criticism. That leads to a problem. You’re no good as a writer without good … Continue reading

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What Suits the Audience

I watch SUITS. I see how it is manipulative, simplistic, and shallow, using every cheap soap opera trick to jerk the feelings of sappy open-mouth viewers. Every move is obvious, predictable, and as familiar as your own discomfort. I realize … Continue reading

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A Tribe Among Us, Unseen

Finished Vol. 1 of Missing 411, subtitled Western U.S. by David Paulides.  Began Vol. 2. The Eastern U.S. & Canada.  Also reading The Phantom Killer by James Presley.  Also Finders Keepers by Stephen King.  A YA novel, two anthologies, and … Continue reading

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Review of The Sign and the Seal by Graham Hancock

The Sign and the Seal by Graham Hancock Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1992, Trade 600pp, $14.00, Index, Reference Notes, 2 maps, 61 b&w photographs A Review by Gene Stewart Then a world economics reporter, the East Africa correspondent for The Economist, … Continue reading

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Review of Psi Spies by Jim Marrs

Psi Spies:  The True Story of America’s Psychic Warfare Program by Jim Marrs New Page Books, 2007, $15.99 318pp, Appendix, Notes, Index ISBN-13:  978-1-56414-960-2 ISBN-10:  1-56414-960-9 A Review by Gene Stewart This book was suppressed from the summer of 1995 … Continue reading

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Review of All Those Broken Angels by Peter Adam Salomon

All Those Broken Angels by Peter Adam Salomon Flux/Llewellyn, 2014 227pp, $9.99 US ISBN:  978-0-7387-4079-9 A Review by Gene Stewart At age six, Richard hid his eyes and counted to a hundred while his friend, Melanie, scampered off behind him … Continue reading

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