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

To Believe Is To Pretend: We Need To Know

Posted on November 29, 2019 by Gene Stewart

If wealth, privilege, and access adds up to the likes of Prince Andrew, trunt, or Jeffrey Epstein, who the fuck would ever want it? Epstein’s island and his Manhattan brownstone were honey-traps for Mossad. There and elsewhere he broke and … Continue reading →

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The Erosion of Corrosion From Corruption

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Gene Stewart

Critical thought has (been) atrophied so we take one step out of the corporate box and jump to emotionalism. Analysis, logic, rationality are not tossed aside, they are not even present in the first place, having been flensed from schools … Continue reading →

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Kurtz’s Foiled Again: A Few Words on Why We Live in an Idiocracy of Crazy Idiots

Posted on November 6, 2019 by Gene Stewart

Many a denier of the paranormal has changed his or her mind when confronted, finally, with a paranormal manifestation.  No believer changes mind confronted by this, that, or another debunking. This is because a skeptic must disprove every anomaly, whereas … Continue reading →

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Review of Crucified Dreams anthology

Posted on September 11, 2019 by Gene Stewart

Crucified Dreams: Tales of Urban Horror Edited by Joe R. Lansdale Tachyon, 2011, 374pp ISBN:  978-1-62696-003-2 $15.95, trade pb A Review by  Gene Stewart  Last night I re-read “Quitters, Inc.” by Stephen King, originally encountered in his first short story … Continue reading →

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You Friend or UFO?

Posted on September 11, 2019 by Gene Stewart

Kenneth Arnold’s original drawing showed these two shapes.  Then came William Rhodes’s photographs, showing this shape. When Arnold saw those in a newspaper he said that was what he’d seen. Interestingly, Rhodes had his negatives and prints confiscated by a … Continue reading →

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Monster Mash Rally

Posted on September 11, 2019 by Gene Stewart

Watched a couple true crime videos on You Tube focused on Hollywood which reminded me that not only is Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin but the film ROSEMARY’S BABY directed by Roman Polanski too is about an ambitious actor who … Continue reading →

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Sifted Ripper

Posted on July 18, 2019 by Gene Stewart

Here’s my précis & review of this material: Robert Paul, a carman, was interviewed the day after Polly Nichols’s murder was reported to say to cops he’d found the body before the constable and had seen another man standing over … Continue reading →

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Pulp Smashes Elitism

Posted on July 15, 2019 by Gene Stewart

I keep reflecting on the pulps. ERB and REH, HPL and so on, to varying degrees of literacy, wrote what has become the basis for genre pioneered by Poe and a few others. Flaws and all, those pulp writers pounded … Continue reading →

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Limbo: How Low WILL You Go?

Posted on July 8, 2019 by Gene Stewart

Talk of Satanic ritual humiliations demanded by producers and other rich assholes who own and run Hollywood, who decide who gets fame and fortune, who is blocked from such, and who is sacrificed to keep others in line, all that … Continue reading →

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Rosabelle Believe

Posted on June 22, 2019 by Gene Stewart

“Rosabelle Believe” was Houdini’s code phrase with Bess for communicating from beyond body’s death. It referred to their favorite song, apparently. There were at least five instances when Houdini failed to debunk Spiritualists or Spirit photographs. He was honest about … Continue reading →

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