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Fear Is Our Fire

Freud said sex is the strongest human drive but I think it’s fear. Do people lost in wilderness or exploring haunted places encounter sexy things? Do they experience waves of urgent sexual need? No, they almost always experience fear.  Fear … Continue reading

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An Alert To All Morlocks About the Eloi

An Excerpt from a Novel of Realistic Horror by Art Wester — We weren’t aware of being doomed back in the 1980s, although Reagan was telling us.  “It’s morning in America.” That’s what he and the neocons proclaimed then. An … Continue reading

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Human Beings and Those Other Things

Excerpt from a Science Fiction novel of Dystopian Realism by Samael Gyre — China is now creating non-persons. Textbook George Orwell, 1984, tactics. They are expunging media presence and all other references to anyone of whom they disapprove. This means … Continue reading

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Howling About Murder At Full Moon

In the archives at Texas University, a piss-poor place to keep the premier California writer’s papers, is a werewolf novel written by a young John Steinbeck. His executors refuse to let it be seen. Early genre fiction affronts them, apparently, … Continue reading

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A Genius Plays a Vintage Gibson

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Unnamed Successor

Two men met at a café off tourist paths. One wore Brooks Brothers, the other, Armani. Both had silvery grey hair, Armani’s sparser. Both wore fashionably-negligible glasses.  They sat at a round table in a corner, each with a back … Continue reading

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

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

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?

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

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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