Month: October 2017

Yes, Halloween is more than just one day. We all know that. For me, if stretches from the beginning of October until Thanksgiving–although some folks might argue that, for me, Halloween is all year long, that every day is Halloween. I’d have to plead guilty. But this time of year is when the rest of…

I’d heard this one before. A riddle that only psychopaths/sociopaths can answer. I actually thought the answer was obvious. Does that make me a psychopath? Maybe I’ve just trained myself to think like one. You know that TV show CASTLE on ABC? I never watched it; I’ve caught bits and pieces of it from time…

At long last, Spirit Halloween opened up in a town near me–with “near” being a relative term, as it’s at least an hour’s drive for me to get there–and naturally I had to drop by at my first opportunity. Remember this guy? The Limb Ripper. I wrote about him a few weeks ago. Now I’ve…

Damn, there’s a lot of depravity in the news this week–and I’m not talking about the usual political garbage to which we are subjected on a daily basis. I’m talking a more overt kind of depravity. A cannibal murderer might not have any more morality than your typical politician (or President) and vice versa, but…

Ever wonder how the belief in the werewolf became so prevalent during the Dark Ages and earlier? Take one part the awareness of the dark side of human nature, our own innate beastliness, our instinctual bloodlust. Throw in a time and place, or places, where the threat of being attacked and killed by a wolf…

Vaughn Belak is a gifted artist who wants to bring the world a coffee table book of his artwork. Rather than wax poetic on why you should support him–even though I’m fairly good at waxing poetic–I figure that old adage about a picture being worth a thousand words is applicable here. I will intersperse snippets…

Make no mistake, my friends. RAW is a werewolf movie. It isn’t called a werewolf movie. The lead character at no point sprouts fangs or fur. There are no references to full moons, wolfsbane, silver bullets, or any of the other tropes. The heroine of the piece does not undergo an outwardly physical transformation. Her…