Month: January 2019

Everybody and his kid sister’s cousin’s third-grade teacher has been talking about this movie on the social media the past few days. Some folks are digging it, some are really digging it, and some gave it a resounding “meh.” I have yet to watch it, but I do find the premise interesting. It’s like a…

Ron Whitlow slowed to a stop at the curb in the rear of his partner’s house. “What is she doing now?” Roosevelt Brewster said. From the air-conditioned interior of Whitlow’s pick-up, they watched the old woman moving around in the back yard. Mathilda Jackson got down on her knees as though praying. “She still acting…

The herb called Angelica was revealed in a dream, so it is said, to be the cure for the plague. (I don’t think it worked to any large degree.) It is called the “Root of the Holy Ghost” and is associated with the Archangel Michael. Consuming it is said to prevent your being poisoned by…

Cue the Church Lady, as portrayed on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE by Dana Carvey. We need her famous catchphrase. A representative of the Opp, Alabama Police Department recently posted this on Facebook in regards to a series of local homicides: “THIS PAST SUNDAY, A YOUNG MAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN KINSTON. MONDAY NIGHT, A MOTHER…

I wanted to share with you all this short video showing the preparatory process for the annual (as of last year) Krampus-themed haunted attraction at NASHVILLE NIGHTMARE and other locations around the country. (Thirteenth Floor Entertainment Group, the company that owns NASHVILLE NIGHTMARE, also runs haunted houses and other attractions in various other states.) It…

I didn’t know anything about Krampus until just a few years ago. Had I known I would surely have loved him all along. A Christmas *devil*? A monster version of Santa Claus? That’s tailor-made for the likes of me. Now that I do know him I can’t get enough of him. This does not in…

*This is all Chaney’s fault.* Marley took a bite of the bologna-and-cheese sandwich Leland had made for her, chased it with a swig of lukewarm water from a plastic cup. *Little Miss porn star. I always warned her that something like this could happen. But the bitch wouldn’t listen.* Leland ate from an opened bag…

Back in 1978, there was no Internet. There were no VCRs or VHS tapes, much less DVDs or live-streaming. People couldn’t watch STAR WARS just anytime they wanted to. To keep the franchise fresh in people’s minds in-between movies, George Lucas agreed to let CBS create THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL. The result was the…

Not only is the Winter Solstice the longest night of the year—That’s right, friends; as you sit reading these words (and assuming you are reading them when they are “hot off the press,” that is to say recently posted) the nights will have grown shorter. (Granted that is just by a matter of seconds or…

The “rules” in the folklore regarding the means by which a person could become cursed (or as some would see it, blessed) with Lycanthropy are anything but consistent. There is no one true path, no single means by which it can be accomplished. That’s the cool thing about folklore—maybe I should capitalize that—Folklore—it is a…