A TRIP TO WEREWOLF COUNTRY: Driving Bray Road, Part One

If you’ve only heard of Bray Road, near the little town of Elkhorn, Wisconsin, as it relates to the legendary Beast of Bray Road—a creature that has been seen numerous times by numerous people and fits to a T the proverbial physical description of a werewolf straight out of a Hollywood Horror flick—you’d be forgiven…

THE HUNT Part Nine

“I want you to know, you need to know, that I had a long conversation with the Sheriff last night,” Pete Corelli said. “Is that right?” Saint’s face remained unchanged but his eyes hardened. “I figured, once we were down in the cave, that’d be the perfect opportunity for you to kill me. Or Mr.…

Jackalman (and the Thundercats)

I’m writing it the way they spell it, but it really should be “Jackal Man,” or even better, hyphenated like “Spider-Man.” “Jackal-Man” gives you an accurate idea of what the name is describing. “Jackalman” sounds like an obscure Jewish surname; which, if I remember correctly from the mythos of the cartoons, it may have been.…

THE HUNT Part Eight

“Did you have to wear shorts?” Pete asked, not loud enough for anybody else to hear. “I wanted to be comfortable,” Arly said. “Why?” “You’re chumming the waters.” “What?” “You know, sharks. And those look good on you, too. They fit a little too well, if you catch my drift.” “Why are you looking at…

THE HUNT Part Seven

Nadie dreaded the winter. Each one seemed to get worse, though she knew that was just her arthritis. The cold got down deep into her bones and set her joints to throbbing. It seemed like she hurt most days of the year now, with a few weeks respite during the all-too-short summer. Out on the…

How To Get Yourself Blocked 101

We maintain a zero tolerance approach to trolls here at this website and on our sister sites vampires.com and darkness.com. Troll messages are immediately deleted when we get them, which I am happy to report is extremely rare. Far more common are the rambling, pidgin English missives we receive wherein the writer pleads with us…