As I stated in the previous article in this series, Bray Road isn’t very long. I thus drove up and down in several times. I honestly lost count, just how many. Probably ten, maybe twelve. Several in the day and then I came back at night, after leaving the Walworth County Fair a few miles…
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…
The Werewolf and the Hexham Heads
Have you heard of the Hexham Heads? (I love unintentional alliteration.) Hexham is a town in Northumberland, England. In 1972, allegedly, a pair of Hexham youths were pulling weeds in their yard (it would thus seem that the boys were brothers, since they would’ve been a mite young to be cohabitatin’ otherwise) when they unearthed…
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…
The Real Crime That Inspired TWIN PEAKS
Did you know that there really was a Laura Palmer? Even a monster-sized TWIN PEAKS mark like me didn’t know that, not until a couple’a years ago. I was surprised to read that a real-life crime had inspired the series. The mundane world equivalent of Laura was named Hazel Drew, and she lived not in…
Revisiting the Classics: THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS
A maneating dog and a horde of feral humans locked up in the cellar of an old house owned by an insane incestuous brother and sister? That qualifies it for mention on a site dedicated to werewolves, for sure. Released in 1991, THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS is both a black comedy and a fairy…