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• Early Ghosts

  

  I’m not the most impulsive person in the world, but certain books I know, as soon as I see them, I will read. Irving Finkel’s The First Ghosts was one of those... Read more

  The 22 September 2023 by   Steveawiggins
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• Ravens and Autumn

  

  In need of some diversion, and seeking some way to celebrate the equinox, we made our way to Mount Gretna.  With a population of less than 300 souls, Mount... Read more

  The 23 September 2023 by   Steveawiggins
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• Dental Dawn

  

  Someone knowing my interest in religion and horror recommended Teeth. A comedy horror film based on the concept of vagina dentata—an idea I first encountered... Read more

  The 24 September 2023 by   Steveawiggins
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• Banned Monk

  

  One of the strange things about gothic fiction is that, although often set on the continent, the early practitioners—inventors, if you will—were English. Read more

  The 25 September 2023 by   Steveawiggins
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• Waiting for the Sun

  

  Waiting.  It’s difficult in the best of circumstances.  It’s even harder when dealing with multiple sources of delay.  For example: it has been unseasonably coo... Read more

  The 26 September 2023 by   Steveawiggins
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• Selling Or Buying Aveiros

  

  Kikar reported, prompted by some tweets by Haredi journalist Haim Goldberg, on a weird situation that happened near the Satmar beis medrash in Jerusalem before... Read more

  The 26 September 2023 by   Gldmeier
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• Gods and Crafts

  

  Those of us who write fiction, I suppose, often ponder what it would be like having a kind of writing named after us. Knowing that’s not likely to happen we... Read more

  The 27 September 2023 by   Steveawiggins
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• Beautiful Vampire

  

  It’s been a quest years in the making. I first found the Dark Shadows novels by Marilyn Ross at the Goodwill Store in Seneca, Pennsylvania. Read more

  The 28 September 2023 by   Steveawiggins
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• Reflecting Spirituality

  

  I always find undergoing anesthesia a spiritual experience.  It’s too bad the the prep for things like colonoscopies is so stressful that it’s difficult to... Read more

  The 29 September 2023 by   Steveawiggins
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• Squidish

  

  I was attracted to the Lovecraftian aspect of the title. Of Tentacles, I mean. I wasn’t away that Into the Dark was a Hulu series of television shows based on... Read more

  The 30 September 2023 by   Steveawiggins
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