Steveawiggins

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• Stigmatic Thoughts

  

  Stigma is a funny thing.  Almost a superstitious mindset.  Especially when it concerns a non-contagious agent.  When a person becomes a victim of such an... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Little Girl

  

  It might be inferred from the fact that I’ve mentioned it once or twice that I’ve seen The Little Girl Who Lives down the Lane before. On a rainy autumnal... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Groan

  

  Authors are a peculiar but definite taste. Some noteworthy voices have vociferated regarding the wonders of Mervyn Peake. Mine has not been among them, but then... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mighty Mouse

  

  The only way I write my books is by living a regimented life.  It’s front loaded too.  Most of the work is done sometime between two and seven a.m., before... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Shaping Halloween

  

  Halloween is the favorite holiday of many.  I suspect the reasons differ widely.  Although the church played a role in the development of this celebration, it... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Halloween, Disney Style

  

  I really don’t spend much time on social media. It’s literally just a few minutes a day, half an hour at most. I’m too busy to spend more. I tend not to join... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Naming the Dead

  

  It probably just goes with the territory, but I’ve noticed something.  A big part of my job is searching for people on the internet.  (Academics, of course. Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Learning Curve

  

  There’s a learning curve to cold weather living.  Now, I need to define cold weather as when you have to turn on the heat.  Around these parts that generally... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Don’t Stop Moving

  

  Stopmotion is a strangely affecting horror movie. Body horror as well as Euro-horror, it follows the dream-like world of Ella, a stop motion animator. Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Routine Weirdness

  

  I’m weird.  Nobody has to tell me that.  Like most people, I suspect, with my mental condition, I value routine.  Although the time I post on this blog varies,... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not Frightening

  

  Years ago a friend, which I define as someone who wishes me no specific bodily harm, suggested I watch The Frighteners. It finally came to a free streaming... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Evolution of Psychology

  

  We are a fragile species.  Those of us who experienced childhood trauma carry it all our lives, even if it only seems to pop out unexpectedly from time to time.... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mirroring Reality

  

  I watched Oculus for two reasons: it kept coming up as a “freebie” on a service I use, and I’d been thinking about haunted mirrors. Well, three reasons—I also... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Author Pages

  

  It takes me awhile, sometimes.  Maybe it’s a generational thing.  I’ve been blogging for sixteen years now (my blog is a teenager! Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hungry Madness

  

  It’s been on my wishlist of movies to watch for a few years, In the Mouth of Madness. A tribute to Lovecraftian horror, as well as a probing of insanity, it is ... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hallowed Halls

  

  Every time I read a short story collection I tell myself I should do so more often. Knowing that you’re only committing yourself for maybe thirty or forty... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• House Spiders

  

  I give them names, the spiders who choose to live in our house.  That’s how I named Henry, shown in the photo.  I grew up with an almost debilitating... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Colorful Space

  

  Lovecraftian horror translates to film unevenly. Even when it’s successful, as in Color Out of Space, it really isn’t that close to reading Lovecraft. “The... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Unwritten

  

  It has been clear to me for some time now that I won’t live long enough to finish all the books I’m writing in my head.  A good number of them have a head... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Friendly Fear

  

  I opened my book Holy Horror with an epigraph taken from Apocalypse Now, a movie I recently watched again. That quote was from Col. Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2025 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY