Steveawiggins

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• Scrolling Along

  

  I’ve got a condition.  “Oh, we know!” I hear you say.  But I mean a specific one.  Fast moving images make me nauseous.  It can be debilitating. Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Feeling Gothic

  

  Gothic is an odd movie. I first saw it while in seminary and have come back to it now and again. I had been thinking of Frankenstein, so I decided to refresh... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Philosophical Thoughts

  

  Please don’t read too much into this!  I read a lot of professors who spend their careers trying to understand a previous scholar’s thoughts. Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Yes, Yes

  

  You had to’ve seen this coming. Ouija: Origin of Evil, with a different director and writer, and the same producer, pulled off the better prequel/sequel. I don’... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Lovecraftian Advice

  

  It seemed natural enough to follow up Stephen King’s On Writing with H. P. Lovecraft’s famous essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature. Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Yes, Maybe

  

  The truth is, only experts and professionals can really keep up with horror films. As the most successful genre of, well, genre films, there are tons of them. Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Academic Publishing

  

  I had lunch with a friend a couple months back.  He is one of the few people who’s read The Wicker Man (the Devil’s Advocate version). Not many reviews... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not the Witch

  

  Hagazussa came to my attention from, I believe, the New York Times. In the autumn normally staid news sources start suggesting horror films to watch. Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Questioning Paradise

  

  The term “dark academia” is somewhat difficult to define. It is a rather new aesthetic, but it has been the topic of books and movies for some decades. Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Publishing Deportment

  

  I don’t know if anybody reads this blog for publishing advice (editors are easily edited out, I know!).  But still, here goes.  It pays, in many ways, to... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Learning to Write

  

  If you’re not famous as a writer, nobody asks you for advice on improving their game. Part of that is simply having a writer’s outlook. We all have our own idea... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Dead Trilogy

  

  When we lived in New Jersey our internet wasn’t fast enough for streaming. I’d watched George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, but I was... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Another Level

  

  Jack Finney is probably best remembered as the person who came up with the idea for The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. His book, The Body Snatchers, was the... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Oblong Box

  

  When Borders was closing—a sad day in the annals of American readers—things were marked down.  On one venture to a remaining store somewhere in New Jersey, wher... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ending the Cycle

  

  Curious to finish out the “Poe Cycle” of American International Pictures, I looked up The Oblong Box. The only thing similar to Poe’s tale is the title, as... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Shocking Story

  

  Much of life, it seems, we got right in childhood.  We “grow up” only to learn that others are always right about any multitude of things.  Then you reach an ag... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Next Phase

  

  Sometimes I get things backwards. You have to understand that in the pre-internet era finding information was somewhat dicey. Those of us from small towns had... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Those Who Know

  

  I felt a little bit odd being asked.  A local school invited me to be consulted on classroom decoration.  I took a total of one class in interior design as an... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Escape Room

  

  I didn’t go out looking for horror films in 1979. I knew about Alien, of course. Everyone did. Even in a small town. I didn’t see the movie until many years... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mind the Gap

  

  One of the general rules for writers is not to engage in too many platforms on social media.  There are a few reasons for this advice, the largest one being... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2024 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY