Steveawiggins

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4674 )

• Of Wolves and Humans

  

  Time has a funny way of distorting perceptions. I remember when The Wolfman (2010; please, I’m not old enough to have seen the classic initial release in 1941)... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Starting October

  

  October’s a difficult month to quantify. When it rolls around I get in the mood for certain books and movies, but I like to see and read new things. Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Down to the Sea in Ships

  

  On the final day of our Charleston odyssey we toured the USS Yorktown, an aircraft carrier dry-docked at Point Pleasant.  One of my uncles served on the Yorktow... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Swamp Things

  

  If I have time, before I go on a trip I like to consider what different flora and fauna I might see.  People from southern states traveling north to Pennsylvani... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Poe’s Charleston

  

  The first thing that came to mind, apart from family, when I learned we were coming to Charleston, is Edgar Allan Poe.  I learned about Poe from my brother at... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Valuable Time

  

  Those who know me are sometimes surprised to learn that I’m half southern, genetically, at least.  My father was a South Carolinian and so I find myself in... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 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

  Posted on 30 September 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 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

  Posted on 29 September 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 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

  Posted on 28 September 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 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

  Posted on 27 September 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 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

  Posted on 26 September 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 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

  Posted on 25 September 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 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

  Posted on 24 September 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 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

  Posted on 23 September 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 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

  Posted on 22 September 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Rocks and Philosophs

  

  Porphyry is, apart from being a cool word, a kind of purplish stone that was prized for statue-making in antiquity.  It is also the name a Syrian philosopher... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• At the Same Time

  

  The philosophically adept movies by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead can be addicting. At least for a certain kind of viewer. These are independent films and... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quick Writing

  

  On the very same day I saw two emails that began with phrases that indicated they were clearly sent by text.  One began “Hell all. Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Keeping Sentinel

  

  Not among the trinity of holy horrors from the late sixties and early seventies, The Sentinel takes its cues from religious horror but manages to fall into bad... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not for Profit

  

  Non-profits are the backbone of our society.  In a world measured by “net worth” some of us are aware that people are more than figures, ciphers on a ledger. Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2023 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY