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More Monsters from Texas
I’m back with a few more interesting monsters from the great state of Texas. Ottine Swamp Thing East of San Antonio is the Ottine Wetlands. They are a relict ecosystem believed to be 12,000 years old. And in case you’re wondering, a relict ecosystem is a particular habitat that exists in geographic isolation from an…
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THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO CAROLINA
I decided to hop on the ‘haunted homelands’ bandwagon this time around, as several other posters did before me. My subject is the U.S. state of North Carolina. Although I no longer live there, it’s a special place to me. I still visit there occasionally, mostly at towns on the islands of the Outer Banks,…
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Mike Flanagan, Pick My Book!
Mike Flanagan, choose my book to adapt and turn into a miniseries! Oh wait, I forgot to include the supplication in that sentence. Mike Flanagan, please choose my book! I daresay that seeing your book adapted into a movie, miniseries, or TV series is a dream of the overwhelming majority of authors, no matter the…
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Horror vs Picture Books (or Good vs Evil)
When my old friend Jack Tyler invited me to join Threads That Bind, I hesitated. The truth is, it’s been a while since I’ve written horror. My writing career began with dark fantasy, dark steampunk, and gothic horror. I later edited the dreadpunk anthologies DeadSteam and DeadSteam II, contributing short stories to each. But since…
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Repulsive
Horror has no boundaries. Most times, horror takes the form of ghosts, an unsolved murder, or even a possessed nun. In this case my idea of horror is an infant left helplessly in the glare of Chernobyl, the blast of a nuke, some form of radiation or infection that gives rise to this three-headed monster.…
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ERAS IN HORROR
Hello again. Since my last post here in the Threads I’ve taken to watching horror movies again. After the newest Evil Dead films, I moved over to see what else is out there. Not just the latest in fright fests, but the horrors of yesteryear. Did you know the French have put out two really…
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A Tour of Proctor Valley
Thursday before last I joined the “Local Legends” series with an essay on haunted San Diego, a high-point of which was the stop in Proctor Valley, epicenter of San Diego’s Bigfoot equivalent, the Proctor Valley Monster. Over the weekend I found this video on the subject by a fellow I’ve enjoyed for a while. I…
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A Witch’s Grave
Folks have been sharing some local spooky legends from their parts of the country in recent posts. For today’s post, I thought I’d share a legend I first heard directly from one of my neighbors in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Like many cities in the southwest, Las Cruces is part of a clumping of towns…
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