Tag: ghosts

• Beasts, Monsters, and Urban Legends of Texas

  Three weeks ago, negatrite! posted a nifty article on creepy things that just might visit your backyard if you live in New Jersey or Delaware. Then he threw out the challenge to show him some creepies from the readers neck of the woods. So I decided to take up the challenge and find out what…

  cwhawes

  May 23, 2024

  cryptids, ghosts, Local Legends

  Bear King, Beasts, Black Eyed Children, chupacabra, creepy things, cryptids, ghosts, Houston Batman, Local Legends, monsters, scary things, urban legends

• The Steampunk Aesthetic

  

  Earlier this month, I was a panelist at the Wild Wild West Steampunk Convention in Tucson, Arizona. During the convention, I had the opportunity to sit on a panel with K.W. Jeter, the man who coined the word “steampunk” in a 1987 letter to Locus Magazine. In the letter, he spoke about fantasies set in…

  David Lee Summers

  March 23, 2023

  Philosophy of Writing, steampunk, The Craft

  Cherie Priest, Frankenstein, Gail Carriger, ghosts, K.W. Jeter, postmodernism, steampunk, vampires, zombies