

Review: "Never A Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded," by David Hepworth
If you are a baby boomer and love music, if you are a younger person and love music, if you have spent your life listening to tunes and...


Review: "Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga" by Pamela Newkirk
As an accomplished work of historical biography this book serves on all accounts. This amazing, and rather brutal, reckoning of an...


The Halloween Project Day 16: The Attic
The coffin lid of the “Halloween Project” is officially nailed shut with this final tale. 16 days, 16 stories. It’s been an intense...


The Halloween Project Day 15: The Carving
Halloween stories just kill me. Maybe I should use a different term. The mood, the evening, the leaves, the laughter and chatter of...


The Halloween Project Day 14: Bog Man
“Try to tell me exactly.” “I told you. I found a man in the bog.” “A man.” “Yes, a man. A dead man, of course. Dead at least a 1000...


The Halloween Project Day 13: 21 Cousins
This one is dedicated to all my cousins. There actually were 21 of us. Family get-togethers were biblical. Dozens of participants...


The Halloween Project Day 12: You’re Only As Sane As …
This is dedicated to every counselor, psychologist, therapist and psychiatrist I have ever met. Some are interpreters from heaven, some...


The Halloween Project Day 11: Magnetic Personality
Not really science fiction, not really science at all, this little piece is just a metaphor for all the quirky things that exist in the...


The Halloween Project Day 10: School Down Below
A ghost story. Every Halloween needs one. But…a good portion of this is true. Anthony looked across the cafeteria table to Brian and...


The Halloween Project Day 9: Birmingham, West Midlands – 1888
We need one straight out, hardcore, down and dirty, monster story. From Frankenstein to Pumpkinhead monsters are fun. Well, maybe not...