Erotica, fantasy, and horror writer.
You’re driving along in the English countryside on your way to the next bed-and-breakfast. Villages and towns appear as you turn a bend or crest the hill, then disappear as the road steers you away. Or you’re reading some cozy mystery book set in the British Isles, or a tale of Eldritch horror where innocent …
Meeting with Medusa An erotic short story for Halloween. Note that it’s comparatively mild, but still NSFW. I knew I shouldn’t have tangled with a Gorgon. It could have Medusa. She’d been reported working in Vegas by the other Hunters I’d been in contact with. Or it might have been Stheno or Euryale, her …
Sleek, stylish, discrete. All hail the Queen of Vampires, Catherine Deneuve, from the 1980 horror movie The Hunger.
Some “lively” music always makes work go more quickly, don’t you agree? Rockabilly fun with The Creature from the Black Lagoon, who also moonlights as a record juggler. The title is a pun on “instrumentals.” Swedish lady sings some early rock and roll. The picture is cool and shows she’s not afraid to …
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I like the spookiness, the masquerade element, and the rich trove of vintage memorabilia generated over the years… like these LP and 45 covers. For fun, I looked up the music as well. The rich baritone voice of Boris Karloff, best known for narrating the Christmas special …
They are the things that make children wake screaming, blind with fear, in the middle of the night. They are the things that slip through the cracks under bedroom windows, the things that turn the knobs of bedroom closets and push them open with agonizing slowness, while the children cower under their blankets and pray …
Out of Death, something beautiful. (18th century carved horse skull)
Geisterbahn is German for ghost train, the popular amusement park ride that carries thrill-seekers into dark, eerie tableaus designed to thrill and shock them. The most elaborate of these are found at Munich’s Oktoberfest. In the US, these rides are known as Spookhouses, or Haunted Houses. Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion is an example of the best …
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