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So Cold the River
Just arrived from Amazon and in my book queue (the short one): So Cold the River by Michael Koryta, which I learned about from an NPR interview/review during a recent homeward commute....
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A Family Ghost Story
I heard this from the time I was very little, a story told by my great-grandmother, Hannah Outwater, ne Shook. I was twelve when she died at the age of 86 or 88. Her gift of an animal hand puppet for...
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More on, “So Cold the River”
(Warning: spoilers ahead) It is rare and delightful to find a book I hate to see end. It is rarer to find a creepy book I hate to see end, and this is the first time ever I have hated to see a story...
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The King and the Corpse by Heinrich Zimmer: A Book Review, Part Two
If you haven’t already read it, please begin with Part 1 of this review: http://wp.me/pYql4-1vt We left the young king in a most unusual and disconcerting situation – carrying the corpse of a hanged...
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The Prophet by Michael Koryta: a book review
Half the storefronts are empty in Chambers, Ohio. Abandoned steel mills stand as silent monuments to a past that will never return. Two brothers, Kent and Adam Austin, work in two of the biggest...
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The churchyard horror
Morgan Mussell:Tis the season for chills up the spine, and this is great tale for a windy October night – another wonderful story from Freaky Folktales. Originally posted on freaky folk tales: I have...
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Halloween
Here is a very detailed account of how the very old Celtic festival of Samhain morphed into our current Halloween. I knew some of this but certainly not all the detail Selena provides. Tagged:...
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Samhain ~ The Beginner’s Guide To The Wheel Of The Year
Morgan Mussell:Here is another of Lily Wight’s fine articles on the Celtic Wheel of the Year. This one discusses Samhain, a time of ending and beginning, when the veil between the worlds was especially...
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Hungry Ghosts
Section of Hungry Ghosts Scroll, Kyoto, late 12th c., Public Domain In traditional Buddhist cosmology, there are six major realms of existence. Only two of these, the human and animal realms, are...
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A Family Ghost Story Revisited
Because Halloween is coming and because I’ve been looking at old family albums, I decided to re-post a story I first published in July, 2010, a month after I started blogging. It concerns the “family...
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