Randy | October 19, 2011
“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ~ Albert Einstein ~ Apocalyptic events come in many flavours. For example, back in the 50′s and 60′s it was nuclear war that held the spotlight, and thus was born an [...]
Randy | October 17, 2011
If you just slid into Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, or any city in the world for your very first time, would you agree to go touring alone with someone you had only just met? If you have a death wish don’t bother to answer that, but most people wouldn’t. Yet every year people in search [...]
Randy | October 15, 2011
Mark Twain wrote, “When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. But my faculties are decaying now, and soon I shall be so that I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do [...]
Randy | October 14, 2011
In his About.com article on the subject of disappearing objects, paranormal phenomenon investigator Stephen Wagner does a thorough job of cataloguing the various possible explanations for a type of occurrence we’ve all experienced – something disappears and then later returns not only to the exact place we remember putting it, but most maddenly of all, [...]
Randy | October 13, 2011
While Mrs. LFM and I enjoy their products, Canadian winery Sola-Nero has a subtly unfortunate slogan emblazoned on their label – “GOES WELL WITH PEOPLE”. On this thirteenth day of dark sentiments we’re going to delve into one of the darkest of all – cannibalism. Most particularly, we’ll eschew the subject as it has been [...]
Randy | October 11, 2011
On 7 October 2010 I published here my article concerned the curious life and end thereto of Mr. Edgar Allan Poe. Tonight I’ll speak to another literary legend with his own dark baggage – Ambrose Bierce. Born 24 June 1842, Bierce was a prolific journalist and writer in such genres as the history of the [...]
Randy | October 9, 2011
Signs leading into some communities on the south shore of Nova Scotia read, “We love the beauty that surrounds us and welcome you to share it.” Such a sunshiny bit of prose, but t’was not always thus. The town of Lunenburg and its surrounding area was settled by Protestant immigrants of German, Swiss, and French [...]
Randy | October 5, 2011
A recurring theme in the horror genre is supernatural subterfuge that results in one person believing that another has become a monster, with predictably homicidal results. While such events are a matter of record, explained as arising from insanity, the human mind has yet to reveal all its dark secrets. Behold the “flashed face distortion [...]
Randy | October 1, 2011
“I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres; thy knotted and combined locks to part,and each particular hair to stand on end,as quills upon the fretful porpentine!” ~ Hamlet; Act 1, Scene 5 As our regular readers [...]
Randy | September 20, 2011
Back in October 2008, I finished reading a book titled The Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories by acclaimed writer and story collector John Robert Colombo. At the end I found a note from the author that invited readers to submit stories of their own experience with the supernatural for possible inclusion in a future [...]