Grave Slavery: The Real-Life Zombie

It’s almost Halloween, so let’s talk about monsters. Specifically, let’s talk about the trendiest, hippest monster of the zeitgeist, the zombie. Of all the classic monsters, I find zombies the least interesting. For starters, they’re mindless, which means that, despite endless fantasies to the contrary, they’re no plausible, long-term threat to a technical civilization. Their […]

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Thoughts on the ‘Jinx’ Phenomenon

This article was originally published on June 26, 2014 In modern times, the presence of paranormal entities, whether identified as extraterrestrials, poltergeists, or ‘monsters’ like Bigfoot or Mothman, are often associated with the spontaneous failure of complex technology. Paranormalists tend to attribute this to the presence of unusual electromagnetic fields that short out or cause […]

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Story Fertilizer: Mermonsters and Blood Baths

This Story Fertilizer article was first published on May 6, 2014. I saw a couple of intriguing links on Google Plus the other day, both, I think, from the Suppressed Transmissions community. Besides being interesting in the creepy, paranormal fashion I find so irresistible, they’ve stimulated some story ideas that are now percolating. With that […]

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