by mike | Dec 10, 2018 | Books, Death, Holocaust, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Last week, in a quiet suburb near San Diego, some moronic cretins thought it would be fun to paint a swastika on the home of a Jewish family. On the first night of Chanukah the family decorated the front of their house with a Star of David and dancing dreidels. Their...
by mike | Dec 3, 2018 | Books, Death, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Nightmares, Paranormal, Psychological Thrillers, Uncategorized |
So what did horror-meister Stephen King think about the Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House, a revisionist version of the 1959 classic ghost story by Shirley Jackson? He tweeted that it was great, practically a work of genius. And remember, he is no fan of...
by mike | Oct 8, 2018 | Death, Ghosts, Myths & Legends, Nightmares, Paranormal, Uncategorized |
Why does a rural road in Nebraska appear on current lists of the scariest places in America? How come there is so much documented paranormal activity along this creepy byway? The following scenario offers some clues as to how the legend of Seven Sisters Road began. AN...
by mike | Aug 16, 2018 | Aging, Baseball, Books, Death, Life, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing |
This was a difficult post to write. It first appeared in 2014. My dad, Murray Sirota, passed away at age fifty-nine in 1969, when I was just a mere slip of a lad—more or less. We knew it would happen; a couple of months earlier he’d been diagnosed with inoperable lung...
by mike | Apr 23, 2018 | Adventure fantasy, Death, Fantasy, Guilty Pleasures, Movies, Uncategorized |
The first time I watched the 2011 historical fantasy/adventure film, Season of the Witch—starring Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman—I did so with no preconceived notions. The verdict: okay, I’d seen better movies, and for sure a whole lot worse, but I found it watchable....
by mike | Mar 22, 2018 | Death, Ghosts, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized |
I still get a kick out of this weird flick. This post first ran in 2014. Be forewarned: the 2002 horror flick, Ghost Ship, has one of the most memorable—and gross—opening hooks in all of filmdom. We find ourselves aboard an Italian luxury ocean liner, the Antonia...
