by mike | Oct 10, 2019 | Books, Ghosts, Mystery Novels, Myths & Legends, Native Americans, Uncategorized |
In the Navajo culture, the Chindi is a prominent—and feared—figure. “Chindi” is the Navajo word for “ghost,” and this one is no Casper, not by a longshot. This post first ran in 2015. GHOST SICKNESS The traditional Navajo belief is that a person’s Chindi is released...
by mike | Oct 3, 2019 | Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Native Americans, Uncategorized |
This might be one of the guiltiest Guilty Pleasures that I ever wrote about. The post first ran in 2015. I should feel quite guilty about enjoying Nightwing, the 1979 horror film based on the Martin Cruz Smith novel of the same name—a movie reviled by both critics and...
by mike | Aug 26, 2019 | Creature Features, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Native American Films, Native Americans, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
The 2008 made-for-TV (SyFy Channel) horror/sci-fi film, Bone Eater, which appears on many “Worst” lists, is notable for one thing. Its cast consists of a bunch of long-in-tooth actors that we knew from long-ago television shows. I guess it’s good to know that they’re...
by mike | Aug 15, 2019 | Books, Horror, Myths & Legends, Native Americans, Uncategorized, Writers' Retreat, Writing |
I modeled the writers’ and artists’ colony in one of my novels, Demon Shadows, after this amazing place. This post first ran in 2015. For well over a century the artists’ community called Yaddo, located in Saratoga Springs, NY, has nurtured creativity by giving...
by mike | May 23, 2019 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Native Americans, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
These lesser known works by Edgar Rice Burroughs foreshadowed a dystopian future. This post first ran in 2015. I’ve written a great deal about my muse, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and how as a kid I read just about all of his seventy-plus novels. His adventure stories both...
by mike | May 16, 2019 | Books, Bookstores, Fantasy, Films About Books, Movies, Native Americans, Uncategorized |
A children’s book…with an adult message. This post first ran in 2015. If the 1979 novel, The Neverending Story, by German author Michael Ende, is a book about a book, then I suppose the 1984 film adaptation, The NeverEnding Story, can be referred to as a movie about a...
