by mike | Feb 15, 2024 | Death, Horror, Myths & Legends, Nightmares, Uncategorized |
This story is enough to spoil anyone’s appetite. I first presented this post in2020. When Wes Craven, the late film director, needed source material for his 1977 horror classic, The Hills Have Eyes, he turned to a story that combined truth and possibly fiction. An...
by mike | Jan 11, 2024 | Curious Possessions, Myths & Legends, Travel, Uncategorized |
When my bride and I returned from an amazing trip to Iceland over a decade ago, we brought home the studious troll you see pictured here. Icelanders love their trolls (and elves, too) and are happy to point some of them out to visitors—the ones that have been turned...
by mike | Jan 1, 2024 | Books, California, Horror, Myths & Legends, Native Americans, Uncategorized, Writing |
First of all, Happy New Year! For my first post of 2024, I hearken back to my first of four horror novels. Originally titled The Well and published by Bantam Books, the book is now called The Modoc Well and is part of my own imprint, Atoris Press. In addition to being...
by mike | Dec 21, 2023 | Horror, Monsters, Myths & Legends, Uncategorized |
The story of the Jersey Devil is one of the weirdest that I’ve come across. This post first ran in 2020. Did a woman named Deborah Leeds give birth to a spawn of Satan in 1735? According to the folklore of the forested Pine Barrens region in the southern part of what...
by mike | Oct 19, 2023 | Creature Features, Guilty Pleasures, Horror, Horror Movies, Humor, Monster Movies, Movies, Myths & Legends, Uncategorized |
Alaska being such an odd place, it could very well have a dragon in its midst. 😊 This post first ran in 2020. Okay, I’m embellishing here. But in the 2009 creature feature, Wyvern, a mythical dragon chows down on the quirky residents of a small town in northern Alaska...
by mike | Oct 9, 2023 | Aging, Movies, Myths & Legends, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
Steven Spielberg’s 1977 science fiction classic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, is definitely in my Top 5 favorite movies. It led me on a decades-long pilgrimage to the Devils Tower in Wyoming, which culminated with me reaching the magical place in 2017. It is an...
