Sep 17, 2019 | Mysterious Places, Scary True Stories, The Writing Life
When the Winnipeg International Writers Festival selected me as one of four dark-fiction authors to stay overnight at a haunted house, I was excited, but I didn’t have any expectations–at least not on the haunted side of things. Still, it was an amazing...
Aug 14, 2019 | Scary True Stories, Unsolved Mysteries
I was at a rural farmer’s market on a sunny day when something caught my eye. Amid stalls of questionable antiques was a treasure trove of old horror books that were in sad shape. Amid these gems was Murder in Amityville, written by Hans Holzer and published in...
May 28, 2019 | Scary True Stories
I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty sick of zombies in general–at least, the undead, stumbling, murderous variety. The real thing is much scarier. In the early 1980’s, a Canadian ethnobotanist by the name of Wade Davis traveled to Haiti to...
May 21, 2019 | Scary True Stories, Tales of the Supernatural
The sad fate of the RMS Titanic continues to haunt us. On April 14, 1912, over 1500 people lost their lives due to a tragic combination of human errors. Oddly enough, the disaster could have been avoided if Captain Edward Smith had only read Futility, a work of...
Apr 24, 2019 | Scary True Stories
Welcome to my new Voracious Reader followers. Thanks for your interest in my writing. I hope you stick around! To those still waiting for a blog visit or comment reply from me, I’m getting there. I was unprepared for the epic response to my last IWSG post, and I...
Mar 26, 2019 | Scary True Stories
I hope you’ll all bear with me as I take a slight departure for this post. I still think it’s a scary true story, but in a slightly different way. It stems from something I’ve been noticing a lot lately. Somehow, women seem to have become the...
