Voices from the Other World BY JAMES MERRILL Presently at our touch the teacup stirred, Then circled lazily about From A to Z. The first voice heard (If they are voices, these mute spellers-out) Was that of an engineer Originally from Cologne. Dead in his 22nd year Of cholera in Cairo, he had KNOWN NO…
31 Days of Halloween – October 24
These are both fantastic and silly. British Pathé and pulled together 3 newsreels about haunted houses in England that aired in the 1950s and 60s. They also curate a fantastic YouTube channel and all this month they are featuring “The Things That Scare Us.” Be sure to check out some of the 90,000 clips they…
31 Days of Halloween – October 23
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31 Days of Halloween – October 22
Ghost in the Land of Skeletons Christopher Kennedy For Russell Edson If not for flesh’s pretty paint, we’re just a bunch of skeletons, working hard to deny the fact of bones. Teeth remind me that we die. That’s why I never…
31 Days of Halloween – October 21
Nelson Rehmeyer was murdered in 1928. An angry neighbor, John Blymire, was eventually convicted for it. But there is more to it than that. The murderer claimed it was all due to witchcraft. In the 20th century. Blymire had been suffering from bad luck for a number of years. His grandfather and father turned to…