"The Dream-Quest of Old Kolum”

© 2013

by

Jordan S. Bassior

I.  The Itorloo

A thin wind blew over the cold scrublands that had once been Ohio, stirring the low bushes to meaningless motion. The sun was setting, and somber shadows stretched across the plains, shivering with the movements of the branches that cast them. It was a landscape of ( Read more... )

When I was a small child, I encountered the very first version of Scooby-Doo, namely Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! [sic}(1969-71), and watched it faithfully.  As I got older, of course, I outgrew the series.  The action was silly, the plots repetitive, the humor pure formula, and the characters dull and unbelievable.

The series remained popular and ( Read more... )

"Review of

'The Boy Who Followed Lovecraft'

(c) 2011

by Marc Laidlaw"

(c) 2012

by Jordan S. Bassior

This is a genuine horror story, set in Providence, Rhode Island, in the fall of 1929, about Douglas, an imaginative and intellectual boy who becomes fascinated by the works of H. P. Lovecraft.  When Douglas learns that Lovecraft lives in the same ( Read more... )