This has been at the back of my mind for weeks, since reading a Tumblr post that discusses the idea that US Navy subs which never return are still on patrol, not lost at sea. The resulting comment thread seemed to want to be a song. To top it all off, it's a Christmas song! I'm two months too late for this to be seasonally appropriate, but what the ( Read more... )

"Luella Miller," by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, read by April Grant. Happy October!

I've also started a Tumblr for my audio work: The Moon Dial. Updates will be irregular but heartfelt, and continue beyond October. As I said there--

Our first story of the season: all about good neighbors being kind and helpful.

The Moon Dial is taking requests now. Do ( Read more... )

Well, that was disturbing. I dreamed--just now, a few minutes ago I woke up and am still close enough to this dream to reach back and touch the feelings of dread that it gave me--that I was at a huge gathering of people in a country club or convention center or huge private home. I could not tell which. If it was a public function building it was ( Read more... )

Via handful_ofdust on Twitter. I found it to be an unusually sad and wistful zombie story.

Most of the time I think the Toast is overrated. Every so often it hits me where I live.

Please go over there and read Mallory Ortberg's "Reasons I Would Not Have Been Burned As A Witch In The Early Modern Era No Matter What I Would Like To Believe About Myself And Would In Fact Have Been Among The Witch-BurnersI feel a little bit less embarrassed ( Read more... )

The only thing I don't like about Eye of the Devil (1966) is its name. They're not really Satanists. I understand the movie was to be named "13" for a long time, but the production was fraught and it got a more lurid name late in the production process.

Kestrell and Alexx gave me this movie on a thumb drive back in October 2015, and I finally ( Read more... )

Rec o' the night: Sarah Monette's Kyle Murchison Booth stories. aedifica introduced me to these about a year ago (and now I think about it, I hope to goodness I returned the collection she loaned me ( Read more... )

I've been having a binge of Robert Aickman short horror/weird fiction/who t.f. knows. His short story collection Cold Hand In Mine is here, if you have the urge to scare yourself so badly it's impossible to sleep ( Read more... )