Halloween Trick or Treating Safety Tips

Every year at this time, kids begin the annual ritual of trick or treating. It’s a fun time for the kids, and in some cases, the parents as well. Police everywhere do have some advice for everyone, however. While this is a fun time of year to be enjoyed, we can’t let [...]

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Ghost Stories: Spirit Photography

What exactly is spirit photography?
According to some, it is a spirit that appears only in a photograph.  Over the years many different spirits have been captured on film, but whether they are real or not is a completely different question.
The first record of spirit photography was with William H. Mumler in the 1860’s.  He took [...]

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Ghost Stories: Evil Angels

This following blog post is a story that Tim and I wrote a good while back. It’s still in the pre-edited sloppy copy draft. The inspiration for the characters in this story are based loosely off the exploits of Elizabeth Bathory.
I give a warning now that the nature of this story dances on the mature [...]

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Black Mask & Pale Rider: Part Thirty

Shani and Pania make their way to Bloomington, Indiana. Unbeknown to them, something ominous awaits their arrival.
Black Mask & Pale Rider: Part Thirty

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Sask Books: Dead Rock Stars

“Dead Rock Stars”
By Wes Funk
Published by Backroads Press
Reviewed by Gail Jansen
Price $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-9781396-1-8
Growing up different from others always makes its mark on who we become as adults. For Wes Funk’s main character Jackson Hill, in his novel “Dead Rock Stars,” growing up gay on a farm in small town Saskatchewan, it’s a mark [...]

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Ghost Stories: Curse of the Mummies

We switch from the familiar settings of North America and Europe to the exotic locale of Egypt for today’s 31 Days of Ghosts.
For decades we have been told of the Curse of the Mummies, a supposed curse that affects anyone who enters the tomb of an ancient Pharoh of Egypt.  The curse has been used [...]

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Long Train Comin’, Pt. 2

Reverend Carter Stewart sat in his train compartment and read from the Bible he carried faithfully with him. The book had become an old friend to him, and a reminder of his younger days as a gunslinger. Finding this worn book changed his ways, and he vowed only to use his pistol in [...]

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Ghost Stories: Catacombs of Paris

Paris. The city of romance, adventure and food. At least on the surface, but did you know that under Paris is a large mass grave?
The Catacombs of Paris are a famous underground grave site known as Oussary. Due to an act of vandalism in September of this year, Paris officials closed the gates to the [...]

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Long Train Comin’

A while ago, Zodi said to me “You need a chapter with a train in Black Mask & Pale Rider.”  She also said “You need to bring back Ya’Row.”  So me, never being one to question such words of wisdom as these, decided she was right.  So here, set between the chapters of Wild Wild [...]

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Ghost Stories: The Wilde Hunt

While it may not be a ghost story per say, it is something of haunting legend.  The Wilde Hunt has it’s place in historical folklore, from the Nordic tribes, the Prussian tribes, Celts, and even First Nation people in North America.  A modern day aspect of the Wilde Hunt is depicted in the song, famously sung [...]

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