Category: Fiction Writing

Legend Behind the Jack-o’-Lantern – Guest Post by Stephen Helmes

With Halloween right around the corner, everywhere we look we see the orange and black color scheme, decorations of skeletons, ghouls, witches, and ghosts. When you go into the city, you see store aisles and occasionally entire stores dedicated in celebration of the darkest holiday of the year. On this day of vampires, witches, and…

The Turn of the Screw: the Book & the Movie – a Review

A young governess travels to a secluded estate to care for two children.  She discovers, much to her horror that a couple of ghosts are hanging around, and these children are communicating with them.  The governess fears that these ghosts are evil and attempting to possess the children. The rather creepy children know about these…

A Vexation of Zombies

Have you ever dreamed that a liberty of mummies chased you through a museum? Has a prominence of dhampirs ever saved you from the a basement of vampires? Are you afraid your town will be invaded by a vexation of zombies? Mummies, golems, dhampirs, revenants, skeletons, vampires, wendigoes, and zombies are creatures of the night…

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: the Book, the Audiobook, the Movie, & the Series – a Review

Most everyone has heard of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and its headless horseman that terrorizes a village. You have probably also heard about the movie and television series, both of which are loosely based on the classic by Washington Irving. First is a review of the book, favorite sentences, and new words learned. After…