It had been five years since great grand mama L’wanna had passed at the age of 108. As I gazed out the window, an incessant tapping as if a message or call to come forth. I thought it was a bird’s beak, ever tapping, but it was a birch branch hitting the window as the [...]

Rivers cross, at forest dark
A deafening howl, on wind does ride
Of moaning creatures of the night
Hungry to feast and souls to take
The headless horseman, a traitor’s curse
Doomed on galloping steed in haste
A graveyard’s hero aglow, with spirit’s dance
Faceless forms of long dead lives
Emerging from unholy ground
Unmarked graves of powdered bones
Creatures foretold to haunt the wood
Like [...]

Mother had taken me to a green field, with the scent of lavender. I went to play near the forest. It was dark and foreboding as I gazed at the trees and a small path that led between them, beneath the green leaves where the light dimmed as if a roof has been created from [...]

At the turn of the Twentieth Century, the most common cause of death was from infectious diseases, such as Pneumonia, Tuberculosis and Influenza. Infant mortality was high worldwide and the treatment for sexually transmitted diseases such as Syphilis was almost non-existent. With the development of Penicillin, subsequent antibiotics and vaccinations for diseases such as Polio, [...]

According to custom, “the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is given periodically at the Academy Award ceremonies for outstanding contributions to humanitarian causes. It is named after screen actor Jean Hersholt, who served as the president of the Motion Picture Relief Fund for eighteen years. The award trophy is an ‘Oscar’ statuette. Past recipients have included [...]

I have been searching for an authentic copy of The Sexual Mores Of The Bud-Hadnu Tribe translated and edited by Sir Leslie Smythe. Lord Smythe attended numerous meetings of the “Inklings“, a group of literary scholars who met weekly to discuss their works. Members included JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis, the founders and close friends. [...]

It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride’s father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which today is known as [...]

In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night
No Evil Shall Escape My Sight
Let those Who Worship Evil’s Might
Beware The Power…. Of Superhero’s Light
A central theme to any superhero is that they are guardians of the sphere they are designated to watch. Like Buffy, the most human of superheroes struggle over conflict and sacrifice of personal desire for [...]

When Esmeralda Lucinda Goochie Von Bogg-Stuppor gave birth to her only daughter, Llwaxanna, on October 31st, 1587, in a cave of the Carpathian Mountains, only one person was with her.
She was known in Romania as Gussie Van Eldir-Gottenburg, in England as Elizabeth Barrington, and the Vatican as Sister Mary Florence, a nun of the Order [...]