Recent Chilling Tales
San Diego Comic-Con 2016 Preview More panels than a Home Depot
The first day of Comic-Con is such a roller coaster. It’s usually the sweetest day of the whole Con. You are still full of energy, you’ve forgotten how the Convention smells and the pain of waiting in lines, and it’s a day that is usually the least crowded of the four. Looking ahead, here’s what is catching my interest for this magical day.
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New England Vampire Terror – Fear, Disease, Death and Poor Mercy Brown Supernatural scapegoats 200 years after Salem Witch Trials
Mercy Brown and her family lived in Exeter, Rhode Island. The area was sparsely populated and farmers struggled to cultivate the hardscrabble land. Consumption, like many afflictions, was not entirely understood by residents, and was viewed with fear. In fact, many residents regarded consumption as a dark and mysterious thief in the night.
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GRACE PERIOD Author Melinda Worth Popham Traces Her Spiritual Journey on After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio From intensely painful life events to Yale Divinity School and beyond
In a deeply spiritual edition of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio — Thursdays 9-11pE with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen — we speak with gifted author and Yale Divinity School-ordained minister Melinda Worth Popham about the spiritual journey detailed in her memoir of pain and revelation, Grace Period: My Ordination to the Ordinary. We will talk with Melinda in the 10pE hour. At 9pE Joel and Eric will dig into the hot paranormal headlines, and Kirsten Klang will read your real ghost stories!
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Mass Murderers – Political Agenda or Personal Alienation and Failure? What really motivated Orlando, Fort Hood killers?
Whenever a mass murder takes place, the media, the police, and society are looking for that big “Ah-ha!” moment where we get to see into the mind of the mass murderer. We want answers as soon as possible and we want those answers to fit with our impression of who we believe commits these atrocities. The crazier the perpetrator sounds, the better. If he’s a right (or left)-wing-nut with a gun and a political/racial/religious agenda, we can all sit back and opine from our armchairs about gun control, terrorism, or border control.
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Are the Best Paranormal Investigation Shows on YouTube? Popularity of paranormal shows and tourism may indicate a cultural shift
I believe the best paranormal investigation shows can be found on YouTube. It’s where you’ll discover anything about ghost investigations you could possibly hope for – and in many cases in such a fashion as to preclude the possibility of hoaxing. To these groups, the money is unimportant. What they’re after is information – and knowledge. But you have to know how to negotiate the tangle of groups looking to cash in on the paranormal craze and find the few that balance more on the side of investigation rather than entertainment.
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Who Are the 10 Greatest Horror Directors? Yes, this WILL stir controversy
The horror genre oozes with substance. So whittling down the field to the 10 best horror directors—five classic, five modern—proved more challenging than sawing off one’s foot. But we did it. So here you go: 10 sultans of sinister who elevate blood and guts to an art form.
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The Musical Ghosts of the Legendary Stanley Hotel Original owners F.O. and Flora Stanley continue to entertain from the afterlife
The connection between music and the Stanleys hearkens back to days long before the first guests arrived at the Stanley Hotel. Before successful business ventures with photographic dry plates, x-rays, steam-driven vehicles, and the hospitality industry, music was the family business. Freelan Oscar’s father was a world renowned maker of fine concert violins, passing the craft down to his sons. The boys, F.O. and his twin brother, Francis Edgar, created their first miniature instruments at age ten, and their first full-sized at 16. The Stanley Violin was one of the most sought after instruments of its time.
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Supernatural Fiction Author, Magician, Illusionist, Paranormal Debunker Daniel Rumanos on After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio Plus forensic psychologist Clarissa Cole, Kirsten Klang with your real ghost stories
On this particularly freewheeling and wide ranging episode of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio — Thursdays 9-11pE with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen — we talk with mysterious magician, illusionist, paranormal debunker, and author Daniel Rumanos. Rumanos is author of the entertaining and exciting The Weird Adventures of Daniel Rumanos series of supernatural detective stories, and is also president of the Dracula Society of Maryland. We will speak with Daniel in the 10pE hour. In the 9pE hour we’ll have the monthly return of forensic psychologist Dr. Clarissa Cole to the program keeping us fascinated with the wily ways of serial killers, and we’ll also be joined by Kirsten Klang with your real ghost stories!
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The Psychology of THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR Third time's a charm?
The third film in the Purge franchise, The Purge: Election Year, hit theaters, appropriately enough, over the July 4th holiday weekend. While straight-up horror isn’t really my genre (I’m more into psychological thrillers, naturally), there was something about The Purge franchise that I just had to see. No, it wasn’t the gore, the jump-from-your-seat scares, or even the undeniable pull of Mykelti Williamson (LOVE him!) – it was the premise.
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Zombies Plague Paradise in DEAD ISLAND DEFINITIVE EDITION PC Game Is it worth the repeat purchase?
When Techland released Dead Island the video game did not quite live up to the hype generated by its amazing promo video, but it was still a lot of fun. Killing zombies had been done before, of course, but not on a tropical island paradise. It was fun, mindless, and satisfying. Now the game is back as Dead Island Definitive Edition, but it is not a re-work or a true enhancement; instead it was given a shinier coat of paint. It is still great fun to mow down zombies, especially when all the graphics are better, but is it worth re-buying if you played it before?
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