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2014-10-15 06:00:31There’s an ongoing fascination with vampires and the Undead, especially at Halloween. You can probably name a dozen novels and films/television series with vampire themes. Bram Stoker’s Dracula set forth all of the conventions that were copied—for better or…

2014-10-14 06:00:18Not yet at the time of this writing, but on October 31, 2014—barring unforeseen circumstances, such as stepping into an open hole in the sidewalk and being impaled on the metalwork below—I will spend much of the day writing…

2014-10-13 06:00:56I’ll be 45 in November but some days I feel much older. I find myself talking about the Good Old Days and when I was a kid and saying things like you damn kids, get off my lawn. Halloween…

2014-10-12 06:00:59Halloween is such an oddly pseudo-religious, family friendly, mildly inappropriate for children, cross generational, community oriented, unrecognized national holiday. It has all the bizarre mixtures of a surreal story element. If Halloween did not exist and an author invented…

2014-10-11 06:00:32It sounds corny, cliché, but the truth is that when I saw my mother’s body in the coffin at the wake, she looked…good. Like she was taking a well-deserved nap. There was no trace of the pancreatic tumor that…

2014-10-10 06:00:08One of the first stories I ever had published is “The Highwayman.” I’ve actually managed to get it reprinted some 10 times over the years at various anthologies and such. It’s very short, kind of whimsical, and I tend…

2014-10-09 06:00:40The Last Night of October   The last night of October is one of crickets, loud and soft, blending with a yellow gray sky, a chill wind rising,   while down the street children in costume parade from house…