Halloween Haunts: A Little Perspective by James Kendley

I probably wouldn’t have the attention span to write about Japan if I still lived there. It’s just too damned interesting. I tried, of course, but every time I sat down to the keyboard during those eight years, I was processing all the amazing things happening around me every day. I had to be 15 years and half a world away to write the book I wanted to write, The Drowning God, and even then, I needed help to get the proper perspective. First, a little about the book itself: To uncover modern Japan’s darkest, deadliest secret, Detective Tohru Takuda must…

Halloween Haunts: In a Gulf Coast Graveyard by James Kendley

I found something in a cemetery last Halloween season. I want to tell you what it is. You know I want to, but we must stroll through this cemetery first. Don’t worry. It will be nice. It’s a very pleasant spot, right around the corner from my childhood home. It’s quaint and understated, something less than an acre cradling the mortal remains of a few hundred souls. The whole is bound on the south and west by an eight-foot brick wall and on the north and east by wrought iron fencing painted forest green. The whole is overarched by mature…