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Updated Look To The Website Hey Kids! Take a peek at my ALL NEW website designed by the amazing HillbillE. Be sure and check out the new Varla Ventura logo, too! See if you can spot it. Matching tattoos anyone?

Here There Be Ghouls: A Teaser from Paranormal Parlor

Creatures of mist, half credited; Our faint form flings No shadow in moonlight on the bed We visit; noiseless is our tread, Who come from deserts of the dead, Where no bird sings. —Anon, 1887 (from Ghost Stories and Presentiments) Here There Be Ghosts I have never met a ghost story I didn’t like. Whether …

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There’s Still Time to Enter the Fairy Tale Contest!

Have you entered yet? Time is ticking, my fair young muse. In honor of my new book Fairies, Pookas and Changelings: A Complete Guide to the Wild and Wicked Enchanted Realm, I’m running a little contest throughout the month of April. Here’s how it works. I give you the following intro paragraph and you finish the tale, …

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Oddsalon: Learn Something Weird! And a Secret About Me

If you have not yet heard of OddSalon, you should click the link  immediately after reading what I have to say. There is a secret announcement hinted at but not really announced at the bottom of this post. Oddsalon is a new parlor-style forum that hosts twice monthly salons about weird things, or perhaps better …

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