Ah, vampires. They’ve been hanging around the cobwebs of my mind lately. My latest Huffington Post blog is about vampires, and you can read it here: A Carnival of Vampires I guess it is the season! The count down to Halloween is on. I have been plotting further treats of the trickiest kind, and imagining …
Huffington Post’s Weird News is host to many fantastic and freaky tidbits of current events and mercurial musings on all things strange including the paranormal! Well I am honored to join the ranks as a blogger for such a remarkable website. You can read my first post here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/varla-ventura/skeleton-turnkey_b_931955.html
It is nearly Halloween! I will have to post today as I will be well away from my computer come Halloween eve and Halloween night, what with freaky parties and tricks and treats. If you have the time to listen in on Halloween morning or evening, two shows will be on the air. The first …
It occurred to me that I hadn’t put the link to buy my book! You can, of course, order it anywhere books are sold, and notify me if you can’t find it. Here is the link to the publisher’s website: http://redwheelweiser.com/detail.html?id=9781578634644
I’ve been neglectful in writing of late, up to my bony elbows in pre-Halloween activities. The evolution of a gruesome cake, last minute additions to my costume, and pumpkin carving have all kept me up through the wee hours of the night. Tonight I will be finishing most of my All Hallows Eve prep, because …
Tonight I have an interview with Dave Schraeder from Darkness on the Edge of Town, a paranormal radio show. In honor of such a deep, dark night (a new moon too!) I thought I’d share this particularly gruesome story about a couple of brothers who owned a funeral home in Pennsylvania and were arrested in …
A Montana woman was able to fend off a 200-pound black bear using the nearest object on her kitchen counter–a zucchini from her garden! When the woman’s 12-year-old collie was attacked by the bear just after midnight on the 22nd of September, her instincts were to reach for the nearest weapon. She went to her …
I was putting away some of the books I used to research my most recent book Beyond Bizarre when I came upon this article neatly folded among the pages of Troy Taylor’s Haunted Graveyards. I had included this story in The Book of the Bizarre, but it is certainly worthy of repeating. From an AP …
