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Old Time Radio Today
A lot of old time radio shows are available for listening. One such website is the OTR. Network Library (http://www.otr.net/)Today, I listened to several different radio shows including:1. Baby Snooks...
Shrink Me Deadly
I woke-up to the sound of Johnny Horton singing about the battle that took place in New Orleans. I jumped up out of bed, clicked off the radio alarm, and went to the bathroom to take a piss. It was an...
Encounter With a Witch
It was a cold night and Frank Penley was typing a manuscript for a next-door neighbor. Her name was Annie Jo Thompson. She said that she was writing a book on magic, but she did not know how to type, ...
The Moonlight Girl
And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. (Mark 5:9)Shannon Price was a successful man; he lived in New York City, was ...
My Ramble No. 1
Here it is Saturday night; I have gotten home from running my errands and decided to write a blog post. I have made over three hundred posts to my credit, so I have touched on nearly every subject tha...
Book Review: American Gods
I have just finished reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. After finishing this book I had mixed feelings about it. The thing that I enjoyed about the book the most was that it had Norse Gods in it, l...
The Acorn Witch: A Peter Race Story
I was sitting on my couch, smoking a cigar, drinking beer, and watching Gunsmoke on television. It had been a few weeks since my last job, which involved killing a vampire. Those wimpy old world basta...
Strange Candy: A Book Review
This was another book that I bought at the Ashland Mall in Kentucky. I remember this book quite well, because the first copy of this book I got had fifty some pages missing. The publisher forget to pu...
The Meaning of Life
Once upon a time in a land far, far away--somewhere on Earth--we find a small kingdom of philosophers, who shared the same thoughts and ideas as we do."Life was created by a Supreme Being and the mean...
Review For Strange Candy
I have just finished reading the book called Strange Candy. The cover of the book has a woman blindfolded and eating a blood covered cherry. I doubt that it is real blood, but who knows in this day an...
The Last Story
I have read the last story in Strange Candy called, The Girl Who Was Infatuated With Death. In a sense the book ends where it began. It was another Anita Blake vampire hunter story. There was no actio...
Wizards and Ice Demons
I have read another short story in Strange Candy called Stealing Souls. It was about a female warrior-thief who has to get her older sisters' souls back. An evil wizard had killed the two girls and im...
The Dream Wizard
By: S. Scott Craft"Mr. Brown, I demand that you stop seeing my wife," spoke the small green-eyed man.Mr. Brown gave a hearty laugh and said, "Listen, you little shrimp, I would think that an accountan...
Evil Sorceress's Revenge
I have finished reading another story in Strange Candy. This one was called Winterkill. It was pretty much the regular fanasty type story. It came complete with demons and elementals. It was about an ...
Dream Invaders
I am winding down this collection of stories and I must admit that it was worth the price of the book. The story that I finished reading was called, Here Be Dragons. It was about a woman who enter int...
Bewitched Wizards
I have completed another story in Strange Candy called, House of Wizards. It was another comedy story. It's about a non-magical woman who married into a family of wizards. The story features the woman...
Geese
I have completed another story in Strange Candy. This one was called Geese and it put me in mind of the song sung by Frankie Laine called, The Cry of the Wild Goose.This story was about a magical woma...
The Flame
I have been listening to a lot of radio shows lately and been blogging about Lights Out, the famous radio series created by Wyllis Cooper in 1935 and made famous by his successor Arch Oboler.One of my...
Curses and Housework
I have just finished reading two more stories in Strange Candy. The first one was called Clean Sweep. It was about a superhero called Captain Housework. His archenemies have retired and he has been re...
Immortal Gentleman
Today I received the radio shows that I had ordered through the mail. The list includes Lights Out Volume 2, The Best of Suspense, and Classic Tales of Terror.The Classic Tales of Terror include: Drac...
Purple Eyed Elf
A few words about the story I just read. A few words to remind myself of the story I just read. Just a few words or else the words will fade from my mind. Just a few words, so the words that I read wi...
Leila Page
By: S. Scott Craft\"You must forgive me, Ethan,\" exclaimed Ronda in a bewildered state.Her eyes were stained from hours of crying. She kept pacing around the room repeating, \"You must forgive...
Dinosaurs & Octopuses
Tonight I listened to a couple more episodes of Lights Out. The first show was about a man who worked in the tunnel system underneath a department store. He had taken his wife there to show her where ...
Supernatural List No. 4-12
Here is a list of shit you need to know about the supernatural:4. If a spirit is able to move objects, it is considered to be a poltergeist. A poltergeist does not have to be a spirit. It can just be ...
Supernatural List No. 3
Here is a list of shit you need to know about the supernatural:A spirit can be visible or invisible. To Be Continued......
Supernatural List No. 2
Here is a list of shit you need to know about the supernatural:The spirit is that part of a person that contains their identity and is immortal. Some writers use the words, ghost and spirit as if they...
Supernatural List No. 1
Here is a list of shit you need to know about the supernatural:1. A ghost is the visible transparent part of a person who has just died.To Be Continued.......
Selling Houses
I have read another short story in the book called Strange Candy. This short was called Selling Houses. The story was about a house being sold in an alternative world where ghosts, zombies, and vampir...
Ancient Rome and Adolf Hitler
I just listened to an episode of Lights Out entitled, He dug it up. The story is set in England in the year 1943. A man is planting a tree in his garden and he discovers an ancient Roman coffin. He hi...
Bon Voyage/Fast One
Tonight, I listened to Bon Voyage, an episode from the hit radio show called Lights Out.This show was about a dead sea captain who fell asleep at the wheel, crashed his ship, and killed five hundred p...
