by J.M. Plumbley | Oct 24, 2018 | Monster Meet
Happy (almost) Halloween! To best illustrate the topic of today’s post (and in the spirit of the season), let’s start off today’s post with. . . A spooky story Late one fall night in Norway, some 300 years ago, a man (let’s call him Daniel) decided to take a shortcut...
by J.M. Plumbley | Jul 27, 2018 | Monster Meet
I love graveyards. They are heightened places where where you feel both the weight of the past and future: full of history, and a reminder of what’s to come. Of course, they are also ripe for monsters. My favorites are ones like the Weeping Woman of Parkersburg, West...
by J.M. Plumbley | May 29, 2018 | Monster Meet
When I was about 5 years old, my family squeezed into a minivan and took a trip through the English countryside. I have a lot of scattered memories from that vacation, among them mist, cobblestones, and seeing this picture on the back of some tourism brochure and...
by J.M. Plumbley | Mar 1, 2018 | Monster Meet
If you know anything about millennial stereotypes, you know we hate talking on the phone. Nothing spikes anxiety like the implication of someone’s choice to call rather than text. Fortunately, internet spawn Satoru-Kun has saved my generation face: thanks to him,...
by J.M. Plumbley | Feb 1, 2018 | Monster Meet
I recently read one of the best nonfiction books I’ve come across in years: The Witch of Lime Street, by David Jaher. Jaher relates his slice of history in such a compelling way that instead of just using it as fodder for my fiction (as I’d intended), I wanted to...
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