Post Views: 604 Regular readers of my blog will know that I love the Halloween season. I also love bonfires. I always strive to find some odd fact every year […]
Fall
Post Views: 1,852 I love to dig deeply into holiday and secular traditions. Learning new things is what give life its spice. Speaking of spice I ran across a fantastic […]
Barmbrack, an Irish Halloween tradition
1 Post Views: 3,938 I like to explore the cultural connections between the holiday of Halloween and people that invented it. One of the more interesting legends I have run across […]
The Cutty Black Sow, a Gaelic Legend
Post Views: 4,087 Halloween always makes us think of the darkest, dankest, ritualistic parts of ourselves. Writers often use the holiday as inspiration for their works. King, Bradbury, Le Fanu […]
Pumpkin Head, Dark beings with Jack-O-Lantern heads
Post Views: 1,119 This year’s celebrations are truly filled with a great many “firsts” for me. With this in mind I wanted to list them out and note my gratitude […]
Gratitude 2015
Post Views: 1,424 I am a nostalgic reader. What I mean by that is that I fondly relive my youth by re-reading books that I enjoyed as a child. This […]
Rocky Hurwood Author Show
Post Views: 1,161 The pumpkin grinned from ear to ear The moon is bright, the sky is clear. This is the night we’ve waited for, When elves come knocking on […]
Pumpkin grinned from ear to ear
Post Views: 1,344 I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago, And left no trace but the cellar walls, And a cellar in which […]
Lonely House, a Ghost House Poem
Post Views: 1,756 When one thinks about the shortlist of halloween familiars, owls, cats, hobgoblins none really carry as foreboding a presence as the humble Crow. Crows are large birds […]
What you didn’t Know about Corvids
Post Views: 2,678 I was just cruising around the web, as I often do, and got the bright idea to make a post with some of the coolest horror movie […]
Horror Movie Animated GiFs, scarey fun
Post Views: 1,457 Do you hear the winds howling? Is that a harvest blood moon rising in the dark night sky? That’s right friends it is THAT time […]
Stygian Strigiformes
Post Views: 1,225 Candy Corn makes me think of Halloween. I love the stuff. I know I am weird. Most folks hate it. It is chicken feed for Halloween. Candy […]