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  • Poetry: Darkness

    Darkness I bear my darkness Always enduring with the aid of my inner light We learn to coexist To balance our joys and defeats To pride in our accomplishments To despair in our disappointments Both halves Equal Components of the fabric of my soul Without one The other loses meaning

  • Book Review: The Vanishing Season by Jodi Lynn Anderson

    Book Review: The Vanishing Season by Jodi Lynn Anderson

    Girls started vanishing in the fall, and now winter’s come to lay a white sheet over the horror. Door County, it seems, is swallowing the young, right into its very dirt. From beneath the house on Water Street, I’ve watched the danger swell.

  • Halloween Reads: Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge

    Halloween Reads: Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge

    Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge Published: September 2007 Norman Partridge’s Bram Stoker Award-winning novel, Dark Harvest, is a powerhouse thrill-ride with all the resonance of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.” “A major talent.” ―Stephen King Halloween, 1963. They call him the October Boy, or Ol’ Hacksaw Face, or Sawtooth Jack. Whatever the name, everybody in this…

  • Halloween Reads: Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween by Lisa Morton

    Halloween Reads: Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween by Lisa Morton

    Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween by Lisa Morton Published: Reaktion Books; Illustrated edition (Sept. 12 2019) Publisher Synopsis: Halloween has spread around the world, yet its associations with death and the supernatural as well as its inevitable commercialization have made it one of our most puzzling holidays. How did it become what it…

  • October Country: Ode To Bradbury

    October Country: Ode To Bradbury

    October Country