Ghosts in the future
September with Svengoolie: Four Saturdays in the Strange
🦇 September with Svengoolie: Four Saturdays in the Strange Aliens. Mad science. Ghosts. Zombies. There are certain television traditions that simply refuse to die. Every Saturday night, somewhere between the ordinary world and the world of monsters, Svengoolie opens the door again. And September looks like a particularly good month to step through it. As summer begins its slow retreat and Halloween starts appearing on … Continue reading September with Svengoolie: Four Saturdays in the Strange
September: The Month When the World Begins to Change
September has always felt like a doorway month—a hinge between brightness and shadow, labor and rest, certainty and mystery. It marks the slow turning of the year toward darkness, a change once felt not simply on a calendar but in the fields, the weather, and the rhythms of daily life. But here in Northwest Florida, September is a trickster. The calendar insists the season is … Continue reading September: The Month When the World Begins to Change
Mary Shelley’s Birthday: Frankenstein and the Twilight of the Soul
⚡ Mary Shelley’s Birthday: Frankenstein and the Twilight of the Soul August 30, 1797. On this day, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born. And somewhere in the strange machinery of history, the clock began ticking toward a monster who would not die. Today we call August 30 Frankenstein Day, a fitting celebration because Mary Shelley’s birthday gave the world one of its most enduring nightmares. But … Continue reading Mary Shelley’s Birthday: Frankenstein and the Twilight of the Soul
The Wendigo – Algernon Blackwood | Full Audiobook
🜁 From the Gnostalgia Library: The Wendigo Algernon Blackwood — Full Audiobook There are monsters that live in houses. There are monsters that live beneath the earth. And then there are monsters that live beyond the edge of the map. In 1910, Algernon Blackwood published The Wendigo, a strange and atmospheric tale of a hunting expedition into the Canadian wilderness. What begins as an ordinary … Continue reading The Wendigo – Algernon Blackwood | Full Audiobook
RIP Dolly
There are some voices that don’t just sing—they shine. Dolly Parton was one of those rare lights, the kind you didn’t have to see to feel. You could be standing in a thrift store aisle, flipping through cracked‑spine paperbacks, and if a Dolly song drifted from the ceiling speakers, the whole place softened. Even the dust motes seemed to dance a little. Today, that lantern … Continue reading RIP Dolly
Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft | Cosmic Horror Animated Audiobook
Dagon — Remembering the First Time the Sea Looked Back Some stories don’t just stay on the shelf — they linger in the bloodstream. Dagon is one of those early encounters, the kind of tale you read before you know what cosmic horror is, and afterward you realize you’ve been marked by it. Lovecraft wrote it in 1917, long before the mythos had names or … Continue reading Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft | Cosmic Horror Animated Audiobook
Olalla by Robert Louis Stevenson | Audiobook
Olalla by Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson’s Olalla, first published in 1885, is a short Gothic tale set in the mountains of Spain. It follows an unnamed English soldier who, recovering from illness, is sent to stay with an impoverished and isolated Spanish family. The family lives in an ancient, decaying estate surrounded by beautiful countryside. The soldier is welcomed by the strange and … Continue reading Olalla by Robert Louis Stevenson | Audiobook
Review of Bible Translations for Everyone by Tim Wildsmith
Review of Bible Translations for Everyone by Tim Wildsmith Every now and then a book comes along that doesn’t just inform you—it rearranges the furniture in your head a little, clears a space, and invites you to sit down with something familiar in a new way. Tim Wildsmith’s Bible Translations for Everyone did exactly that for me. I’ve read plenty of books about the Bible, … Continue reading Review of Bible Translations for Everyone by Tim Wildsmith
Review: Ghost Eye by Amitav Ghosh
Review: Ghost Eye by Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh’s Ghost Eye is one of his most focused and unsettling works—part reincarnation case study, part climate‑era social novel, and part family history. What makes it compelling is not spectacle but precision: Ghosh builds his narrative through small, carefully observed moments that accumulate into something quietly extraordinary. A Child at the Center of a Mystery The novel’s anchor … Continue reading Review: Ghost Eye by Amitav Ghosh
World Upside Down
There are horror anthologies you read once, nod politely at, and quietly slide back onto the shelf beside a dozen others that blur together after a few weeks. World Upside Down is not one of those books. This is the kind of collection that crawls into your head at three in the morning while the ceiling fan clicks like a Morse code warning from another … Continue reading World Upside Down
Sophia, The Demiurge, and The Gnostic Truth the Roman Church Spent Centuries Destroying
Sophia, the Demiurge, and the Templar Echo: A Gnostalgia Reflection Every so often a video surfaces that feels less like content and more like a relic—something dug up from a forgotten vault, humming with old arguments and older anxieties. Timothy Hogan’s recent appearance, “Sophia, The Demiurge, and The Gnostic Truth the Roman Church Spent Centuries Destroying,” is exactly that sort of artifact. Whether you take … Continue reading Sophia, The Demiurge, and The Gnostic Truth the Roman Church Spent Centuries Destroying
The World Upside Down — Early Signals from the bookshelf
The World Upside Down — Early Signals from the bookshelf Every now and then a book drifts into my reading stack that feels less like a simple anthology and more like a disturbance. A ripple. A quiet rearranging of the furniture in the back rooms of reality. The World Upside Down: A Mind‑Bending Lovecraftian Anthology has that energy. I’ve only just stepped into it, but … Continue reading The World Upside Down — Early Signals from the bookshelf
Steam Powered Giraffe – Moon River
Steam Powered Giraffe Returns With a Luminous New Cover: “Moon River” Every so often, Steam Powered Giraffe drops a cover that feels less like a reinterpretation and more like a transmission from some parallel retro‑future—one where chrome‑plated automatons croon under gaslamp moons. Their latest release, a hauntingly tender rendition of “Moon River,” is exactly that kind of moment. Originally written by Henry Mancini and Johnny … Continue reading Steam Powered Giraffe – Moon River
Book Review: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R.R. Martin
Book Review: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R.R. Martin There’s a quiet magic in discovering a story that feels both familiar and entirely new, and for me, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms stands as the most enjoyable of George R.R. Martin’s works. It trades the sprawling brutality of Westeros for something more intimate — a tale where honor isn’t a political … Continue reading Book Review: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R.R. Martin
