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City Of The Dead By S.D. Perry
Just weeks after the disaster at the old Spencer Mansion, Raccoon City has been overrun by victims of the virus. Leon Kennedy, a young rookie police officer pulls into town to find few survivors, including a spy working to get her hands on the virus herself.
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The Umbrella Conspiracy by S.D. Perry
Nine dead, many more missing in the Raccoon Forest near that creepy old mansion once owned by the local pharmaceutical company. When Raccoon City sends in the S.T.A.R.S. unit to explore the deaths, the officers soon find themselves in fight for survival against monsters of their own making.
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Are Cursed Phone Numbers Real?
Could an spiritual energy infiltrate a phone number so evil that it cursed anyone who calls? Among the other possessed items that believe claim contain spiritual energy, folklore speaks of haunted phone numbers but is there any backing to these claims are are they all an elaborate hoax?
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Silence Fallen by Patricia Briggs
Separated from her pack by a continent after being kidnapped by vampires, Mercy is alone and vulnerable fighting to find a way to communicate home what has happened to her and get help before she is found by a foreign coven that has an ax grind with a seethe that is not her ally.
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Resident Evil 2 Remake DLC Ghost Surrivors
Not even a month has passed since the release of Resident Evil 2 Remake and already the first downloadable content appeared for free on PC and PlayStation and it is just as amazing and the full game experience.
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Resident Evil 2 Remake Claire's Walk-Through A Campaign
Claire's A Campaign differs slightly from the path and interactions with characters that Leon experiences. While remaining faithful to the source material, Remake changes some of the dialogue, locations, and behaviors making the game we used to know feel fresh and equally scary.
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Do Dogs Benefit From Day Care And Dog Park Socialization
Pack animals by nature, dogs who live as a single pet need that interaction with their own species to find how they fit in the world among other animals. Dogs that are not properly socialized could be bite risks, or have anxiety issues later when in the care of someone other than their master.
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Weird, Scary, Paranormal Channels of YouTube
Without explanation the photos and videos that fill these YouTube channels are filled with speculation. If the content listed is real then there is much more to our world than previously proven by science.
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Resident Evil 2 Remake Key Item Locations And Safe Combonations
Similar to the original game, Remake changes up some item locations and adds some lockers with combinations in their re-imagining of the classic Capcom horror.
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Is Using Gaming Guides Cheating
Long gone is the days of Nintendo Power and internet cheats and Youtube channels offer valuable insight on the most modern games when you are stuck, but is using tools to 100% your experience actually cheating?
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Resident Evil 2 Remake: Leon Walkthrough
First day on the job, rookie cop Leon Kennedy enters Raccoon City, several weeks overtaken by the virus that had escaped the laboratory in the first game. With little resources to him, Leon must find a road to escape with the few civilians left and stop Umbrella Corporation.
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The Secrets That We Keep
After getting away from our past, my brother and I thought that we were safe from the craziness that had diluted our childhoods, but here I was at forty still crippled by our parents neglect. He nearly forty and afraid of the relationship he still tried to foster with our mom.
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Frost Burned By Patricia Briggs
After an auto accident on Black Friday, Mercy and her stepdaughter are unable to reach anyone as all cell phones seemed to be turned off. After getting her own text message to avoid using phones, Mercy learns that he husband the local Alpha and his pack have been kidnapped.
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Night Broken By Patricia Briggs
The last person that the pack should be protecting is Adam's ex wife, Mercy Thompson had thought. A stalker has killed a friend and burned down Christy's condo and reluctantly Adam begins to look into it for the sake of their daughter but this enemy is far from human and unlike anything before it.
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All These Years in a Haunted House and I Still Don't Know What the Entity Wanted
From moving objects, being touched at night, voices, and banging on the doors, my family house was full of terrifying memories as a child. Afraid to be alone in the house until even after my college years, I sometimes wonder if whatever was there caused the negativity or fed on it.
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Netflix Sex Education Explores Uncertainty Of Adolescence; Gillian Anderson Stars
The son of a therapist, sixteen year old Otis is the only one that his mother can't connect with. When a rebel classmate prompts Otis with the idea of giving relationship and sex advice to their classmates for profit using the advice he gets from overhearing his mother's patients in her office.
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Does the Existence of Peachette Disprove the Mario Galaxy Reshuffle Theory for Rosalina
After the ending of Super Mario Galaxy had reshuffled the Mario timeline through various games, does the presence of the new Princess wannabe on the block, Peachette an evolved form of Toadette throw everyone into chaos or does a immature form of the Princess only make sense on another timeline?
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River Marked By Patricia Briggs
Mercy Thompson knew very little about her father, whom had passed down her skin walker powers. While on her honeymoon with her werewolf husband, Mercy sees what she thinks is the ghost of an Native man watching her. Will she find out more about her heritage finally as she fights the river devil?
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First Look At Resident Evil 2 Remake 1 Shot Demo
Announced nearly three years ago, Resident Evil 2 Remake is finally here in a few short weeks. Offering up a free demo for the game, Capcom allows fans first access for only thirty minutes, playable one time to get the feel for the re- imagined classic.
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Is There a Benefit to Using Toadette and Nabbit in New Super Mario U Deluxe for Switch
A few days in and many many continues later into New Super Mario U Deluxe for the Switch, has Nintendo proven a need for the additional character line up and are there advantages to changing characters throughout the game?
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What Happens When Mario Has the Super Crown, Saving Peach as Toadette; Early Observation of Super Mario Bros U Deluxe
With the recent release of New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe on Switch, a mashup of two Mario titles, do new characters and game mechanics really change how the classic Wii and Wii U title plays for Switch?
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Slayer By Keirsten White
After the Sunnydale incident, all that is left of the Watchers are cloistered in an old castle hidden until the magic returns to the world. The weakest of the group, no one dreamed that it would be Athena who would flourish into the last of the Slayers and be the only hope for restoration.
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Of Silk and Steam by Bec Mcmaster
Escaping into the night after the death of a man Aramina and her protector are rushed into Whitechapel just as the war between the Echelon and the resistance is beginning to take place. Hoping to free her long-time friend, the queen, Mina faces the challenge of fighting for the first time.
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Forged by Desire by Bec Mcmaster
Nine years ago, Perry had run from an attack on her life and began living under a new identity. Her role within the Nighthawks was enough to keep her safe, until the man that had savagely attacked her becomes the main suspect when women of London are found with their organs removed.
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Remember Gaming With Fixed Camera Angles And Tank Controls?
Long before the sleek controls of modern video games, movement was clunky and slow to react. Going back and playing the games of our youth with fixed camera angles, tank controls, and only a directional pad makes one wonder how we ever played games in the past.
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My Lady Quicksilver by Bec Mcmaster
Determined to find out what had happened to her brother, Rosalind will do anything even assume another identity to investigate. Caught up working for a vampire whom she begins to have an attraction to, Rosalind is fighting to hold back her feelings and keep up her alter ego.
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Heart Of Iron By Bec McMaster
In a world run by vampires as the ruling class, Lena is taking her chances, even if her brother in law is a leader in his territory, first trying to keep her safe, werewolf Will serves out of duty to his friend and master but something is changing with in him as a forbidden love grows.
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The Pain of Living With PCOS
Since my teen years, I had always thought that I wouldn't be able to have children due to infertility, and I learned to be OK with that, but the what PCOS has done to my appearance made me feel ashamed of the condition.
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Blood Bound By Patricia Briggs
A simple favor to a vampire friend goes terribly wrong as Mercy Thompson faces something she has never seen before, a vampire with a demon riding in its body controlling the fiend. With the help of the local pack and vampires, can they defeat the monster before it kills again?
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Moon Called By Patricia Briggs
Mercy Thompson is nothing like the werewolves of her territory, raised by them to learn skin walker powers. As a coyote, she knows another supernatural by smell and when a mysterious boy who doesn't know about the wolf inside wanders into her business, it suddenly has repercussion for the pack.
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Angelfall By Susan Ee Review
Not long after the Apocalypse had taken out everything she knew, Penryn and her family are hiding in the fallout in a world that has become unstable by gangs of survivors and warrior angels that have fallen to earth. After her handicapped sister is taken, an injured angel may be her only ally.
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Kiss of Steel by Bec Mcmaster
Honoria is at her wits end after the death of her father. Left to care for two younger siblings, a price on her head from a vampire of another territory; it seems too good to be true when the local Devil of White Chapel takes an interest in her plight.
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The Fade By Demitria Luetta
Something terrible has happened in this town, Haley can feel it because she has died once already. The missing girls- girls that were last seen in her house; are calling out to her but no one believes. The ghosts want something of her, and she must find out what it is before she is the next victim.
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Remothered: Tormented Fathers Is The Horror Gem You've Never Played
While the name is a mouthful and doesn't explain the game play, Remothered: Tormented Fathers is one of the creepiest games to come to Steam, PS4 ramping up psychological horror.
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Resident Evil 3 Remake Rumored for Playstation 4 Release
With a month until the release of Resident Evil 2 Remake, plans for a revamp of 3 are unofficially announced by some gaming media, making the need for the entire trilogy of original games in a new format a necessity for hardcore fans.
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Nintendo Switch Needs to Step up Software in 2019
Even with a best selling console, the Nintendo of 2018, missed opportunity to close fourth quarter with franchise titles as it once ruled Christmas with systems of the past. With deluxe editions and remasters of favorites and All Stars editions, could the competition overtake Switch in 2019?
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The Witch of Willow Hall by Hester Fox
Strange things have always happened around Lydia from a young age. An attack on a neighbor's child, and rumors about her sister cause the family to move to the countryside where they hope to be given a new start- but the truth will not stay buried and soon Lydia is faced with a choice once again.
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Too Soon to Have Known You, but You Are Always Here With Us
After the birth of my son, we longed for another child and were finally blessed, in a few shorts weeks it was over in miscarriage. Planning to pick up the pieces and carry on, we are still determined to have another child.
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A Winter Haunting By Dan Simons
Forty years after the events of Summer Of Night, Dale Stewart is returning to his childhood home of Elm Haven to write about the events of his childhood. Haunted by the past deaths, Dale moves into the old home of Duane, a childhood friend that was killed to research his novel.
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The Devils Footsteps By Amanda Stevens
Just like the reports seventy years before, cloven footprints were found at the crime scene of a young girl's death .In New Orleans the same footprints are found at victims tied to a sister of the first murder victim fourteen years before. Sarah believes it is the same killer,one she imagined.
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Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
On the last day of school in Elm Haven, the students were restless for summer to begin. With the school set for demolition and a missing student, the small town is caught in a ghost story stemmed from a haunted school bell set in the school sixty years before.
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The Awakening By Amanda Stevens
Back in her home town to restore a forgotten graveyard, Amelia Gray is met with a new mystery when a mysterious grave of a child, and the ghost of another young girl seems to awaken something repressed from her own childhood.
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The House by the Cemetery by John Everson
Bachelor's Grove is arguably the most haunted cemetery in Illinois, and it was the perfect place to open a haunted house Mike's friend's had argued allowing the tourists in that police normally chased away. Restoring the old farmhouse for the attraction, Mike quickly bites off more than he can chew.
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The Second First Child
With my son turning two and a new child on the way, I realize that this experience of pregnancy is different that what I had with my son. Not that one was better than another, both special in their own ways.
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Resident Evil Movie Franchise Planning Horror Reboot
After six movies of varied success in the Resident Evil franchise, Constantin Films which owns the movie rights is banking on a very different kind of Resident Evil movie.
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Can There Be Another Dumbledore Sibling: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
For those that know of the Dumbledore family history, the secret many expected to see in the movie isn't presented in The Fantastic Beasts sequel, instead another door is opened with a possible sibling for Dumbledore?
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The Doll Funeral By Kate Hamer
On her thirteenth birthday, Ruby finds out that her abusive family isn't actually her biological parents sending her into a tailspin of rituals that she seems to remember from her interactions with the supernatural around her to summon her parents to find her.
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What Does the Plan B Ending of American Horror Story Apocalypse Mean for Universe, Other Seasons
American Horror Story Apocalypse draws to a close in a wild wrap up of a season mostly told in flashbacks that drew in previous seasons. While maybe too much time was spent in the past making the final showdown between the Supreme and Antichrist a little flat, the set up for season 10 is unexpected.
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How to Get Your Cat Adjusted Before a New Baby Comes Home
In the months before bringing home a new baby, I had to get my cats Underfoot and Alessa reconditioned to the sights and sounds of a small human in the house.
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All the Ever Afters; the Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother by Danielle Teller
Everyone knows of the cruelty of her stepmother and stepsisters, but what is the rumors were deception. The fair Princess Cinderella might not be the victim she seems when one considers the backstory of Agnes, the only woman that the Princess knew enough to call mother.
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The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel: A Story of Sleepy Hollow
Arriving in Sleepy Hollow to take the schoolmaster's post, Ichabod Crane immediately finds friendship and love with young Katrina Van Tassel; her family wishes to marry her to a rival. Hiding their romance, the couple attempts to find a future for their young family.
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Can the Walking Dead Go on Without Rick Grimes
After a climatic episode and explosive finish the main character of The Walking Dead; the series pulls another fake out. Without Rick Grimes in the television show anymore but the possibility of returns in planned movies, could this be the last straw for the series?
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Bonding With A Birth Child
As my son grows older, finding a way to stay engaged in his daily life and make his adoptive parents part of my life has its challenges as four busy adults have their own agenda; vowed to always do what is best for him bonding with my toddler gets creative.
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The Good Demon By Jimmy Cajoleas
It has been over a month since She has left Clarabella. After an exorcism that took the demon that clasp onto the girl's soul at a young age, Clare now misses her only true friend and will do anything to get her demon back.
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Baby Teeth By Zoje Stage
Non verbal since a young age, her mother is greatly concerned there is something wrong with Hanna. While she remains loving to her father, Hanna acts out to everyone else. She likes to hurt people, and her mother needs to die so she can have daddy all to herself.
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Netflix the Haunting of Hill House Re-Imagines a Classic Tale of Horror
After several movie adaptions of Shirley Jackson's classic novel, Netflix makes a brave move to reinvent the story of Hill House and the terrors that lay beyond the walls, and door of the Red Room.
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Creepy Audio Stories For Adults
Offering exposure for talented writers, YouTube channels like Creepypasta, Chilling Tales For Dark Nights, and Dr Creepen offer a platform for readings of stories that run the gambit of terror.
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Halloween Safety for Pets
Halloween is a great time for holiday fun, but our furry friends may not be as joyous. Strange people, noises, and a constant ringing doorbell can cause our pets to try to escape the home or even bite a Trick Or Treater.
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Somebody's Daughter By David Bell
Ten years after the divorce, Michael is living a new life although the ups and down of his second marriage seem to oddly echo his first. Out of the blue, Erica, the ex show up on his doorstep demanding his help to find a missing child- her daughter-his daughter he never knew of.
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Creepiest Kids' Halloween Songs
It's Halloween: time for monsters, witches, and skeletons! Help your little ones enjoy the Halloween season with creepy children's songs that are great for Halloween parties, school classrooms, and trick-or-treating.
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Saving Beck By Courtney Cole
After a horrific auto accident claims the life of Natalie's husband, her teenage son pulls further and further away from her until he drifts off into drug culture. Finding her son overdosed, Natalie and her family come to grips with the things that have pulled them apart.
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Resident Evil 2 Remake: First Look at the Lickers
How far we have come from the first time Leon S Kennedy laid eyes on the terrible inside-out-monster we came to know as a Licker and our first glimpse in Resident Evil 2 Remake where Claire Redfield lays waste to a flock of the terrible creatures.
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Dracula: The Undead By Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt
Considered by the Stoker family to be an official sequel to Dracula, Dacre Stoker finishes his grandfather's tale of the vampire prince. Mina and Jonathan are haunted by the events of Dracula, never wanting to tell the awful truth to their son, Quincey until vampires find him.
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Does the Evolution of Toadette Prove the Super Mario Reshuffle Theory
In the Switch release of Super Mario U Deluxe, the game offers up two new playable characters, Nabbitt seen in the U Universe previous an a mysterious second form of Toadette which may prove the Reshuffle Theory of the Super Mario Galaxy.
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DIY Halloween Costumes Ideas for Toddlers
Making the most of toddler's first couple Halloweens, creating a no sew costume for your child is easy using craft supplies and a sweatsuit as the base to keep them warm and comfortable.
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Dracul by Dacre Stoker and J.d. Barker
The children had never seen their Nanna Ellen eat. Her room contains a box of dirt where she sleeps and they believe she is a vampire after watching her walk into the bog. Years later, Bram and his siblings Thornly and Matilda come face to face with their nanny and the vampire that sired her.
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The Good House By Tananarive Due
Descendant of a Voodoo Priestess and Native American Magic practitioner, Angie has been trained in the ways of magic from the time she was young and one of the few of her family to outrun the demon- but it is coming back after her son accidentally raises the trickster again and it out for Angie.
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The Dark Decent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White
In a retelling of Mary Shelly's classic, this tale from the point of view of Elizabeth and Justine picks up while searching for Victor at University after eighteen moths of no letters and their friend Henry has disappeared to no avail.
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The Siren and the Specter by Jonathan Janz
When a college friend asks skeptic and writer, David to stay at his haunted property long enough to research a book, David learns quickly there is more at stake then just debunking a local legend as the site of the house coincides with the site of a woman he loved losing her life.
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How Does the New Season of American Horror Story: Apocalypse Explain the Coven Witches
Entering episode four of the season, American Horror Story: Apocalypse plays with the viewers setting up an uneasy connection between its mashup of Murder House and Coven; bringing forth the end of the world that only the witches can stop.
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PlayStation to Release Retro Classic Console Come December
After holding out on the retro gaming console market, PlayStation announces they too will take the plunge this holiday season with a classic mini console featuring twenty games.
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The Boy at the Door by Alex Dahl
Leaving a swim class at the Rec Center, Cecilia is asked to drive home a child that has no one waiting for him. At first defiant, Cecilia eventually agrees only to realize a terrible secret has been unleashed that could harm her family and future. How far will she go to hide her past?
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The Death of Mrs. Westaway By Ruth Ware
Down on her luck, Hal received a letter stating she has be left an inheritance from a woman she didn't know. Struggling to pay her bills, Hal makes the decision to pretend to be this person only to have a case of mistaken identity lead her to the truth about her mother's passing and her origin.
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The Broken Girls By Simone St. James
Writing in the margins of textbooks warned the next generation of girls about Mary Hand. If you see her, never follow or she will lead you to your death. After the school was abandoned for years, journalist Fiona is to face down the truth behind her sister's death, and a boarding school with a ghost
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The First Time Covering September 11th
After semesters of covering local stories and interviews with school athletes, our Journalism department was tasked with covering a moment in history- the one story that mattered after September 11th. Inhibited by fear, feelings, and bias; I think back to this moment.
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Brief Cases: The Dresden Files By Jim Butcher
Chicago's only profession wizard private investigator, Harry Dresden is back in a collection of of short stories in a new compilation by Jim Butcher filing in the humorous supernatural tales of cases between the main books in the series.
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Resident Evil Locations We Hope to See Get a Face Lift in the Re Engine
With the coming of Resident Evil 2 Remake on the RE Engine, after twenty years, the possibility of seeing every game location being given a makeover is a real.
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The Reason I Write
Many times I have lost my words, given up the pen and thought I had no more stories to share with the world. Then something happens that changes everything and I am back in the role as a scribe, an observer of the events around me. It is my duty.
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The Night Strangers By Chris Bohjalian
After surviving a plane crash that killed his thirty-nine passengers and crew, Chip has been haunted by the ghosts. Moving his family to a small town for a new start, the locals aren't what they seem and take too much interest in his twin daughters after Chip uncovers the secret of his new home.
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Nyctophobia By Christopher Fowler
After an unhappy upbringing, Callie is finally at peace with a husband eighteen years older, a stepdaughter, and a new home in the mountains of Spain. What Callie didn't bargain for is the secret past of her home, the monsters lurking behind the locked doors, and the return of her nyctophobia.
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Paper Tigers by Damien Angelica Walters
In the aftermath of an apartment fire that lost Allison half of her body, her fiance, and unborn child, she finds herself living back at home with her mother after multiple surgeries. After purchasing a strange scrapbook at a second hand store, Allison is sucked into the world of its owner.
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The Boy Who Drew Monsters By Keith Donohue
Ever since nearly drowning, Jack Peter hasn't left his house by choice in three years. His only companion is the occasional babysitting of the neighbor's child and his sketchbook full of drawings. When monsters begin to invade Jack's world, his parents are trying to understand what he hides.
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"The Troop" by Nick Cutter
Scout Leader Tim takes the boys on an adventure that takes a sinister turn.
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Beloved By Toni Morrison: Book Summary
Juxtaposing a life of slavery at Sweet Home to Sethe's trauma that still haunts her in the days after, she has lost everything except her one remaining child until one day a woman comes walking out of the water and sets upon 124. Has a mother's grief brought back this specter that was chased away?
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The Crimson Labyrinth by Yusuke Kishi
Awakening in a jungle with only a handheld video game and other players as points of reference,Fujiki isn't sure what is the nightmare-this hellish Battle Royal or his life of divorce and unemployment he left behind. Forced to follow the rules of a game he didn't intend to play, he tries to survive.
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The Summer of the Ubume by Natsuhiko Kyogoku
Kyoko Kuonji is the subject of a small towns gossip, a woman said to be "holding in" her child from being born for over two years as her family is subject of a curse- two old college friends align again after many years to stamp out the mystery of a missing man and his wife that won't give birth.
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Book Review: "The Heart Forger" by Rin Chupeco
Discover the magic of "The Heart Forger" by Rin Chupeco.
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Edgar Allan Poe and the Jewel of Peru
In the followup to the legendary author and poets adventures in London, Edgar Allan Poe is back with a mystery to solve with the aid of his wife, a dear friend, and some locals that help discover the missing journal of a bird collector and how both a local church, and a hidden treasure.
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Book Summary: "14" by Peter Clines
Nate gets more than he bargained for when he moves in to an eccentric apartment building for next-to-nothing rent!
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A White Wind Blew by James Markert: Book Summary
His faith tested after the death of his wife, Dr. Wolfgang Pike is both a physician and a priest in training at Waverly Hills Sanitarium housing both the mental ill and tuberculosis patients with no cure in sight. Realizing that music has the power to heal, Wolfgang organizes an orchestra.
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Book Summary and Analysis: "Dead Letters" by Caite Dolan-Leach
While studying aboard, Ava Antipova receives an email that her twin has passed away in a mysterious barn fire. But with evidence pointing to Zelda being declared missing rather than dead, Ava soon follows a trail of clues emailed from her sister explaining her motives.
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Book Review: Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
Unable to move in her hospital bed, Amber is told she is in a coma by everyone around her. Able to hear conversation, and piece together events, the truth behind this unbelievable narrator's story is more depraved than one could imagine.
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Book Review: The Outsider by Stephen King
While coaching a little league baseball game, police storm the field to arrest Coach Terry, a man beloved by his community as a coach and English teacher. Accused of a horrific crime that leaves an eleven year old boy dead, Terry has an air tight alibi- but can a man be in two places at once?
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Book Review: Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
In the vein of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Dread Nation takes on the a new history of the Civil War era in which the dead began to rise from the bloodied battle fields and come back home to take on the living world they have left behind.
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Pen Pals: The Lost Art Of Letter Writing
Lost is the art of rushing to the mailbox for physical mail, as digital communications are the way of the world. I sometimes still long for the simple days of getting a letter from a friend, rather than a text message.
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Book Summary: The Hollow Tree by James Brogden
Semi-based on the lore around a mysterious cold case where a woman's remains were found stuffed inside a tree trunk, The Hollow Tree brings a new take on folk lore on who the woman might have been with a modern take on Who Put Bella In The Wych Elm.
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Book Summary: "Glimpse" by Jonathan Maberry
Rain Thomas' life is at a plateau. After the death of her boyfriend and adoption of their son pushed her into drug use, even with three years sobriety she struggles to remain in control of her sanity- especially after a nightmare man that haunted her as a child in her dreams has become real.
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Book Summary: "The Grownup" by Gillian Flynn
In Gillian Flynn's "The Grownup," a former sex worker pretending to be a palm reader is asked to help a family living in a haunted house with a dangerous stepson.
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Silent Child by Sarah A. Denzil: Book Summary
A mother's worst nightmare, six year old Aiden goes missing from his school during a weather emergency, his jacket found floating in the flood waters of the nearby river. After seven years with no body or leads, Emma is forced to declare her son dead- until ten years later a boy appears.
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Summary of "Sold" by Patricia McCormick
Born into a mountain community in Nepal, Lakshmi struggles to survive each season as the impact of droughts and monsoons devastates her families crops, and her selfish stepfather gambles away what little the family has. Against her mother's wishes, Lakshmi is sold to human trafficking.
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Summary of "Two Girls Down" By Louisa Luna
Jamie remembers that day clearly: rushing around to get a present for a birthday party her daughters were attending for a friend, Bailey and Kylie are taken while waiting in car for their mother. The investigation takes a bizarre turn as more cases of missing little girls seem connected.
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Is Rosalina Peach's Daughter? The Reshuffle Theory
YouTubers and fans alike pose an interesting theory based on Rosalina's storybook backstory in "Super Mario Galaxy": Could Princess Peach be her mother from a previous reshuffling of the Universe? Is this the connection between all "Mario" games? Let's find out!
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Into The Black Nowhere By Meg Gardiner: Book Summary
On Saturday nights in a Texas town, women are mysteriously vanishing in a weekly series of abductions, all young and blond. The killer is brash, taking some from public places, leaving their bodies in the woods in white nightgowns and heavy makeup surrounded by photos of other victims.
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Why I Finally Left Social Media
Dealing with feuding friends, self attention seeking posts, and having several of my social media accounts hacked and sending out spam several times; the thrill of "connecting" became more of a nuisance.
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"The Chalk Man" By C.J. Tudor: Review and Summary
In the mid-80s several friends are out in the woods near their home when they find a trail of chalk arrows and drawings of stick people, a secret symbol they use for each other, leading to the remains of a young girl's dismembered body.
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Bowser And The Koopalings: Mario's Greatest Foes
Introduced in Super Mario Bros 3, The Koopalings are introduced as King Koopa or Bowser's children, though later games and cartoons only mention the "team of seven" as Bowser's minions with Bowser Jr as the only child.
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28 Rooms And A Bathroom: How The Spencer Mansion Is Still The Gem Of Resident Evil Real Estate
Tucked into the Arklay Mountain, the Spencer Mansion seemed innocent enough to hole up the remaining S.T.A.R.S members until help arrives, but looks are deceiving at the massive estate.
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Super Mario Bros 2: Enemies Used In Later Games
Originally not meant to be in the Mario franchise, a re-skinned game Doki Doki Panic, became the Western worlds Super Mario 2 bringing a strange story, but some infamous enemies to later games.
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Alessa Gillespie: Games VS Silent Hill Movies
Born into a cult, her mother Daliah grooms Alessa to bring about the new God, but the fragments of her soul go on to heavily influence the horrors of Silent Hill.
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The Apartment By S.L Grey: Book Summary
Recovering from the shock of a home invasion, couple Steph and Mark decide to join a house swap site thinking that a week in Paris will heal their relationship, only to find their trip to a nightmare
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Book Summary: "Kill Creek" by Scott Thomas
The best and brightest of horror fiction writers are summoned for an evening at a haunted house to be live-streamed on Halloween. What is unleashed from that house is an unspeakable horror.
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Book Summary: "Frankenstein in Baghdad" by Ahmed Saadawi
A captivating reflection on both the U.S. occupation of the Middle East and a new turn on the classic Frankenstein story, Ahmed Saadawi's new novel ("Frankenstein in Baghdad") is a terrifying take on modern horror.
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Losing the Chicago I Grew up In
As the last of the shops on Belmont and Clark closed up shop to make way for a Super Target, I knew the city where I spent so much of my childhood stopped being the background for my dreams.
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When I Knew It Was Time for a New Career
With the a dysfunctional workplace starting to effect my health, I knew it was time to explore other opportunities rather the continue to let a bad company ruin me.
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Book Review: "Alias Grace" by Margaret Atwood
Recently developed into a Netflix series of the same name, Alias Grace is a tale with an extremely unreliable narrator as the only witness to the death of her employers at her hands.
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Effects Of Childhood Bullying Carry Over Into Adulthood
Decades after being bullied on the playground, I am finding through therapy the hold over from childhood trauma is still effecting my relationships with people as an adult
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First Steps: Seeking Help For My Anxiety Disorder
For months, I continued to suffer in silence unable to tell anyone that each day I was closer to the brink of self destruction and crying out for help. Then I took the first steps of getting help.
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Book Review and Summary: "The Sinner" by Petra Hammesfahr
On a warm summer afternoon, Cora Bender murders a man at seemingly random. The sinister truth behind Cora's reasoning for the murder is more horrifying at each page turn.
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Songs of My Father
Growing up with very little relationship, it is still hard as an adult to hear others explain the man my father was to them- when I still am at odds with what his absence did to me
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How to Move Your Cats to a New House
Three cats and a 13-hour drive later, felines, their humans, and everyone's sanity remained intact.