Mar 21, 2016 | The Writing Life
The A to Z Challenge is almost upon us, which–quite frankly–terrifies me, because I haven’t begun writing my posts yet. I don’t even have a schedule! (For those of you not familiar with the Challenge: during the month of April, participating...
Mar 8, 2016 | Scary True Stories
Life really is stranger than fiction. When I was a kid, a twisted horror tale called The Most Dangerous Game was mandatory reading in high school. In Richard Connell’s story, written in 1924, a big-game hunter matches his wits against a deranged captor who...
Feb 23, 2016 | Scary True Stories
“My grandma just shot me!” It was a recipe for disaster. In 2012, Jonathan Hoffman’s life seemed to be falling apart. His sister was suffering from brain cancer and his family was splitting up. When his parents prepared to move to Arizona for the...
Feb 2, 2016 | Scary True Stories
“It must be a man.” That what police thought when a serial killer stalked Mexico City’s older women in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. The sheer strength needed to manually strangle people – even the elderly – decided it. Le...
Dec 1, 2015 | Scary True Stories
When little Olga Chardymova was just ten years old, she insisted on being able to leave the apartment by herself for the first time. She wanted to show she was a “big girl” by walking to Grandma’s house on her own. She never made it. A drug dealer...
