Tag: Tamper
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Fortean Melancholia and Paranormal Mourning
Many thanks to Andrew Wenaus for his review of my novel, Tamper! Tamper is like the Hardy Boys in that it is a kind of mystery novel in clear/concise language, and it is like (William S.) Burroughs in the sense that there is a presiding desire to break free of some kind of invisible system […]
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Seeing Things! Strindberg and Kittelsen
Alchemy, schizophrenia, sinister wizardry, religious fanaticism, and even a knowing wink of humor, The Inferno, by writer August Strindberg (1849-1912), is an early example of the “unreliable narrator” literary device, in which the reader learns that the storyteller is seeing things from a distorted perspective. There is some disagreement as to how much of The […]
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Raw Head and Bloody Bones!
Talk about one thing leading to another! When my brother and I were kids, we delighted in the scary stories our dad used to tell, especially the one about a fellow called “Raw Head and Bloody Bones,” apparently a revenant seeking revenge for being skinned alive. My wife and I spent Christmas at my mother’s […]