Tag: ghosts

I’ve put another short story online!

It’s “The Wind,” which appeared in Dark Wisdom: The Magazine of Dark Fiction, Issue 11, which, according to their website, was the final print edition of the magazine. In other words, I killed it! I hope it doesn’t come back to haunt me… You can read “The Wind” here. (The background art for the image …

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Witches and vampires and ghosts, oh, my!

This week’s CBC Web column… Download the audio version. ***** Orange leaf bags with grinning jack-o’-lantern faces cover the lawns. The drugstore shelves are groaning under the weight of grinning skulls, leering witches, and dancing robot mummies, and you can hardly buy groceries without getting a dangling plastic bat caught in your hair. That must …

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My story now out in Dark Wisdom

I’ve received my author’s copy of Dark Wisdom: The Magazine of Dark Fiction with my short ghost story “The Wind” in it, back to back (as it happens) with a story by my fellow SF Canada member Douglas Smith. Other authors with short stories in this issue include Alan Dean Foster, John Shirley, Robert Dunbar, …

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Using science to disprove ghosts, vampires and zombies…

…as a University of Central Florida physics professor has done–is a silly game. As if people who believe in ghosts and vampires in the first place are going to be put off by scientific arguments to the contrary. It’s like saying magic can’t exist because it’s not science. Well, no, it’s not, but that’s the …

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