the words and worlds of John Robinson
In the closing months before the end of World War II, the Nazi concentration camp Gross-Rosen is liberated by the Allies. Among those who have survived the torture and killings are a group of orphaned children. They are rounded up and put on a truck they hope is bound for safety. Where they end up …
It's time for fireworks to celebrate our independence from the Brits (we Americans do like our big booms), so I'm going to make it quick this week (no jokes). Hopefully, wherever you are in the United States, it will be fair weather for your festivities. For those kind readers from other parts of the world-- …
I had to do some real thinking for July’s reading suggestion. The book I had originally planned to write about is dark and rather depressing (it’s true crime and a harrowing read). It’s a good book, but I thought it would be better to save it for later. Since we have arrived at the height …
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Summer's here and the time is right for killing in the fields. As I've mentioned a few times before, I am fascinated by scarecrows. They are creepy, and I like 'em. I hope to one day write a great scarecrow story (or at least a good one...one that doesn't all-out suck). I am not aware …
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy.from Penrod Several years ago, several summers in fact, my brother and I (he a teenager, me near to being one) happened to see the midday movie on WZTV Channel 17, the premier local syndicated station in Nashville. The movie was On Moonlight Bay (1951). One of …
The Bermuda Triangle isn't called the Devil's Triangle for no reason. Christopher Columbus reported seeing lights in the Triangle way back in 1492 when he sailed the ocean blue. Since then, that well-travelled area of the North Atlantic Ocean has been the scene of several disappearances of aircraft and ships of all kinds. What's causing …
Officially, school ended for my son on May 21st. Much to the chagrin of his eight-year-old heart, I enrolled him in his school's summer learning camp (a four-week program, four days each week) to review material skimmed over, or omitted, due to Covid-19 closures and restrictions. He's had fun in the program, although he refuses …
In the spring of 1976, a vicious evil comes to the small town of Tarker's Mills. On a quiet night in May, under a full moon, a railroad worker gets his head knocked off by something with mean claws and a ferocious appetite. Seeing as the dead man, Arnie, is better known for his drunk …
Have you ever been struck by a completely random thought? Just in the middle of the day a thirty-odd-year-old memory pops in your head because you hear or see something? It happens all the time to each of us and it happened to me not so long ago. In one of the hallways where I …
American psychologist John Holden, known for exposing frauds, travels to London to attend a convention on the topics of parapsychology and the supernatural. In London, he is to meet a Professor Harrington. The professor plans to expose the Dr. Julian Karswell, leader of a satanic cult, as a phony at the convention. When Holden lands, …
Curio Macabre 