by Wayne Edwards | Feb 12, 2015 | Columns
I missed all the holidays. Here we are, end of January, and I do not have much topical to say. Well, the Super Bowl is tomorrow, but let’s face it, that only really appeals to fans of the two teams playing, leaving the vast majority of football fans non-plussed. I’ll...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Feb 5, 2015 | Columns, Reviews
The King in Yellow (first published in 1895) is a collection of short stories written by author Robert W. Chambers. Most of the tales in the collection are supernatural, and the first four — “The Repairer of Reputations”, “The Mask”, “In the Court of the Dragon”,...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Jan 29, 2015 | Columns, Reviews
The Graveyard Book is a children’s novel by popular fantasist Neil Gaiman. It’s constructed as a set of linked stories — Gaiman loosely modeled the structure after Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book — that tell the childhood adventures of Nobody Owens, a young boy who...
by admin | Dec 11, 2014 | Columns
There is a lot that needs stating. No order of address presents itself as superior. Here then is a random brain dump. That is right, illuminated instead of illustrated. How come? Well, if you read the final couple of entries that were published under the latter banner...
by Wayne Edwards | Sep 16, 2014 | Columns
********************************************************************* Let’s say I am writing this on Christmas day. Merry Christmas to all you Christians and to the many more people who inexplicably celebrate a religious holiday of a religion to which they do not...
by Wayne Edwards | Mar 23, 2014 | Columns
********************************************************************* Top Five Picks…Buy These Right Now. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. ********************************************************************* Mmm. Uh. Ugh. Gloomy in December here in the north country. I meant to write...
