Engraving rendering of the Beast of Gevaudan

In a review where I examined how scary the werewolf movie The Cursed was, I mentioned that it partly drew its inspiration from the Beast of Gevaudan, a real-life man-eating creature. Which I guess pretty much answers the title question. Yes. The Beast of Gevaudan is real. Or was. ItContinue Reading

Five haunting nonfiction book cover releases 2022

This year is no different than any other. Several of my writer friends have released haunting new nonfiction in 2022. I’d of course love to show my support by buying and reading them all. However, constraints on both time and money don’t make that realistically possible. Of course, I canContinue Reading

The Cursed theatrical release poster

In the movie, The Cursed, Boyd Holbrook plays pathologist John McBride. Except, no one knows what a pathologist is in the 1800s. All the elders of a struggling French village know is that this McBride guy has come to help them. Hopefully. A child is missing. Another one has beenContinue Reading

Cliff Simon gets a blessing during the Rougarou episode

One of the beasts Cliff Simon tracks on his new Travel Channel show, Into the Unknown, is the Rougarou, a fearsome werewolf-like beast that feeds on human flesh. I have an affinity for “garous” of any kind because my very first novel, Beneath the Morvan Moon, involved loup garous (werewolves)Continue Reading

What sort of paranormal news made headlines for the week ending June 1, 2018? Well, with summer travel season upon us, there were more stories geared to haunted places to jaunt to. Great! Love those. However, there were also tales of werewolves, photobombing ghosts and UFOs. You’ll see. Scroll along,Continue Reading

I blame Katy Perry’s E.T. song for inspiring this post. I love it. Luckily so must a lot of others, because it comes on constantly. Whenever I’m in the car, which I’ve been a lot lately, I hear it. Perfect. I can groove along with it while I drive toContinue Reading

Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? Anyone who knows what it can do, which is snatch your life away without a moment’s hestitation. I saw the trailer for the upcoming Red Riding Hood movie on Paranormal Romance and was instantly intrigued. Apparently in this adaptation there’s an added complication.Continue Reading

A PR person representing BBC America shared an inside look video about tonight’s second season premier of Being Human. I had never heard of the show, but this certainly caught my attention: This witty yet terrifying series follows three twenty-something’s and their secret double-lives – as a werewolf, a vampire,Continue Reading

Twitter never lets me down, you know that? Since I rarely get to the theaters anymore, and even watching DVDs at home has been lacking lately, I’m not as in the know as I used to be about coming attractions. But Twitter’s been fixing that. I’ve had some interesting-looking moviesContinue Reading