In this episode of Strangetastic we encounter animal ghosts:

The Booger Dog
Ghost Pigs
Spirit Cattle
A Headless Dog
Another Booger Dog

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Stories adapted from the book ‘Ozark Superstitions’ by Vance Randolph
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Theme by Atomic Opera
Background music performed by Andreas Haefliger

Review: Neverwhere
I read Neil Gaiman’s first solo novel over the holidays, and it excited me in a couple of unexpected ways. First, it’s a fun story and quick read, which are two things I hadn’t encountered in a while. The world Gaiman builds is strange, but also familiar to anyone that’s had the pleasure of [...]

In this episode of Strangetastic we encounter:

The Ghost of Paris
Grandfather’s Treasure
The Peddler’s Ghost
The Betrayed Girl
The Stepmother

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Stories adapted from the book ‘Ozark Superstitions’ by Vance Randolph
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Theme by Atomic Opera
Background music performed by Andreas Haefliger

M.D. Crinnell, MD left a note that described
the catalogue of symptoms that inevitably led
to diagnosing dysphoria, for which he prescribed
one noose (to be taken as directed ’til dead.)

The latest post on Providentia gives a short history of vampire hysteria and folklore. It reminds me of a a book I really like, Food for the Dead by Michael E. Bell.
“A more serious case involving anti-vampire hysteria occurred in 2002 when a number of villagers living in southern Malawi claimed to have [...]

This story is old news, having won the 2004 Hugo Award for best short story, but  I just discovered that you can get a free audio version (read by Neil Gaiman himself) at audible.com.
If you aren’t familiar with A Study in Emerald, it combines the Cthulu mythos of HP Lovecraft with Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock [...]

This episode continues our adaptation of ghost stories collected by folklorist Randolph Vance in his book Ozark Superstitions. This week’s stories include:
1. A Preacher’s Tale
2. The Devil’s Promenade
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Samford sought serenity
and found it at the end
he climbed atop a dead fruit tree
(they break but never bend)

Most of the first hour of I Am Legend follows the efforts of Robert Neville through his daily routine as the last man in Manhattan. Clever enough to maintain a reasonable facsimile of modern life, Neville spends his days fighting loneliness and avoiding the flesh-eating monsters that now occupy the city. These early scenes, particularly [...]

Pierre Rabby talked a lot
of nothing much of any note
so his wife saved up and bought
a little shabby fishing boat.
Mrs. Rabby reached her goal
when the boat began to fill
with water from the little hole
she created with her gimlet drill.