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An engrossing tale about good and evil

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Breaker was a regular human with no special powers or dreams until one day a group of travelers stopped in his town. He was faced with a simple question: did he want to replace one of the Chosen?...

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The classic carnival of fear

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The lightning rod salesman heralds the approaching storm to the two boys, Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade. This is no ordinary storm but a carnival that arrives at three in the morning with...

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Time Traveling Prostitutes

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Catchy title, eh? But seriously, I really loved Liz Jensen’s new book My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time, which is the story of a prostitute in 1890s Copenhagen who is hired as a cleaning lady...

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The complicated story of dogs and man

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Love them or hate them, dogs have been a part of human society for thousands of years although the way humans interact with them has changed. For example, people originally used dogs for work, not...

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The Dead Beat: lost souls, lucky stiffs, and the perverse pleasures of obituaries

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Surely you have turned to the obituary page of the local paper and scanned for names you recognize. Many newpapers print paid obituaries, which are written by the familes or submitted by the funeral... ...
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