October 21, 2025

’Tis the season when thoughts inevitably turn to Halloween. For some, this means delightful dressing up, pumpkins, and candy. For others, gigantic skeletons, gravestones, and other spooky paraphernalia suddenly appear in their front gardens. These appear to be the two sides of the supernatural—a source of fascination offering either a frisson of fear, or a…

October 16, 2025

Last November, I promised another post about the supernatural elements in popular fiction, and since then, a ton of new books have been published, featuring ghosts, inexplicable phenomena, and more. These are not, in general, scary ghosts, but generally benevolent, confused, or searching for something. In doing my research, I wasn’t surprised to find that…

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