Scott Derrickson is a Christian filmmaker. Interestingly enough, he mostly makes horror films. (“Dr. Strange” and the Keanu Reeves version of “The Day the Earth Stood Still” are exceptions.) Derrickson’s films are not made for exclusively Christian audiences, and they do not appear to be Read More …
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Chinchuba Connections: NASA is in Mississippi?
One of the sites that appears in Mike Casey’s Chinchuba novel is a NASA facility located in rural southern Mississippi. I’ve been there. If you drive about 45 minutes east of New Orleans on Interstate 10, you’ll cross a tall bridge over the Pearl River Read More …
Chinchuba Connections: Voodoo Priests and Dark Powers
This week, I’ve been writing about the inspirations behind Mike Casey’s horror novel, Chinchuba. I published it for him back in 2005. It has been sitting on its virtual shelf on Amazon for the past few years, and I thought it was time to revive Read More …
Chinchuba Connections: Ghostly White Alligators
What is it about big, white animals that makes them more beautiful and more terrifying than big, normally-colored animals? Herman Melvile pontificated at length about that very subject in the forty-second chapter of Moby Dick. Since Mr. Melville covered the psychology of big, white, scary Read More …
Chinchuba: How I Became a Publisher
Last Monday, I introduced my “Three Weeks of Halloween” theme. As I noted then, many of the books I’ve published have a horror element though I’ve tried to avoid the excesses of the genre. This week, my posts will be related to a book called Read More …
Haunted Summer Inspirations: Japan Bombed Oregon?
In Haunted Summer, one of the characters sees a spectral World War II-era Japanese plane flying along the cost near the Washington-Oregon border. One of the accidental discoveries I made when I was doing research for the novel is that the Japanese really did launch Read More …