Real World Horror: Christian Martyr Complex

     Up from my crypt and getting ready for the New Year (here's hoping that 2015 is a good one for this bloated cadaver!) when I notice an odd little article on a site I frequent just to motivate me more to horror stories.

Teddy Has an Operation

     Not really horror, but funny none the less. Enjoy!

Real World Horror: House-for-sale!

    This is something that I would love to move into, but my wife would veto that in a heartbeat. While she is a fan of horror, as well as a skeptic, she is also one not to tempt fate. When she showed me this, I of course laughed and said we should get it.

     She wasn't as amused as I was apparently, as she just gave me a long. hard look.

     Oh well, a man can dream...

Real World Horror: Death Throes of a Great Computer

     Many of you may have noticed my lack of updates on the site. Some of that many may have actually wondered why this is. Part of it is because I'm entering a lazy stage where I just wish to rest on my laurels and post what I've stored up, so I have to do so sparingly to make this last until inspiration hits once more.
     The other reason, as of today, is my computer is emitting a death howl. the dying scream of an internal fan that must be replaced. I've left detailed instructions for the wife on how to get the computer to the repair place and what to do, but must be content with the fact I will be sans operating system for at least a week.
     Probably more.
     Alas, such is life in a modern age in a first world nation... I have to go without my computer for a week and I feel as if I am cut off from my life line. Perhaps I should be more thankful for the things I do have...
     Like the two spare computers I have that don't work.
     Really should get these things fixed...

Real World Horror: Venture into the World Once More

     Every week, I have a ritual that I perform, one that is sadly not the kind I would normally write about. No, once a week I meet up with my mother and go out and have breakfast with her. Now, as I'm sure most have you have learned from reading my stories and posts, I'm not one for crowds, so we try to go to restaurants when they first open up, to avoid the crowds.

Real World Horror: The Evils of Religious Groups

     I really do hate the last two months of the year. All of the family and sharing and caring... blech! But I do understand that some people find comfort in this, so I leave my crypt to visit family when the time calls for it, and I smile and ignore the things that bother me.
     The Salvation Army should take a page from my book instead of their's, I should think. I only bring this up now because now is the time those little red buckets start to appear, with grinning volunteers looking for hand-outs.

Horror from Mother Nature

     When I am feeling less than inspired for a particular tale of terror, I tend to look to Mother Nature in all of her psychotic glory for inspiration. More often than not, this results in me endlessly slithering through the various sites of the internet in search of some horrifying thing.
     Well, I found something that Stephen King has been warning us about for years!

     From Hell itself (Australia) we have the Golden Orb Weaving Spider. Look at that. It is psychedelic in color, unlike most spiders which tend to try and hide, and builds abnormally strong webs that allow it to capture birds and snakes. 

Confronting a Psychic

     While I am a fiction writer that generally deals with topics involving ghosts, goblins and ghouls, I actually don't believe in this stuff. I'm, in fact, a skeptic when it comes to any kind of supernatural claim. 

Meet Chip Coffey. Yeah, I've never heard of him either...

     This man is apparently a famous psychic and medium, who has been on Celebrity Ghost Hunt and runs his own show "TV's Psychic Kids", which would no doubt turn my stomach. He was at a radio station Monday morning when this happened.

     You can hear it here, where he gets interviewed by a morning talk show host and fellow skeptic Cory Cove.

     Psychic gets called out on his ambiguous "readings" and gets angry about it. When asked for evidence, he presents a case where a woman is actively trying to get pregnant, and he assures her she will be February. Now he says it was about a year ago when he made this prediction, so he gave a five month window for this seemingly healthy woman to get pregnant. If she hadn't, he could always say, as he did on the show, "not yet," as if that were some kind of answer.  

Uganda to Begin Killing all of it's Homosexuals

     While not a homosexual myself (death tends to stop you of any desires) this can only be something inspired by a man truly in tune with the idea of horror. Killing people just because of their nature is wrong, no matter how many ways you cut it. But just look at how the killing is to be done, and what inspires it.
     Like the old saying goes, "Why do we always hurt the ones we love?" A good question to ask the Christians that are secretly smiling at this measure their brothers and sisters in Christ have decided to break out to "contain" the spread of homosexuality, while preaching how they love the sinner but hate the sin.
     "But this isn't Christianity," Some genuinely nice person who happens to follow a zombified Rabbi will say.
     Yes it is. This is your religion, pure and simple. When you have a holy book that is written by men supposedly inspired by God, a book that is supposed to be the guidebook to your spiritual life, and it orders death for crimes such as homosexuality(1), children(2) and not producing fruit on command(3), then you have a religion that is evil. 
     Pure and simple. Take it from a guy whop spends his time thinking of tales of horror and suspense to thrill you with.
     This is why I loathe religions in general. 
     Oh, and before someone even begins to try and say "some of those rules don't matter anymore", well you're wrong(4).

1) "If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives."  (Leviticus 20:13 NAB) 
2)  Make ready to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest they rise and posses the earth, and fill the breadth of the world with tyrants.  (Isaiah 14:21 NAB)
3) Go here to see Biblical Quote
4) Matt 5:17-20, NAB, a large section where it is revealed Jesus hasn't come to change anything but to fulfill it, and that everyone must obey the old laws until everything has been fulfilled. He goes on to say that anyone who teaches otherwise will not be welcome in Heaven. So essentially, the Old Testament still applies.