Here is my post for Linda G. Hill’s Just Jot It January prompt. ***** Shadowed thoughts wanting to come out. I sit quietly in the dark, wanting to screaming and wanting to shout. * Am I good? Am I bad? I don’t know. Questions I need to ask and look deep into my soul. * […]

via Just Jot It January: Skulls — Just Plain Ol’ Vic

On this date in 1959, Anthony “Little Augie Pisano” Carfano got rubbed out. Carfano, a Capo in the Genevose (formerly Luciano) crime family, had made the mistake of getting on the bad side of boss Vito Genevose. As if one fatal mistake wasn’t enough, rumor has it that Carfano was making a play for Meyer […]

via this day in crime history: september 25, 1959 — Nobody Move!

Seeking authors with a penchant for the Twilight Zone, X-Files, Dark Mirror, Alfred Hitchcock, Night Gallery, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Buy the ticket and step into the last Carnival you…

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By Richard McKenna With a reputation for intractability and a ubiquity afforded him by a decades-long involvement in the Italian equivalent of the pulps, Magnus (not to be confused with his robot-punching namesake) was, until his death in 1996, one of Italy’s most prolific and distinctive comic book artists…

via A Great Painter Did It: The Compelling Weirdness of Magnus — We Are the Mutants

The novel, “HELL HOUSE,” by Richard Matheson is a book that will blow you out of your own house! Don’t always watch the movies. Read the damn books so you can REALLY get it! Simple, clean, scary…Yes!

Outside of the big publishing houses try some Weird Fiction from Bizarro Pulp Press!
M P Johnson’s work is a good place to start!

Reviews on Journal Stone’s sites coming soon!

Many people find skulls to be frightening, grotesque, a thing to be feared and avoided at all costs. I have been approached by those who feel offended by skulls on my clothing. I have been told they are…Inappropriate.

All right then, here’s something to ponder…

Underneath all of our clothing, be it fancy or expensive.
Under that skin that many adorn with cosmetics, spray tans, tattoos, carefully cut designs. That skin which seems to cause so many so much concern as to what color it is…lies bone. Plain and simple bone.

So deep down, we really are all the same in the best of ways. Same blueprint different decorations perhaps. Maybe that’s what scares so many people about skulls.

That’s one reason why I love them

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via Joyce Carol Oates: Soul at the White Heat—A New Book on the Writing Life… — The Sanguine Woods: Where the Heart Can Bleed More Freely…

A Smith & Wesson beats four aces

-an American proverb