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Table of
Contents
Letter From The Editor
Lori Foster
Embraces Her Dark Side
Who You Gonna Call?
Honoring The Ancestors
Halloween Is Not My Bag
Irish Superstitions
Louisiana Superstitions
Spooky Doings In New
England
Crystal Healing
Food:
Evil Cookies
S'Mores Candy
Apples
A Story of
Samhain
From the Quill:
Why Paranormal?
Ghosts In
Romance
Banned Books
Week
Fiction:
Miracle
at Blood Manor
Featured Websites
From Samhain
Publishing
October e-book releases
October print releases
Featured Websites Of The Month
The Moonlit Road
FrightBytes
Paranormal Database
Giger.com
Horror.org
Ghostvillage.com
http://www.vampires.nu/
http://vampires.monstrous.com/
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From The
Quill: Why Paranormals
By
Lauren Dane
I’ve
always been fascinated by the unexplained and the
paranormal. I remember, back in the stone ages when
I was growing up, there was a show called In Search
Of hosted by Leonard Nimoy. Man oh man did I love
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It’s the question I think. The idea
that there are things out there in the world that we can’t explain.
I’m also totally enamored of shows about deep sea trenches because
of all the cool stuff down there seven miles deep that we simply
just guess about because there aren’t enough answers yet. Mysteries
are delicious! The dark is just a big question, isn’t it?
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"Perhaps other souls than human are sometimes born
into the world, and clothed in flesh." J
Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas
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From The Quill:
Ghosts In Romance
by Rebecca Goings
My foray into
paranormal romance was quite by accident. On a warm
summer’s day back in 2004, before I was formally published,
I was caught complaining online. Complaining about the
lack of any decent romances involving ghosts as the main
characters. I remember reading a young adult romance
with a ghost as the hero when I was a kid, kind of creepy,
yet totally cool at the same time, and I wondered if there
was any book quite like that in the adult section of the
romance genre.
At the
time, the vampire/shifter/werewolf thing was new to
me, but I still wondered why ghosts were few and far
between if the romance genre was shifting (no pun
intended) to the paranormal. Rather than jump
on the bandwagon and join me in my futile
grumblings, the very community I was complaining to
challenged me to write a ghost romance of my own.
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"Terror made me cruel..." Emily Bronte,
Wuthering Heights
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Banned Books Week
By
Tilly Greene
Are you aware of the extent to which books are
challenged, restricted, removed or banned?
Yes, it’s true. And don’t be lulled into
thinking this is only a problem for people in far
off lands,
living under restrictive regimes, because this
problem occurs in the United States as well. It’s an
issue that denies people the ability to make
informed decisions that may be in opposition to
another’s views. |
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the
freedom of speech,
or of
the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition
the Government for a
redress of grievances.
— The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Ratified
December 15, 1791
During the last week of September, the American Library
Association [ALA] hosts Banned Books Week to “celebrate
people having the freedom to choose” books they want to read
when at a public library or school. The intent of the
ALA is to make people aware of the issue of suppression by
bringing focus to it. At the same time, the ALA does
not want to discourage individuals from voicing their
opinions when they object to the content in a book…Democracy
at its best.
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"I will
die here where I have walked. And I will walk here
though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the
pride of this house is humbled." Charles Dickens,
Bleak House
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