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The word Schreiber in German means writer and for Carson Trapp, his hometown has become his title. The 23-year-old, who works as a general labourer, caught the writing bug in 2022 while sweeping a parking lot for his boss at the time. And what manifested was his book, Paranormal Encounters […]
There comes a time when your knowledge of the paranormal in a given region starts to overflow its glass and you look elsewhere for something new to drink in. I find myself in this state of perpetual thirst. That’s not to say I know everything about Canada. Far from it. […]
As if two episodes a week of Dark Poutine weren’t enough for Michael Browne, he’s still hungry for more true crime. Corus has tapped the Langley native to host a slate of its true crime podcasts in a new two-hour radio series called Crime Time. “We’re looking at branching out […]
If there’s one thing I’ve often beefed about in North American paranormal books, it’s the lack of representation from around the world. Yes, I get it. Geographically, we all want to know about Canada or the United States. But what about what scares us from outside North America? We live […]
Out of all the types of books Nova Scotian writer Vernon Oickle has penned, the paranormal ones fascinate him the most. “It allows you to meet so many people who have these experiences and you get the chance to talk to them,” he said during an August Zoom conversation. “It’s […]
There’s excitement afoot inside the shared space of ALC Art & Oddities Parlour and Ex Mortis Books. On this particular day, an entity dubbed Victor has knocked over a candelabra. Veronica Vandersteenen, the owner of Ex Mortis, suspects that the alleged spirit might be an attachment to one of the […]
Where was this book when I was writing? Of course, Spooky Science: Dissecting the Mysteries of Ghosts, Cryptids, Aliens and Other Oddities was likely already in production, with authors Meagan Ankney and Paige Miller grinding through hard edits, copy edits, proofs and final pass-throughs. I should know — I’ve been […]
There is something cathartic about revisiting the city where you spent your formative years and discovering that there was something different about how you saw the world around you. For writer, podcaster, and ghost-walk flâneur Ian Gibbs, he developed a keen sense of something extra while growing up in Stampede […]
Dale Jarvis is coming ashore with his ghost stories in his most recent book, Haunted Houses of Newfoundland and Labrador. It’s the ninth book of folklore and tales of the inexplicable on the Rock and the Big Land for Jarvis, and he’s tapped into the foundation of Canada’s youngest province. […]
As we get older, we often lose some of that wonder we had when we were children. With the release of Mike Browne’s second book, Strange, Spooky and Supernatural, he revisits the sense of wonder from his youth, this time examining the stories that once captivated him through older eyes. […]