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Have you ever been lost in the body of a book and wanted to venture yonder, to travel to the places you pore over? Ghosthunter: A Journey Through Haunted France by Simon Marsden, with complementary prose fit for a diary in an Arthur Machen or Edgar Allan Poe novella, has […]
I’ve been on a bit of a kick lately, exploring different cultures’ interpretations of the Woman in White trope. I even talked it up while visiting Thunder Bay and Halifax as a guest speaker at two conventions. So it seemed timely that I should pick up A Haunted History of […]
Writer and paranormal aficionado K.G. Miceli wants to hear Ontarians’ stories about the Screaming Tunnel. The Essex County resident shared her fascination with Niagara’s spooky landmark, a 38-metre-long, 4.8-metre-tall tunnel built of rough-cut limestone. Originally constructed as a drainage passage for nearby farms, it sits near the end of Warner […]
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 […]