Fall is my absolute favorite season. The temperature is at a close to perfect level — not so hot and humid that sweat drenches everything nearly immediately and not too cold that everyone is bundled up like the common Eskimo. Football season is underway, baseball playoffs are in full swing, and hockey and basketball are […]
Sinister 2 follows the events of the first film with now Ex-Deputy So & So obsessively researching the Bughuul mythology and investigating similar deaths to find out where this boogey man will appear next. His investigation leads him to a remote farmhouse where a family had been killed in the land’s adjoining church only to […]
I’m sure people can spend hours debating what they feel is the most difficult part of writing, and there will be many different answers. My personal struggle focuses on the idea itself. I usually try to think of something somewhat outlandish that quickly gets out of hand and makes no sense. Karen Lee Boren, a […]
Best Of Enemies is a documentary that focuses on the 1968 televised political debates between William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal as part of ABC’s Republican and Democratic National Convention coverage. ABC was the last place network at the time and couldn’t provide the comprehensive coverage of other networks so instead they opted to have […]
A number of Motif authors, illustrators and affiliated talents took part in the recent “Write like Lovecraft” contest created by The Providence Journal. What it is about our staff that draws such a disproportionate number to the weird and creepy is a subject on which we shall decline to speculate. However, to help their efforts […]
When the ominous box arrived on my doorstep, I didn’t even notice. I was in the middle of a sale. A very well-dressed woman took a liking to the antique grandfather clock in the window. I just signed for the box absently while running her credit card. I didn’t even look at it until almost […]
I. The Plan “Knowledge wants to be free!” The increasingly impassioned assistant professor defended his plan to the chief librarian who had summoned him to this awkward and unpleasant meeting in a room filled with dust that seemed to have collected slowly and inexorably since slimy, tentacled tetrapods first evolved to crawl from water onto […]
The crow refused to blink. The dark, hard obsidian of its eyes conveyed an inhuman awareness of its surroundings, acute but soulless, absorbing light from the abandoned mill and the soft, rotting bricks where the feathered beast perched. Its rapt attention recalled its Jurassic ancesters, raptorous hunters who had dominated their food chain. The dark, […]
It was a Friday at some god awful hour in the morning, when I heard a terrible crash that shook me out of a dead sleep. I sat up in bed and tossed the sheets aside. There was a hurricane making its way through the New England town of East Providence. An evacuation wasn’t necessary […]