A Far Out Fantastic Site

Credit: Pixabay.com This is supposed to be the happiest time of the year. But, in some cases, it can be the scariest. A year is ending and so that may bring anxiety over the year to come since we don't know what it will bring. It almost feels a bit apocalyptic, doesn’t it? But with the end of the year comes end of the year sales and so you'll find my books at some super discounts at Smashwords which I'll explain more about later. But let’s start off something that goes with the dark winter nights that the Holiday Season, or maybe I should say, the Hallowday Season brings: scary stories. Yes scary, stories of the supernatural. What we call holiday horror stories today, what the Victorian English called Christmas Ghost Stories in the 19th century! And so I have a list of Holiday ghost stories for you below. 5 Ghost Stories for Winter Holiday Reading In general, ghost stories aren't associated with Christmas like they are with Halloween. But because this has been a time of...

It's the first Wednesday of the month and so it’s time for another Insecure Writer’s Support Group (IWSG) post!  In an IWSG post, we writers bring our writing challenges and problems out into the open to share with each other and try to offer solutions. The challenge to my writing that began last Thursday and lasted through Monday was a cold. That shows us winter is here, doesn’t it? I didn’t want to push myself too hard because I didn’t want to get more sick. If a writer doesn’t take care of their health first then they eventually won’t write well. I did get some work done on my current story that I'm revising for my upcoming book of short fiction, "Bad Apps"  but it was very minimal. And I just barely posted my weekly blog post, which happened to be the monthly Book-To-Movie review , Monday evening in which I normally do that by the morning. I’m finally just getting back into my normal routine. IWSG Monthly Question Now for the optional IWSG question of the month: ...

Credit: Pixabay Revised and updated as of 12/15/2024. Well, as I said I would on my Facebook page , I'm running late again with the Book-To-Movie which is normally every fourth Monday of the month. So, today's Book-To-Movie (BTM) is really supposed to be for November. For those who are new to A Far Out Fantastic Site, in a Book-To-Movie we review a work of prose fiction and its movie adaptation. I'm keeping this one short because I've had a cold all weekend that's put me back. In fact, I’m still recovering from it. In past BTMs, we've reviewed Bram Stoker's novel, "Dracula", and a few of its movie adaptations. These have included the unofficial original of all of the Dracula film adaptations, the silent "Nosferatu" from 1922 directed by German director F.W. Murnau. During the Thanksgiving week, I finally got a chance to watch the 1979 remake of the latter, "Nosferatu the Vampyre". It's not a bad film, but it has several sh...