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Stranger Danger Meets Vampires Meets Small Town America Author: Stephen King Nothing is more horrifying than the insidious side of small town America with its close-knit hive mind and inherent fear of the stranger. Salem’s Lot, one of King’s most famed and beloved works (both by the author and his audience), captures this better than it articulates the supernatural bumps in the night and the blood lust of a rapidly increasing horde of zombie-like vampires. In closed-off Jerusalem’s Lot (shorted to the colloquial ‘Salem’s Lot) famed horror author Ben Myers is meeting more foes than fans. He’s returned to the [...]

Tradition faces the rising seas... Author:  Anna Badkhen It sticks right out into the Atlantic Ocean.  Located on the westernmost edge of the African continent, just south of Dakar, Senegal, the small city of Joal is home to a community of indigenous fisherman who climb in their colorful pirogues every morning and travel many miles off shore, searching for schools of fish and hoping to feed their families and make enough money to get by until their next day at sea.  Russian investigator and author Anna Badkhen spent many months among these brave men and their families, assembling their stories [...]

Pacific puzzle... Author:  Christina Thompson How did they get here?  Where did they come from?  When Europeans explorers first met the native islanders in places like Hawaii, Tahiti or Easter Island, they couldn’t help but wonder.  Exhibiting no large seafaring ships or other obvious means of traveling the thousands of miles between islands, it was as if God had scattered dozens of small acts of separate creation across the vast Pacific on a whim.  Known as the Polynesians, the mystery of their origins would be the source of compelling anthropological intrigue for centuries.  In Sea People, award-winning writer Christina Thompson [...]