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Occultism, Ancient Rites, and Cannibalism Author: H.P. Lovecraft Where lies my love, far under the Earth Crowned by the worms, the mold gives birth Who is my love? The scion of death Whose kisses drown me in cold, sweet breath. ~ Ravenloft: Tower of Doom by Mark Anthony   The scion of a mysterious family with an ancient, evil house, Delapore moves from his Massachusetts home to rediscover the history of his ancestral home in England. Exham Priory is a thing of legend, and when our enthusiastic narrator reverts back to the original spelling of his family’s name, the denizens [...]

And in the end... Author:  Peter Ward The question may not come up often in polite conversation, but it’s worth pondering during quiet moments.  Will the world end with a bang or a whimper?  Over the millennia, many end time scenarios have been envisioned, from religious Armageddon to nuclear annihilation.  Or maybe a sudden devastating collision with an asteroid or an enlarging, Earth-scorching Sun in its death throes comes to mind.  While I sincerely hope that no one reading this will be witness to any version of the end times, the final days of life on Earth may turn out [...]

Final Photos... Author:  Erroll Fuller A blood thirsty carnivore may not be the first creature that comes to mind when you hear the word “marsupial”.  But that’s because you’ve never seen a thylacine.  More tenacious than a peaceful cud-chewing kangaroo or a dopey eucalyptus-hugging koala, the thylacine was the largest marsupial carnivore known in modern times.   Also called the Tasmanian tiger, but more closely resembling a wolf, the thylacine’s territory was limited to the large island of Tasmania when Europeans first arrived down under.  Unfortunately, settlers’ sheep and chickens proved irresistible to the predator and retribution was swift and complete, [...]