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Beware children! See how easy it is to slip from an ordinary good boyhood into shudder-inducing nightmarish-ness. Nightmarish-osity. Something dark that involves hissing and a small amount of drool, anyway.

I was surfing through some of my recent pictures and came across these two from earlier this year — taken on demand from the Maker, who relishes a pair or five of those cheap plastic Halloween vampire teeth. I always purchase a “Party Pack” of these (the name makes me snort) and then I’m exceedingly careful never to touch the myriad pairs I see laying around the house for the next month or so.

After about six weeks I don’t have to worry about them anymore since they’ve all been shared with friends and left at their houses, sliced and diced by the lawnmower, run through the wash and thrown out by me, or carried off by the cats. Tidy, huh?

Nobody ever talks about who cleans up after Darkness.

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19 Best Worst Villains of All Time

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I recently read a “Top 10 Best Villains” post by NC blogger and romance author Sonja Foust that made me start thinking about the bad guys I love to hate. Here’s my own ordered version of the list, with a few notes and “Dishonorable Mentions” at the end. I hope you’ll add your villains to [...]

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One of My Earliest Stupid Ideas, and How It Turned Out

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Watching “Salem’s Lot” while babysitting at home one night. Yep. Here’s the basic timeline of events. 1975: I was ten years old when the “Salem’s Lot” book came out. I read it, so I should have known better than to watch the movie. Alone. At night. 1979: The made for TV movie came out. I [...]

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