Peekaboo! Hide-and-Seek Alone

Peekaboo! Hide-and-Seek Alone

My favorite game of all time is hide-and-seek. Especially hide-and-seek in the dark. We used to play it at every family gathering, running and ducking through the pastel rooms of my grandparents’ 3-story house. My family has lots of stories from those games,...
17 stories below: Myths of the Moscow Metro

17 stories below: Myths of the Moscow Metro

In the very first post on this blog, now 6 (!) years ago, I mentioned my strange encounter with a security guard deep in the Portland subway system. It was that encounter that helped to encourage me to write this blog in the first place.  Subways have always been...
Hippity hoppity: the Jiangshi

Hippity hoppity: the Jiangshi

Adios, 2020! This year sure has sucked. Speaking of sucking, it’s time to pay another visit to a monster we know and love: the venerable vampire.  I do try to cover lesser-known monsters on this blog, but seriously, variations of the vampire are everywhere (see...