“I know at this moment that I’m perfectly sane. That it’s not me who has gone mad…” Recently, I sat down and listened to Orson Welles’s magnificent and haunting radio performance of Lucille Fletcher’s chilling ghost story, “The Hitch-Hiker,” which was first written and performed in 1941. This was in…
Star Trek Book Review: Best Defense (2016) by David Mack
“It was an outrageous proposition. A mission doomed to fail. Una didn’t care.” Stardate: Unknown (2268) At the start of Best Defense, a historian’s note tells us that this novel takes place after the Enterprise’s diplomatic mission to Babel (“Journey to Babel”), one week after the mission to Argus X…
Goosebumps Review #31: Night of the Living Dummy II (1995) by R.L. Stine
“And then, to my horror, the wooden lips parted. The red mouth slowly opened. And Slappy let out a soft, evil, ‘Hee hee hee.’” Amy Kramer is the middle child of three children and she is miserable. Her older sister, Sara, is a “genius painter,” and her annoying goofball brother,…
Goosebumps Review #30: It Came from Beneath the Sink! (1995) by R.L. Stine
“Before my brother and I found the strange little creature under the sink,we were a normal happy family…” Katrina “Kat” Merton is moving into a new house over on Maple Lane, just three blocks away from her family’s old house. The new house is akin to a three-story tall “mansion.”…