“ONLY THE BEST” Wendy and her competitive brother, Eliot, are on a long boring car trip with their family, seeing the sights across America. While leaving Idaho, they complain to their parents about not being sent to a summer camp like all their friends. Disappointed, they hop into the trailer…
Goosebumps Review #32: The Barking Ghost (1995) by R.L. Stine
“Fergie, what are we going to do? We’re dogs!” Cooper is a long-haired, droopy eared boy, a “scaredy cat” who always wears a baseball cap featuring his favorite team the Boston Red Sox. His family has just moved from the big city in Boston, Massachusetts to the deep woods of…
Short Story Review: “Disappearing Act” by Richard Matheson
“I can’t find them. They’re gone. I can’t even prove they existed.” The loose thematic inspiration for The Twilight Zone episode “And When The Sky Was Opened,” Richard Matheson’s short story entitled “Disappearing Act” is uniquely distinct from The Twilight Zone episode that it inspired. Both the episode and the…
Radio Play Review: The Hitch-Hiker (1941) by Lucille Fletcher
“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…