Resurrection Man / Rope Trick
Resurrection Man
excerpt from an interview with a professional grave robber
Q: Have you ever dug someone up and discovered that they were still alive?
A: No, they’ve all bee
Automatic Birds / Spontaneous Generation
Automatic Birds
We were lying on the couch together, listening to the birds sing.
“They don’t sound real,” I said. “When I listen to their voices, all I hear is synthesizers.
Anti-Life Equation: Free Speech in the Age of Hate
The Culture Wars have returned, and freedom of speech is the latest battleground. It seems like nearly every week one college campus or another explodes into protests or rio
Misery Tourism, Literally: The Wilson Street Memorial
The following is the first in a potential series of articles profiling depressing places and miserable locales. If you know of a particularly dispiriting hellhole or pit of despair
Jack the Ripper/Lighthearted Friend
The following games were created for the 2017 200 Word RPG Challenge. Both games were inspired by the Wikipedia page for Richard Wallace’s Jack the Ripper: “Light-hearted Friend,”
Kitty Genovese in Heaven
The Passion
Prologue
The Man Who Was Legion Testifies
I used to live over there, beyond those hills, in the catacombs, and sleep on the soft earth of fresh graves. I used to throw myself on t
Misery Movies: Episode 8 – M
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In episode eight of Misery Movies, the Misery Tourism crew discuss Fritz Lang’s 1931 classic serial killer film M.
As always, the first half of the podcast is spoiler-free and i
5 Places I See Every Day (Where I Would Love to Hang Myself)
Listen, I get it. Life’s a drag. It’s a slog. Every day is a slow march through through a filthy, sweltering swamp with a 30 pound rucksack on your back and very little hope that C
Misery Movies: Episode 7 – Black Pond
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In this episode of Misery Movies, we have a contentious debate about the darkly comic British film Black Pond. As a bonus for fans who enjoy off-topic rambling, there’s also a leng