Haunted History of New York's Southern Tier

Below are a few short videos recording the haunted history of my hometown. If you enjoy these, I highly recommend you check out my colleague Elizabeth Tucker's book Haunted Southern Tier. WSKG has further information worth looking at here.

Devil's Elbow

Evergreen Cemetery

Phelps Mansion

Frisbee House

Hyde Hall

Elmira College

The Roberson Musuem

Six Games Fresh From the Grave

Free games. Free horror games. 

Rafael Chandler, Night of the Slashers

Kreg Mosier, The Dead

John Harper, Ghost Lines

John Harper, The Mustang

Philip Reed, Vs. Monsters

Wet Nightmares, Changing Face of Horror, Queer Final Girl

Wet Nightmares: a conversation with the editors of comic anthology of erotic horror Mirror Mirror II (Minh Nguyen, AQNB)

We Are the Weirdos: meet the women changing the face of horror (Rebecca Hawkes, The Telegraph)

Lana Winters is the Queer "Final Girl" We Need Right Now (Tina Horn, Slutist)

Horror Lists

We Dare You to Spend the Night with these 15 Haunted House Stories (Leah Schnelbach, Tor)

The 25 Most Artistic Horror Movies of All Time (Tastes of Cinema)

10 Hair-Raising Horror Novels Not By Stephen King (Theresa DeLucci, B&N)

Top Ten Lesbian Vampire Movies (Holger Haase, Den of Geek)

Freaks of Color: 10 Horror TV Shows (Manny A.Castellanos, Geeks of Color)

TridentCon 2017

TridentCon is an RPG convention happening on Nov. 11 & 12 in Baltimore. An adventure I wrote will be part of the convention-exclusive content available to play: "CCC-DDT-01 The House At Weeping Quay
Tier Two (Lvl 5-10). A premiere con-created DDAL adventure for TridentCon! In his melancholy, the bard has unleashed something horrible...dare you set foot in this accursed house of madness and murder? A gothic mystery adventure saluting Edgar Allan Poe." Suffice to say that if you like my particular brand of Gothic Fantasy, and like spotting allusions to some classic American Gothic literature, you're probably going to have a grand old time.

If that doesn't move you, I am assured that there are going to be plenty of games on offer no matter what your favorite flavor of gaming happens to be. Here's the scoop from Erik Jensen, the conference organizer:

"The rest of the events (mostly organized-play stuff) are up and open for TridentCon 2017! https://tabletop.events/conventions/tridentcon-2017

Get over there, get your badge, and sign up for games! We have a ridiculous lineup this year in support of our "Old-School Baltimore" theme.

You like DDAL? We have a ton of Tomb of Annihilation content, including a con-long hexcrawl through the jungles of Chult. We have classic dungeon delves from Yawning Portal. We have sweet con-created content, including a brand-new TridentCon-exclusive adventure by +Jack Shear (yeah, you read that right). We have Tier Three content in the form of the 'Necromancer of Zhentil Keep' trilogy.

You like Pathfinder Society? We have a nice blend of content for different tiers, including the "Assault on Absalom" multi-table special Saturday night. We also offer several sessions of Starfinder you can check out.

You want to try Greyhawk Reborn? We have three tables of it, all con long, including a special multi-table interactive. Come get your Greyhawk on!

You like new-school games? How about some Lasers & Feelings? Some FATE?

You like old-school goodness? Get cracking on some Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea. Jump in to some Blueholme. Gamma World. Stonehell. Mutant Crawl Classics. Tekumel. USR. BREAK!!. Call of Cthulhu. And more.

Did I mention we have two different huge megagames (up to sixteen players) of Aerodrome? TINY BIPLANES YOU GUYS

If you miss out on TridentCon...well, you miss out."

Morbid Wikipedia

If you're still looking for inspiration for your Halloween games, remember that truth is stranger than fiction. Here are a few Wikipedia pages that might get your muse agitated:

Tamam Shud case

Sooterkin

Hinterkaifeck murders

Death of Elisa Lam

Georgia Guidestones

Peter Stumpp

List of ghosts

From Hell letter

Dyatlov Pass incident

Numbers station

Mercy Brown vampire incident

Isdal Woman

Mary Ann Cotton

Bewildering Attitudes I Have Encountered in the Wild (part 9: Harassment Edition)

• The Mother of All Goal-Posts Shifts: We can't even begin to do something about harassment in the gaming community until we address the political and economic problems in our government first. (Eagles soar.)
• That guy has been harassed in the past, so he should be given a free pass to harass others.
• It's important to call out harassers in the community, unless the harasser is my friend or can help me sell books.
• Calling out harassers in the gaming community is exactly like the Salem Witch Trials or the LA Riots. I say this with a straight face. This is a valid comparison I am making.
• As part of my defense of shitty people, I will now reiterate my service record--like that matters one fucking bit.
• Calling out harassers actually only hurts the people who were going to glom on to their projects; it's a form of harassment itself, if you think about it.
• What is harassment anyway? No one knows!