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I’m pleased to announce one of my stories will be included in the upcoming anthology The Big Book of Things That Go Bump in the Night which includes 27 horror stories appropriate for middle grade and up. The Kickstarter is now live at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crlangille/the-big-book-of-things-that-go-bump-in-the-night. Be sure to check it out if you want to preorder the book or get any of the extras.
My story, “The Case of the Ghostly Child”, was inspired by Scooby-Doo and even includes a dog who talks (well, sort of). It’s more of a humorous story than a scary story, though there are a couple of frightening moments. I liked the child detectives I created for the story. I plan to feature them in more stories in the future. In fact, I’ve already written one sequel with them in it.
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Again, Dangerous Visions, published in 1972, was the follow up to the successful anthology Dangerous Visions. Each story has an introduction written by Ellison and an afterword written by the author. In some cases, the introduction and afterword are longer than the story itself.
In many of the introductions, Ellison tells us a third anthology in the series titled The Last Dangerous Visions is going to be published soon, and even shares the names of some of the authors who will appear. Alas, this third volume was never published during his lifetime. I get the impression Ellison wanted to include every prominent science fiction author of the time in these three volumes, but wasn’t able to pull it off since new writers kept coming along. (Ellison’s executor, J. Michael Straczynski, announced plans to publish a slimmed-down version of The Last Dangerous Visions in 2020, but it still hasn’t seen the light of day as of this writing.)
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There’ve been a lot of episodes of Star Trek over the years. Over the course of 12 television series, there are currently 890 episodes in total. I now hold the dubious distinction of having watched all 890 of those episodes.
I watched quite a bit of Voyager when it was originally on the air, but live TV being what it is, I missed several episodes, especially in the later seasons. So I hadn’t watched every episode of Voyager until recently. With 172 episodes, it’s a lot. Many of the episodes were fun, but there were many filler episodes as well that I struggled to get through.
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Millard Fillmore was born in 1800 in a log cabin to a poor tenant farmer in New York. He was named Millard after his mother’s maiden name. His father and uncle had been sold a land title sight unseen. The land turned out to be hard clay not good for farming. On top of that, the title was faulty and they lost the land. They ended up moving a few miles south where the land wasn’t much better.
Fillmore grew up doing farm chores. He had four brothers and four sisters. His father considered hunting and fishing (“sporting”) to be a waste of time. When Fillmore was 14, he was apprenticed to an ill-tempered cloth maker. He quit after 4 months, but his father found him another cloth-making apprenticeship that he stayed at for years.
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