Category archives: Folklore
All will love me and despair!
As I stood in line (vino bottle in hand) at our local booze merchants on Thursday evening, my wandering eyes alighted on the following Evening Herald headline: ENYA STALKER DISAPPEARS Now while the real story behind said headline may well… continue reading »
Why does Santa Sound Like George from Glenroe?
Yesterday afternoon the Christmas market in Clarenbridge (normally a haven of gentle family fun) found itself terrorised by the appearance of a violent, paralytic and terrifyingly intense Santa Claus. He smashed his “sleigh” into a stall selling fruit cake &… continue reading »
The Salty Taste of Irish Horror – Live!
I Though this thing we call the internet generally caters effectively to the colourful needs of the planet’s fetishists, paranoids, perverts and obsessives, there are areas of enthusiasm that remain curiously (and sadly) neglected. Take fans of live blogging, horror,… continue reading »
Do You See What is Happening?
By way of buildup to next Monday’s (miss it and you’ll die crying) John Polidori Vampyre-fest, I hereby present a post on a strangely neglected topic. Namely, “Mathematics and the Undead”. Like many parents of glamorous (i.e. brown & damp)… continue reading »
I Defy You, Groot!!
The naming of those fantastic (and hideous) creatures that routinely crawl from the earth’s dark chasms or slither from the depths of its briny seas is a process both mysterious and (occasionally) spontaneous. Granted there are some, like this chap,… continue reading »
In Search of Biddy Early’s Dog
As well as dipping in and out of the large pile of ufological books that currently sit beside my bed, I’m also (when time permits) ploughing through Eddie Lenihan’s In Search of Biddy Early (Mericer Press: Dublin, 1987). I’ve long… continue reading »
The Coming of the Crescents?
As I have been busying myself with Greetings Earthlings, I (somewhat ironically) missed Sunday’s 60th anniversary of Kenneth Arnold’s seminal “flying saucer” sighting (June 24, 1947). The current issue of the Fortean Times, however, has not been so lax –… continue reading »
