Possession

  • Angels?

    What do I believe? That question has haunted me for years. Angels. Guiding beings. Protectors. Light. Love. The word itself carries a kind of warmth, does it not? But what if we have been looking at them all wrong? During the Screaming House haunting, something strange would happen. The phone would ring, and on the

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  • I’m Wondering

    How many places do we touch in an average day that once held meaning for the living? How many rooms have we slept in where someone took their last breath? You might think that sounds strange, but is it really? How many hotel beds, how many houses, how many quiet corners have absorbed a final

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  • Horror as a Mirror

    Horror has always been more than entertainment. At its core, it is a mirror that reflects the fears buried in our collective heart. Every great horror story grows from something real inside us, a shadow of the anxieties we live with. That is why these stories never die. They adapt, change, and take on new

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  • Seventeen years ago my book The Uninvited was released into the world. At the time, my son Elliot looked at me and asked a question that has stayed with me ever since: “Who would want to read about our lives?” It was honest, simple, and impossible for me to answer back then. What I did

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  • I Remember You

    I remember the first time I saw you.You passed my doorwaywith a smile.Then walked through a wall—and vanished. I remember seeing youin my dreams.Same smile,as if you were knowing.Knowing what?I am not sure. I see the bloodrunning down your face.Your eyes glowing red.Then you’re gone again. Demon,some will tell me.Ghost,others might say. My imagination?Maybe.But you

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  • This event took place during the time when I was writing my book, Confrontation with Evil, which was the true story of the St. Louis exorcism case. Numerous strange events took place during the writing of that book. This was just one of them.

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  • NOW IS THE TIME FOR MONSTERS

    “This is how the end begins.” You’ve seen the beginning. My book, Glow pulled back the curtain on the darkness creeping at the edges of our world. But what comes next will shake you to your core. This Spring, my newest book Gorilla arrives. I can’t say too much yet—I’m still deep in writing, and

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  • Writing has always been my way of making sense of things. I never set out to be an author, but after everything that happened at the Union Screaming House, I couldn’t keep it inside. The nightmares, the questions, the lingering fear—it all had to go somewhere. One night, I sat down and started writing, and

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  • What are my feelings about paranormal investigation? I saw a social media post about relying on science instead of gadgets with blinking lights, and I found it fascinating. Here’s how I commented on it. I believe this explains my perspective and where I stand on paranormal investigation and research. It’s not something I think most

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  • The first drafts of my book Grace were written in play form during the LA Riots of April 1992, following the Rodney King verdict. It was a deeply troubled and sad time, just a few months after Freddie Mercury had died from AIDS. The world felt at the time like it was heading in a

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