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Steve A. Wiggins

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I studied religion at Grove City College, Boston University School of Theology, and Edinburgh University, Scotland. I have taught at Nashotah House Episcopal Seminary, Carroll College, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Rutgers University, and Montclair State University. I have been an editor with Routledge and Gorgias Press, and am currently an academic editor in New York. I write both fiction and non-fiction. All views on Goodreads are my own.

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Building Horror

Christina Henry grew a reputation rewriting fairy tales.  At least that’s how I found her.  I read The Girl in Red and then Horseman (which was after I’d begun work on Sleepy Hollow as American Myth).  I thought she’d found her niche as a writer.  Lately, when browsing bookstore shelves in the horror section, I’ve discovered she has a reputation there as well.  The House that Horror Built caug

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The House That Horror Built by Christina Henry
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Horror novels—maybe most novels—struggle against the improbable. Sometimes the reader’s mind rejects the scenario. That didn’t happen frequently here, but The House that Horror Built features a victimized protagonist who lets pride get in the way. It ...more
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The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket
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Book ten of the Series of Unfortunate Events again struggles with the issue of good and evil. Olaf has kidnapped Sunny and taken her to the highest peak of the Mortmain Mountains while Violet and Klaus are sent clattering down to their presumed death ...more
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The Others by D. W. Pasulka
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Those who’ve read D. W. Pasulka’s last two books might be disappointed that there aren’t as many UFOs in this one. Instead, this usual book takes readers into some uncanny territory that includes AI and Marian apparitions. Science fiction novels and ...more
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The Others by D. W. Pasulka
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Those who’ve read D. W. Pasulka’s last two books might be disappointed that there aren’t as many UFOs in this one. Instead, this usual book takes readers into some uncanny territory that includes AI and Marian apparitions. Science fiction novels and ...more
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The Path of Thorns by A.G. Slatter
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For the first couple hundred pages I was finding Path of Thorns rough going. This is because the narrator is unreliable and she keeps a few too many secrets. Set in an alternate world of indeterminate time (no cars, telephones, etc.) it has a fairy t ...more
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The Galdrabók by Kári Pálsson
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This short book is an English translation and introduction to two Icelandic grimoires: the Galdrabók and Jarðskinna . As with most grimoires, these are esoteric texts. Their context is fascinating, however. They provide insight into Icelandic folkl ...more
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The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket
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The plot thickens for the Baudelaire orphans as they join Madame Lulu’s Caligari Carnival. Lulu’s in cahoots with Count Olaf, and the villain brings lions to the carnival to feed the crowd’s desire for violence. Lulu also knows about V.F.D. and tells ...more
The Faith of a Writer by Joyce Carol Oates
"Books on writing fall broadly into two categories. Those that deal with granular issues at the sentence level—syntax and grammar—and those that deal more broadly with the art of writing, and the craft of composing. These latter books tend also to con" Read more of this review »
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Young Romantics by Daisy Hay
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The list reads like a Who’s Who of early Victorian English poets: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, as well as some lesser lights. These lives were, as the subtitle suggests, tangled. Daisy Hay uses Leigh Hunt as a focal point. An early b ...more
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The Haunting of Ashburn House by Darcy Coates
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The Haunting of Ashburn House is an unconventional ghost story. A great-niece inherits a house and since she has very little money and few other prospects, takes it. Her new friends in the new location tell her that the house has a reputation, but th ...more
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“Technology has outstripped reality.”
― Steve A. Wiggins

“AI has great potential, but let's leave the humanities to humans.”
― Steve A. Wiggins

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

“A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black,
While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.
Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw,
And could sculpt like men, then the horses would draw their gods
Like horses, and cattle like cattle; and each they would shape
Bodies of gods in the likeness, each kind, of their own.”
― Xenophanes

“Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.”
― Ananda Coomaraswamy

“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
― Oscar Wilde

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Majenta Hi, Steve! Thanks for contacting me. Congratulations on your books. Have a good weekend.

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