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haunted houses

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The New York Times has a roundup of haunted house stories just in time for Halloween. I have read only two on the list – The Shining, which I liked, and Slade House, which I didn’t.

I’m not too big on horror but I occasionally dabble. Sometimes you remember where you were when you read certain books, and it happens that I read these two books in Thailand two Octobers four years apart. I like Lovecraft. I am interested in reading the “laundry series” by Charles Stross, which sounds like a mix between Men in Black and Monster Hunter International (which I also read in Thailand incidentally – traveling is when I read and Thailand is a place I travel, so there.)

the gates of hell

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It’s October, time for a Halloween-related post or two. Here’s an interesting article on 11 places rumored to have entrances to the underworld. Most seem to be in exotic places, but it’s nice to see central Pennsylvania represented. I do think they have overlooked Centralia, Pennsylvania though, where people have been known to literally fall into pits of unquenchable underground fire. It is interesting that a wide variety of cultures and religions, from the Ancient Greeks and Romans to Christians and Buddhists and other Asian traditions, have had somewhat similar concepts of an underworld.