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For day 17 of Blogtober, I look back at the haunting and mysterious novel The Drowning Girl, by Caitlin R. Kiernan! The story is told by a woman suffering from severe mental illness, so we as the reader are left … Continue reading →

For day 11 of Blogtober, here’s a reblog about another truly classic but relatively unknown book of cosmic horror. A. Merritt was practically the Stephen King of his day, his writings wildly popular, and his best is The Metal Monster. … Continue reading →

Here’s another classic reblog to celebrate Blogtober, this one a novel by the famed author John Wyndham. Even if you haven’t heard of Wyndham, you have: he wrote The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos, both of which … Continue reading →

For day 9 of Blogtober, I look back again at a completely obscure novel of the supernatural that came out in 1921, a rare gem that very few people have heard of! The author died young soon after the publication … Continue reading →

For day 5 of Blogtober, let me go back to one of my earliest posts about spooky fiction, which I wrote in 2008! The book itself goes back much further — it is a gothic novel from 1798! This post … Continue reading →

I’ve been thinking again recently of the remarkable story of Julius Robert Mayer (1814-1878), the German physician and scientist who was the first person to truly discover the principle of conservation of energy. Most physicists associate James Prescott Joule with … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Skulls in the Stars:
Some time ago, I wrote about a fascinating 1975 experiment in which the relationship between quantum mechanics and gravity was tested.  The experiment was made possible by the new — at the time — technique…

Originally posted on Skulls in the Stars:
At long last, I get to blog about the paper that first piqued my interest about the research of Michael Faraday!  If you haven’t been following my Faraday posts, let me give a…

Originally posted on Skulls in the Stars:
Yet another story that features the physics of invisibility, continuing my series of posts inspired by the research into my upcoming book on the history of invisibility physics! A secret race of mutant…

Originally posted on Skulls in the Stars:
Another post about an invisibility story, from my researching into my book on invisibility physics. Sometimes a little bit of bad luck can turn into some good luck. To fill out my bibliography…