Author name: Michele Pariza Wacek

10 Scary Stories Perfect for Summer

Scary Stories Perfect for Summer Summer—the perfect time for a good scare—is right around the corner. Maybe right now you’re thinking, “What are you talking about, Michele? Summertime is for trashy romance novel reading poolside!” Well, maybe that’s the warmup. But once the sun goes down, it’s time to light the bonfire and tell some

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Scary Stories Perfect for Summer

Book Review: “The Haunting of Hill House” by Shirley Jackson

First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror.  It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor,

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The Haunting of Hill House

Movie Review: “Mirage” on Netflix

“Mirage,” an original Netflix move, is surprisingly good. I say “surprisingly” because, well, here’s the description: A space-time continuum glitch allows Vera to save a boy’s life 25 years earlier, but results in the loss of her daughter, whom she fights to get back. So, first, it’s got a time-travel element to it, which always

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Mirage